premier league prices

I wonder if the Arsenal & Spurs highest price tickets get you a say in team selection? :ohmy:

At Southend you would be chief bog scrubber ;) :woohoo:

You can always rely on the usual suspects.

Nothing new in this report,we have had a good shafting regarding prices ever since SKY invented the beautiful game,we should take a leaf out of the german game, and adopt a sensible price structure,but we all know it wont happen :(

if you have free tickets the punters will turn up more like

I heard Whelan on radio five this morning on the Nicky Cambell show.
He came on and talked about the prices at Latics compared to the other clubs.
The prices are in some cases disgraceful and fair play to our chairman for his policy in this area.
He does a good job promoting the club in the media -he came across very well this morning.

Going to some of the NPL & NWCL teams the prices at times seem extortionate but teh argument you get from the clubs is:
They know how much money they need to keep ticking over & they know roughly what crowds they can guarantee getting in per game. They set their price levels so that their guaranteed crowd covers their costs. If they take a gamble & reduce their costs then they are taking a risk with their finances & they find it makes little difference to the attendance.
I think Simon Jordan can be a right tool but I heard a phone in he did once on talksport & some Palace fan asked about ticket prices & how maybe if they reduced them then they’d get more in. He was quite emphatic about it & said they’d tried it, it barely made a difference & they wound up losing money. The one off offers might boost the crowd for that game but very few of them come back when its back to normal & if they keep them at that level the type of fan it attracts still pick & choose their games.

prices are a vicious circle to be honest. Say if Southend did drop their entrance price to a tenner – they might get a small boost in attendance but ultimately they’d have to drop their players wages, those players would beggar off, lesser quality ones would come in, results would drop & attendances would follow. To get the costs down it’d need a consensus across the board from fans, owners & players and that’ll never happen coz it involves swallowing some bitter pills on all sides