Agreed great paper cutting, from a time when football was really a sport for the working man. The beauty of the prices as they were,I'd often attend games at other clubs too. Queued up all night to get a ticket to see Barcelona play Man U as Maradona was playing the cost was a whopping three quid.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer/soccer-news/premier-league-price-rise-scandal-7361219

http://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer/soccer-news/premier-league-price-rise-scandal-7361219

 

"A 1975 stub from a Chelsea match against Newcastle was 20p – but now sets supporters back £64. Yet if prices had tracked inflation, the same ticket would only cost £2.31 today."

 

Wow!  That's some difference!

"A 1975 stub from a Chelsea match against Newcastle was 20p – but now sets supporters back £64. Yet if prices had tracked inflation, the same ticket would only cost £2.31 today."

 

Wow!  That's some difference!

I wonder what the differences in peoples wages are as well?

I wonder what the differences in peoples wages are as well?

 

Hmm, when I started work in 1979 I started at £3,000 p.a.  I reckon a similar job now would pay around £25-30,000 so if you call it 9x that wouldn't be far off.  

 

The salary in 1975 would've been less of course - as far as I recall, it was a time of pretty high inflation.  But that's the best I can do.

Hmm, when I started work in 1979 I started at £3,000 p.a.  I reckon a similar job now would pay around £25-30,000 so if you call it 9x that wouldn't be far off.  

 

The salary in 1975 would've been less of course - as far as I recall, it was a time of pretty high inflation.  But that's the best I can do.

I was 5 in 1975 & 9 in 1979 so cant comment haha

I was 5 in 1975 & 9 in 1979 so cant comment haha

 

Yeah I don't think pocket money counts!

The problem in the game is this: around 60% of turnover is guzzled up the greedy *astards representing the wage bill of each EPL.

 

The other 40% doesn't go so far with the various expenditures that a club needs to make esp' if they are redeveloping facilities etc.

 

So, you have to pay your £50 or £60 for a seat and £5 for a small beer for you and another £5 for a piddly bottle of plonk for your Lady etc just so the club can stay solvent-ish.  Simply because too much is shelled out in wages for the business to be able to contemplate a decent deal for the fans.

 

Disgusting really.

Stoke only sold 984 tickets out of 1,500 due to the price, shame none of them bought tickets that'd make more headlines than nearly a 1,000 paying £50 a ticket.

 

http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/Stoke-City-Nearly-1-000-forking-prices-Chelsea/story-28784469-detail/story.html

I've seen a 'twenty's plenty' campaign and it seems to be on the rise, can you imagine £20!

Away tickets will be capped at 30 pounds next season

Cheaper away tickets is great, but its hard enough at the moment already to get away tickets, some clubs should give larger allocations if they know they won't sell out, villa in a few weeks give us only 3k when we all know the ground will be half full,Sunderland,wba,stoke,city,Everton,saints, they all don't sell out, so could give the clubs like us,utd and dippers,bigger allocations for some games