Karlos13 wrote:
£38 - £50 in the home sections seems a big increase from last season? Even the cheapest ticket at Old Trafford is £27.
£46-£48 in the away end as well. The £40 price last year according to DD was because of the increased allocation (meaning more police etc) for the league cup game. Will be interesting to see how he can blame Utd for this years prices?
Single match tickets have increased but they remain less than a lot of clubs. However, the club do a number of special deals for groups of matches – e.g. 3 UEFA Cup matches for £50, and there is a Super 7 ticket that offers considerable discounts. Match tickets at City were cheaper than the vast majority than the amounts City fans were charged for away games last season. Arsenal surprisingly was only £33.
My ST is in Colin Bell 3rd tier. It costs me £522 for the season. That works out at around £27 per game. That is for one of the best seats in the house (but with the worst atmosphere) – two blocks away from the away fans. The nearest comparator at Spurs is around £1,600. Your equivalent would be 3rd tier of the North Stand. Plus we can decide whether or not we have to take part in an automated cup ticket scheme. STs on the bottom tier are around £450, I think.
The cheapest tickets are £275. To enter into this you had to be a current ST holder. If you entered your name went into a ‘draw’. Those who were successful couldn’t choose their seats, as it was a lottery. Great value regardless.
Our most expensive STs are something like £670. For that, you also get free parking and a programme. Assuming parking is £5 and the programme is £3 (cannot remember when I last bought a programme and I don’t travel to the ground by car), you are only paying around £27 per match. That’s a great deal IMO. That works out at around £14 per game. If memory serves, tickets for kids are £200.
Ideally, I would like to have a bigger ground and fans charged only £10 per game. However, the FIFA Fair Play Rules have put paid to any chance of that happening.
We should charge United fans more for the following reasons:
* Southerners can afford it
* We don't like United
* We had to reduce your allocation because you misbehave and thus we wanted to claw back some of that lost revenue
* We need extra policing, security and stewarding as United fans throw objects at players and bring things like darts into the ground
Super. Never seen that before.
