Boring Boring Arsenal...Man U, Chelsea...

[Kinky Gerbil]

Saturation coverage (thanks in part to several kick off times) + excessive ticket prices + lack of competition at the top + better product in other sports + whinging overpaid primadonners not behaving like role models = WANING INTEREST.

How can it cost more to stand at Crawley than to stand at Juventus? RIDICULOUS.

Really? thats stupid

 

[Simster]

Really? thats stupid

According to the Guardian article over the weekend, yes.

And it gets worse. €12 (£8) to get into Dortmund or Bayern, and less for kids. £48 minimum at Chelsea. Including kids. No concessions. Not including mandatory booking fee.

RUBBISH.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

spurs is 39 grade c

 

[London Calling]

Cost of tickets in the prem againgst European clubs.

Tale of the turnstiles in the Prem


Top ticket price 2004-05 ave gate Current ave
Arsenal £54 37,979 37,969
Aston Villa £31 37,354 32,653
Birmingham £45 28,760 27,070
Blackburn R £38 22,315 20,017
Bolton £39 26,006 25,305
Charlton £35 26,403 25,282
Chelsea £60 41,870 41,768
Everton £34 36,834 37,720
Fulham £49 19,838 18,542
Liverpool £32 42,587 44,915
Manchester City £32 45,192 42,380
Manchester United £41 67,748 67,886
Middlesbrough £40 32,012 28,729
Newcastle £37 51,844 52,051
Portsmouth £30 20,072 19,770
Sunderland £30 28,821 33,153
Tottenham £70 35,926 36,023
West Brom £40 25,987 24,671
West Ham £53 27,403 31,505
Wigan £25 11,563 19,146


Premiership: Tottenham have the most expensive seats in England - up to £70.
Championship: Leeds were criticised by fans and have seen crowds slump after a price rise this summer - up to £45.
League One: Tickets to watch Gillingham cost up to £37.
League Two: Up to £20 for tickets at Bristol Rovers.
Conference: Main stand tickets at York City are £16.
Germany: Prices at Bayern Munich range from £15 to £33.
France: Tickets to see champions Lyons a maximum of £40 and minimum of £14.
Spain: Tickets at Barcelona start at £30 and climb to £80.
Holland: £8 to watch a league game at Ajax, where the highest prices are £30.
Italy: Juventus prices start at £25, but their most expensive tickets are £120.
US: See DC United v MetroStars in Washington at the Socctoberfest and get two free beers, a free beer glass, and executive suite admission for £25.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Tickets to watch Gillingham cost up to £37.

 

[SK1NT]

The premiershite is shite FACT. Chelski storming ahead already. Relegation candidates virtually picked. It is an absolute joke and its that rich twat Abramovich that has killed it. The Championship is by far more exciting FACT

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Have Manchester utd been buying ythe league in the past? im not seeing how its chelskis fault

 

[El Presidente]

The premiershite is shite FACT. Chelski storming ahead already. Relegation candidates virtually picked. It is an absolute joke and its that rich twat Abramovich that has killed it. The Championship is by far more exciting FACT

Yeah, there was stacks of competition for the Premiershite when United and Arsenal won it every year

 

[1959]

Abramovich isn't killing it, Murdoch and the Premier league started that process years ago, in the early 90's. Chelsea's current situation is just a logical progression from that.

Like it or not, anybody who has signed up to Sky during that time is an accessory to the crime. Everyone who has supported Sky is like a turkey voting for Christmas.

The Scotland-ification of our leagues will continue exactly as predicted in certain quarters all those years ago.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Ooohhh more slagging off the premierleague!!!!

Be prepared to be shot down in flames

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

According to the Guardian article over the weekend, yes.

And it gets worse. €12 (£8) to get into Dortmund or Bayern, and less for kids. £48 minimum at Chelsea. Including kids. No concessions. Not including mandatory booking fee.

RUBBISH.

The thing is how many foreign 'superstars' would even be over here if it wasn't for the £40-100k a week? Apparently it has been a 'lifetime's ambition' for most of these foreigners to play in the Premiership, but I wonder how much that ambition would waver if the wages were slashed. I would imagine most would head back to La Liga, Serie A or Portugal on the first plane rather than hang around to get rained on week in week out in Liverpool or Manchester....

A salary cap is needed over here of about 5k a week which would drive out the foreigners and breathe fresh life into our youth academies. Ticket prices would come down and everyone (except the Carlos Kickaball's) would be happy. Just think, £10 a head at a 50k capacity Falmer for the visit of Man Ure and we'd probably have 45k+ through the turnstiles.

 

[London Calling]

The thing is how many foreign 'superstars' would even be over here if it wasn't for the £40-100k a week? Apparently it has been a 'lifetime's ambition' for most of these foreigners to play in the Premiership, but I wonder how much that ambition would waver if the wages were slashed. I would imagine most would head back to La Liga, Serie A or Portugal on the first plane rather than hang around to get rained on week in week out in Liverpool or Manchester....

A salary cap is needed over here of about 5k a week which would drive out the foreigners and breathe fresh life into our youth academies. Ticket prices would come down and everyone (except the Carlos Kickaball's) would be happy. Just think, £10 a head at a 50k capacity Falmer for the visit of Man Ure and we'd probably have 45k+ through the turnstiles.

UTOPIA