[Football] How much did you pay for your first game?

[Hovegull]

How much did you pay (roughly) for your first football game?

Mine was a couple of quid, from the little portakabin ticket office at the Goldstone, as a child.

I saw a video on social media of some kids paying 25p to enter Stamford Bridge in the 70s. I was wondering if eventually football will become too elite, because of the prices and therefore inaccessible to the fan base that it once attracted?

 

[albionfan37]

£2.50 in the north around 1990

 

[dejavuatbtn]

I think I paid six old pence (2.5p) as a child for a spot on the chicken run in 1962, the most it would have been was a bob.

 

[el punal]

1/6 - I let you work out how much that is in new money, and when it was.

 

[Questions]

Certainly no more than 1 and 6 or maybe 2 Bob at a pinch. So 10p .

 

[Charlie Livesey]

I think I paid six old pence (2.5p) as a child for a spot on the chicken run in 1962, the most it would have been was a bob.

I started around 62 as well, I think it was a shilling for under 16s and you could pay 6d to leave the chicken run and get into the North or South Stand.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

35p

North Stand 1974

 

[Titanic]

My kids used to get in free at Gillingham

 

[pasty]

35p

North Stand 1974

I Can’t remember but was the same year so guessing the same

 

[Deadly Danson]

One Pound including a programme. Proud Junior Seagull.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Probably 50p but then again, my Dad would have paid it, not me

 

[jackalbion]

I was picked up over the turnstiles

 

[trueblue]

Not sure but I think my season ticket for the East Stand in the early 80s, as a kid, was £50.

 

[portlock seagull]

Seem to remember the South Stand was £5 for Spurs in 1982/83, an incredible amount of money for a kid back then. But prior to that on the East Terrace it was £1.50 for Concessions or Juniors, Unemployed and Prnsioners for my first games on my little wooden stall made by my dear late dad who didn’t even like football but knew his kids did so took us bless him. Thanks Dad, the greatest gift ever given as someone else on here wrote recently

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

One shilling (5p) for entry to the East Terrace in 1962.
My total pocket money then was two shillings and sixpence (12.5p), so after paying bus and train fares to get to the Goldstone I was left with about 8d( 3p).

 

[Brovion]

I think I paid six old pence (2.5p) as a child for a spot on the chicken run in 1962, the most it would have been was a bob.

Yeah, I paid about a shilling as a kid for the chicken run in 1966. Can't remember exactly but it would have been cheap and just something my Mum could give me from her purse.

 

[Insel affe]

I am waiting for Harry Wilsons Tackle to come on, and tell us "One tyrannosaurus rex egg"

 

[Chicken Run]

How much did you pay (roughly) for your first football game?

Mine was a couple of quid, from the little portakabin ticket office at the Goldstone, as a child.

I saw a video on social media of some kids paying 25p to enter Stamford Bridge in the 70s. I was wondering if eventually football will become too elite, because of the prices and therefore inaccessible to the fan base that it once attracted?

1 pound iirc through a turnstile in Goldstone Lane

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Dunno. I didn't pay.

 

[zeetha]

My mum and I used to go to Cambridge City after halftime when we lived down the road in the 70s as it was free