Cost of going PL match

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14367608.stm

gives the price of cheapest possible ticket, programme, pie and a cup of tea for all the premier league clubs.. blackburn and newcastle cheapest at £17.50, Liverpool most expensive at £46. Swansea surpringly expensive too @ £42.

Tis a fukin rip off in fairness, we give out about the Ireland home games, yet many on here will gladly shell out up to 50quid for a premiership game, wouldnt pay it myself, but as long as people are willing to pay it then the clubs will charge these prices.

Sono wrote: Tis a fukin rip off in fairness, we give out about the Ireland home games, yet many on here will gladly shell out up to 50quid for a premiership game, wouldnt pay it myself, but as long as people are willing to pay it then the clubs will charge these prices.

Arsenal were the first club to introduce the £100 match ticket last season. Absolutely ridiculous when you compare it to the champions Man U whose most expensiv e match ticket is £55.

Edited by colemanY2K - 02 Aug 2011 at 3:34am

Last year a few of me mates were heading to liverpool for the game against stoke. I said i would join them for the craic but i didnt have a ticket. Getting on the ferry that morning i couldnt believe the amount of people heading over to see all these brit teams, hundreds of these dopes in Man u, Liverpool, bolton, Wolves, Blackpool, Leeds,Blackburn shirts. The cost to go to these games arent cheap when you include all the bits and pieces, you are talking around 300 snots or more and thats if you dont hit the club shop.

If each of these people (and the sky sports barstool/couch junkies) sacrificed one season  of the EPL and bought a season ticket to their local LOI club we would surely have 5- 10 thousand at every game if not more and we would have a better standard of football with better stadiums.

Back to the stoke match. Outside the ground these fookers wanted £90  for a ticket so i told them to ask me hoop and i went over to the pub across the way and got locked for £20.

drog addict wrote: Last year a few of me mates were heading to liverpool for the game against stoke. I said i would join them for the craic but i didnt have a ticket. Getting on the ferry that morning i couldnt believe the amount of people heading over to see all these brit teams, hundreds of these dopes in Man u, Liverpool, bolton, Wolves, Blackpool, Leeds,Blackburn shirts. The cost to go to these games arent cheap when you include all the bits and pieces, you are talking around 300 snots or more and thats if you dont hit the club shop.   Sky, ESPN and Setanta all have the list of live games up to November so if you plan ahead, there is no way it would cost one person around 300. If you're getting the ferry, it should be even less.  If each of these people (and the sky sports barstool/couch junkies) sacrificed one season  of the EPL and bought a season ticket to their local LOI club we would surely have 5- 10 thousand at every game if not more and we would have a better standard of football with better stadiums. Think some of LOI heads are missing the point, most of the 'barstoolers' as you call them that I know, including me, have went to a few LOI games and just didn't fall in love with it, it's that simple. It's very hard to have the same feelings for a different club when you're 20-30 compared to the feelings you have when you first support a club as an innocent kid, be that from watching them on TV, your dad following them, or going over to the games themselves. Bohemians was probably the nearest LOI club to me growing up and I went to a few games but I was still a Man United fan, not a bohs fan. Back to the stoke match. Outside the ground these fookers wanted £90  for a ticket so i told them to ask me hoop and i went over to the pub across the way and got locked for £20.

Its costing more every year.

Was working in one of the bars in the Aviva at the weekend and kept hearing Man City fans from Manchester commenting on Irish fans following English clubs and that's not the first time I've heard it been said. I'd say we are the only European country where this happens in that there are more followers of foreign teams than local teams.

sullo-bohs wrote: Was working in one of the bars in the Aviva at the weekend and kept hearing Man City fans from Manchester commenting on Irish fans following English clubs and that's not the first time I've heard it been said. I'd say we are the only European country where this happens in that there are more followers of foreign teams than local teams.   Patriotic Country my hole!