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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29628957

Football has risen twice as much as inflation. When will this stop? Getting ripped off awfully in this country.

Perhaps one for this thread? http://thetownend.com/index.php?topic=55277.msg1292794;topicseen#new

Isn't it because of all the rich foreign investors coming in and turning an average club into a massively competitive club via huge investment?

So the other clubs that don't have huge investment have to raise their prices just to stay competitive?

No. It's because every time the clubs put the prices up, mugs like us still pay them.

Based on Reg's beer price scaling I don't think admission prices have changed much in the last 25 years. When I started watching the Town it was £3.50 to get in the Town End, a pint of beer was about 70p. Equivalent to five pints to get in then, about the same now.  :pint:

Every thing in this country is a rip off, football is well down the list when you put it up against, fuel, prescriptions, credit charges, bank charges, beer, transport etc etc.  Revolution or  a zombie apocalypse are probably the only 2 answers now. I'm easy with either..

An interesting comparison...when I was going at roughly drinking age, ie about 16, it was a shilling to get in, and 1/11 for a pint...so more or less only 2 pints per entry cost.

But you saved a fortune by getting to the pub via a penny farthing

When I left school at 16, my first weekly wage was £8....now there were 240 pennies (d) to £.  Entry cost was 12d....so for my weekly wage I could attend 160 Town games.  Given that the cost is now £25, I would need to be taking home £4000 a week, or approx 200 grand a year, which sadly I'm not, for comparative value.

12d Reg  ;)

Bloody hell, Reg. £8 a week?

My first wage was £7 a week - although my food and accommodation was taken care of thanks to me taking the Queen's shilling!

Beer was 14p a pint so I could get ratted for a pound.

I had the stub from my Wembley 69 ticket in my wallet for years until it disintegrated - think it was 10 shillings.

Hang on Reg  ???

Surely your figures of a shilling to get in and 1/11 for a pint means it cost roughly half a pint to go to a game?

Correct....there was properly quite a differential between seating and terrace...a half way line seat could cost as much as 5/-.

Day return to London back on the last train at 1 a.m cost 11/3

Aye, just looked it up on my Dad's, it's listed as 10/- (which I guess is 10 shillings).

Price of food up = Bad
Price of train tickets up = Bad
Price of Utilities bills up = Bad
Price of Football up = Bad
Price of Fuel up = Bad
Price of Beer up = Bad
Price of housing up = Good

Someone care to explain the fucked up logic behind the obsession in this country with the cost of living going up???
I see all of the above as bad personally. :smugfu:

I saw someone on Twitter posted their season ticket for the 79/80 season the other day priced at £20.50 for the usual 23 games. thisismoney.co.uk inflation calculator tells me that's £102.79. So you're looking at season ticket prices rising about three and a half times inflation since 1979.

Coventry have stopped their intended ticket price increase, and reduced beer by 50p a pint, on the back of this report allegedly. Small steps always needed at the start.

Wasnt it the pay on day increase they stopped ?
A lot of clubs increase prices on the day by a couple of quid - the idea being fans buy tickets beforehand,  maybe something we could have done.

Small steps as you say but in the right direction