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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?
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« Reply #3 on: Thursday, October 16, 2014, 10:44:09 » |
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No. It's because every time the clubs put the prices up, mugs like us still pay them.
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« Reply #4 on: Thursday, October 16, 2014, 10:45:32 » |
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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.  |
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« Reply #5 on: Thursday, October 16, 2014, 11:26:36 » |
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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..
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #6 on: Thursday, October 16, 2014, 12:42:46 » |
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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. 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. |
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« Reply #7 on: Thursday, October 16, 2014, 12:59:18 » |
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But you saved a fortune by getting to the pub via a penny farthing
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« Reply #8 on: Thursday, October 16, 2014, 13:39:38 » |
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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. |
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« Reply #9 on: Thursday, October 16, 2014, 13:51:01 » |
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« Reply #10 on: Thursday, October 16, 2014, 13:54:40 » |
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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.
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« Reply #11 on: Thursday, October 16, 2014, 13:57:53 » |
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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? |
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« Reply #12 on: Thursday, October 16, 2014, 14:29:36 » |
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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 |
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« Reply #13 on: Thursday, October 16, 2014, 17:24:26 » |
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I had the stub from my Wembley 69 ticket in my wallet for years until it disintegrated - think it was 10 shillings.
Aye, just looked it up on my Dad's, it's listed as 10/- (which I guess is 10 shillings). |
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« Reply #14 on: Thursday, October 16, 2014, 17:29:12 » |
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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.  |
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