Premiership- a dream too far?

[stfctownenda]

Unfortunately, it's differently priced as well.  I paid £156 for my season ticket on the Stratton Bank the last time we were there (or £237 in today's money).  I would be surprised if the equivalent ticket these days would go for much less than £600...which would certainly act as a brake on attendances.

All hypothetical anyway.

Every club in the premier league aside from Arsenal and Spurs have there cheapest season ticket valued under £600.  A table of these is enclosed below, of course each clubs highest season ticket is a pretty crazy amount.  Information taken from May this year:

Club
 Cheapest season ticket
 Most expensive season ticket
 
Blackburn Rovers
Cheapest season ticket £199
Most expensive season ticket £349
 
Wigan Athletic
Cheapest season ticket £250
Most expensive season ticket £299
 
Bolton Wanderers
Cheapest season ticket £285
Most expensive season ticket £475
 
Fulham
Cheapest season ticket £285
Most expensive season ticket £799
 
Birmingham City
Cheapest season ticket £338.50
Most expensive season ticket £632
 
Sunderland
Cheapest season ticket £350
Most expensive season ticket £795
 
Aston Villa
Cheapest season ticket £360
Most expensive season ticket £520
 
Burnley
Cheapest season ticket £378
Most expensive season ticket £462
 
Hull City
Cheapest season ticket £385
Most expensive season ticket £450
 
Stoke City
Cheapest season ticket £399
Most expensive season ticket £599
 
Manchester City
Cheapest season ticket £419
Most expensive season ticket £576
 
Everton
Cheapest season ticket £443
Most expensive season ticket £586
 
Portsmouth
Cheapest season ticket £500
Most expensive season ticket £650
 
Manchester United
Cheapest season ticket £513
Most expensive season ticket £931
 
Chelsea
Cheapest season ticket £520
Most expensive season ticket £1125
 
Wolves
Cheapest season ticket £522
Most expensive season ticket £630
 
West Ham
Cheapest season ticket £570
Most expensive season ticket £810
 
Tottenham
Cheapest season ticket £622
Most expensive season ticket £1640
 
Arsenal
Cheapest season ticket £855
Most expensive season ticket £1825
 

[Ardiles]

I was way out, then.  (You can tell I don't have much interest in Prem football these days.)  I stand corrected!

[Gelbfüßler]

I'm either blind or Liverpool aren't on that list. Haven't they got some crazy length waiting list for season tickets?

[jonny72]

We had 11k for our first ever Premiership game!!!! We would not fill the CG as it is now for a prem game vs Burnley or Hull let alone a 30k souless bowl on the edge of town.

As others have pointed out, things have changed a lot in the Premier League over the last 15 years and it is now far bigger than it was back then. Today, we'd sell out on season tickets alone albeit due to people wanting to watch the big clubs play. But what does that matter, it all counts at the end of the day.

[flammableBen]

I think it's ok to dream about the premiership, but expecting to get there is probably a step towards being a bad fairy.

[Arriba]

unless mega bucks get thrown at the team, we aint going anywhere for the forseable future.
i still dream though....

[Doore]

Definitely a dream at present and for the foreseeable future.  I would be over the moon if we could get promoted in the next 2/3 years and consolidate in the championship - even that feels like a bit of a dream. 

[thepeoplesgame]

Definitely a dream at present and for the foreseeable future.  I would be over the moon if we could get promoted in the next 2/3 years and consolidate in the championship - even that feels like a bit of a dream. 

As others have said, if we could manage that while remaining at the County Ground I'd be one happy peoplesgame.

[adje]

Call me bonkers then. I've been to The Emirates and it has to be the best stadium in the world. Not the biggest but certainly the best.

It made me think up a new Carlsberg advert..'Carlsberg don't do football stadiums, but if they did...'

I love that gap between 1968 and 1970 on their trophy display around the top tier!

[adje]

Thing is though for me I have a sort of inverted snobbery about not supporting a Premier league team

[alanmayes]

Arsene Wenger, today opened the redeveloped Highbury Stadium site, now known as Highbury Square.

http://www.highburysquare.com/

[michael]

I purchased my 3 year season ticket in expectation of us being in the EPL within that period.

If we don't go up this season then I will go mental. Don't worry about that.

[Ardiles]

The numbers discussed in the link below make for very uncomfortable reading (geddit?).

http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/football/readingfc/s/2058229_reading_fc_reveal_heavy_losses

Looks that, like us, Reading are paying a heavy price for their short spell in the sun.

[Summerof69]

Some of the comments on there are a bit stupid, considering that without Madejski, they would probably still be at Elm Park, in a crap ground playing League Two football.

[DerbyRed]

Some Reading fans really have it in for Madejski it seems - I dread to think how much of his own money he has pumped into that club giving them their best spell ever!

The sad thing is - I can see the same thing happening with some Town fans about Fitton.  As we become more and more successful under Fitton (fingers crossed!), people will expect him and the board to spend more and more money - and eventually a similar article could be written about Swindon!