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[Dalglish]

Can someone please tell me whats so priceless about Birmingham City that they can charge £43 to Liverpool fans to watch the game when Aston Villa who play their football a stones throw away charge us £23 

I tend to go to most away games within 100 miles of Liverpool but I'm boycotting this one.

£43 Quid !!!!! Its the same at Bolton who are always pleading poverty yet charge £38 (their neighbours Blackburn charge around £26) when LFC play there. A comprision for those not familair with trips to Anfield . £28 is the average price for a ticket on the world fanous KOP yet these clubs are cashing in at our expense.

A comparison with Europe shows that we are getting well and truly ripped off week in week out. A ticket for Lyon costs around £8, Bayern Munich £12, Juventus £15 and A Real Madrid /Barcelona ticket will set you back £23   

[LFC #1]

Supply and Demand I guess. Birmingham know LFC will sell their allocation so they charge extortionate prices. For them it's good business, and the fans get left out in the cold.

Corporate greed!

[Dalglish]

I don't agree with this "supply and demand" thesis that is often trotted out .

After Lord Justice Taylor's report post Hillsborough he made a recommendation that all grounds in the top 2 divisions be made all seater and clubs duly obliged and used the opportunity to hike prices way beyond both their costs in constructing new stands and inflation. Justice Taylor indicates in his report that tickets should not have to increase exponentially but the reality is very different.

In Spain , Italy, Germany and France you can;t say there isn;t demand for tickets yet they don't feel the need to rip off their fans.

My only form of protest is to boycott those clubs who are quite obviously cashing in i.e. Bolton, Chelsea, Brum etc......I know others wil take my place due to the platry allocation of tickets LFC recieive for away fixtures 

[LFC #1]

At the end of the day they don't give a fuk about the fans, they are businessman and want to make the highest profit possible. If that means selling tickets at a ridiculosuly inflated price and still filling the allocation then they are going to continue doing it until their are mass boycotts, which will never happen unfortunately.

Chelsea is ridiculous though I've got to admit. I'll actually be in London on the 4th Feb, which is when LFC play Chelsea at the Bridge. I was thinking I could try and get a ticket in the Chelsea end and keep my head down, but the tickets are like £50-60, not worth the risk really.

[ivor_the_injun]

It is ridiculous. I simply can't afford to go to games anymore.

The thing that knocked me for six was last season - I lived in north London at the time, and went to see Barnet vs Accrington Stanley with the missus' dad. Barnet were in the Conference at the time, and were charging £15 to watch slightly pants football on a ridiculously slopy pitch. When I was at school in the 90s, just before Sky got in on the action, it cost me £25 for a SEASON TICKET for Warrington Rugby Club. I know there's a gulf moneywise between the two sports, but even so it does make me wonder where the hell some of these teams find the nerve to come up with some of the numbers that they charge.

Just the fact that we're talking about £23 being reasonable to see Villa vs LFC puts it into perspective for me. Even that's excessive as far as I'm concerned. It's like now that petrol's hit a £1 a litre that people are starting to talk about the "good old days" when it was "only" 80p. And look at it this way - people in the highest paid jobs in the land complain when they're charged £35 for a seat in one of London's West End theatres, something they'll only do at most maybe once every couple of months. People who have barely a pot to p*ss in are, week in, week out, being exploited for sums in excess of that purely because the powers-that-be know they wouldn't dare let the side down by not turning up to a game.

There really needs to be a cap on ticket prices. But will it happen? Will it f*ck. Clubs will leech all the money they can out of the punters, and the FA will do nothing about it because at the end of the day there's always a tidy sum that gets kicked their way.

[Dalglish]

Good contribution Ivor.

I have a season ticket 9 well a half share as four of us (all married with kids) share 2 tickets and I am able to make a fair few away games (11 last season) but with a young baby and a mortgage it gets harder each season. Last season it was £38 at brum so they have increased it by a fiver in ONE season !!!!!

At leats at LFC they do try and keep the cost down. Blackburn is the ONLY other Prem club cheaper than us. Ironically last season it was Man U amoungst one of the cheapest but after the Glazier takeover you can forget cheap seats ......

The irony is that the more corporate the game becomes the harder the fall is going to be when the bubble bursts and clubs are left with very few supporters as part of their fanbase.

[supersub]

Tottenham charged £43 for saturdays game.....I think it only fair that Liverpool charge the away fans the same prices for the return fixture.

[Leonmc0708]

Ian - it was £42 last season mate, and the same £42 the season before that, the porn kings love ripping visiting fans off.

Supersub - I understand your sentiments, but we should not lower outrselves to such a level. Anfield is synonymous with both great and fair football and a hospitable welcome at the ground and the city. I am proud of that and dont want to be seen as money grabbing scourge on the face of football.

[XSD]

Birmingham City always do this to the big clubs. It sucks but that's how it is.

[stmichael]

Can someone please tell me whats so priceless about Birmingham City that they can charge £43 to Liverpool fans to watch the game when Aston Villa who play their football a stones throw away charge us £23 

I tend to go to most away games within 100 miles of Liverpool but I'm boycotting this one.

£43 Quid !!!!! Its the same at Bolton who are always pleading poverty yet charge £38 (their neighbours Blackburn charge around £26) when LFC play there. A comprision for those not familair with trips to Anfield . £28 is the average price for a ticket on the world fanous KOP yet these clubs are cashing in at our expense.

A comparison with Europe shows that we are getting well and truly ripped off week in week out. A ticket for Lyon costs around £8, Bayern Munich £12, Juventus £15 and A Real Madrid /Barcelona ticket will set you back £23   

was going to start a thread on exactly the same thing yesterday. my ticket cost £43. f#cking joke.

[XSD]

I think we get a thread on the Bham city ticket prices every season tbh

[thegreedo]

Ian - it was £42 last season mate, and the same £42 the season before that, the porn kings love ripping visiting fans off.

Supersub - I understand your sentiments, but we should not lower outrselves to such a level. Anfield is synonymous with both great and fair football and a hospitable welcome at the ground and the city. I am proud of that and dont want to be seen as money grabbing scourge on the face of football.

Great shout Leon.

Thats exactly what sets us apart.

[ry_math]

there greedy cants!