Manchester United Ticket Prices Rise 44%
MANCHESTER United are to celebrate their Premiership success by raising ticket prices by 13 per cent in a move which has angered the Old Trafford faithful.
With a number of clubs deciding to freeze ticket prices for next season as a gesture of goodwill to their fans (and because they can do it and still making a killing), news that the Red Devils are set to increase their prices has infuriated supporters.
Colin Hendrie (presumably not the ex-Scottish international with the dodgy mullet), spokesman for the Independent Manchester United Supporters’ Association, is livid. Says he: “United are pricing traditional supporters out of the game. The last two years have seen double-digit price rises here. Since the Glazer family took over the club, ticket prices have become 44 per cent more expensive. A season ticket that cost £400 in 1995 could now be more than £1,000 in the end.”
Chairman of the supporters’ group, Mark Longden, predicts that United may even find it a struggle to fill the 76,212 seats at Old Trafford next season. “I do not believe they will fill it with these price rises,” he says. “There’s absolutely no justification. It flies in the face of thinking all over the country.”
Liverpool, Tottenham and West Ham supporters are also facing the possibility of price increases.
Self-proclaimed socialist Sir Alex Ferguson was unavailable for comment.
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July 10th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
If you people are so thick to go and cheer on a bunch of blokes who have nothing to do with Manchester then you deserve to be ripped off. You show such loyalty to ‘your’ team, do you not understand that the football club could not give a fuck about you. What do you think Alex Furguson’s response would be if you explained to him that you have been their biggest fan for 20 years, bought all the shirts, season tickets etc but now you are down on your luck and ask that you can be let in for free to cheer ‘your’ team on.
You thick twats pay for the thick twats on the pitch to take home £20,000 a week. What a fuckin world we live in!
June 15th, 2007 at 3:38 am
I don’t go to the games because of the current ticket prices and I don’t want to sit 10 miles away from the pitch in cheaper seats which I think those cheaper ones are too expensive. A visit to Old Trafford to watch a home game should not be like a day out that you have to save up for.
The fans are paying the price of the ridiculous wages the players receive. When a player want a pay rise its the fans who have to pay for it.
June 11th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
they have increased but they are still cheaper than the top teams so you should be thankful that our prices are not like arsenals or chelseas.