£20 tickets in the lower tier at Arsenal next season? (8/11)

[gooner.ed]

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Usual thread starter… if it’s only going to cost the club £1m a year to be able to seat a few pensioners and more kids outside of the family enclosure, there can’t be many who would argue with such a policy. Could there? Any objectors out there?

[proudtosaythatname]

1 Billion people watched the Man U game live on TV - allegedly. I don't think they are paying enough - if they were just charged 50p/head we could buy another stadium with the proceeds of that game alone (and one to which we could then give a sensible name too). It would mean Sp*** games would be foc - or maybe they could pay people's Licence fees? Might apply also to some of our games like Slavia Prague A, however. Seriously though, more TV revenue should help reduce our season ticket prices, shouldn't it?

[northbankdamien]

i think its a good idea. i agree with you proud with games starting at 12.45 for the benifit of far eastern viewers the club should get WAY more cash for TV rights. my parents used to take me my brother and sister to games when i was young. if I had 3 kids there would be no way i could take them every week especialy wfor big games when i always end up paying 66 per ticket. I agree with wenger comments about wages being higher in london but the prices have gone abit too far. like i said I have no kids so can afford to games but i miss the days when we slaged of chelsea for there prices, now were in the same boat

[shu]

I wrote to Keith Edelman after the Man Utd game last season. The seat cost £50 the view was thro the back of the net. If i had taken my 6 year old son it would have cost me £100 plus travel ,drinks, programme etc. As i pointed out it was not that i couldn't afford it (because i could) but that i didnt feel it represented good value. (£100 poorish seat in a great ground). Arsenal risk losing supporters who have been going years because of this.

His reply , we have cheaper games like Wigan for those in your position !!!!!!!!!! yes love you too !

I have stopped going and will watch it on the box , my lad is not that interested in football yet but he might aswell support someone else (i never thought i would say that), because i am not paying silly money to a moron like him.

[gooner.ed]

the views behind the goals are very poor, there is no chance of any real perspective unless you are in the back rows. it's like wembley in the old days. the rake is too shallow. this is what comes of building a stadium with a height restriction.

so the only answer is value, as well as moving forward with the safe standing areas idea (which has to be done through parliament). my missus and kid were in the family enclosure for the wigan game last season and - as the seats were so wide - i was able to sit with them, 3 of us on 2 seats, me vacating my upper tier seat.

got them tickets for the the man utd game 2 weeks back in the family enclosure. birthday treat for the nipper. told them i wouldn't be joining them for that one as i needed a decent view of the game!

the gap between the fans and the pitch is so much wider as well. you don't feel so close in to the action if you like to sit in the front row downstairs just to be closer to the play. mate of mine was in row 1 behind the goal last season. he's moved upstairs now.

look at the san siro next time it's on the box. that is what a lower tier should be like. six feet above the pitch level for starters. still, no height restrictions on that stadium. you might as well watch it from a cloud as be in the top tiers.