MK Gould wrote:flash gunner wrote:Just heard on the radio that from next season when the new TV deal starts every club could reduce the price of each ticket by £32 per game and for every game and
still have the same amount of cash they have earned this season
The emphasis on "could"..... Anyway, I think we've already spent ours on Theo....:
£32 x 19 games x 35,741 average PL attendance = £21.7m
We'll be lucky if they hold prices as they are.....not a chance they will go down!!!
But I hope I'm proved wrong....
You won't be. And the sad thing is that nowadays so many people in this country seem to just accept it. The amount of times I have heard "but they're a business, of course they should be trying to maximise revenue" is sickening. Yes, they are now businesses but they fucking shouldn't be and the fans should have done something about it a long time ago. Sorry to mention SAFC but I'm not as sure about Arsenal's origins but Sunderland were initially the "Sunderland and District Teachers' Association Football Club", it was a club for teachers in the area in much the same way that a working man's club was a club to provide education and recreation for working class men in an area. These kind of clubs do not seek to "maximise revenue" they exist for their members.
As football became more popular, clubs extended their membership so SAFC stopped being purely for teachers and ended up representing the town as a whole in matches against other towns. This is what football should be, it should be clubs representing the people of their local area and it should be ran, as it was initially, by people who share the passion and not ran for profit.
Alas somewhere along the way we forgot that, the clubs stopped being like working mens/ social clubs and became companies, then they started chasing profits with shareholders who cared a lot more for their dividends than they did for their teams FA Cup quarter final result, then they stopped giving a fuck about people from the local area (often not very well off areas, the posher areas often preferring to have a rugby or cricket club) and cared more about well off "customers" regardless of where they're from, they'd happily price out a working class North London lad and his kid from Arsenal if they had an Asian lad or an executive from Manchester or an alien from Mars who could pay 5 times as much.
Somewhere along the line we lost sight of why clubs exist and why football became popular in the first place, largely because it was an escape for the working class man and a good chance for them to forget about work and money troubles and to bond with mates. We lost sight of it so much that now people say "why should they make it affordable, if they can still sell out they should maximise revenue, they're a company not a charity". At some point they took our game from us, lads were priced out and replaced by plastic, middle class families (middle class being the wrong word, I'm middle class meself but you know what I mean). And for some utterly stupid reason we let it happen. Fuck modern football.
PS I might have had a few to drink mind, for whatever reason despite the sanitised, plastic, overpriced shite played by prima donnas and watched largely by wankers I still get a season ticket every season and go home and away, we all do, must be fucking suckers.
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only next season it'll include Europa thursdays 
I honestly think they've got a set of Year 7 business studies students running things over The Arsenal.
