Ticket Prices In 1980

[Cobra]

Figures for English teams but makes for interesting reading all the same.

[chomp my root]

I'm just trying to equate it to pints. 1980 was a bit before my bevvying time, I didn't start going to the pub until about '85 and was paying 70 odd pence a pint in some bars (although it wasn't long after I had my first pound pint ). I had a saturday job in John Menzies when I was about 15 and got about 9 quid a day, that was in '83 which would have got me in and enough to get the teenage me buckled on less than a tenner, assuming my saturday job was on a sunday of course, they were all 3 PM kick offs back then. 

Looks like the price of everything has shot up. 

[Boba Fett]

Arsenal were still the dearest ticket in Engurland 36 years ago!

shock.. 

Edited 9 August 2016 by Boba Fett

[WeighorstsWang]

How many games a season did they play? 

Theres only a few of them where buying a season ticket saves you anything over the season?! 

[JoeCovenant]

Taking the median figure of around £2.75, in real terms, a ticket of that price *today* should cost £12.58

We're being fleeced!

Calculator here:
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1633409/Historic-inflation-calculator-value-money-changed-1900.html

:)

[Cobra]

33 minutes ago, JoeCovenant said:

Taking the median figure of around £2.75, in real terms, a ticket of that price *today* should cost £12.58

We're being fleeced!

Calculator here:
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1633409/Historic-inflation-calculator-value-money-changed-1900.html

:)

I think the English fans are being fleeced. Arsenal's 1980 season ticket is £384 adjusted for inflation. They could comfortably charge that now but instead their season tickets range between £1k and £2k.

Our current ticket prices give us a chance to build a competitive team. If we slashed our prices to 1980 levels, I imagine we'd be part-time in the second tier.

[JoeCovenant]

10 hours ago, Cobra said:

I think the English fans are being fleeced. Arsenal's 1980 season ticket is £384 adjusted for inflation. They could comfortably charge that now but instead their season tickets range between £1k and £2k.

Our current ticket prices give us a chance to build a competitive team. If we slashed our prices to 1980 levels, I imagine we'd be part-time in the second tier.

EVERYONE is being fleeced.
Some just more than others.

[SM1893]

17 minutes ago, JoeCovenant said:

EVERYONE is being fleeced.
Some just more than others.

Kevin Holt's fault really

[chomp my root]

4 minutes ago, SM1893 said:

Kevin Holt's fault really

 

[Gedee]

(Re- Meh Failed Tomato Crop & connection to Kevin Holt)   Today eh managed to pick my first small bowl  of exquisite flavoured home grown tomatoes)

DON'T WANT TO COMMIT MYSELF AT THIS STAGE, BUT IT SEEMS VERY STRANGE, THAT THIS COINCIDES WITH KH's MUCH BETTER PERFORMANCE.