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ARSENAL fans have blasted the club for charging £94 for top tickets at their new Emirates Stadium home.
The Gunners expect punters to lash out for Category A ties with Chelsea, Manchester United, Spurs, Liverpool and West Ham.
Premiership champions Chelsea charge £60 for their best seats — with United asking only £39.
Tony Madden, co-editor of Arsenal fanzine Highbury High, said: “These prices are incredibly expensive. The club seems to be turning its back on its roots.
“Arsenal are relying on fans just moaning and then handing over the money.
“It costs an absolute fortune for an ordinary working-class bloke to take his kids along to a game.”
Top West End shows like Phantom of the Opera only charge £50 for their best tickets and you can watch rugby’s Heineken Cup final at Twickenham for £60.
An Arsenal spokesman said: “We are very comfortable with our pricing.”
But Mark Longden, from Manchester United’s Independent Supporters’ Association, said: “Even the £39 we charge is bad.”
PREM CLUBS’ top-priced tickets — Arsenal £94; Spurs £71; Chelsea £60; West Ham £57; Newcastle £50; Fulham £45; Reading £41; Middlesbrough £40; Blackburn, Bolton, Man Utd £39; Man City £38; Everton £37; Aston Villa, Charlton, Wigan, Watford £35; Liverpool, Sheff Utd £34; Portsmouth £30.
people wonder why i go and watch stockport country now
Do those prices include a pie and a bovril at half-time and a complimentary programme Matty?
no, they are a tenner each.. £12 if you have ketchup with it
That’s a fecking rip-off then!
when people vote with their feet n the stadiums are half empty, the bureaucrats will listen.
Classic supply and demand n currently demand is feeding the cost of supply
Yeah I agree but attendances are on the increase DESPITE the ‘obscene’ prices, DESPITE the fact most games are live on tv and DESPITE the kick-offs being changed to suit tv schedules. Even teams with traditional working-class supporters (like Newcastle who have been starved of success for 50 years or so) still sell-out. I think demand for premiership football is relatively price-inelastic and there could be significant increases ahead. Man Utd are way behind the rest, even with their detailed pricing-increase policy over the next 5 years or so. The Glaziers are not idiots and have huge debts to service – Man Utd fans should expect to be paying Arsenal/Chelsea prices within 10 years. They’ll probably still sell out every match.
precisely why i go and watch Harlow Town lol!!!
got my season ticket for sky so have to settle for watching it wiv andy gray and martin tyler and mr keyes!!!!!!!
one day i’ll go (borrows rubes red slippers and clicks heals) 8)
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