High Ticket prices, expensive team shirts, more and more 'directors boxes' in modern stadiums that take up normal seating space. How can the average joe afford to watch his team play when it costs and average of £22.50 to see a top class (top two divisions) team play.
Has the game of football been taken away from the original working class fan base it was founded for?
2007-11-12 19:40:49 · 12 answers · asked by skullpicker 3 in Sports ➔ Football ➔ English Football
yes it has! its been hi jacked by greedy money grabbing self centred low lifes! and thats just the overated players! loads of cheating going on! i bet they train them that way! ( man united do!) just ask ronaldo.. it WAS a good family sport and fun now its being taken over by money men intent on making money! its no longer about the sport!
2007-11-12 19:54:02 · answer #1 · answered by shazzer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree that to some degree it has and it has its own positive and negative points. Would also think that £22.50 is the very minimum you would pay, isn't watching Chelsea something like min £40 per ticket.
Generally your die hard fans will never stop supporting at the ground no matter the cost. They are the backbone of any club but are also the people most at risk from being squeezed of out of the clubs with continual price rises.
There has to become a time when ticket prices level off but that wont happen until we set a limit of foreign players in each team which in turn bring down the high wage bills at all clubs.
You might say this will lessen the amount of money coming into the clubs from sponsors and Sky but at some stage we have to find the right balance between watching great stars and letting the average Joe watch football at affordable prices.
2007-11-12 20:01:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the top tier (and a couple of those aspirant from the Championship) almost definitely.
At lower levels in the profesional game less so - although doesn't this create the self-perpetuating cycle?
It can be traced back to Alan Sugar voting to give Sky the rights to Division 1 (and thus sell lots of dishes and set-top boxes) back in the 90s and completed the journey from Italia 90 to make football palatable to the middle (& political) classes.
2007-11-12 20:49:35 · answer #3 · answered by johnGilf 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep it has, prices have gone riduculously high and footballers wagers are just obscene. I mean like footballers get paid around more then 60k PER WEEK wether they play or not
which is how much a average joe earns in a year so the premier league should put a limit to how high wagers can get etc. anyway if you really are a die-hard fan, just try to go once a week? its good enough
2007-11-12 20:07:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I started to go to football games there was no segregation, good banter with away supporters, players would sign autographs before and after the game, mingling with the supporters. Yes its changed, the weekly wage bill is monstrous and there will always be a surprise team, Man City this year hopefully, but it is always going to be Man U, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea who will win the trophies, I wonder what would happen if Mr Abramovich decide to pull the plug at Chelsea and decided to go to Hartlepool!!!
Martin O, 60k average yearly salary, please tell my boss this!!
2007-11-13 04:49:46 · answer #5 · answered by Don the Wildcat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its think the face of football has completely changed. As well as the things you've mentioned, its now turned into a family day out. In my opinion it should be a place of confrontation and banter which isnt a place for kids under 12. The money is way out of control too but its supply and demand now.
2007-11-13 04:36:37 · answer #6 · answered by peaco1000 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It should be with the prices,but going by the attendances,sales of merchandise,etc,it's not reached that stage,yet. But how long can some people keep up with meeting these costs?
2007-11-13 02:39:48 · answer #7 · answered by duracell18 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it has they do not want the working man at the game if he does not buy a season ticket shirt ect.all they want is anoraks
and glory hunters.who know fu*k all about football.they pay top dollar to watch second rate sh*t.
2007-11-13 11:50:25 · answer #8 · answered by peter o 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes and the more players wages go up the worse it will be for the ordinary working man it will be like those boxing events you see with tables all round the ring with the snobs with their nosebags on
2007-11-12 21:48:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think shazzer deserves the top answer, shes got it spot on!
2007-11-13 01:55:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋