2014/15 Premier League and General Football Discussion

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Ozil out for 12 weeks and now Arsenal have a worse injury list than Man United....
 
Happy 150th birthday to the 3rd oldest professional club in the world and Wales first and oldest club overall, the legendary and inimitable Wrexham AFC.
 
It's also the Birthday of one of the greatest footballers of the 20th Century. Sir Bobby Charlton is 77 today.
 
So you guys might have heard this as its been made public but the ticket prices and season ticket prices from around Europe and the comparisons are interesting to say the least

The cheapest season ticket in the Premier League is £299.00 at Man City with the most expensive at Arsenal with an eye-watering £2013.00 and Arsenal's cheapest is still just over a thousand pounds! the average price £508.55 for the cheapest with £870.70 for the most expensive

in terms of match-day the cheapest is at Newcastle which is £15 and most expensive is Arsenal again at £97, Average cheapest is £28.80 with most expensive £56.85

In Europe, the cheapest Season tickets are in Portugal where the top teams like Sporting Lisbon and Porto charge between £50-80 but Barcelona's cheapest is only £103.38! and Bayern is just £109!

In the Football league the Cheapest season ticket you can buy is Charlton at £150 and that's cheapest across all three divisions, the most expensive across the leagues is Birmingham with £690.00

They also said the most expensive pie sold at the ground was non league Kidderminster at £4.50! Arsenal charge £3.60 just for a cup of tea, as for replica shirts, the two Manchester clubs charge the most at £55 with the average being £47.40..
 
Before Rushden and Diamonds folded (local team) they were conference level with the "Diamond Pie" that was about £4-5, wasn't very good and was always scalding hot.
 
I never eat when I go to grounds anymore. Had a pie at Villa once, it was awful and didn't agree with me... I've been put off ever since.
 
Also found out that Alfreton Town's match-day ticket for £18 and Real Madrid is £18.01 and Barcelona is £18.80....you'd have to fly to Spain first of course...but anyway comparisons have been made..
 
In Europe, the cheapest Season tickets are in Portugal where the top teams like Sporting Lisbon and Porto charge between £50-80 but Barcelona's cheapest is only £103.38! and Bayern is just £109!

I remember seeing this quote from ex-Bayern President Uli Hoeness a couple of years ago, explaining their cheap season ticket prices:

We could charge more than £104. Let's say we charged £300. We'd get £2m more in income but what's £2m to us? In a transfer discussion you argue about that sum for five minutes. But the difference between £104 and £300 is huge for the fan.

It'd be nice if some of the British clubs adopted this attitude..
 
German football law makes this much easier and feasible. Like fans trusts or such dedicated ventures owning roughly 50% of a football club to discourage single entity sugar daddy ownership, and clubs being audited to prove sound financial ground in the granting of operating licences, for example.

I fear England is too far down the Murdoch rabbit hole to reverse the last 20 years and go Deutsch.
 
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League football's back this weekend

Saturday
Arsenal v Hull
Burnley v West Ham
Crystal Palace v Chelsea
Everton v Aston Villa
Man City v Tottenham (12.45 BT)
Newcastle v Leicester
Southampton v Sunderland

Sunday
Stoke v Swansea (4.00 Sky)
QPR v Liverpool (1.30 Sky)

Monday
West Brom v Man United (8.00 Sky)
 
Spare a thought for Sunderland fans, around 2,500 of them travelled all the way from wearside to the south coast (very long journey!) to see their team get battered 7-0 to Southampton....

....and its now Southampton 8-0 Sunderland!!
 
Nope, 9-0 still the record by Man United v Ipswich in 95, still comfortably the biggest win for the Saints in the top flight though..
 
On Football Manager 2009 Ronald Koeman was my rival in English football. He was annoyingly successful. Looks like he might be making this a reality. A good first quarter of the season for Southampton.
 
27 goals so far in just 7 games, Newcastle v Leicester still to finish, match was delayed by an hour because part of the big screen was flapping about in the wind and they had to make it safe....0-0 in the second half..
 
Are Southampton genuine title contenders when just about everyone here including me thought they were going down?! :lol:
I never thought they'd be even close to going down.
I knew full well the players Koeman brought in would do well. Pelle had broken out in the last two years under Koeman at Feyenoord. Tadic had done much the same thing at Twente.
They are now reaping the benefits. They're a shoo-in for Europe.
 
Still early days but the table is shaping up nicely. With Arsenal and Liverpool out of the top 4. Imagine Southhampton in Europe I wouldn't mind a top 4 of Chealsea City man utd and Southhampton. A win against West Brom tomorrow would be good.
 
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