Fed up of paying ridiculous prices at away games? Do something about it by going to a special meeting tonight.
The Football Supporters’ Federation is set to launch its Score Campaign: Twenty’s Plenty for Away Tickets at The Alibi at the corner of Oxford Street and Portland Street in Manchester city centre at 19:00.
The idea is to encourage clubs to charge visiting fans no more than £20 for adults and £15 for those who qualify for concessionary tickets, such as under 21s, over 60s and students.
A separate meeting will be held in London next week.
An FSF spokesman said: “These meetings will explain the fundamental ideas and principles behind the Score Campaign.
“They will also explore how we can bring together the different campaigns and petitions that are already in place.
“There are thousands of fans out there prepared to devote time and energy to this subject – these meetings will try and harness that energy.
“There has been a tremendous groundswell of opinion from fans with campaigns and petitions popping up all across the country.
“This feels like a real turning point when fans across the country are putting aside tribal differences to speak with one voice and say enough is enough.”
Can you just turn up or do you have to register?
They are all moaning at arsenals ticket pricing. Take a look at us going to qpr next month at £60 a pop! No wonder they can pay there huge wage bill.
Although capping would be grand, even getting charged what members of home sides pay for similar seating be fair to me,
Just because United fans are prepared to pay it doesn’t mean that it is right.
We only pay it because we have the volume of support, if I turn a game down someone takes my place.
Small clubs like City don’t have anyone else to fall back to if the hardcore choose to miss out
Agree with tufty, as much as I would like to see it happen it won’t, the only people that could make it happen or try and help out is the prem league but they won’t do fuck all seen as thou they just sold more record pl tv rights again
I see this differently to Tufty.
Of course I want to stop banding, but in reality there are so many ways around it. As one example, Wigan could give away fans behind the goal at 20 quid to Fulham, Southampton etc and then use a different away area, priced much higher, on the half way line against us or City. Clubs that want to dodge rules can.
Plus, no changes will be made unless a majority of clubs are in favour and we cannot even get agreement to stop banding by fans let alone clubs. Banding affects a small minority of clubs and helps the rest, how do we get their agreement? Why should a Wigan fan be against banding? It is unrealistic to get either fans or clubs to back it.
A set away price is the only the thing that all fans groups will agree on. And I disagree with Tufty that it will cost clubs in any significant way anyway. Take a club that have 3 category A games and charge the rest 30 quid and us 50. That is three games a year getting a max of 3k seats sold at 20 quid more, is a grand total per season of 180k, which in reality is less if all those seats don’t sell. That is a very insignificant number in grand scheme of things given what PL could do if clubs don’t resolve this voluntarily.
Lastly, the meeting tonight shouldnt just be about prices, it should also be about how allocations are set, reduced allocations and lack of transparency in decision making.
One thing to be wary of on pricing, is clubs will never agree to a policy that disincentivises them discounting tickets. For example, let’s say Fulham cannot sell tickets for a home game to Wigan. So they put home end tickets on sale for a tenner. That then means Wigan fans only have to pay a tenner. But if we have abolished banding, all away fans all season have to pay a tenner. In reality, Fulham just wouldn’t reduce home ticket prices and get shafted by doing so. These are the types of things that have to also be thought about.
As United fans we get shafted a lot but we cannot change rules just to suit us, they need to work across the board. So driving agendas that help us but no one else cares about won’t help us. Most clubs hit by banding also only have it a few games a year, eg a Sunderland fan wouldn’t be banded in A anywhere but Newcastle, only us and now City/ Chelsea have it every week.
Agree with Oli on this one.
Anyone know how last nights meeting went??
Was reading on Twitter that Madrid contacting people with UK addresses that both tickets in the home end about relocation. Anyone else heard this or been contacted ??
Mark, check the Madrid ticket allocation thread on the next page, there’s about 3 pages worth of comments on exactly that subject.
Just a thought, what ever price we get charged by other clubs, we should charge them the same when they come to O.T. Maybe then their fans would tell their own clubs how ridiculous it is.
Not thought this through so there may be some obvious argument against it.
Bri,
I think that’s the exact sort of idea that harms not helps us.
I’ll give you a recent example. West Ham wanted to charge us £30 for the FA Cup tie, but United argued we should pay £20 as that’s what home West Ham fans paid. West Ham were nice and agreed to £20. We then sting their fans £45 for the replay. Under your suggestion, West Ham should charge us £45 not £20 if we play them in the cup next season. Would you be happier that way? And then what – you complain to MUFC and you thing they suddenly agree to charge West Ham fans less next time?!
Where owners do not listen to their own fans on home ticket prices (like ours) why will they suddenly reduce away ticket prices because we ask them to?!
Under your idea, all that happens is every owner wins and every fan loses. Fans need to work together across the board on these issues, not try and get our own club to rip everyone else’s fans off more.
One of the main reasons football fans have not had an adequate voice is that their natural reaction is to be tribal and argue with each other, not work together on shared problems. How many of us found Leeds crashing funny then suddenly got worried about our own debts? How many United fans mocked City fans for sending back Arsenal tickets but will moan when we get charged £62 as well? And on that example, so many said ‘well look what City charged us, over £50 quid, what hypocrisy’ which misses the whole point that City FANS did not charge Arsenal fans anything, their owners did.
I don’t want other clubs and fans charging us based on decisions made by7 our own owners thanks very much. We rip others off, I don’t want to suffer from that. So nor do I want fans of other clubs to suffer from what we charge them.
Oli
Oli I have said it before I thought United charging West Ham fans £45 when they were good enough to charge United fans £20 was disgusting and no one can moan should United fans get charged a stupid amount of money in future trips yo Upton Park!!
Just reading about the comments on ticket prices so i just thought i would mention that my mate and i paid £47 for a ticket at Fulham yesterday with restricted view, restricted view was the under statement, sat directly behind a 18 inch square steel pillar and priced the same as an open view. (What a joke)!