For all those who love detail and stats take a look at the excellent BBC summary 'The Price of Football'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41482931

Some great snippets in there. Interesting to see the price of season tickets; I now see why Bradford City get such large crowds!

Barring the London clubs (different world) Ipswich and Norwich season tickets look really expensive compared to others.

Couple of things strike me from that table.

Firstly, if i were a Premier League supporter, i could watch some of the best players on the planet, in the flesh, cheaper than i can watch some maladroit journeyman hack a football to death at BP. This shows that the matchday fan is not really needed in the modern game, which is drowning in TV money. They are just there to provide some atmosphere for Sky/BT armchair fans. Now people generally being the greedy fookers that they are, it would make great business sense for them to somehow wipe out the game at the lower level and convert everyone into armchair viewers to get their football fix. I wonder how they might go about that task? Divide and conquer is a well tried method, aided by chucking around a bit of that cash to draw people in. Step forward Shaun Harvey.

Secondly, Accrington Stanley get less than 2000 through the gate and their season tickets are considerably cheaper than ours. Yet they are consistently at the top of the league and were 1 goal away from playing in League 1. What are they doing right?

Quoted from ginnywings

Couple of things strike me from that table.

Firstly, if i were a Premier League supporter, i could watch some of the best players on the planet, in the flesh, cheaper than i can watch some maladroit journeyman hack a football to death at BP. This shows that the matchday fan is not really needed in the modern game, which is drowning in TV money. They are just there to provide some atmosphere for Sky/BT armchair fans. Now people generally being the greedy fookers that they are, it would make great business sense for them to somehow wipe out the game at the lower level and convert everyone into armchair viewers to get their football fix. I wonder how they might go about that task? Divide and conquer is a well tried method, aided by chucking around a bit of that cash to draw people in. Step forward Shaun Harvey.

Secondly, Accrington Stanley get less than 2000 through the gate and their season tickets are considerably cheaper than ours. Yet they are consistently at the top of the league and were 1 goal away from playing in League 1. What are they doing right?

Location.

Oh and a board with ambition.

Some good points raised there mate.

The stupid thing is even though Juventus is 25% more than us I'd rather watch Scott Vernon than Gonzalo Higuain.

Quoted from GrimRob

The stupid thing is even though Juventus is 25% more than us I'd rather watch Scott Vernon than Gonzalo Higuain.

Yep stupid im with you ;D

Quoted from GrimRob

The stupid thing is even though Juventus is 25% more than us I'd rather watch Scott Vernon than Gonzalo Higuain.

Hell yes, and that is what the Shaun Harvey's of this world don't get. I don't care, for instance, how much Chelsea fans enjoyed their league title win, but there is no way on earth that their fans felt as good as we did when we beat Forest Green at Wembley. That's what keeps us going.