German Football vs English Football

[Barry the Badger]

Interesting to see Dortmund fans are Boycotting over a ticket rise to £19.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/8986321.stm

 

I think if anything this shows how in this country fans have been taken for mugs. People (myself included) just continue to lap up everything the Premier League throws at them "£45 for a ticket? Well if that's how much it costs to support my team then I'm in."

 

Will things ever change over here? Could we end up with more of a German football style model in the future? Or is the appetite for the game just so huge over here that clubs will continue to charge whatever the hell they like?

[knellster]

Sadly for the fans who decided to boycott the match, they had the same problem as anybody who decides to boycott a Man U or Liverpool match over here - there were thousands of others who were more than happy to pay the £20 to watch what is their biggest game of the season, so the game was still sold out anyway. Also Dortmund beat Schalke for the first time in years, so most of their fans would have been happy to pay much more than that to beat their main rivals in their own stadium.

 

A more effective course of action is possibly what Man U fans did at Fulham a couple of years ago when they were charged about £40 a ticket - don't buy programmes / food / beer etc which cost Fulham a lot of money but they still got to see the game.