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Comment | Saints Fans To Pay £25.50 At Arsenal
at 13:49:45
The Arsenal-Sunderland game is category C. The City-Southampton game is category A. The reason why it's classed as a category A simply because this is City's first home game after winning the league last season.
The reason why the seats are cheaper at the opposite end has already been explained in your other article. The opposite end is The Family Stand, hence the minimum an adult can buy in this stand is two tickets (one for himself and the other for a minor). There is no cunning exploitation of the rules.
There are approx 37,000 season tickets at City, so the vast majority of the stadium will be occupied by season ticket holders - taking away fans and corporate seats into consideration, there will only be around 6,500 match-day tickets available to home supporters. Those tickets are spread throughout the stadium. So there are match-day tickets available to home fans in the same stand where away fans are located, and as you point out, these tickets cost the same for both home and away supporters. Those are the comparable seats to the away fans, not the seats at the opposite end, the reason why explained above.
Southampton will probably be classed as Category C more often than not for away games, so on average you'll pay less to go to away games than the likes of City, Arsenal, Chelsea, and United fans will be.
Still, £50 for a match-day ticket, irrespective of the club charging it, and irrespective of the opposition, is a price that I do agree is too much.
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Comment | £51 Pounds At Manchester City - Welcome To The Premier League
at 14:40:39
For what it's worth, I agree that £50 plus for a match-day ticket is obscene, no matter which club is charging such amounts. It does seem that the Southampton game is being classed as a Category A game, not because of the opposition (no disrespect), but because it's the first home game of the new season - the first competitive match at Eastlands since winning the PL.
In my opinion, the price for away fans should match what those fans pay on average to watch their team at home. For example, I know that Southampton are regarding their game against City at St Mary's as a category A game, so whatever the average match-day ticket price for that is, Southampton fans should be charged the same amount for the game at Eastlands. (Interestingly, Sunderland are being charged up to £25.50 for their game against Arsenal at The Emirates, and for Sunderland's game at home against Reading the ticket prices are similar, but that is probably just a coincidence.)
But as you SaintNick pointed out, the price Southampton are paying for tickets is really no different to what City fans are paying for a match-day ticket. With the exception of the Family Stand (the reason for that being obvious and perfectly understandable). And I know that a lot of City fans are not happy about being charged this amount, so I personally don't quite understand why so many of my fellow City fans have been so critical of your post in their replies. |
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Comment | £51 Pounds At Manchester City - Welcome To The Premier League
at 12:15:03
The reason why the tickets are cheaper in the opposite end (to where the away fans are located) is because that is the Family Stand. So it is incorrect to regard seats in that stand as comparable to what away fans should be charged.
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