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I only paid £1!
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With all this talk of rich owners and where the game is going, let us examine where we came from. I was clearing some stuff when I came across some old match ticket stubs. Now if my memory serves me correct I reckon a pint of beer in 1977 cost about 35p and that's paying town prices. I may be wrong. Luckily I don't have to rely on my memory when it comes to match prices:
League Cup Final 1977 £1.50 Everton v Villa
League Cup Final 1977 (replay old trafford.) £1 Villa V Everton
Man City v Everton 1978 80p
Boro v Everton 1978 80p
FA SCup Smei-FInal 1980 West Ham v Everton £2.50
that one a forgery, easier in them days and letting fans down ain't a new thing. They advertised on local radio saying get down to Goodison and get a voucher so you can get a semi ticket. As I remember it almost the whole of our coach didn't have the right serial number so all of us got in on forgeries except the poor lad who had dished them out. To add insult he got duffed up by Hammers fans outside ? he was a bit of a mouth though. Now every one of us on that coach to a man never and I mean never missed a game. These days we wouldn't get a vote either!
FA Cup Final 1984 Everton v Watford £5.00 FA Cup Final 1986 Everton v RS £5.00 Charity 1986 Everton v RS £5.00 Man U v Everton 1987 £2.80
Now I reckon if other prices had gone up in the same way as football I reckon youd need a wheelbarrow to go for a pint. My first job in the Summer of '77 paid £24 per week probably because it was a scheme. Two years later I was earning about £90 per week. Lived for the weekend and lived for Everton so come monday morning I'd be walking the 2½ miles to work.
If anyone else could carry on this thread with ticket prices through the years and maybe proof of other prices such as beer and petrol prices or even the price of a loaf of bread it could be interesting. Wage slips would be good too. The wages I quoted were for manual labour. Let's see were the working man's game has gone.
Dave Johnson, Posted 05/09/2008 at 12:23:54
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The working man’s game (although it flourishes on the parks at the weekend) has gone, sold to the man in the bowler hat - or whatever Rupert Murdoch wore at the time. And anyone who complains about Sky and pays them money should think about what they are doing.
I’ve been told that the BL games in Germany are affordable and well attended. Perhaps someone with more knowledge can chip in with some figures.
Football as we know it now isn’t the same game you knew back in the day. Football is a business now, and we pay these companies for the product they are offering. The more we pay, the more it goes up... Demand = Cost. Its a sad state of affairs, but while we continue to pay what they ask, then they will continue to increase their costs over time.
Good times.....
Gee or maybe you are old and you forget at times.. Ouch did that hurt???
Michael Kenrick, the point of the post was that footie has increased massively beyond the general inflation rate, pricing it out the range of its traditional working class base.
Michael Kenrick - don?t be so glib about inflation. It?s nowhere near as high as it was in 1977.
I’m guessing - and not researched at all - but that inflation in football (ticket prices and things like transfer costs) are not in line with national inflation over the last ? lets say ? 10 years, and that?s maybe what the article was gesticulating towards? I remember the gasps when Shearer was bought for £3m. That was 1992 ? in 15 years a comparative striker now would cost £35m (1979 Francis becomes first £1m transfer, 13 years later Shearer is only 3 times that figure).
Ronaldo £135m. To watch us at The Hawthorns, £42. Pint at the game £4. And as a slight movement from the thread, given Ronaldo?s new valuation, does the £25m in installments for Rooney seem like the ?deal of the century? now ? for Man Ure that is!!
Just in defense of the original post.
"Comparing Moyes with Kendall and their beautiful football and trophies... But maybe that’s Ok cause it’s from you, the EDITOR..."
I’d be very surprised if you could find any instance where I have compared Moyes with Kendall. Others contributing to this website have made such comparisons... but not me.
I think such comparisons are stupid and pointless to be honest. I can judge the quality of Moyes’s football, as played by his teams, purely on its merits.... or should that be "its limitations"??
I also have the free song sheet from Wembley and both are signed by the team and also by the survivors from the 1933 FA Cup team who travelled as guests of Everton on the official train. I was lucky enough to travel back from London on their train and got all the autographs then, Dixie Dean's as well. The Official Programme cost 1 shilling (5p).
When my old feller first took me to the match in 1959-1960 I think it cost 3 shillings (15p) to get in the Paddock... and we used to live in a hole in the road with a handfull of hot gravel for us tea....
Most entertaining discussion I’ve read on here in a while. Beats moaning about BK, Moyesey, Hibbert and Neville etc.
That people are enjoying discussing this now timing is probably related The Man City buy out which it seems will be a watershed in how a lot of people view football.
The penny has well and truly dropped. The English working class has had its game and culture ripped from it by an international elite of capitalists, crooks, swindlers and slave owners.
The question is, what are we going to do about it?
Quite apart from Sky/Euromillions distortion of the game in the last 20 years (which has had its own extra-inflationary effect) ticket prices now should only be compared to seat prices back then. Goodison took, what, 60,000 with most of us standing, including season ticket holders.
For the right or wrong reasons, and for good or ill, this development has had its own impact on ticket prices.
Was I ripped off
Looking at my ticket stubb now...
FA CUP Final 1984 Everton V Watford £20.50
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INFLATION!
Is this still what old people do? Reminisce pointlessly about what shit cost in "the Good Old Days" ... FFS!!!