How much for a ticket? 5k?
Whilst surfing the worldwide interwebs this aftern
Whilst surfing the worldwide interwebs this afternoon I noticed a surprising headline on the BBC Sport Homepage – ‘Online football tickets for £5,000’
A US based website is offering tickets for tonight’s Champions League clash at Stamford Bridge for a whopping $10,600 (£5,385). I know it is a big game but really is anyone going to pay that amount for one football match?
Those who could afford that would surely be able to find better ways of gaining entry to the ground than by some dodgy American based ticket agency.
Other UK based ticket agencies are offering tickets from just over £400 to £800+. It is pretty late in the day to be thinking about going to the game so I wonder just how many sales ticket agencies like these make on matchday?
On the BBC News at lunchtime they were showing agencies just minutes after Manchester United’s win over Barcelona canvassing for custom. The final over in Moscow might be a once in a lifetime event for many fans but at what price is it too much to justify?
My colleague Harry Ford blogged earlier about it and I have to agree with a lot of what he said. I’m a Portsmouth fan and will not be at the FA Cup Final because I can’t justify splashing out £299 on Club Wembley tickets. With only 25k tickets going directly to fans of each club, it left many fans, who for one reason or another haven’t been able to see their clubs on a regular basis on the outside looking in.
So how much can be justified for one game of football – even if it’ll be a memory that’ll stay with you for your whole life. It is a question I suspect many will disagree on.
