Today the BBC Sport section posted a fantastic article which details the price of football across the 4 professional leagues in England. It used 4 criteria to assess the cheapest club from the most expensive, these were;
- Cheapest ticket
- Cost of food and drink (a pie and cup of tea)
- Matchday programme
It does provide a interesting insight into the cost of football to the fans themselves, rather than focusing on how much clubs are in debt. Now Portsmouth are 2nd in the expensive section, not a great place to be after last years events. £25 is the cheapest adult ticket, £3 programme, £2 cup of tea and £3.50 pie, costing the average on the day fan £33.50. Now if you are a regular at football grounds there are usually deals with pies, I can't remember them off the top of my head, but they do save around £1 or 50p.
Coincidentally Portsmouth released their new family ticket, amusingly called FourTress Fratton, it contains 2 adult tickets and 2 child tickets (under 17) for only £44! This saves a massive £32! Nearly as much for a single on the day punter in the BBC report! But! The deal is only for selected matches, 4 in fact, against Blackpool, Hull, Doncaster and Coventry, nevertheless if it brings more people to the club who previously were unable to then I'm all for it!
Will be purchasing my Carling Cup tickets against Barnet tomorrow as well, looking forward to it. First competitive match at Fratton Park. Only one week away!
Dave.
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