Ticket price reduction petition - Football Supporters Fed

[Slinky]

http://www.fsf.org.uk/petitions/away-tickets/

Not sure if anyones seen this petition that is sort of backing up the Sun's campaign for cheaper tickets but with the main priority being away fans.

Below are the reasons and issues they want changing:

- Universal away ticket price of no more than £15 for all Premier League (FAPL) games with £10 for concessions

- A three-season freeze of prices at 2006/7 season levels for both season tickets and individual match tickets for seasons 2007/8-2009/10 imposed by FAPL rule. Encouragement of clubs to cut ticket prices in cash terms over and above the freeze, particularly at the low end.

-The facility fee received for all FAPL televised matches to be used to subsidise tickets prices for all attending those matches.

The FSF wants to emphasise that the campaign isn't just about ticket prices in the Premier League though. Many prices in the Football League and even in the Conference and below are simply far too high.

The objective of the campaign is to ensure that football again becomes the "people's game". Prices across the board in this country are absurd.

The recent decision by Fulham to charge Manchester United fans £45 to visit Craven Cottage when earlier in the season Wigan Athletic fans had been charged just £10 shows how clubs are penalising supporters of those clubs with bigger away followings to subsidise a decline in home support. Just in this past week the Birmingham City versus Stoke City Football League Championship game was moved at EIGHT days notice to a Sunday 11.30am kick-off. Potters fans were still expected to pay £30 (£1 more than home fans who were still being asked for an outrageous £29 behind the goal).

During the first six months of the 2006/07 season, eleven of the seventeen Premier League clubs who remain in the FAPL from last season are showing a decrease in average attendances. Of the remaining six, both Arsenal and Manchester United have increased attendance as a result of increased capacity.

We believe that constantly increasing, rip-off ticket prices, along with decreased competitive balance has driven many supporters out of the game, either unable or unwilling to pay out the sums asked. The increasing number of empty seats up and down the country is testament to this. The majority of clubs are refusing to address dwindling attendances, apparently safe in the knowledge that gate receipts contribute only a tiny proportion of income. There are some honourable exceptions. There are plans at Manchester City to dramatically lower children's prices (but not adults, unfortunately), Bradford City has launched an innovative season ticket scheme and Blackburn Rovers has announced it wants to lower prices. This is all welcome but is NOT enough.

The FSF want to deliver a clear message to Club Chairmen. We want a fairer deal for football fans through a fairer pricing structure which will make football more affordable for all. We want to see IMMEDIATE action by the football authorities to limit ticket prices to no more than £15 for adult away fans in the Premier League, to freeze prices for home fans, reducing prices in the cheaper categories and redistributing the facility fee for televised games by subsidising ticket prices for these matches.

http://www.fsf.org.uk/petitions/away-tickets/

[SpaceCruiser]

The recent decision by Fulham to charge Manchester United fans £45 to visit Craven Cottage

Maybe it's because they don't want many Man Utd fans there - they'd rather have Fulham fans there and I can understand that.

[rabidbee]

Jon's already posted this on the STAR forum:

http://hobnob.royals.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=57386

Still, it's a good cause, so it's worth publicising widely.

So far, I've had replies to my signature (and automatic email) from Man U, West Ham and one other - but not Reading yet...

[T.R.O.L.I.]

Apparently, Bolton have dropped their ST prcies by 10% for next season:

Full story

[T.R.O.L.I.]

So far, I've had replies to my signature (and automatic email) from Man U, West Ham and one other - but not Reading yet...

I've had replies from Man Utd, Arsenal, Bolton, Everton, West Ham and a couple of others but, like you, not from Reading.

[meeky_no9]

Just saw that aswell i beat me to it. Its a good start