I can't see any justification for the scale of West Ham's season ticket price hikes. My Billy Bonds Stand ticket is going up from £800 to £865 (more than eight per cent) while my daughter's £400 ticket is going up to £435. Yes, the prices had been frozen since the move but it has to be remembered that the club is now selling an extra 3000 seats with the new 60,000 capacity and that many of the original £99 under-16s tickets will now be paying young adult 16-21 prices. Whatever happened to the pledge for "affordable football"?
Yes, the club has invested heavily in new players, but we don't get a reduction when the club makes a profit from the transfer window as they did last season. With the massive fees coming in from TV most Premier League clubs could let us watch for free and still make a huge profit. And it seems particularly galling when Brexit is likely to plunge the country into economic turmoil. Bringing the deadline forward to May 17 is also going to put more pressure on those paying by instalments. As a writer and journalist my wages have been declining for the last decade and many other professions are the same. I'll pay it because I'm addicted. But a £65 increase seems to be taking the proverbial…
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Mines gone up 55 notes, it's not like season tickets compete with sky or BT money
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