Mike Ashley

Pay your money and take your choice, these games are all outside of what you pay for as part of your subscription. Some people are actually savings a lot of money and still being able to watch the game which is a good comprise given no one can actually attend the game.

People who might ordinarily spend close to £80 for a parent and child to go to a premier league game or perhaps £45 upwards for themselves why are they complaining about paying £15 to watch it on TV, I don't get it, am I missing something? Can someone explain it for me please?
Season ticket holders are having to pay it. Maybe they object to paying twice?
 
Season ticket holders are having to pay it. Maybe they object to paying twice?

If they don't get a refund, then yes that's wrong, my understanding was that season ticket holder were being offered refunds by clubs.
 
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People who might ordinarily spend close to £80 for a parent and child to go to a premier league game or perhaps £45 upwards for themselves why are they complaining about paying £15 to watch it on TV, I don't get it, am I missing something? Can someone explain it for me please?

The two aren't really comparable, one is marketed as an "fan experience" (especially these days in the PL) and the other is sat at home watching telly.
 
Cynically trying to increase his popularity.

It's no coincidence that he's only raised his voice the day before they're caving and probably dropping the price anyway.
Boroben that's why I was confounded. I always thought he couldn't give two hoots what people thought of him .
To him £££ is king . It's got to be said begrudgingly he's rather quite good at that element albeit just for himself
 
The two aren't really comparable, one is marketed as an "fan experience" (especially these days in the PL) and the other is sat at home watching telly.

They are not comparable, but neither is the price, I think it is good that people are being given the option to watch their team live when you can't actually attend, just like us tonight.
 
They are not comparable, but neither is the price, I think it is good that people are being given the option to watch their team live when you can't actually attend, just like us tonight.
Corco the point I think is that we are living in an unprecedented economic national crisis where many fans are struggling as they lose their job in their thousands. At the start of the season all games were available for free. It was seen as a fillip for national morale. After all football is our national sport and raises passions no other sports do in this country. That finished. Now they are available to subscribers on Sky TV but for an additional cost. Don't you think that until fans can get back to stadia and watch their team that they could have least made these games available at a lower cost than £15? I do and many fans are kicking back. Also it is having an unbalanced effect on fans of teams lower in the PL. For it is their games that don't get shown as much for the main televised games which don't attract the extra cost.
 
Season ticket holders are having to pay it. Maybe
Corco the point I think is that we are living in an unprecedented economic national crisis where many fans are struggling as they lose their job in their thousands. At the start of the season all games were available for free. It was seen as a fillip for national morale. After all football is our national sport and raises passions no other sports do in this country. That finished. Now they are available to subscribers on Sky TV but for an additional cost. Don't you think that until fans can get back to stadia and watch their team that they could have least made these games available at a lower cost than £15? I do and many fans are kicking back. Also it is having an unbalanced effect on fans of teams lower in the PL. For it is their games that don't get shown as much for the main televised games which don't attract the extra cost.


Brighton v West Brom was a PPV match costing £14.95 Last night.
I would love to know how many bothered.
 
Football is a private business, it maybe the most popular sport in the country but is is still run privately.

Watching football is an option it is not something you have to do and there are millions more who don't watch it then ever will. If you want to help people through the pandemic there are many, many better ways people could be supported.

This is a business decision, clubs still have all the same overheads without the match day income, the charge is based on what they think they can get to make the most profit and people pay or they don't, just like deciding to go the game and pay whatever the ticket price is. Of course if the price was lower that would be better but that applies to most things, the food you buy, the clothes you wear, the car you drive, the holiday you go in, the house you buy, etc

If you don't like the price don't pay, I make the choice of paying to watch the game in the ground, paying for watching on TV, or paying to listen on the radio, or not engaging at all, they all priced differently and I make my choice,
 
If and when we got back to normal, will £15 seem a fair price?

When we get back to normal then I think you have a great case to charge for games that weren't available this time last season. Ifolow is £10 per game. Maybe that would be an acceptable price.
 
Football is a private business, it maybe the most popular sport in the country but is is still run privately.

Watching football is an option it is not something you have to do and there are millions more who don't watch it then ever will. If you want to help people through the pandemic there are many, many better ways people could be supported.

This is a business decision, clubs still have all the same overheads without the match day income, the charge is based on what they think they can get to make the most profit and people pay or they don't, just like deciding to go the game and pay whatever the ticket price is. Of course if the price was lower that would be better but that applies to most things, the food you buy, the clothes you wear, the car you drive, the holiday you go in, the house you buy, etc

If you don't like the price don't pay, I make the choice of paying to watch the game in the ground, paying for watching on TV, or paying to listen on the radio, or not engaging at all, they all priced differently and I make my choice,

I understand your viewpoint that football is a business. You are though commoditising football like an item in a shop.

It is more than that isn't it?
 
I understand your viewpoint that football is a business. You are though commoditising football like an item in a shop.

It is more than that isn't it?

I would like to think football supporters weren't just consumers/customers but in the economic reality of the sport unfortunately that what we are.
 
I would like to think football supporters weren't just consumers/customers but in the economic reality of the sport unfortunately that what we are.

And this surely is all about challenging that notion. You may disagree but I feel football should be looked on in a slightly different way and thousands agree hence the controversy. Of course they have to make money but its not like a normal business/consumer relationship where you can choose to "shop" at another Club if the current one upsets you like deciding which supermarket to shop at..
 
I understand what you are saying but disagree, you can still support a club but never pay to watch or buy any merchandise, many supporters over the years from all clubs stop going and find other interests but still feel they support the club, others disengage completely and do something else or watch non league or games in the park.

Players earning £0000's a week, have killed the game, Gareth Bale getting a reported £500,000 a week, yes a week for kicking a ball around is just lunacy but the fans lap it up and it has to be paid for.

If you don't want do your bit don't contribute or if you are happy to be part of keep paying out that is your choice.

Not me, but there are plenty of people who will only buy from certain shops or buy certain brands of phone, or footwear or a certain coffee or soft drink and so on, many believe they don't have a choice either but clearly they do.
 
They'll never tell you - same as you can't get accurate figures for their normal games.

These games aren't aimed at neutral fans, if Boro charged £15 we would all have to make are own decision to pay or not, for me the extra £5 is still a lot cheaper then my usual £34 - £38 ticket and it allows me to watch when otherwise I couldn't, so I'd pay and view the other £5 as what I would spend towards travel or something to eat at the game.

In the circumstances it's given me a choice and a cheaper one, but I guess we all see it differently, nothing wrong in that.
 
These games aren't aimed at neutral fans, if Boro charged £15 we would all have to make are own decision to pay or not, for me the extra £5 is still a lot cheaper then my usual £34 - £38 ticket and it allows me to watch when otherwise I couldn't, so I'd pay and view the other £5 as what I would spend towards travel or something to eat at the game.

In the circumstances it's given me a choice and a cheaper one, but I guess we all see it differently, nothing wrong in that.

I agree, I live away from the Boro and given the choice to watch the game for a fee, be that £14.99, then I would happily pay it as it means I have more chance of watching all the games instead of the 6 times we are live on TV and the 2 times I can justify the cost of going up there.

I understand the anger because season ticket holders are being made to pay for the games, but isn't that the fault of the clubs rather than the Premier League, surely if a club wanted to they could say to season ticket holders here's a voucher to watch the game???
 
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