Swales4ever wrote:Dunno, I am not enough into Mancunian goings to assess, but couldn't it just be sth more similar to the very cockney use of many companies/businessmen to buy season tickets just to serve their business entertainment needs?
I mean now, aside the rags/dippers pushing media, everyone in the world is aware that City are the biggest entertaining thing in English Footie, hence increased appetite and all that.
I just happened last weekend to be on the receiving end of such reprehensible use and I guess that seat at Vicarge rd. will be empty most of the game.
the opposite flip of advancement, anyone?
I think the other part of this is that Season Tickets give much better access to tickets for away games. A mate of mine who's a Dippers fan paid £700 for a pair of away tickets to the Etihad a few weeks back, for him and a client. The owner of those will have paid £35 each for them, meaning a £630 profit, which in itself will have paid for one of the season tickets used to buy them. If tickets like this are sold for just 5 games a season (us, Rags, Arsenal, Chelsea and Everton) at similar prices, and ones for other London games (Spurs, West Ham) at £150 a pop, that's over £2,000 per ticket, without having to even factor in home games or European matches.