Financial fair play will not help the upward pressure on ticket prices. By tying expenditure to income. FFP will make squeezing every last penny out of income source even more important if a club is to compete on wages and transfer fees.
Financial fair play will not help the upward pressure on ticket prices. By tying expenditure to income. FFP will make squeezing every last penny out of income source even more important if a club is to compete on wages and transfer fees.
The remarks made by Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore yesterday were seen as an endorsement of the partial boycott of the expensive tickets at the Emirates by Manchester City fans. But what Scudamore was saying is that fans should make their feelings felt through the market mechanism.
The difficulty is that Arsenal were able to reallocate all the unsold tickets and secure a capacity crowd. Scudamore also drew attention to the tension between demands from fans for world class players and ticket prices.