Not £62 according to many Manchester City fans. That is the price they are being charged for a seat at the Emirates on Sunday for the game with Arsenal and 912 tickets have been returned unsold. The game is live on Sky and can be watched in a pub in Manchester without incurring any travel costs.
Not £62 according to many Manchester City fans. That is the price they are being charged for a seat at the Emirates on Sunday for the game with Arsenal and 912 tickets have been returned unsold. The game is live on Sky and can be watched in a pub in Manchester without incurring any travel costs.
Arsenal charge away fans more to attend top matches classified as category A than any other club in the country. Tickets for a category A match have increased by 23 per cent at the Emirates compared with last season. Tickets for the same match in 2009 cost £32.50. City charged Arsenal fans £49 or £51 at the Etihad in September.
Arsenal said that the returned tickets would be sold on to their own supporters at the same price and that the two previous category A games this season at the Emirates had been sold out.
There is a more general issue about how away fans are treated. They generally get less good seats, often with a restricted view at lower league grounds and often have to put up with over officious stewarding.