The Cost of Football

[Coney]

That's nothing, we have Nasri.

La Tranniata?

[GP]

La Tranniata?

The Marriage of Fagaro.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Coney, GP - well played.

[IBK]

This isn't a market in the traditional sense. It is in no way a case of if you don't like Brand A, you go to Brand B. They arent following a market at all and they are charging more than anyone else while increasingly delivering less and in time it will come back to bite them on the ass.

Buit they won't care because one by one they are selling out and pocketing their millions.

Well done them.

Cunts.

Sorry, mate, but that's bollox. The club is following the market at its most simple. Supply and demand. Just because fans tend to be fans for life doesn't prevent them from staying at home and watching the football on TV, or coming to games and eating from a stall outside the ground.

Talking of TV - has it occurred to you that we tend to be on TV a great deal? Like it or not that is partly because we still have a rep for playing good football, and having people wanting to watch us. ie delivering product. I think sometimes we have to step aside from our frustrations as fans and see the bigger picture.

[LDG]

Pointless buying anything in the ground.

£2.50 for a nice greasy Cheeseburger at one of the local vans is much more football.

Beer in the pub before. Hipflask full of whiskey for the ground.

Job done.

[Letters]

The pies are worth paying for IMO 'cos they're nicer than what's outside.
If you want a burger or anything else though, go to the van outside the Rocket, or any of the other similar vans around the ground.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Sorry, mate, but that's bollox.

That's ok, lets just declare you right then shall we?

[Letters]

Ah, the old marc tactic.
Shout "I'm right! I'm right! I'm right!" loud as you can.

Arsenal are just doing what makes sense for a business. Demand (still) exceeds demand so they can make prices high, fill the stadium and sell lots of over-priced food and merchendise.

They're not doing the right thing in terms of a club creating and maintaining a connection with fans. But we've long since stopped being a club.

Not a problem that's unique to Arsenal of course but a big reason why football has become so soulless and crap.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Letters, who have you directed that at?

[IBK]

Letters, who have you directed that at?

You - you touchy little tinker.