its a tough one this, i thought the liverpool fans demanding in that letter for tickets around the 25 quid mark were taking the piss given that a week before the fa cup they are charging us 40 odd quid and for crap views.

in general, i think the emirates is the best for away fans. good seating, good views and facilities etc etc but yes the money we charge is too high however when you see a fact that no premier league side charges less then 40 quid for Arsenal fans, yet you see nothing about in the media, its quite hard to have sympathy to a certain extent. take villa for example, they were charged around 35 quid for away tickets at the emirates yet charged us 45 quid (or at least that was the cost of my ticket)

a lot of grounds have crap views for away fans, Anfield is one of them, west ham, QPR are others where there are restricted views because of poles etc yet still charge stupidly high prices for restricted views. Norwich regularly charge the big clubs 50 quid an away ticket yet you never hear anything about that. there was a huge fuss last year made by man city fans about the 62 quid away ticket cost for the Arsenal game and the media went mad over it, the linesman of the match even got involved by telling city the fans had paid 62 quid and go say thank you. earlier that season city had charged us around 55 quid, and the following week, we played chelsea away and got charged 61 quid for the ticket. nothing was said in the media.

while away fans are getting ripped off, and yes Arsenal are the highest priced away tickets, it seems to me that this has turned into an anti arsenal crusade by other fans and the media. I'm not supporting arsenal charging 62 quid a ticket, i think its too much myself, but a lot of other clubs are charging way to much too. take liveprool and their restricted view, they knock about a pound off the normal price yet someone could have a pillar in their way and pay around 45 quid. thats not exactly right either is it? prices are generally too high all round, Arsenal might be the highest but chelsea/city both charge around 55-60 quid per away ticket, a lot of the smaller clubs charge us more then we charge them. Swansea is another example, last year they were a category C fixture, so away fans charged roughly 25 quid yet charged us 45 quid for the league game at theirs. Arsenal's prices are generally the highest, but they are not the worst when you take into account what you get, IMO its the best facilities, unrestricted views etc. Prices all over need to come down, but the way the media have gone about Arsenal's prices is wrong as its acting as if they are the only ones who charge away fans. One final example, in the COC game v chelsea, we charged everyone a tenner, in the same round, man united charged norwich fans 45 quid.