It’s British footballs worst kept secret but the working class are being priced out of Scottish football. With season ticket prices rising each year at the majority of Scottish clubs is football losing its working class roots?
The price of football in general is going up with replica shirts, programmes and even food from the ground rising in the last ten years families up and down the country are struggling to afford supporting their team.
Just recently Hearts released ticket prices for their quarter final tie against Rangers.
Having beaten Rangers just last month Daniel Stendel commented on the support of a full Tynecastle have with the atmosphere helping spur the players on, as before the game Rangers were considered the favourites.
Hearts priced the tickets as £30 for adults and £12 for under 16’s.
These prices are ridiculously high, since it’s a cup game everyone who goes has to buy a ticket as season tickets don’t include cup ties this meaning to get a full house at Tynecastle, the one thing Stendel wants from his fans that will benefit the team, 17,000 are going to have to fork out.
For the earlier cup game against Airdrie tickets were capped at £15 this resulted in a near full Tynecaslte with the atmosphere spurring the team on. With Hearts having their worst season in years its understandable why fans wont rush to the ticket offices to pay well over priced tickets to see Hearts. The likely outcome of this is a half empty stadium with the poor atmosphere affecting the players and Hearts going out the cup.
Sir Alex Ferguson, Bill Shankly and Jock Stein are 3 of Scottish footballs greatest ever exports. All had glittering careers winning every title in the game. All 4 grew up in predominantly working-class areas and credited their hard-working attitude to their past. If Scottish football clubs don’t clamp down on ticket prices its likely we’ll never see the likes again
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