How sad is it that ticket prices are now ruining away attendances, it used to be the games that people all looked forward to an went with there mates and soon I think that hardly any will bother anymore.
Look at Stoke away for instance, 5 years ago we would have sold the whole stand out by now in the Championship but we are now struggling to sell out just under half of it for Saturday.
Also I thought Wolves away would be sold out by now, still nothing on the officail site saying 'not many left' like normal.
I think in the next 5-10 years football attendances will be hit badly because people who are 16-21 just arent going now beacuse they cant afford it and once you get out of the habit its hard to get back in to it. It is okay at the moment because the main people that attend in my opinion are 35-60 year olds who were brought up going every week and its in their blood and will always go, but once they stop I think attendances every where will drop.
Does anybody think that ticket prices will ever come down now and make football enjoyable again rather than worrying if you can afford a pint after you have paid money for your ticket?
Very sad as most of my memories with mates are away games but now we are going fewer and fewer every year