1981 Admission Prices

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Above is the admission prices in 1981, the astounding thing is the hyper inflation the ordinary fan has had to put up with these past 30 odd years!
If tickets kept up with inflation a season ticket at the lane should cost £207.63
A pint was 53p back in 1981, if it kept pace with inflation it should be £1.77

The biggest shame is that people have been priced out of our game. Back in those days i used to go to 80 or 90 games a season, sometimes 3 a week as it was affordable.
P.S I think the Woolwich price is a misprint, there prices would have been roughly the same as ours.
 
Not the point of the thread but as a side note, I wish it was still division 1, division 2 etc. Just looks better IMO for some reason
 
Greaves357_bestever said:
Those were the days, eh. Not only that you didn't have to piss around with credit cards, booking queues, membership cards. You just went to the ground, (had a drink if the fancy took you), queued up, went in, sorted.

PS I can remember getting in for 1/6 (7.5p) as a kid in the 60s. For that I could watch Greaves Mackay Jones, etc. Unbelievable.
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Those were the days mate, here's an interesting video, the first two goals are pure class,
 
bobby smith said:

Above is the admission prices in 1981, the astounding thing is the hyper inflation the ordinary fan has had to put up with these past 30 odd years!
If tickets kept up with inflation a season ticket at the lane should cost £207.63
A pint was 53p back in 1981, if it kept pace with inflation it should be £1.77

The biggest shame is that people have been priced out of our game. Back in those days i used to go to 80 or 90 games a season, sometimes 3 a week as it was affordable.
P.S I think the Woolwich price is a misprint, there prices would have been roughly the same as ours.
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This is one of the reasons we are losing the atmosphere. Noise is predominantly made by working class males from teenage years to their forties. Those people have been priced out of the market, and now we are getting far to many middle class families, and women who have just come to stare at the players legs. The atmosphere in grounds around Europe is so much better than ours. This is because the prices are lower, health and safety is not so stringent, and political correctness doesn't exist. That is to say supporters can sing what they want without getting dragged out because they may have offended someone. For the experience to get better in this country we need to go backwards, not forwards. Lower prices, pay the players less, even if this means we don't get the best in the world (although the two don't necessarily go hand in hand) and bring through more British players.
 
Remember taking an old orange box in (do they even have them these days ?) in 1980 so me and my mate could stand right at the front of the old West stand which was lower than the pitch, standing on the box our eyes were just above pitch level as little kids LOL
 
I had a standing season ticket on the shelf for a few years inthe eighties it was £63 for all 19 home league games plus about 5 cup games if we were at home. My 1981 cup final ticket was £2.50 and the replay just £1.50 !!!!
Those were the days and we were winning things every year
 
Lol at Luton being the most expensive terraced ticket in the country!
Might explain why I don't support them even though technically growing up they are my local club. That and the '85 riots as well probably.

My first game at the lane was 1991. I think it was £4 for juniors (cash at turnstile) and my Dad paid £8. That was to get on the East Lower terrace. Gascoigne, Lineker, Nayim, Allen, Walsh, Steward, Mabbutt. I would love to go back to that day. Peanuts Roasted 50p a Bag. KEN DODDS DADS DOGS DEAD. Hummell. Marvellous.
 
I8AVB said:
This is one of the reasons we are losing the atmosphere. Noise is predominantly made by working class males from teenage years to their forties. Those people have been priced out of the market, and now we are getting far to many middle class families, and women who have just come to stare at the players legs. The atmosphere in grounds around Europe is so much better than ours. This is because the prices are lower, health and safety is not so stringent, and political correctness doesn't exist. That is to say supporters can sing what they want without getting dragged out because they may have offended someone. For the experience to get better in this country we need to go backwards, not forwards. Lower prices, pay the players less, even if this means we don't get the best in the world (although the two don't necessarily go hand in hand) and bring through more British players.
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Although even back in the late seventies , early eighties when there were sometimes nearly 50,000 in the ground there were a lot of quiet times, infact if it wasn't for the Park lane end and the shelf you'd of thought we were playing away sometimes.
 
I know we're in danger of these types of topic sounding like a BNP manifesto, but the pricing out of so called working class fans could be seen as deliberate by the 'powers that be', simply to weed out the riff-raff and make the 'game' more of an entertainment experience overall.... Which is ironic, as much of the 'entertainment' off the pitch should be the atmosphere!

Palace are getting it right, and it's a shame that our club never officially recognised or embraced 1882 when it first had the chance (preferring to shove us out of sight/out of mind up in Block J) ...as they might well have a loud, vociferous, passionate group of fans who were encouraged to generate an atmosphere at League games, rather than 'just' youth team/European ones. (not that I'm complaining.... I rather like the 'cult status' it has afforded us!)
 
Those were the days, eh. Not only that you didn't have to piss around with credit cards, booking queues, membership cards. You just went to the ground, (had a drink if the fancy took you), queued up, went in, sorted.

PS I can remember getting in for 1/6 (7.5p) as a kid in the 60s. For that I could watch Greaves Mackay Jones, etc. Unbelievable.
 
Match tickets are incredibly expensive nowadays, but I find that train travel is just as bad in the modern era. For away games, if you don't pre-book weeks in advance (and try to avoid the match being re-scheduled), then it will cost a bomb to get to Manchester and back (for example).
 
I remember queuing up for cup tickets for a Man U match in the early 80s and people grumbling about £3 seats in the Upper West.

Great days, the old days. And Top of the Pops had songs with proper tunes that you could sing along to.
 
Don't fall into the trap of thinking that before football 'changed' (and you do make a valid point there) that the ground was a mass of singing fans in all 4 stands in the 80s etc. It wasn't. The atmosphere still came mainly from the Park Lane end and the Shelf, and now and again from the Paxton Road end. The West Stand has been like a library from the day it was built.
 
I8AVB said:
This is one of the reasons we are losing the atmosphere. Noise is predominantly made by working class males from teenage years to their forties. Those people have been priced out of the market, and now we are getting far to many middle class families, and women who have just come to stare at the players legs. The atmosphere in grounds around Europe is so much better than ours. This is because the prices are lower, health and safety is not so stringent, and political correctness doesn't exist. That is to say supporters can sing what they want without getting dragged out because they may have offended someone. For the experience to get better in this country we need to go backwards, not forwards. Lower prices, pay the players less, even if this means we don't get the best in the world (although the two don't necessarily go hand in hand) and bring through more British players.
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Bang on mate, we have been sold a puppy by the FA and the premier league over the years, inflation busting price rises and for what? Progress? In the 20 years prior to the premier league we won more European trophies than we have in the past twenty years. We were told the influx of expensive foreign players would only improve our national team? Total bollox of course, you only have to watch that video , shilton in goal for Forest, clemence for spurs, to see that our game already produced world class goalkeepers. By the time that match was played Forest were already double European cup winners. Today a sugar daddy club would have to spend over a £billion to get anywhere near what the great Brian Clough did with home grown players.
 
Yep the Lane could be quiet in the 60s,70s,80s, no doubt about it. But, and it may be because I'm getting older, it was just more fun, when you could stand pretty much where you want (paxton one half, park lane the next, if you fancied it, unless the ground was jam packed) you never saw a steward, if you were on the Shelf, for example. You could move if the bloke next to you was getting on your tits, you could jump up and down, shout, sing and swear, it was just so much freer then.
 
Greaves357_bestever said:
Yep the Lane could be quiet in the 60s,70s,80s, no doubt about it. But, and it may be because I'm getting older, it was just more fun, when you could stand pretty much where you want (paxton one half, park lane the next, if you fancied it, unless the ground was jam packed) you never saw a steward, if you were on the Shelf, for example. You could move if the bloke next to you was getting on your tits, you could jump up and down, shout, sing and swear, it was just so much freer then.
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Do you know what? I also think that it helped generate an atmosphere, as, if you were that way inclined you could move towards wherever the noise was coming from (remember doing it regularly on the shelf) ...so that anyone who wanted to sing, could sing. (and granted, that wouldn't be everyone... what are we, Turkey?)
Nowadays, you're stuck in the seat you're allocated, looking enviously on down the block to where all the fun is being had, and wondering when the 'rules changed' so that the stewards stopped you going over there for 45 mins! It makes any atmosphere that much harder to generate, as it's spread thinly out, rather than a cluster of noise that can catch on... which is precisely what 1882 managed to do!
 
I didn't think I paid that much for my season ticket in 81, from memory I thought it was nearer £40. Ground capacity was about 50k back then though.
 
The price back then was roughly equivilant to going to the cinema. Which I think is a fair price for ordinary working people now. Say 12-25 quid. Which is roughly what they pay in germany.

its our own fault we let these gangsters come in and rip us off. There is some good news devolping in the near future ticket price revenue importance is declining. Set against worldwide tv deals. Atomosphere though is essential. Its our opportunity to campaign to set the new framework in our favour.

coys
 
Wolf said:
I didn't think I paid that much for my season ticket in 81, from memory I thought it was nearer £40. Ground capacity was about 50k back then though.
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I think they averaged the seat prices, capacity was down too 41k when they were building the new west stand. I know the old enclosure was sadly missed.
 
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