Your first game - what did it cost?

[RobM]

I started supporting The Blues in 1966. The cost was;

Bus fare 2/3d return (11p) Admission 1/6d (7.5p) with a transfer into the West Stand being 6d (2.5p), programme 4d (1.5p).

So 4/7d or 23.5p all in.

Now I'd say about £25.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Have no idea as my dad paid.

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

I started supporting The Blues in 1966. The cost was;

Bus fare 2/3d return (11p) Admission 1/6d (7.5p) with a transfer into the West Stand being 6d (2.5p), programme 4d (1.5p).

So 4/7d or 23.5p all in.

Now I'd say about £25.

Your bus fare was expensive.

Can't remember how much terrace admission for kids was in 1982 £1.15 rings a bell, does anyone know? I remember anyone under 16 had to buy a photo membership card to get in the ground, no card no admission!

Programmes were 35p I think.

 

[Pubey]

Have no idea as my dad paid.

5 groats and a turnip

 

[OldBlueLady]

5 groats and a turnip

Cheek! I know this, at least, was after decimalisation - unlike the Black Jacks at 4 an old penny!

 

[duncan bulgaria]

Think mine was £5.50 in 91 , north bank styley :clap:

****ing 5.50 to get crushed up against a fence .......lovely;)

 

[BrettieAngell]

West Stand 1987, probably about a quid!

 

[buryaway]

£1.60 I think in the north paddock, a few years later I remember the shock when the north bank went up to £4.50 a game and no season tickets!

 

[Emu]

Cost me (and my Dad) nothing at all!! Was 1992. I was 5 and dad was on looking after me duty as Mum was at work. Arrived at ground and turn stile guy told my dad to lift me over the barrier! I then got in the ground and ran straight onto the pitch opps! Lol!! Although the steward didnt really mind from what i remember!

Em.

 

[Suffolk Blue]

1969: 6d (2.5p) to get in the North Bank as a kid.... subject to the usual "if I recall correctly" caveat.

 

[southend_utd_fan]

Back in 1998 my school got free ticket's in the North Bank.

 

[canveyshrimper]

1969: 6d (2.5p) to get in the North Bank as a kid.... subject to the usual "if I recall correctly" caveat.

I've an idea it was a bit dearer than that in 1969, my first game was in 1962, I thought it was aboy a shilling for kids in the West Stand.

 

[davewebbsbrain]

Think mine was £5.50 in 91 , north bank styley :clap:

****ing 5.50 to get crushed up against a fence .......lovely;)

Exactly the same for me..right behind the barriers dead centre behind the goal...smashing the lights with a ball that Sammy had thrown over...quality!!

 

[SUFCEssex]

no idea as dad paid. it was Sept 78 and the programme was 15p.

 

[yogi bear up the cagire]

As I suppose, like many others on here, it cost me nothing..........in the Paddock for the Man City Cup game, late fifties.......either my father or brother-in-law(still a passionate gooner), paid. Seem to remember that junior entry to the Paddock was 1/6d and to the North Stand or South Bank 1 shilling.
There was a post on here recently concerning the argument for buying a match programme. On the day, they tend to be a bit of a nuisance......
I never know where to put it......but if you're a hoarder, like me, it's in the fullness of time that they show their real value. I didn't buy them regularly
but the one I have in front of me is against Hull City 4th April 1959 and cost 3d.
One of the most amazing ones is a Testimonial Match for Sam mcCrory,
Arthur Williamson and "Sandy" Anderson, May 2nd 1960, against spammers.
The page presenting the pen pictures of spammers really blows your mind...
.....if I can manage it, one day, (with my daughters help).....I'll get it put up on here.

 

[Tin Bath]

I think it was a £1 in the late seventies to get in the east stand paddock and then 50p to transfer to the benches (Now East black seats I think) and 25p for a cushion, programme was 15p

 

[westmartin]

my first game didnt cost anything, we would wait outside the North Bank looking through the gap in the gates,Then at half time they would open the big blue gates and we would all get in for the second half free, if we were kicking towards the South we would just walk behind the West to the south Bank, That was back in 60s, how things have changed

 

[Tommy2holes]

Mine was about £4.50 (child) in 92-93 for the north bank and i remember the shock to the system when my junior blues membership ran out and i was finally charged adult price in about 95-96 of around £11 or £12
And to think i actually thought that was scandelous to have to pay £11 or £12 to watch first division football.


Would be good if some statto could do a chart from say

1988

through to

2008 of admission prices to see how much they have risen and how this compares with inflation as football must be one of the most inflated costs along with petrol in the country.

 

[BLUEBLOOD]

I've an idea it was a bit dearer than that in 1969, my first game was in 1908, and it was also our first ever gameQUOTE]

Showing your age again Harry !!!!!!! ;)

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

I was also a 1991 joiner, I think I paid a "student" price to stand on the North Bank as I was 17 yrs old, which I seem to recall was about £7 (well £5.50, which others have quoted above, isn't ringing any bells with me).

Happy days!

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