We have got the sporting set up so so wrong in the UK.

So many missed opportunities to open up clubs to a wider audience, get the local population involved etc, hence a large number of footy fans just jump onto one of the big clubs bandwagons as their hometown club shows little effort in engaging with them.

Exactly the point I was trying to make Cinci.
Kids with an equivalent social background to me cannot afford to go to football.

Nostalgia's not what it used to be.

5 s

Paper kids get 30 quid a week!!!!

I'm on the first plane back.

I used to get 18/- which was about the best rate in Broadstairs at the time, and when I first became a paper boy I was blown away.

Haha funny bute.

Never did a paper round personally, but 30 quid a week, holy s%#t.

I could spend hours waxing lyrical about all the superb ways they draw in crowds here, from open training to family days, merchandising........even a bloody bring your dog to the game day!!

Very good Butey.

Ask Tara, how much of his wages go on watching the Wolves!

Think you're it don't you - Southern softie.

But did you deliver to an English International ? I did - Gerry Hitchens. And did you see Wolves players go off poaching with him ? I did - Eddie Clamp and Norman Deeley.

And don't come back with Edward Heath, you'll just sound ridiculous.

12/6d, you're lucky I only got 7/6d back in the good old days. I remember my mum buying my first bike, a Rayleigh (sp) Blue Streak so I could earn some money. We got it on the 'never, never" and I paid 5 bob a week back until it was paid for. Went out in all weathers and then went to school. Probably talking about early 60's.

7/6 !!
Where were you from, Jarrow ?

My first season ticket in 1979 cost 16.50 GBP...which let you both the North & South Bank. I think it was a quid for non season ticket holders. For that we got to see the likes of 1.5M Andy Gray.

For you wolfie

http://classiccycleus.com/home/1959-blue-streak/

The cost of watching football has certainly gone up by well more than inflation. I remember hoping years ago that one of the benefactors of new financial input to the games from TV and sponsorship would be the supporter as they might charge us less with other money coming in. Quite the opposite seems to have happened and its not a cheap day out any more.

One of the 'benefits' I hear quoted about pricing is that the hooligan element have largely been priced out of going and its much more a middle class thing now. Shame that the hooligan element now choose to drink lager in town while the match is on then appear for a ruck with the away fans afterwards.

And with most Premier League clubs attracting sell out crowds I cant see the pricing going down any time soon, even if the paperboy cant afford to go

comment by Cyp (U16330)
posted 4 hours, 5 minutes ago
Very good Butey.

Ask Tara, how much of his wages go on watching the Wolves!
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Unashamedly I haven't been a supporter for years Cyp.

comment by Wolfgang (U8869)

And don't come back with Edward Heath, you'll just sound ridiculous.
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Gulp. Ted Heath was an old boy from my school, (Chatham House Grammar, Ramsgate), but I wasn't, and never have been, a Tory.

Bute on campaign

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EucJIl0uonE

The problem is that the price of staples and commodities have all gone up relative to inflation but the average weekly wage has changed very little for decades,again adjusted for inflation.
Meaning that unless you a CEO,who's wages have gone up exponentially,you are actually far worse off than you were in the 60s,70s or 80s!

Thanks Wolfgang. Brings back fond memories. That's exactly the one, with mudguards and the mud flap.