da betway： Football – we simply couldn’t live without it. It consumes our lives, from cheering our team on come Saturday afternoon to searching out football news and every little tit bit of information on our club throughout the week. We just can’t get enough of it. Emotionally every football fan goes through the ringer, but recently the humble football fan is also put under increasing economic strain as well. The fact of the matter is that supporting your football team week-in-week-out has become an expensive practice and one that isn’t getting any cheaper.
da bet7： If you support a Premier League club or a team in the Football League, you’ll know just how expensive season tickets are. With the recession hitting the country hard, more of us are having to seriously consider the hundreds of pounds that are forked out to watch our team play. Sometimes you have to consider whether it is really worth it, especially if your club is struggling at the bottom of the league. Even paying to watch the matches on TV isn’t exactly cheap, while club merchandise and football shirts will cost you a hefty chunk of cash too.
However, in the Football Fans Survey 2011 carried out here on FootballFanCast.com, we have had some surprising findings in my opinion. We asked the question: does your club offer value for money? With the rising price of football tickets and the economic squeeze we’re under, I thought a fair proportion of people would answer no. That certainly wasn’t the case though, as two-thirds of respondents think that their club does offer value for money, and I suppose when it comes to entertainment, us football fans do get a pretty decent deal.
We also asked whether fans thought that their club treated them like a supporter or a customer. Again, my expectations were confounded as 66% of people think they’re treated like a supporter. This is despite the fact that chairmen across the country are more than happy to take your money and on the whole give little consideration to the fans when it comes to running clubs as businesses. I would say that football fans aren’t given the credit we deserve, but then only a third of you feel that you’re treated like a customer.
Do these results surprise you at all? Football in the 21st century is definitely treated more like a business than a sport by many involved in the game, but on the whole we’re still satisfied with our club’s financial dealings. I guess when it comes down to it, following your team and experiencing the joy you’re given from time to time is simply priceless and is almost incomparable to anything else. Just don’t let the country’s chairmen catch wind of this, as they’ll only be too happy to increase football ticket prices and their profits!
To see the rest of the results from the Football Fans Survey 2011, brought to you by ZOO Magazine and FootballFanCast.com, click here
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