Think the rise is to pay for the more security around the ground.
Seriously.
On Sunday, take a walk around the Etihad. Look at how many staff we employ on a matchday. You'd be hard pressed to find any club that has more matchday staff than City, regardless of their jobs.
The best one's are the Ladies outside the Colin Bell main entrance who hold up those card board picture frames, where you stick your head inside the frame, and they take a picture of you. Good one! :-?
TBF, the corporates love it. They cue up for the privilege and then go into the Tunnel Club.
Do you know who used to hand out the flags at the back of the SS? I won't say. It was more money down the drain.