City season ticket £9

[Big Swifty]

I was just thumbing through an old Rothmans Football Annual for 1970-71. In the club-by-club section, it gives the price of each club's season ticket. City's season ticket prices were then £9, £12 and £14.
I know prices and costs have risen, but I was gobsmacked to think you could get an ST for as little as £9. It was only 1970, which to me only seems like yesterday, the heyday of one of our greatest sides.
The year before, I had paid over the odds to get a Cup Final ticket - I reluctantly shelled out £5 for a ticket whose face value was 12/6d. (62p)

I suppose it was a lot of money then. if you'd told me today's prices, wages, costs, I'd have fainted with shock. I wonder what they'll be in, say, 2040? Mind you, in me dad's day, you could buy a plate of fish & chips, 10 Woodbines, two pints of mild, and have a night out at the Ardwick Hippodrome and get change out of a sixpenny piece.. Allegedly.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Those prices are pretty near the weekly wage I was receiving. My first monthly salary in Sept 68 was £47 4s 11d! - just short of £12 a week.

 

[squirtyflower]

I was just thumbing through an old Rothmans Football Annual for 1970-71. In the club-by-club section, it gives the price of each club's season ticket. City's season ticket prices were then £9, £12 and £14.
I know prices and costs have risen, but I was gobsmacked to think you could get an ST for as little as £9. It was only 1970, which to me only seems like yesterday, the heyday of one of our greatest sides.
The year before, I had paid over the odds to get a Cup Final ticket - I reluctantly shelled out £5 for a ticket whose face value was 12/6d. (62p)

I suppose it was a lot of money then. if you'd told me today's prices, wages, costs, I'd have fainted with shock. I wonder what they'll be in, say, 2040? Mind you, in me dad's day, you could buy a plate of fish & chips, 10 Woodbines, two pints of mild, and have a night out at the Ardwick Hippodrome and get change out of a sixpenny piece.. Allegedly.

My dad shelled out much more than that, he paid £14 for a 10 bob ticket, 700% mark up from a barrow boy off Market Street
It's why he decided to get season tickets the year after

 

[xgorton]

Those prices are pretty near the weekly wage I was receiving. My first monthly salary in Sept 68 was £47 4s 11d! - just short of £12 a week.

In 1968 I was 16 and £6 a week was my wage.Most people got payed weekly didn't they.

 

[lancs blue]

1972 I got my first S/T, in the shiny new North stand, £13 adult. That was a decent but not extortionate amount in those days and was good value for money as you usually got 3 or 4 matches "free" based on the matchday prices - about 80p IIRC in the North stand?

 

[xgorton]

1972 I got my first S/T, in the shiny new North stand, £13 adult. That was a decent but not extortionate amount in those days and was good value for money as you usually got 3 or 4 matches "free" based on the matchday prices - about 80p IIRC in the North stand?

Also 2 home games more.My first S/T was also North Stand 1973 Birmingham home first game.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

My first season ticket was 80/81 in the Kippax and was 18 quid.
I was 17 and on 28 quid a week

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

My first season ticket was 80/81 in the Kippax and was 18 quid.
I was 17 and on 28 quid a week

My FA Cup final ticket in 81 was £2.50 and my dads was £3.50. Seats too! Compare that with the £170 I paid last year for me and the lad.

 

[TheBlueDune]

Junior Kippax 1974 was 35p if I remember correctly

 

[gazworrall78]

Wish today's prices were like that.