Effective Ticket Price Protest

[Why Always Ste]

What (for you) would be an effective way of protesting against the pricing of tickets for Football matches?

Dortmund fans recently did this



Those with no video access - The B.Dortmund fans threw tennis balls onto the pitch.

Is this effective enough?

The best way (for me) is to just not even turn up/buy no tickets for a specific match day, leaving the stadium(s) empty.
But this would be near impossible to organise as not everyone has the same views about ticket pricing.
Many people are sadly prepared to pay crazy prices and are happy being ripped off.

Many Liverpool fans recently walked out of a match on the 77th minute, but they still bought tickets to enter the stadium so the business owners wouldn't of noticed financially.

If you are happy paying whatever the prices for tickets, would you be willing to stand in protest with your fellow football supporter who can not afford to go, or would you be happy being in a stadium either on your own or amongst people who can also afford the prices?

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Buying a green and gold scarf.........

 

[East Level 2]

An S/T holder can only boycott cup games as they've paid for the PL games. If they're in the cup schemes they can't boycott home cup games. Harassing those in the press box and broadcast media positions might get the message to a wider audience.

 

[Dogtanian]

As a season ticket holder i would be more than happy to stand with fellow Blues outside and protest, we are now considered customers and not fans, the trouble is we are not as together as the Scousers so it would never happen.

 

[Elbow beards]

A boycott on match day revenue, so no buying pies, booze, shirts or programmes, that would hit them financially and ST holders aren't wasting their money by not boycotting the match

 

[Slashman X]

Many Liverpool fans recently walked out of a match on the 77th minute, but they still bought tickets to enter the stadium so the business owners wouldn't of noticed financially.

The media and other football fans noticed it which is the whole point of it. If they didn't buy tickets then a load of tourists would've and they would definitely not have walked out so the message would not have gotten across.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Ultimately it would be not buying tickets at all. However that's not feasible as there are so many season ticket holders. It would be more effective to leave the stadium empty for the first 10-15 minutes rather than walking out towards the end. Imagine kicking off in a virtually empty stadium.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Ultimately it would be not buying tickets at all. However that's not feasible as there are so many season ticket holders. It would be more effective to leave the stadium empty for the first 10-15 minutes rather than walking out towards the end. Imagine kicking off in a virtually empty stadium.

Kicking off with an empty stadium would indeed send a message. It would be especially effective if fans could coordinate this for all live TV games. As the tv companies seem to call the tune, let them explain that to the armchair watchers. We've all seen games on TV with no crowd and they don't make for good watching. Not only that, but they'd be constantly apologising for the bad language you'd be able to hear!

 

[andyhinch]

Ultimately it would be not buying tickets at all. However that's not feasible as there are so many season ticket holders. It would be more effective to leave the stadium empty for the first 10-15 minutes rather than walking out towards the end. Imagine kicking off in a virtually empty stadium.

We'd likely miss the oppositions opening goal so win, win :-)

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

I have a lot of time for this sort of thing. Not for me but for the next generation. When I was 14 / 15 I started going to Maine Rd with my mates and paying on the turnstile of the kippax. It was affordable to just turn up every week and pay with pocket money, none of my mates had an issue with the price. However my 2 sons will not be able to do anything like that and that leaves the question where will the next generation of fans come from.

Visible protests and media coverage are the way. Tennis balls are a great idea but the breaking point will be when fans across clubs can organise themselves together. If every set of fans co-ordinated something for a specific weekend then it would overshadow everything else and I could see progress being made.