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ARSENAL fans have blasted the club for charging £94 for top tickets at their new Emirates Stadium home.

The Gunners expect punters to lash out for Category A ties with Chelsea, Manchester United, Spurs, Liverpool and West Ham.

Premiership champions Chelsea charge £60 for their best seats — with United asking only £39.

Tony Madden, co-editor of Arsenal fanzine Highbury High, said: “These prices are incredibly expensive. The club seems to be turning its back on its roots.

“Arsenal are relying on fans just moaning and then handing over the money.

“It costs an absolute fortune for an ordinary working-class bloke to take his kids along to a game.”

Top West End shows like Phantom of the Opera only charge £50 for their best tickets and you can watch rugby’s Heineken Cup final at Twickenham for £60.

An Arsenal spokesman said: “We are very comfortable with our pricing.”

But Mark Longden, from Manchester United’s Independent Supporters’ Association, said: “Even the £39 we charge is bad.”

PREM CLUBS’ top-priced tickets — Arsenal £94; Spurs £71; Chelsea £60; West Ham £57; Newcastle £50; Fulham £45; Reading £41; Middlesbrough £40; Blackburn, Bolton, Man Utd £39; Man City £38; Everton £37; Aston Villa, Charlton, Wigan, Watford £35; Liverpool, Sheff Utd £34; Portsmouth £30.

my ticket for arsenal zagreb cost 49quid!!!

wahey, we're cheap!

didnt I just post that?

Yeah i read about this over the weekend, i cant believe they can charge £94, its disgusting. Its like paying over £1 per minute of the game. The FA must step in and sort this out.

I was pissed off today to find my Blackburn away ticket will be £36. Blackburn normally charge about £25-28 but obviously now they have done well they have shoved the prices up.

tbf, it is the new stadium. i'm more than willing to pay handsomly if it helps arsenal football club. the prices will go down eventually

yeah maybe 50-60 but 94

Goater if this is true and arsenal raise it to 94, it is bad for other fans also, people such as the glazers, will rise prices with a statement saying, still a lot cheaper than arsenal chelsea etc, just makes it easier for everyone else to rise prices aswell.

i think the prices are high at arsenal because it a new stadium. ask sgoater what the prices were like when the city stadium opened. that'll be intyeresting

Even for a cl final, 94 is a bit much. Just for a normal league game is crazy.
The stadium is super, i hated Highbury looked shit, and impossible to get an away ticket.
Hopefully you right they will go down in time, To be honest i cant see anyone buying £94 tickets for a game against blackburn or something.

if it were available. i'd go for it no questions asked.
for the final, 500 quid was my limit. i live in belgium, ill snatch at opportunity to see an arsenal match

l r d wrote:Even for a cl final, 94 is a bit much. Just for a normal league game is crazy.
The stadium is super, i hated Highbury looked shit, and impossible to get an away ticket.
Hopefully you right they will go down in time, To be honest i cant see anyone buying £94 tickets for a game against blackburn or something.

I remember at 13 being at Highbury in the early seventies watching Spurs......The crowd surged forward and not being able to touch the ground for what felt like 10 yards......

Looks like arsenal will average say 45 pounds a ticket X 60000 =2.7 million a game X 19 = 51,300,000 for home games is that right or would the average ticket be less

analyse the cheapest prices what are they and i bet there aren't too many 94 quid tiks and chelsea top prie is actually v similar just there aren't v many and they don't advertise cos of aggro like this

Its disgusting prices - partly why I go and watch Charlton more often than Arsenal - Think I may only be going to about 3 arsenal games this season

The thing is though - people will still pay it - there are too many people with too much money in Islington