Cost of living additional match day expenses eg £60 petrol, £10 a pie, because HAVE TO have gravy and mash with now, £5 for some cups of tea because can’t bring own FLASK in now… ;) etc etc. All adds up soon enough. Then there’s the European tour coming up :)
A lifelong Liverpool fan friend of mine, and strangely he is also a scouser, finally got a ST this year - been in the waiting list for 21years! Now lives in Oxfordshire, I did snigger as that’s a hell of a commute! Still, he will go. He’s been married 20+ years after all!
But I do I do! And I blame the Albion. I got bitten over forty years ago and despite desperately trying to kick, it’s in the blood. Like malaria. Nothing I can do about.
Welcome to what George Orwell predicted!
All presented as “fair” and in the interest of true fans everyone blah blah blah. But it’s more about control and making money. Same with traffic enforcement and a thousand other things technology has been introduced to “improve”
Another decade or two...