Old Trafford's ticket price hikes are part of a wider disease that affects us all
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This insensitive act of penny-pinching has been met unsurprisingly by widespread outrage, and a missive of complaint from the Manchester United Supporters Trust to United chief executive“There is a risk that this is only the opening salvo of what will surely be massive pressure to implement a significant price rise for next season,” a spokesperson wrote.
In a joint statement from the four clubs, supporters argue the game does not have a revenue crisis but a spending problem and claim it is unjust to pass on the cost of the clubs’ profligacy and mismanagement to the ordinary fan. Sir Jim Ratcliffe hardly needs the money to prop up his Monaco lifestyle, but this is never personal. It’s just business, eh Jim? United are predicated on youth, yet this is how the club of the Busby Babes treats the demographic, failing to recognise the intimate connection between young supporters and the professional dreams of academy stars. They start in the same place.
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