Good grief. That is the kind of attitude that is ruining football as we know it..
" They are just a business providing a service" ??? I don't even know where to begin with that.
" No one is forced to buy a ticket off Stub-Hub" ? Perhaps you would like to explain where Spurs fans could buy tickets from then??. I mean what right have working class men got to want to go and watch their beloved Spurs without having to spend a weeks wages?
What right has a father got who would like to take his son ( the future fan ) to go and see his heroes play without costing him £200? - who needs future fans hey? Unbelievable.
Let's just for one minute think about the future ( unreasonable I know )
Who will we be looking to, to carry on the tradition of supporting Spurs? Kids that's who.
The Same kids who's parents can't afford to take them to any games because they can't get a ticket without getting a bank loan, but after all Stub-Hub "are only providing a service"
What do you think that kid and many more will be saying to their parents? They will be saying " I want to go and watch a football match Daddy " - so what do you think their parents will be saying? " ok son I'll take you to a game where I can get tickets". Now, can you think where parents can buy tickets for kids really cheap?? because I can.. In fact they can buy a ticket for their kid for less than £10.. Is that what you want? Losing all our future fans to some scumbag club up the road who have the foresight to realise that youth is the clubs future?
Football is and always has been an entertainment for the working class man who can take his kids so they can carry on the tradition..
With an attitude like yours it's no wonder we are selling the game to rich Arabs who don't know the first thing about football..
I despair sometimes - I really despair..
I'm sure the club who's season tickets and tickets I've been buying for decades don't see me as ruining football.
I received 48 quid for selling my ticket which cost me just about the same as part of my 900 quid season ticket.
Football does not belong to the working class, this isn't Victorian England, you're not a fucking 14 yo chimney sweep.
Working entitles you to a wage, health care and a pension, it doesn't entitle you to get the price of live entertainment subsidised.
Spurs, the company, over a ten year period have averaged less profit than provincial tesco. They are not a hugely profitable business.
I work hard, as do most people that buy football tickets, whether they work in a office a warehouse as a bricky, plumber or a bank manager.
If I choose not to use my season ticket for the odd game why the hell should I not be entitled to sell that ticket, bought with my hard earned money, for whatever price I can get for it.
I'm realistic enough to know that, like any other (live) entertainment industry, I expect to get what I pay for, if I want to watch some of the best players in the world, I expect to pay accordingly, if you want to watch lesser quality then there's plenty of choice out there from championship to park football for free.
Paying top dollar for the best live entertainment is not something invented by Daniel Levy. Try buying a ticket for any major sporting or entertainment event, you'll see it's all relative.
And the shit about foreign owners is embarrassing, xenophobic and bordering on racist. This league is the most competitive in Europe, and that's largely because foreign owners have come in and chucked their money at their clubs.
I don't like all of them, particularly one of them, but then I don't think Joe Lewis making his billions from shorting the pound was a particularly earnest days work. And no foreigners have run their clubs any worse than English wankers like Ridsdsle.