There are certain games every fan looks forward to in the season. Spurs, Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City, even Liverpool.

You know these games aren’t your average BPL games. You can feel it when you see players like Rooney and Agüero warming up less than 50m away from you.

There’s an air of excitement around, the fans thinking their team can win it. The fans are pumped, the players get pumped, the stadium fills with noise and you know a great spectacle is about to begin.

However, what is the point of these teams playing such a great match if the people who care most about it aren’t there?

Yes, maybe the business people from Diamond Club who only really go to impress work partners will still be there.

But for the week in week out people, the people who bleed Arsenal, who stand up and sing, who spend almost everything they earn on a season ticket and it’s the same for an away fan, the price is unacceptable.

I actually do feel some pity for the City fans.

As Kevin Parker, the general secretary of the Manchester City Supporter’s Club said in an interview with the guardian:

‘If City supporters are travelling on a supporters’ club coach it will cost £30 per person. That’s £92 before they have done everything; add in a programme, food, drink and your looking at £125-£130 per person.’

It’s a lot of money for one match that is televised anyway, and if it carry’s on supporters will be more inclined to watch it at home. Manchester City fans have already turned back almost 1,000 of their 3,000 allocated tickets, and the game will lose passion.

But at least that is not routine for them. They only have to fork out £275 for a season ticket and for the best seats £745. Arsenal’s season tickets stand at £1,955. Say you get 27 games a season; it means you are paying roughly £72.40 for one game.  If you take the most expensive seats at City and assume they get 27 games too they’re average game works out at £27.59, big difference.

If we are paying more than double than City fans, what do we get back? In the last 3 years they have won a Community Shield, FA Cup and a Barclays’ Premier League. We have won nothing. So why should we be paying more only to see less!

There is only one man to blame for this. His name is Ivan Gazidis.

Kevin Parker summed it up beautifully, ‘It just shows that football clubs are out of touch with reality’.

Gazidis is ruining this club. He won’t reinvest in big players, which despite being annoying, we have learnt to cope. But when he charges us more, in fact the most in the league for us to see a club slowly decaying away, we must not accept this.

He needs to learn, this is a football club; not a business.

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