A survey into the cost of watching English football found Arsenal remains the game’s most expensive day out, with a day at the Emirates now costing up to £134.30 (KES 18,200). The BBC’s Price of Football survey, which looked at 166 clubs in 10 divisions including the Conference Premier and Women’s Super League, found a trip to Emirates Stadium can cost as much as £134.40(KES 18,224).
Top-price Arsenal tickets have risen to £126 (KES 17,224), £26 (KES 3,554) higher than last year’s figure, with a programme (£3)-KES 410, pie (£3.30)-KES 450 and a cup of tea (£2)-KES 273 adding to the cost. Arsenal’s chief executive, Ivan Gazidis, told the BBC the club was doing its best to offer value to fans, with the club’s cheapest league ticket set at £26(KES 3,554). “We’ve seen ticket prices rise across the game.”
[Courtesy of The Guardian(UK)]
Spot the difference
How about, what does it cost to be in our very own Nyayo Stadium for Tusker Premier League match, say a Gor Mahia versus AFC Leopards clash? VIP tickets sell at KES 500 and it will cost KES 300 to be at the terraces-sometimes other football fans (read gate-crashers) attend these showdowns for free. Here, we don’t have cups of tea offered in stadiums. Kenyans prefer taking tea at their own homes, for free. Again, who needs pie?
Actually isn’t that some part of the equation to find the area of a circle?
Note the disparity-while an English soccer fan will spend a maximum of KES 18,224 for a single match (to get into the stadium), a VIP attending a top flight match in Nyayo Stadium will hardly spend KES 1,000. However factoring in the availability of fake tickets, it could be absolutely free.
[Read: Lady in Custody Over Fake Derby Tickets]
Finally you might also want to know this: Almost all English Premier League teams have their own Stadiums, while in in Kenya, it’s only Bandari FC who own a stadium, of sorts, called Mbaraki Sports club.