Football Admission prices.

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

A survey done by the Guardian shows how much the price of going to the game has gone up since the Taylor Report.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/david-conn-inside-sport-blog/2011/aug/16/premier-league-football-ticket-prices

In 1989-90, the year of Lord Justice Taylor's report following the Hillsborough disaster, in which he recommended stadiums become all‑seat, fans watched Alex Ferguson's Manchester United play the very top clubs for a cheapest price of £3.50. With cumulative inflation of 77.1% since, according to the Bank of England, United supporters who stood on the Stretford End or United Road terraces then would now pay an equivalent £6.20 to watch Ferguson's Premier League champions. But the cheapest ticket at all-seat Old Trafford this season is £28, lower than at other top clubs yet still representing inflation of 700%. Mostly, United's prices are higher; the £28 seats are available only in the lower tiers of the East and West Stands, not in swathes as they were across the terraces of old.............

I think it was about £3.50 to stand at Goodison at the time that they refer to, I remember the price going up from that to about £15 in 3 years when the seats went in.

some great lines in there though...

Clubs in poorer, northern areas, including Bolton, Blackburn and Wigan,

hold on, I live round there ffs !!

For all the game's problems in the 1980s, watching football was a rite of passage in which children, mostly boys, graduated from being taken to matches, to watching as young men, with very few excluded because it cost too much.