Ticket details announced for Arsenals league cup 4th round tie against Southampton on 30th Nov, League Cup Quarter Final
Upper Tier: Adults £20, Children / OAP £10
Lower Tier: Adults £10, Children / OAP £5
almost guaranteed to go on general sale meaning anyone who wants a ticket will be able to get one, Cheap trip to one of best stadiums in the country, chance to maybe visit a new stadium or just to watch a game of football while in the area,
Dunno about Southampton, but Arsenal will probably put out Giroud, The Ox, Gabriel, Gibbs, Elneny, Iwobi, Jenkinson plus a couple of other fringe players and a couple of kids. So not exactly reserves or unknowns.
In the past Wenger would have put out a team almost entirely made up of kids in this Cup, that's not really the case now.
davidbrent
30 Oct 164#24
The only way I would go to the Emirates is if Piers Morgan was placed in a set of medieval stocks and there was a raffle for fans in the crowd to win the chance to throw 5kg weights at his smug smirking face.
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shabbird
30 Oct 161#1
good deal but as usual will be reserves vs reserves. :disappointed:
royals to shabbird
30 Oct 161#16
yep it was arsenal reserves against reading reserves last Tuesday. Not a bad game though for £10
alex_dis to shabbird
30 Oct 165#18
Dunno about Southampton, but Arsenal will probably put out Giroud, The Ox, Gabriel, Gibbs, Elneny, Iwobi, Jenkinson plus a couple of other fringe players and a couple of kids. So not exactly reserves or unknowns.
In the past Wenger would have put out a team almost entirely made up of kids in this Cup, that's not really the case now.
YouDontWantToKnow to shabbird
31 Oct 161#31
Wenger doesnt do that anymore. He used to but not for 3 years
Managed to get tickets to arsenal vs reading via general tickets when you posted the last deal
Raseo7
30 Oct 16#6
i am not too sure if this will go on gen sale. their website says any remaining ticket will go on the friends and family sale.
royals to Raseo7
30 Oct 16#17
No chance, in the last round Arsenal reserves v Reading reserves was a sell out way before the match. Reading sold out in under an hour
arsenalmorris to Raseo7
30 Oct 16#20
Said that last time it will do mate
FlyingSquirrel
30 Oct 16#7
This isn't guaranteed to go to general sale. It is the Quarter-finals vs Southampton.
swisstm
30 Oct 161#9
Not a deal yet...once and if it goes general sale then I'll give you some heat
stanno
30 Oct 16#11
Same fixture went on general sale two years ago (3rd round) so can't see why it wouldn't again. Heat.
BTW get there a bit early. Missed the first 20 minutes on Tuesday due to really long queues of 25 mins or more.
Chef_uk
30 Oct 161#12
The queues were due to the new tag a bag scheme. We were an hour early getting in and even then it took 15 minutes instead of the previous 2. That said, security is a must and I'm sure it will be tweaked to help speed up entrance.
tomwilliams86
30 Oct 161#13
Phoned up today and the young lady said friends and family will probably sell the tickets out.
gw3gon
30 Oct 16#14
Where is it being played?
shabbird to gw3gon
30 Oct 16#15
Emirates, London.
arsenalmorris
30 Oct 16#19
This went to General sale last time and was on general sale for weeks. This will be the same, Quarter final or not
Arsenal1234
30 Oct 16#21
Hot from me I am a season ticket holder so always buy on the family and friends sale for my friends.
I can't imagine many lower tier being available on general sale though.
bro631
30 Oct 16#22
I think u need a pair
kamenitzabrit
30 Oct 16#23
Not a fan of either team, but wanted to throw out a question........ these sort of offers are probably indicative of a lack of demand at normal prices, so does that mean -
a) prices are generally too high for many premiership teams whatever the game
b) this is not the most popular competition unless it's the final
c) gooners might manage to get European football again next season, so fans are picking their games
d) money's tight everywhere
e) when stadiums get more capacity, there's often empty seats in certain games for a while
I think it's a bit of all of them, but be interested to hear opinions - many years ago this competition struggled to get good crowds anywhere as I remember, especially when fans were saving up for foreign trips, so perhaps nothing has changed much after all.
Talbs14 to kamenitzabrit
30 Oct 16#26
No this competition are always these prices at Arsenal games as it's not a priority and if Arsenal won't put their strongest 11 out then they won't charge full price. Good chance for kids and non-season ticket holder to go
Chef_uk to kamenitzabrit
30 Oct 161#28
The majority of this competition is played at night during the winter months. Demand therefore will ease up on these games more than any other. As the extra game is not factored into the expected ticket sales, they can choose any price they like. Most clubs will stick to their normal pricing and just take a hit on the tickets sold whereas Arsenal prefer a full stadium so to give the fringe players more of an occasion/to give the youngsters a taste of what's to come. I also suspect it helps the club argue with the media for when it comes to being reported on as having the highest season ticket costs of any club, they can argue back as to having the cheapest ticket price too.
Immoraliste to kamenitzabrit
31 Oct 161#33
League cup games aren't included within the season ticket (season tickets include 7 cup credits for first 7 CL and FA Cup games), so there are 60,000 seats to sell, instead of <15,000 for PL and CL/FA cup credit games.
Demand for the 15,000 seats to watch the first team play in the PL massively outstrips supply, so Silver members will buy the 11,500 tickets available to them (60-30 days pre-game) and Red members will buy their 3,500 guaranteed allocation in minutes (30 days pre-game). Nothing will ever go to general sale.
With the league cup, you have to factor in that both sides will field largely reserve teams and that the games are on Tuesday and Wednesday nights in winter, and you're going to struggle to sell 60,000 seats at usual Arsenal prices (Southampton would be Category B, so £50+ a seat for upper tier).
As evidence that many people can't be bothered to go to mid-week games, compare Met Police attendance stats (fans through turnstiles) for CL group games to Arsenal attendance stats (tickets sold). There are always 60,000 tickets sold, but in general only 50,000 through the turnstiles for the 'less fashionable' CL group games. They should put their tickets on the TicketExchange, but probably can't be bothered, either. That's London for you!
davidbrent
30 Oct 164#24
The only way I would go to the Emirates is if Piers Morgan was placed in a set of medieval stocks and there was a raffle for fans in the crowd to win the chance to throw 5kg weights at his smug smirking face.
TommehLi
30 Oct 16#25
I probably already know the answer but this is just for Arsenal stands right? I'm a Saints supporter.
CoCo91
30 Oct 16#27
Says the one that called Arsenal a midtable team :smile:
mk3
30 Oct 16#29
"Same old Arsenal always cheap in"
ben5363 to mk3
31 Oct 16#34
What you on about, they have their most expensive tickets in the premier league.
DomWall
30 Oct 16#30
Any idea when general sale will be? (If at all)
kaplonk
31 Oct 16#32
Joint top. Joint 1st place. Joint Champions. All phrases that don't make any sense.
However, good to see clubs making tickets affordable even though last time Spurs did this (at Wembley with an extra 30000 seats) they got slaughtered for it by Arsenal fans..
ben5363
31 Oct 16#35
Joint top means same points, goal differnce and everything else. I dont think they do joint champions, where did you get that from?
nrps1
31 Oct 16#36
Hmmm, cold! :wink:
davesaves
31 Oct 16#37
Cold, sounds about the sort of price you should pay for those teams
kamenitzabrit
31 Oct 16#38
Thanks for the detailed reply - it makes it all easily understood at a glance !
I suppose also, that some season ticket holders will live outside London, and so don't always travel to mid week games, neither can they sell their tickets easily or safely to avoid losing it through disorder.
When I was travelling home and away to a London team many years ago, including pre-season foreign trips (those were the days, no children and spare cash only for me), it amazed me that some fans were also doing friendlies to places like Hong Kong, and they were not city stockbrokers, so how they could afford it ? Most said they loved the camaraderie on away trips, as it was usually smallish groups of friends who used to stand on terraces together, without the muppets who only went to the biggest games or never travelled away.
I know some went to Thailand and financed the trip by bringing back clothing to sell, in the days before ebay of course, but I could never get my head around the seemingly vast difference in 'spending money' between London and other parts of the UK, not just deprived areas either.
Anyway, thanks again for the information, and I hope everyone enjoys the game.
neilm22
31 Oct 161#39
It is because Spurs couldn't fill Wembley in the CL so it's a bit different as Arsenal always charge this price for the League Cup. CL football is supposed to be the pinnacle and yet Tottenham, who have made a big deal about building the biggest club ground in London, can't fill Wembley with normal prices for the CL. Arsenal CL home prices start from £36.50 cheapest adult seat compared to the £20 Spurs were charging. If you can't see the difference then I don't think anyone can help with that...
leather
31 Oct 161#40
Great deal to see quality football, good chance for families to go at great prices. From ahem.... a toon fan.
barbiegirl
31 Oct 161#41
No, that's not quite right. What happened is, Spurs had a CL game (which they lost) against Monaco. Loads of mouthy Spurs fans started to bang on about how they can fill Wembley because they're the biggest team in North London or some other customary claim they like to make. At which point most people (ergo a lot of Gooners too) pointed out that most teams could fill Wembley at such low ticket prices and that it wasn't something that stood up to that level of bragging.
hello55060
31 Oct 16#42
I laughed out loud when I saw this in the OP "Cheap trip to one of best stadiums in the country, chance to maybe visit a new stadium or just to watch a game of football while in the area"
The emirates has to be one of the worst stadiums to watch football in, the atmosphere is laughable their own fans you don't here a peep from all game. It's a contest between West Ham since they've moved and Arsenal for **** stadium in the PL. Even Arseanl fans are happy with the foreign tourists and plastics just buying a ticket just to see them a one off and make no noise and the floods of empty seats 15 minutes before the match finishes you see every week play instead of actual proper football fans.
madcap
31 Oct 16#43
Great price to watch 2 Premier League teams in a competitive match at a beautiful stadium. This, coming from a Palace fan. No one likes to see empty seats, so well done Arsenal.
Anyone who says otherwise is deluded, jealous or simply doesn't like Arsenal.
hello55060
31 Oct 161#44
If you want some food and drink at the Emirates be warned you will have to pay more than the price of the ticket for a pint and fish and chips so bring your own food along. Arsenal sold out their club the second it was the Emirates, feel bad for the actual fans who used to go to Highbury. Here will mainly be younger fans who won't rememeber much about Arsenal or only supported them because they had the invincibles but older fans are not happy with the way Arsenal are advertised as more a brand than a football club now.
kaplonk
31 Oct 16#45
I only ever see gooners saying it, other fans were quite rightly praising. Arsenal can't even sell out the Emirates at 30k capacity less, sell out for a couple of games a season is my guess because every week there are massive patches of red seats in worlds quietest stadium. Lucky they're sponsored by Emirates because I imagine that's where all their tourist fans come from.
allsa001
31 Oct 16#46
So when do these tickets go on general sale?
nnenne
31 Oct 16#47
I'm a red member, hope there's enough for us
nrps1
31 Oct 16#48
Couldn't fill? Looked pretty full with the 85k people when I was there last month!
Taksim_Red
31 Oct 16#49
My team, Liverpool, sold out Wembley for a pre season friendly game in August. I paid £65 for a mid priced ticket so not exactly a bargain either. Didn't see many Barca fans either, it was virtually all reds in all ends of the stadium. 89,845 in total. Just 29 seats short of it's modern record.
Yes couldn't fill Wembley at normal prices, hence why they dropped an adult ticket to £20 (and also a Groupon offer) and filled it with anyone willing to go. So it is completely different as I said. They could not fill Wembley with their normal fan base at normal prices so it went on sale to anyone at £20.
barbiegirl
31 Oct 161#51
You're not wrong - but it's no different for most of the major Prem teams these days. Football has moved on from being a supporter-lead sport to a purely commercial one for the likes of Chelsea, Man City, Man Utd and Arsenal. Much less so for the smaller clubs that don't have the Europe / CL track records or the international following.
But you can't really blame Arsenal. They had to build a bigger stadium to boost gate receipts to try and stay competitive once the likes of Roman rocked up with their billions. It's so often adapt or die in these highly competitive commercial scenarios.
Personally, I'm watching with interest what is happening to the paid TV market which is what is driving the PL. The fragmentation by BT Sport getting in on the act, combined with the drop in knowledge required to watch football online, the ever increasing quality of streams and the prevalence of android boxes that put those streams onto your television rather than a PC monitor, and you can imagine a scenario where the amount BSkyB and BT have bid for the rights will soon start to have a negative ROI for them. That's when Prem football might (just might) start to return to a more supporter led affair.
barbiegirl
31 Oct 161#52
Your team looking very good going forward this season. Not so sure about the defence. Coutinho would walk straight into any PL team IMO. Terrific player.
barbiegirl
31 Oct 16#53
I think it's a beautiful stadium too. It strikes me like a 2/3 scale Wembley. Good use of modern tech too.
benlondon
31 Oct 16#54
No chance, sky's TV revenues have been ever increasing, it's more likely the people using Android boxes are the customers who would never pay for sky in the first place
mumbo_
31 Oct 16#55
Thank you OP, sent the kids with their nanny to the Arsenal v Reading game and they had a great time. Could be another chance to have a night off!
arsenalmorris
31 Oct 16#56
Glad you enjoyed it, Thats exactly what I am posting these deals for, Get people who don't normally or cant afford the usual prices to have a trip out.
arsenalmorris
31 Oct 16#57
You will have the choice out of about 40,000 seats mate
arsenalmorris
31 Oct 16#58
Everything this member says is spot on, A combination of having 60,000 tickets to sell and a combination of fringe and youth players means they always sell at this price,
I imagine the majority of season ticket holders don't bother attending these fixtures which makes me laugh as if we got to the final at Wembley they would be the first ones wanting to go,
Also a lot of these game in my opinion are still a fantastic game to watch, Back up and youth players wanting to make an impression on the manager to get in the first team etc, After all a football match at any level or standard can still be a great game to watch with lesser known players, just as a game with lots of "Superstars" can be absolutely shocking like Liverpool & Man Utd a few weeks back.
BigPro
31 Oct 16#59
Yes I went to that, it was Arsenal v Chelsea.
Although it is not going to be first team, as only the league cup, it is still Arsenal and well worth going if you get the chance for this price. Also the Emirates is an amazing stadium
BigPro
31 Oct 16#60
You must be joking, you can't be serious? The Emirates is arguably the best Premier League stadium in the country, and one of the best in the world. The atmosphere is great, although places like Anfield/Nou Camp/German stadiums are louder.
There aren't many people leaving before the last 15 minutes. You will get the odd few leaving earlier to beat the traffic, but that is the same in every stadium.
soldierboy001
31 Oct 16#61
I think you answered your own post.
hello55060
31 Oct 16#62
You've obviously never been to the Emirates, I've been in the away end 3 times there now.
They even did a test a few seasons back out of all the stadiums in the PL and the emirates was ranked the quietest -lowest amount of decibels stadium in the PL taking into account the capacity and noise produced. Liverpool as much as I dislike them won it with iirc and United were pretty high up there.
Maybe it sounds different from your end watching the games on your sofa and listening to your surround sound.
soldierboy001
31 Oct 16#63
A pint and fish and chips for just over the price of a £5 ticket must be a bargain.
soldierboy001
31 Oct 16#64
You wouldn't see many Barca fans in August because they are all on holiday for the whole month except for the service industries all dealing with our holiday makers.
soldierboy001
31 Oct 16#65
You are so so wrong.
BigPro
31 Oct 16#66
Actually I have been there twice, and everyone I know who has been there has described the whole experience as jaw dropping - from the moment to arriving at the stadium to walking out to the seats.
And if you want to talk rankings, take a look at this:
All this talk about lower players makes me laugh. Last week I saw Man U v Man City and I saw a young 18 year old Pablo Maffeo taking apart Pogba, Lingard and Ibroinyoursnitch. A great young man to watch.
benlondon
31 Oct 16#68
Well I think you will find you are wrong actually, unless you are disputing Sky' quarterly financial results, which post record revenues and profits for their TV business. But of course you must have "hidden" in depth knowledge of the "true" situation I guess?
hello55060
31 Oct 16#69
Try over £20.
And for the guy who asked BigPro, I'm a watford fan.
Emirates atmosphere is terrible, if you don't acknowledge that, then you're deluded. Yes, it may be a great experience for the plastic I'm sure they do a really nice stadium tour as well for you lol
Edit: I go to home and away games, I've been to pretty much all the PL stadiums well the regular PL teams not the newly promoted ones and Emirates was the quietest support from home fans I've encountered on my 3 trips. Yes, the chairs are nice and it's all fancy dancy but I'm talking about atmosphere.
Let me guess you're an Arsenal fan? No need to ask really it's pretty obvious from the denial.
arsenalmorris
31 Oct 16#70
I will agree with the above comments. Atmosphere is usually awful with the exception of the really big games,
I also have been all the Prem grounds with Arsenal bar 2 and I generally think all the big clubs home support isn't great, you generally get more noise from the smaller clubs, Palace. Swansea, Stoke etc
Although I think this is largely down to the bigger clubs having there fans who like to sing / chant etc scattered around rather than in a group together so it's harder to generate the noise.
However Arsenal's away support is class. I would go as far as to say the best or one of the best around
alex_dis
31 Oct 16#71
Well, I don't know about their quarterly financial results, but viewing figures are down 19% this season.
I am commenting on your surmising on the people using streaming boxes, they are the ones leaving sky in droves unless they are lying on forums.
teerex
31 Oct 16#73
Will be checking to see if it goes to general sale
barbiegirl
1 Nov 16#74
Good article. Quote:
That's why the news that Sky's (LSE: SKY) viewer numbers for Premiership football this season are down 19% and BT's (LSE: BT.A) Champions League viewing has been down by as much as 40% have caused consternation with media companies and a dollop of schadenfreude from viewers tired of paying £80 a month to watch football.
Subscribers are indeed up but viewing figures are down. There's going to be a lag between the decline in viewing and decline in subscribers, naturally.
nnenne
1 Nov 16#75
Hope so
ben5363
1 Nov 161#76
Its not the stadium its the fans. Im Arsenal supporter and you will find you get more familys at the emirates rather than thugs like at west ham and Chelsea.
royals
1 Nov 16#77
not for reading it didn't. season tickets holders only
royals
1 Nov 16#78
have to agree. emirates is over rated, poor seat space, reading madjeski stadium us alot smaller and we gave quite fans but arsenal fans whilst friendly are unbelievably quiet, the 53000 fans made no noise apart from when they scored. it was like a library.20000 fans in readings mad stad make far more noise and we aren't renowned for being loud either, arsenal fans are a joke
royals
1 Nov 16#79
still didn't rate the Emirates ground. cramped, poor view, poor atmosphere from arsenal. 5500 reading fans made far more noise than the 55000 arsenal mice. also the concourse. .what idiot designed that. so you buy food and drink and there nowhere to sit, or put drink or food except on the bins....what moron designed that
royals
1 Nov 16#80
jaw dropping, hahaha ha hahaha, yes it's nice on the outside but the seats are rubbish, legroom is a joke, view is awful, atmosphere is laughable
Diesel48
1 Nov 16#81
Anyone know when these will be available on general sale online?
Chef_uk
2 Nov 161#82
It really is simple why the crowd are quiet. Fans go to be entertained, if they aren't being entertained by what they see on the pitch, they make noise to fill in this gap. It's got nothing to do with passion or who supports a team more than anyone else. That's the stuff of the school ground.
soldierboy001
2 Nov 161#83
From 2.00PM 1st of December. limited to 2 per person.
CFC_Mark
4 Nov 16#84
Likelihood of this going on general sale?
arsenalmorris to CFC_Mark
12 Nov 162#94
Once again they have gone on general sale despite people saying they wont for the 2nd game in a row. Hope everyone gets a ticket and enjoys the game UTA!!
CFC_Mark
4 Nov 16#85
Isn't that after the game has taken place?
soldierboy001
4 Nov 16#86
2 Days and 10 hours to work that out, well done.
CFC_Mark
5 Nov 16#87
I assumed that it was meant as a joke, but it was such a terrible attempt at humour that I had to double check.
Don't give up your day job pal. Just be natural and stick to being a pillock on forums.
soldierboy001
5 Nov 161#88
Why don't you just admit you were caught out and get on with your life?
tanga33 to soldierboy001
19 Nov 16#98
Will they allow me to use a ticket categorised for over 65 year olds? I mistakenly bought this ticket. The price,£10, is the same as the adult ticket for the seating area
arsenalmorris
5 Nov 16#89
99.6%
CFC_Mark
6 Nov 16#90
Cheers buddy
Ali2126
10 Nov 16#91
This goes on general sale tomorrow at 2pm.
bearman3784
11 Nov 16#92
'Tickets will go on general sale at 3pm on Friday 11th November 2016, subject to availability.(Booking fees apply)'
sunnyhot
12 Nov 16#93
Heat - they're on general release. got 2 x northbank.
waffles_94
12 Nov 16#95
thanks for alerting me to the deal. first time I went to the Emirates at reading , was very special as an Arsenal fan. Going to go the Southampton game too so cheers.
sunnyhot
13 Nov 16#96
Not sure why this is expired - seats available?
ArturoBandini to sunnyhot
14 Nov 16#97
Thanks a lot! Kept an eye on the tickets and managed to get 2.
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Upper Tier: Adults £20, Children / OAP £10
Lower Tier: Adults £10, Children / OAP £5
almost guaranteed to go on general sale meaning anyone who wants a ticket will be able to get one, Cheap trip to one of best stadiums in the country, chance to maybe visit a new stadium or just to watch a game of football while in the area,
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In the past Wenger would have put out a team almost entirely made up of kids in this Cup, that's not really the case now.
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In the past Wenger would have put out a team almost entirely made up of kids in this Cup, that's not really the case now.
BTW get there a bit early. Missed the first 20 minutes on Tuesday due to really long queues of 25 mins or more.
I can't imagine many lower tier being available on general sale though.
a) prices are generally too high for many premiership teams whatever the game
b) this is not the most popular competition unless it's the final
c) gooners might manage to get European football again next season, so fans are picking their games
d) money's tight everywhere
e) when stadiums get more capacity, there's often empty seats in certain games for a while
I think it's a bit of all of them, but be interested to hear opinions - many years ago this competition struggled to get good crowds anywhere as I remember, especially when fans were saving up for foreign trips, so perhaps nothing has changed much after all.
Demand for the 15,000 seats to watch the first team play in the PL massively outstrips supply, so Silver members will buy the 11,500 tickets available to them (60-30 days pre-game) and Red members will buy their 3,500 guaranteed allocation in minutes (30 days pre-game). Nothing will ever go to general sale.
With the league cup, you have to factor in that both sides will field largely reserve teams and that the games are on Tuesday and Wednesday nights in winter, and you're going to struggle to sell 60,000 seats at usual Arsenal prices (Southampton would be Category B, so £50+ a seat for upper tier).
As evidence that many people can't be bothered to go to mid-week games, compare Met Police attendance stats (fans through turnstiles) for CL group games to Arsenal attendance stats (tickets sold). There are always 60,000 tickets sold, but in general only 50,000 through the turnstiles for the 'less fashionable' CL group games. They should put their tickets on the TicketExchange, but probably can't be bothered, either. That's London for you!
However, good to see clubs making tickets affordable even though last time Spurs did this (at Wembley with an extra 30000 seats) they got slaughtered for it by Arsenal fans..
I suppose also, that some season ticket holders will live outside London, and so don't always travel to mid week games, neither can they sell their tickets easily or safely to avoid losing it through disorder.
When I was travelling home and away to a London team many years ago, including pre-season foreign trips (those were the days, no children and spare cash only for me), it amazed me that some fans were also doing friendlies to places like Hong Kong, and they were not city stockbrokers, so how they could afford it ? Most said they loved the camaraderie on away trips, as it was usually smallish groups of friends who used to stand on terraces together, without the muppets who only went to the biggest games or never travelled away.
I know some went to Thailand and financed the trip by bringing back clothing to sell, in the days before ebay of course, but I could never get my head around the seemingly vast difference in 'spending money' between London and other parts of the UK, not just deprived areas either.
Anyway, thanks again for the information, and I hope everyone enjoys the game.
The emirates has to be one of the worst stadiums to watch football in, the atmosphere is laughable their own fans you don't here a peep from all game. It's a contest between West Ham since they've moved and Arsenal for **** stadium in the PL. Even Arseanl fans are happy with the foreign tourists and plastics just buying a ticket just to see them a one off and make no noise and the floods of empty seats 15 minutes before the match finishes you see every week play instead of actual proper football fans.
Anyone who says otherwise is deluded, jealous or simply doesn't like Arsenal.
https://twitter.com/wembleystadium/status/761984634058047489
But you can't really blame Arsenal. They had to build a bigger stadium to boost gate receipts to try and stay competitive once the likes of Roman rocked up with their billions. It's so often adapt or die in these highly competitive commercial scenarios.
Personally, I'm watching with interest what is happening to the paid TV market which is what is driving the PL. The fragmentation by BT Sport getting in on the act, combined with the drop in knowledge required to watch football online, the ever increasing quality of streams and the prevalence of android boxes that put those streams onto your television rather than a PC monitor, and you can imagine a scenario where the amount BSkyB and BT have bid for the rights will soon start to have a negative ROI for them. That's when Prem football might (just might) start to return to a more supporter led affair.
I imagine the majority of season ticket holders don't bother attending these fixtures which makes me laugh as if we got to the final at Wembley they would be the first ones wanting to go,
Also a lot of these game in my opinion are still a fantastic game to watch, Back up and youth players wanting to make an impression on the manager to get in the first team etc, After all a football match at any level or standard can still be a great game to watch with lesser known players, just as a game with lots of "Superstars" can be absolutely shocking like Liverpool & Man Utd a few weeks back.
Although it is not going to be first team, as only the league cup, it is still Arsenal and well worth going if you get the chance for this price. Also the Emirates is an amazing stadium
There aren't many people leaving before the last 15 minutes. You will get the odd few leaving earlier to beat the traffic, but that is the same in every stadium.
They even did a test a few seasons back out of all the stadiums in the PL and the emirates was ranked the quietest -lowest amount of decibels stadium in the PL taking into account the capacity and noise produced. Liverpool as much as I dislike them won it with iirc and United were pretty high up there.
Maybe it sounds different from your end watching the games on your sofa and listening to your surround sound.
And if you want to talk rankings, take a look at this:
Ranking the English Premier League Stadiums
"Rankings are based on our official reviews with ratings from our members as a tiebreaker."
My guess is you are a Spurs supporter?
And for the guy who asked BigPro, I'm a watford fan.
Emirates atmosphere is terrible, if you don't acknowledge that, then you're deluded. Yes, it may be a great experience for the plastic I'm sure they do a really nice stadium tour as well for you lol
Edit: I go to home and away games, I've been to pretty much all the PL stadiums well the regular PL teams not the newly promoted ones and Emirates was the quietest support from home fans I've encountered on my 3 trips. Yes, the chairs are nice and it's all fancy dancy but I'm talking about atmosphere.
Let me guess you're an Arsenal fan? No need to ask really it's pretty obvious from the denial.
I also have been all the Prem grounds with Arsenal bar 2 and I generally think all the big clubs home support isn't great, you generally get more noise from the smaller clubs, Palace. Swansea, Stoke etc
Although I think this is largely down to the bigger clubs having there fans who like to sing / chant etc scattered around rather than in a group together so it's harder to generate the noise.
However Arsenal's away support is class. I would go as far as to say the best or one of the best around
http://money.aol.co.uk/2016/10/28/does-plummeting-premier-league-viewership-spell-doom-for-sky-plc/
That's why the news that Sky's (LSE: SKY) viewer numbers for Premiership football this season are down 19% and BT's (LSE: BT.A) Champions League viewing has been down by as much as 40% have caused consternation with media companies and a dollop of schadenfreude from viewers tired of paying £80 a month to watch football.
Subscribers are indeed up but viewing figures are down. There's going to be a lag between the decline in viewing and decline in subscribers, naturally.
Don't give up your day job pal. Just be natural and stick to being a pillock on forums.