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What Impact Is The Credit Crunch Having On Premier League Attendances?

Started by The Gaffer · 8 months ago

How are attendances at Premier League clubs being affected, if at all, by the Credit Crunch this season?
Based on research compiled by EPL Talk comparing the percentage difference between the average attendance season to date and last season’s average attendance, we can reve ... Continue reading »

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  • Good to see that Bolton's attendance figures are improving. I went to a match at the Reebok last year and was quite disappointed to see so many empty seats.
  • I'm not so sure attendance figures will be the best way to reflect the economic crisis ( its well beyond a credit crunch). In poor economic times people flock to vices, booze, movies, sport. Its said that in times of crisis you buy stock in fast food and liquor stocks.

    But how does this really effect English football?

    You will find sponsorships down. You will find less corporate seats being purchased. You will find less big names flooding into the league.

    If you want to talk about how this will effect the average fan? Well, season ticket holders will still attend, and clubs with large bases of these type fans will continue to fill the stands. But, as you guessed the teams who do not will have to be creative. Kids for a quid games, 4 pack games at a discount... But the reality is that if the team is performing people will come, which your number reflect.

    I really think this next transfer market should be interesting, and the coming summer even more so. Sugar daddy clubs may well be the most effected. Roman Abramovich is said to have lost 20 billion in this crisis. He is still reported to be worth a cool 3.5 billion. Yet, you have to wonder if that effects the money he has to put into CFC. Think about just how just money that really is...

    Think about just how this effects the common guy. A guy about to retire ( like say my dad) has to work an extra 5 years to make ends meet. Think he isn't going to spend some cash for a sports release... hell yeah he is.

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