We're the people's club of the North East, designed to service the community and not hit the hard-working locals in their pocket: and in return those fans get top flight football, and a little bit of consternation and controversy - but what can you expect for £15 a game?! Forgive the cynicism, but that feels like the marketing that went into the whole "Newcastle have the cheapest tickets" claim that was published by the the BBC. Apparently £15 was enough to get an adult a ticket for St. James' Park for certain games:
Newcastle United charge just £15, though this is for only a limited number of matches at St James Park.Hull, Leicester and West Ham all charge £20 or less for their cheapest adult ticket bought on a match day.
It doesn't look like that's ever really been the case this season - The Mag have published screenshots from the NUFC ticket website that prove the claim to be false. And, as the Mag writer points out, if Members only are allowed that ticket price, and Memberships cost £35, then the true price wouldn't have been £15 anyway, it would have been more to reflect the number of games that member went to per season. If it was only one - the ticket would effectively cost £50, and if it was all 19 home games, the ticket price would effectively include a £1.84 surcharge to cover the membership price - so £16.84 as opposed to £15. So where did that figure come from? Well, the BBC say they asked the clubs involved, so someone, somewhere was telling porkies. And now it seems there may have been plans to sell tickets at £15 at some point, with the emergence of this poster... Regardless, that £15 is something of a fallacy - and the claim that it's for "a limited number of games per season" seems an over-exaggeration. Surely it would be the lowest band of games that would be the cheapest - like newly promoted Leicester for instance? Nope, the lowest price there was £27 for an adult, so quite where this £15 would come in remains to be seen.
