Spurs followers slam ‘atrocious’ determination to scrap OAP season tickets
- Tottenham have elevated their season ticket costs by a whopping six per cent
- The membership has additionally scrapped senior concessions for season tickets from 2025
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Tottenham followers are livid on the membership’s determination to scrap senior season tickets from 2025, labelling the brand new coverage ‘atrocious’.
Spurs confirmed on Wednesday that concessions for OAPs would solely apply to matchday tickets from the 2025-26 marketing campaign, ‘reluctantly’ eradicating senior season ticket reductions for sustainability causes.
The north London outfit additionally introduced that there can be a six per cent hike on season tickets from 2024-25, prompting followers to accuse the membership of ‘theft’ on social media amid the present price of residing disaster.
Tottenham’s season tickets underneath the present pricing mannequin are among the many costliest within the Premier League. They vary from £803 each year for the most affordable grownup seating accessible to £2,233 for the most costly season ticket.
Blasting the membership’s determination to scrap OAP reductions, the Football Supporters’ Association wrote on X: ‘This is Spurs’ new coverage for OAP ST holders: The older you get the extra you pay! Unless eligible by 2024-25, you may by no means get an OAP ST low cost. Ever. Doesn’t matter in the event you stay til 100. Spurs are the eighth richest membership on this planet.’
Tottenham followers are livid on the membership’s determination to scrap senior season tickets from 2025
The determination made by Spurs chairman Daniel Levy (above) has been labelled ‘atrocious’, with many senior season ticket holders claiming they will now not be capable of renew subsequent marketing campaign
The Football Supporters’ Association have criticised Tottenham’s determination on social media
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Douglas Bagley, a long-serving Tottenham supporter, stated: ‘So my understanding is that, having had a Season Ticket each season since 1982 and now being in my early 60s, my loyalty is being rewarded by by no means with the ability to purchase a Senior Citizen discounted Season Ticket. Thank you a lot Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.’
Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ Trust additionally shared a sequence of fan reactions to social media on Wednesday, captioned: ‘Absolutely heartbreaking’.
One learn: ‘I can barely afford it now, on a pension with out concession can be inconceivable.’
Another wrote: ‘Thank you a lot. With my mum gone Spurs is much more necessary to me. The membership meant the world to mum too. I’m so upset. I do not really feel any love from the membership. I do not really feel needed.’
A 3rd stated: ‘This is atrocious. It is worst information in a very long time. Price up means cannot go to see Spurs as usually as I’ve been afforded going thus far.’
A choice of Tottenham supporters have vowed to contest the membership’s determination and have urged followers to affix the ‘combat’ towards the membership.
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‘(It) can be wonderful if each fan who’s incensed by at present’s ticketing announcement – notably the elimination of senior concessions – was keen to indicate that keenness in particular person at our subsequent residence match,’ a supporter wrote on X.
‘We’ll solely transfer the dial by collective, tangible motion. I’m right here for the combat.’
