Applause erupts around the Emirates Stadium. No, it’s not an Arsenal goal, nor is it for a silky piece of skill from one of the stars on the pitch.Instead, it’s for the Bayern Munich fans who entered the ground after five minutes of the match. Those fans stayed away from the ground for the first few minutes of the game in protest at the £64 ticket price for tonight’s game. £64?! I bet Arsene wouldn’t pay it!In Germany, ticket prices are famously quite low. In fact, a season ticket to watch Bayern this season will set you back €140. Taking into account exchange rates, it’s cheaper to watch all of Bayern’s Bundesliga home games this season than it is to watch two games at the Emirates sat in the away section.So you can see why the fans would protest and you can see why the Arsenal fans would be behind them all the way.
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In 2012, former Bayern President Uli Hoeness said, per the Daily Mail ‘We could charge more than £104. Let’s say we charged £300. We’d get £2m more in income but what’s £2m to us?
‘In a transfer discussion you argue about that sum for five minutes. But the difference between £104 and £300 is huge for the fan.’
That might be the philosophy that has seen German football flourish over the last few seasons, though it is hard to take advice on being on the side of everyday people from a man currently in prison for tax fraud, after having cost the German taxpayer somewhere in the region of £28.5m.
Well Uli, if the difference between £104 and £300 is huge for the fan, just how big is £28.5m
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