JOE SMITH says the rising cost of going to games means more fans may end up staying at home

JOE SMITH

QUITE often you hear of football fans being ridiculed for “not going to the game”, being armchair fans or not being ‘proper fans’.
This view may well have been valid in the past but is it now? You look at the price of football these days, especially at the top level, and who could blame fans for not going?
That’s especially true in a country where prices for everything seem to go up while many workers see their wages stagnating or, in the case of public sect...