One Word 8:56 Fri Apr 8
Visiting Upton Park the cost to you
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Forget emotional etc
For 40 years must of visited on average 10 home games a season
Based on prices now ticket £60 + travel £20 + drink/food/extras £100 = £180 per visit x 400 games = oh fuck no wonder I'm broke
Don't even add in the away games + Europe
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Mr Polite
9:00 Fri Apr 8
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Yeah but you're happy
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One Word
9:03 Fri Apr 8
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Yep polite mate, can't wait for the next 40 years if only
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BubblesCyprus
9:18 Fri Apr 8
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To scared to put it in writing but at least we now have the easy jets etc option on flights couple of nights London Hotel couple of days car hire am looking at a grand.
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penners28
9:29 Fri Apr 8
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Foam stadium finger £6
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Nagel
10:00 Fri Apr 8
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If you're actually spending £100 on food and drink then you'd probably be spending even more if you didn't have the distraction of the game for a couple of hours!
And you can't just multiply the current ticket costs across the last 40 years. They've gone well over the rate of inflation - it was much cheaper in the 70s and 80s.
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Lily Hammer
10:08 Fri Apr 8
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It costs me more to get a travel card from Laindon than it does to get a return flight from Oslo to London to Oslo.
I've been getting flight tickets that cost about £8 each way on Ryanair...there are some that go for £5 each way if you're lucky. Of course the bus to Oslo Rygge airport is about £30 return. I can still get to a match for less than alot of you lot who live in England. Madness, really.
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One Word
10:25 Fri Apr 8
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Cheers Nagel I forgot the days of pound to slip round, it was just an estimate sorry if it's not too exact for your statistical needs
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Northern Sold
10:42 Fri Apr 8
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To be fair I gave up my ST (after 19 years) when Allardyce got on board and I don't seem to be any richer??
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Johnson
10:51 Fri Apr 8
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Taxi to station £15 x2
Glos to Paddington £50 return
Travel card £10
So, a fair bit.
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1964
11:02 Fri Apr 8
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Done on avergae 25 games a season (including away, all competitions) for 44 seasons, thats around 1100 games.
A fucking lot of money!
A hundred grand in todays money perhaps ????
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holyhandgrenade
11:14 Fri Apr 8
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Fucking shit loads over the years and even more now I live overseas.
Still, worth every penny. Experiences are richer than possessions ultimately.
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Grumpster
11:21 Fri Apr 8
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Home and away must be talking around 100k over 26 years.
Different for everyone, but as my days incorporated getting pissed as well (which I wouldn't have done without the football), each game was never cheap, especially since travel became a lot more expensive.
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Nagel
11:22 Fri Apr 8
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One Word, point I'm making is that your actual spend on going to UP over the last 40 years in today's money is closer to about £24k than the £72k you make out. So that's about £600 a year - not too much of a price to pay if you've enjoyed it.
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BRANDED
11:26 Fri Apr 8
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Broke and happy or having a few quid and miserable?
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Grumpster
11:28 Fri Apr 8
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Seeing as we haven't won a bean since I've been going, I'll take the wedge back thanks BRANDED and spend it all on high class hookers!!! ;o)
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Side of Ham
11:34 Fri Apr 8
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West Ham is pretty good vice to spend your money on though, and even when it lets you down you don't feel you've wasted the years (although at the time it does hurt obvs), in fact the up's AND downs have only added often to great nights out afterwards for me.Take for instance the Villa Park Forest semi and the 2006 cup final.......both those gatherings of West Ham fans were immense and worth every bit of time and money in the which was technically wasted. Out sung the Forest to drown their goal celebrations and ALL stayed behind at the end (which i've never seen before when watching the cup final).
If you are going to spunk money West Ham is my first and foremost in fact i'd say we've even been bent over at times and let them take it because it's the mob i want to be in amongst.
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Admiral Lard
11:42 Fri Apr 8
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October 1974 Vs Middlesboro as a 13YOP travelling from Croydon
Train fare to London Bridge ret 80p
Tube (Monument to Upton Park ret) 50p
The Hammer 7p!!
Entrance to the North Bank (under 15) 20p
Total cost of my day £1.57p
At the time I had a daily paper round that earned me £3.50p week
April 2016
Train to London Bridge (From Sunny Tunny) £26
Oyster to Upton Park C£8 total
Ticket East Stand Upper (YUK!) £85
Nathans PL&M £5
Half time Chicken Balti Pie and beer £8 ish
Several "on my way home" pints at the Market Porter £16
Total cost £148
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Private Dancer
11:51 Fri Apr 8
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Ths topic has been done to death, it also has no real point either. And how do you spend a ton on food and booze.
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Northern Sold
12:04 Fri Apr 8
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Heartbreaking that Lard.... used to be yer working class ballet as Alf Garnett once called it... no more
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whufcroe
12:25 Fri Apr 8
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Generally.........
Travel card from WGC with Netword Card £9
Beer/food Money £70
Match ticket £34
Total £113
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