Record attendance at WSL game scream all the newspaper headlines after the Arsenal Spurs derby yesterday. Arsenal itself tweets out a picture of the crowd and of a big screen boasting of 53,737 tickets sold. Well all up to a point..
The stadium in question holds 60,260 but looks to have a lot of empty seats in the tweet from the Arse. That is because, in fact, only 47,367 folks turned up. In other words the stadium was almost a quarter empty.
It seems odd that 6,000 folks bought a ticket then did not bother to show. Until you discover that most seats for an Arsenal women’s game are priced at just £7.65. In other words not buying a return tube journey probably saves you more than that wasted ticket. For the men’s games where the stadium will be sold out tickets range from £24 (a few) to £99 a pop.
Now tell me we are comparing apples with apples not with pears.
But in 2024/1984 we are not allowed to say this are we?
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