Football: Average ticket prices fall

Average ticket prices across English football's top four divisions have fallen by up to 2.4%, the BBC Sport Price of Football study has found.

It showed prices in four main categories have reduced for 2013-14.

The annual study - the biggest in British football - includes the prices of 164 clubs in the top 10 divisions.

This is good news in that prices have come down slightly, but it is such an insignificant amount when you look at just how much ticket prices have gone up in the last five years.

It’s also frustrating to see that the Premier League saw a 4.3% rise in the cheapest tickets, despite the fact that a new bumper TV deal saw an extra £600m pumped into the top flight.

What more do Premier League clubs want, they're getting more and more money every year just for being in it, not to mention the huge bonuses paid to those who finish in the European places, it’s just crazy that despite all this they feel they need to put ticket prices up.

As an Arsenal fan I must say I’m more than a little embarrassed as we are the worst offenders, we have the highest season ticket of all and I think even our cheapest one is in the top five highest, not good.

Ticket prices should certainly be added to the list of things Greg Dyke needs to sort out during his term at the helm of the FA, and he should definitely consider capping the amount clubs can charge because how can they justify raising ticket prices when they are making more and more each year? It has to stop.