Introduction
The recession has affected football clubs and football fans alike, with clubs juggling their finances to stay afloat and freezing or reducing ticket prices to keep up attendances and fans facing increased prices for travel and other match day expenses in already adverse economic circumstances. Many football fans are, however, more than willing to find the cash needed to follow their favourite clubs, despite the need to tighten their belts elsewhere.
Discount Football Tickets
It is a sad fact that discount football tickets are rarely available from online ticket brokers, or from ticket touts that you may meet, in person, outside a football ground on the day of a match. Neither brokers nor touts receive any special treatment, or markdown, from principal ticket sellers and must therefore work hard to obtain tickets for the best seats. The end result is that the tickets they offer are priced significantly above their face value. Furthermore, buying football tickets from any unauthorised agent can be a risky business with counterfeit tickets or, in the worst case, no tickets at all a real possibility. Indeed, over 100 websites illegally selling tickets to Premier League football matches were recently shut down following a police operation. You may be able to find discount vouchers on the Internet, from time to time, for money off tickets offered by ticket brokers, but the discount is likely to be less than the markup on the tickets in the first place.
If you want an idea of what is and what isn`t, a good deal on football match tickets, look at the website of the football club in question. This will list the face value of match tickets and authorised agents from which they can be bought, legitimately, if necessary. One place where it may be possible to find legitimately discounted football tickets is on the online auction site, eBay, which has a large section devoted to second hand tickets, including football match tickets. If you can find the tickets you want in this way, you can also check the feedback left by other buyers to determine the integrity of the seller. Another possibility is a specialist online marketplace, where football fans can buy, sell or exchange match tickets.
Aside from saving money on the cost of match tickets, themselves, there is any number of websites that allow you to receive cashback on other costs, such as car hire, rail, air, or ferry, tickets and accommodation, that you incur as a result of travelling to and from, football matches. Individual savings may seem small, but these soon mount up over the course of a season and could make the difference between you being at that vital away game, or even at Wembley, at the end of the season, or not.
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