Stuart Fuller from the blog The Ball is Round (http://www.
theballisround.
co.
uk) looks back to
1979.
.
.
I am a difficult person to buy things for at Christmas.
And to make matters worse my birthday is
just 12 days later.
But this year I had...
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Stuart Fuller from the blog The Ball is Round (http://www.
theballisround.
co.
uk) looks back to
1979.
.
.
I am a difficult person to buy things for at Christmas.
And to make matters worse my birthday is
just 12 days later.
But this year I had a few nice surprises, one of which was a selection of
England programmes from yesteryear.
So let me take you back to October 1979 for England s
European Championships qualifier against Denmark at Wembley, and what everyone was talking
about.
So firstly lets look at the price of getting a ticket for the game.
Thanks to our trusty inflation
calculator we can see that the price of tickets has far outstripped inflation.
Ticket prices were £3 for standing and £5.
50, £6.
50, £8.
50 and £10.
50.
With inflation these
prices today would be £14.
81, £21.
15, £27.
50, £35.
96 and £44.
42.
So how does that compare
with Wembley today? £30, £40 and £60 are the prices we are charged for an equivalent game
today.
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