The Premier League has announced that all top flight clubs have agreed to cap the price of tickets for away fans at £30 for the next three seasons.
Ticket prices have proved a particularly thorny issue of late, with many supporters staging angry protests about the soaring price of attending football matches both home and away.
Michael Brunskill of the Football Supporters Federation (FSF) heralded the news:
When fans started campaigning around ticket prices a lot of people were cynical.
This has shown that clubs will listen to co-ordinated fan campaigns if it’s done in an intelligent and proactive manner.
Indeed, the FSF’s long-running Twenty’s Plenty campaign had been gathering momentum recently, with ordinary supporters all over the land finally losing patience at being milked dry by their respective clubs.
Now the Premier League have addressed the issue (up to a point) by confirming that all 20 clubs have “unanimously agreed” to bring in a price cap for away tickets from the start of next season.
In short, it’s still going to be pretty bloody expensive – just not as expensive as it might’ve been.