Prices at SAFC 1980/81



Look at how close the prices are across the 4 league too. The Mags season ticket was £36 to our £60, no wonder they got more fans back then, they were practically giving tickets away! ;)
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Those seat prices we should of had the best players in the league;)
I wonder what players were paid that season? I went to a talk with Len Ashurst/Gary Bennett a canny few years ago now at The Royal British Legion in Silksworth and he'd brought a huge contract sheet with all the players names/wages/bonuses etc. I didn't get a photo of it and I can't recall much now as I'd been talking with Ashurst looking at it as I'd had a few drinks. It would be interesting to see it again. I've always had it in my memory that I saw Stan Cummins on summit like £250 a week with a £50 goal bonus and Gordon Armstrong on a pittance but I'm probably making it up and I've forgotten the rest of players info over the years :confused:
 
I wonder what players were paid that season? I went to a talk with Len Ashurst/Gary Bennett a canny few years ago now at The Royal British Legion in Silksworth and he'd brought a huge contract sheet with all the players names/wages/bonuses etc. I didn't get a photo of it and I can't recall much now as I'd been talking with Ashurst looking at it as I'd had a few drinks. It would be interesting to see it again. I've always had it in my memory that I saw Stan Cummins on summit like £250 a week with a £50 goal bonus and Gordon Armstrong on a pittance but I'm probably making it up and I've forgotten the rest of players info over the years :confused:

I audited Birmingham City's pension fund in the mid-80's. At that time Howard Gayle was their highest paid player on £35,000 per year. To put that into context, i was getting over half that as an audit manager.
 
I audited Birmingham City's pension fund in the mid-80's. At that time Howard Gayle was their highest paid player on £35,000 per year. To put that into context, i was getting over half that as an audit manager.
£675 a week then but showing that it's closer to the working man than now as I already knew. Earlier @Roy greenwoods beard mentioned a headline stating that Bryan Robson was getting his wages doubled (LINK) from £450 to £900 going to Man Utd in 1981 so that was about £46K a year.

Now these days a player on £100k will be paid £5 million in a season. A working man on £50K salary working for 50 years would earn £2.5. Even after tax, a player on £100k probably gets more than the working man, so basically 1 season getting £100k is worth a working man's lifetimes earnings! It's even worse if you look at those on mega money but even the plodders will soon be earning £100K in the Premier League as the average is going up yearly. It was over £50K in 2017 - Premier League average weekly wage passes £50,000, says new study

and Man Utd;s average is $8.6m here

English Premier League salary 2018/19 | Statista


This is why I slowly lost the love of football over the years that I once had as watching players putting on the red n white stripes getting £xx,000's a weelk yet not giving 100%!
 
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Sunderland were promoted 1980. Admission prices were inceased by the biggest amount in history . Off the top of my head ( and incidentally I have just returmed from the pub ) the cost of standing in the main stand paddock increased by about 80 per cent ie almost doubling. Match day seats were a fiver. A fiver is probably eqivalant to 20 quid now. No concessions then or freebies to schools. When we went up in 1990 ( by default ) standing paddock admission increased from about 6 to 9 quid. If you account for inflation prices then were not much different to now and this was in an era of pre sky when football was unfashionable. Once the novetlty of promotion wore off in 80 gates dropped to 12000. Yes Sunderland ramped admission prices up with unemployment rising. Tom Cowie the man from Millfield had obviously didcarded his working class roots.
 
Look at how close the prices are across the 4 league too. The Mags season ticket was £36 to our £60, no wonder they got more fans back then, they were practically giving tickets away! ;)
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That when Football was competitive & equal...everyone could win the league but greed took over football thats when it started I blame Liverpool and Man Utd & Arsenal
 
Mentioned above. Prices across all 4 divisions were pretty much the same, but strange we were at the upper end of the prices.
Wouldn't have been many clubs with a better record in football than Sunderland at the time

Look at how close the prices are across the 4 league too. The Mags season ticket was £36 to our £60, no wonder they got more fans back then, they were practically giving tickets away! ;)
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One of the cheapest in the whole football league, the Mags.
Roker Park was like a Rolls Royce compared to St. James's Lada to be fair
 
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I audited Birmingham City's pension fund in the mid-80's. At that time Howard Gayle was their highest paid player on £35,000 per year. To put that into context, i was getting over half that as an audit manager.

Was shocked Lee Howey was on just £850 a week under Reidy. Granted this was 90s but squad average would have been 3-5k id have thought.
 
Look at how close the prices are across the 4 league too. The Mags season ticket was £36 to our £60, no wonder they got more fans back then, they were practically giving tickets away! ;)
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Burnley £1.35

The turnstile operators must have had a bigger hoard of 5ps than the Royal Mint to give change.
 
£675 a week then but showing that it's closer to the working man than now as I already knew. Earlier @Roy greenwoods beard mentioned a headline stating that Bryan Robson was getting his wages doubled (LINK) from £450 to £900 going to Man Utd in 1981 so that was about £46K a year.

Now these days a player on £100k will be paid £5 million in a season. A working man on £50K salary working for 50 years would earn £2.5. Even after tax, a player on £100k probably gets more than the working man, so basically 1 season getting £100k is worth a working man's lifetimes earnings! It's even worse if you look at those on mega money but even the plodders will soon be earning £100K in the Premier League as the average is going up yearly. It was over £50K in 2017 - Premier League average weekly wage passes £50,000, says new study

and Man Utd;s average is $8.6m here

English Premier League salary 2018/19 | Statista


This is why I slowly lost the love of football over the years that I once had as watching players putting on the red n white stripes getting £xx,000's a weelk yet not giving 100%!

Tbf, football is considerably bigger and more professional than its ever been. The PL is now a global product and with that comes huge financial reward.

The wages may seem crazy, but the demand for the product allows the players to be very well paid
 

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