da fazobetai： Ahead of their titanic Champions League clash it’s appropriate to make comparisons between these two giants of European football. On the pitch the Gunners are massive underdogs against the German champions – Bayern have won their first nine league games this season, a Bundesliga record.
da winzada777： This has prompted their Chilean midfielder, Arturo Vidal, to declare Bayern Munich as the new invincibles, an honour that is normally reserved for Arsenal’s unbeaten champions of 2004.
Back then Bayern Munich were in Arsenal’s shadow, and German football was in disarray, after the national team’s early exit from EURO 2004. In recent years things have been very different for Bayern Munich and Germany, both teams have reached the pinnacle of the game, and they don’t look like relinquishing their powers anytime soon.
Arsenal in comparison have not won a league title since 2004, and are still yet to win the Champions League, leaving the Gunners well behind Bayern Munich in footballing terms.
Why then, with all of this in mind, does a Bayern Munich season ticket cost £104, compared with Arsenal’s season ticket charge of between £1000 and £2000? The disparity is ridiculous, and it brings into question the priorities of Arsenal football club, a club that is renowned for being tight spenders in the transfer window.
The Gunners are in danger of pricing out their loyal fans, and alienating the supporters of the club. Why should an Arsenal fan pay 10 times more than a Bayern fan to watch a team with fewer star players play in a team that is not as good as Bayern’s?
Once again BBC Sport’s The Price of Football has shown the true colours of Arsenal football club. A single match day ticket at Bayern Munich will cost you from £11. An Arsenal ticket will cost you from £27, reaching up to £97.
Regardless of the score in the upcoming Champions League encounter, the Gunners have a lot to learn from their German opponents, both on and off the pitch. Bayern could quite easily charge more for their tickets, although they believe in the integrity of their fans far more than an extra million pounds or two in profit.
The embarrassing thing is Arsenal charge so much more far an experience that is far inferior to what Bayern can offer it’s supporters. Let’s just hope that Arsenal can put in a good performance against Bayern to go some way to paying back the Arsenal fans loyal support.
If not then there will be more reasons than one to criticise Arsenal’s woeful European form.
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