According to a table in yesterday's paper, we will be pulling in 22.5 mills from STs alone and have so far sold 45,000 for next season. Next are Man United who have more ST holders and League Match Ticket Book holders but price them differently (ahem). The Makems have sold 37,000 but will only be pulling in 13 million. ????

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

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What paper Dougal.....

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

From the Sunday Mirror

Newcastle have sold around 45,000 season tickets at new-look St James' Park, which now boasts the second-highest capacity in England at 52,173. Higher admission charges, including a top season ticket price of pounds 1,350 compared to Old Trafford's pounds 456, means they have banked around pounds 22.5m.

The North East boom is maintained by Sunderland, who have sold 37,000 season tickets, and Middlesbrough, with 25,000 sales so far.

Sunderland manager Peter Reid says: "This place is flying. We hope to sell another 3,000 season tickets before the start, taking the figure to 40,000."

But while there is boom in the North East and Manchester, there is gloom in the Midlands. Aston Villa have sold only 13,000 season tickets compared to 21,000 last time.

Ten clubs have sold out of season tickets - Arsenal, Charlton, Chelsea, Ipswich, Liverpool, Man City, Man United, Newcastle, Southampton and West Ham, whose 16,000 sale is a record for the Upton Park club. Season ticket boom (last year and this year)

Newcastle pounds 36,500 pounds 14.6m 45,000 pounds 22.5m

Man Utd 34,060 pounds 12.3m 45,970 pounds 17m

Chelsea 19,500 pounds 14.6m 20,000 pounds 17m

Arsenal 19,500 pounds 12.7m 20,000 pounds 15m

Sunderland 36,000 pounds 12.8m 37,000 pounds 13.3m

Spurs 18,601 pounds 12.5m 18,748 pounds 12.6m

Liverpool 28,000 pounds 10.5m 26,000 pounds 10.4m

Middlesbro 31,000 pounds 11.8m 25,000 pounds 9.7m

Leeds 24,000 pounds 9.3m 23,000 pounds 9.2m

West Ham 12,000 pounds 6.7m 16,000 pounds 8.9m

Everton 22,000 pounds 6.6m 20,000 pounds 7.6m

Man City 19,000 pounds 4.8m 23,000 pounds 6.9m

Ipswich 9,500 pounds 3m 18,000 pounds 6.3m

Charlton 15,500 pounds 5.1m 18,000 pounds 5.9m

Derby 17,293 pounds 6.1m 15,000 pounds 5.4m

Villa 21,000 pounds 5.9m 13,000 pounds 4.5m

Leicester 11,000 pounds 4.9m 11,000 pounds 4.5m

Coventry 10,000 pounds 4m 9,000 pounds 3.6m

So'ton 9,000 pounds 3.2m 9,000 pounds 3.6m

Bradford 16,000 pounds 4.8m 11,800 pounds 3m 1999 1999 2000 2000

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

Wow....we're expensive ok but not as pricey as Chelsea and Arsenal!!

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

This actually is quite staggering - not that many more ST holders than the Mackems but we;re pulling in almost twice as much cash...

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

Ps. Gav, I put these here for ITK who was interested.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

Eh?!?!

I'm interested as well.....well quite staggered actually, I've already mailed it round all the footie lads at work....I can't believe that our ST revenue has risen by about 60% with around about a 22% increase in ST sales!! I'm stunned by how much we're charging but even more so by what Arsenal and Chelsea are charging...

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

Yeah Gav stop picking fights, you should get out more (c;

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

Strange as Arsenal are about the cheapest for away tickets.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

Apologies, Gav, I thought you were being sarky. I'm going to do upper case to emphasise the apology. I'm not shouting. SORRY!

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

Dougal, No worries....

Tony, Damn right I should :))

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

Now is everyone going to accept that we are at Least the second biggest club in the country. Why let the press always associate Arsenal with Man Utd. We ARE BIGGER than Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea. So why let the BSkyB and the London press glamourize SMALLER clubs, as being bigger than us?. We deserve a strong image.

Howay the lads - in the clash of the REAL Premiership titans on August the 20th, at old trafford.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

Or they could argue that we're the 3rd most stupid for paying so much....

Who cares who're the biggest, smallest, richest or poorest.....we are NUFC and all the rest aren't ;))))

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

Couldn't agree more, Gav. One thing about Arsenal - they do keep tickets for away fans low priced. #17 last year.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

I'm not going to have a coronary in my mid twenties, explaining why we need a strong image to match the clubs size.

I positive strong image sells. We sell more than Arsenal, Chewsea, liverpool, yet the media of BskyB, Scum always boost their profiles as being more prominent than the Toon. We are getting ripped off. Coffee and smell.

We are 'the POWER NEWCASTLE UNITED,' god I luv america!!

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000