Arsenal face backlash after charging eye-watering amount for legend stadium tour – £335 MORE than bitter rivals Spurs
ARSENAL are facing backlash from fans for charging fans almost £400 for a VIP stadium tour with a football ‘legend’ – £335 more than rivals including Spurs and Manchester United.
Gunners fans are being offered packages at £395 per person for a four-hour “VIP Legend Experience” and lunch with stars Ray Parlour, David Seaman or Lee Dixon.
The Gooners package includes a behind-the-scenes tour of every corner of the Emirates Stadium base as well as a buffet lunch served with unlimited wine, beer and soft drinks in the club’s exclusive Diamond Club.
But a similar VIP deal with Spurs’ north London rivals – featuring Ossie Ardiles, Gary Mabbutt, Clive Allen or Micky Hazard – costs just £60.
And rivals Tottenham are not the only Premier League club to charge significantly less for a tour than table-toppers Arsenal.
Manchester United also charge £60 for VIP visits with legends including former striker Norman Whiteside.
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Manchester City are charging just £50 for their ‘Walk with a Legend’ stadium tour led by former heartthrob Peter Barnes.
Liverpool charge £55 for their tour of LFC’s Anfield stadium plus a Q&A session with a choice of former players including John Aldridge, Steve McMahon and Mark Lawrenson.
Mark Mills, who runs the Arsenal East Sussex Supporters Club, said: “I’ve been going to Arsenal for about 50 years, but it’s definitely not for the normal working class football fan.”
Tottenham on Sunday afternoon, Harry Kane on Wednesday evening.
What a week it’s been for Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal – handing out good hiding places to those they love to hate the most.
After substitutes Noni Madueke and Gabriel Martinelli took Arsenal to the top of the Champions League table, with a record of just 100 percent, Bayern Munich suffered contemptuous cries of “Are you Tottenham in disguise?”
Former Spurs goalkeeper Kane, never a popular visitor here, had riled the locals by claiming the trend towards dominating set pieces had made Premier League football less entertaining to watch this season.
Then dead-ball specialists Arsenal naturally took the lead from a corner – Jurrien Timber’s header being canceled out by Bayern’s teenage starlet Lennart Karl before half-time.
Yet with Declan Rice outstanding and Arteta’s strength in depth evident again thanks to the impact of his substitutes, the Gunners secured a well-deserved victory that made their passage to the last 16 as certain.