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Tees and sees apply. Go to The Times. Go to the Times.co. UK. Well, thanks for joining us for another game podcast bonus and I'm joined by Tom Dart who together with John Vale did an interesting bit of research in the game this week and

Tom you basically looked at trends in ticket buying in the Premier League

both in terms of season tickets you look at ticket prices and so on. What sort of picture emerges?

Really surprisingly good picture from the Premier League's point of view is pretty

static. Last season, Premier League grounds were 92.2% full on average, which was only 0.2% down from the

season before and considering the difficult economic times that everyone's in and football

is still a very expensive activity at the top

level at any level really to go and watch it's a pretty good picture from the club's

point of view to see that most stadiums are most of the time nine tenths full even when we're hearing all these

news of job loss and house prices falling all these difficult times football is not immune but it's

resisting recession and inflation really well. Now what I find remarkable you have a

chart here of the price for league games and you know you would expect that in the more expensive

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