Daniel Levy will have already weighed up the cost of a “backlash” from Tottenham supporters against the financial gain of doing away with senior season tickets, says Paul Robinson.
Spurs announced their updated ticketing charter on 6 March (official website) where it was confirmed there will no longer be senior season tickets available to purchase from the 2025-26 season.
The club made an attempt to support its stance by claiming that there are four times as many OAPs now than there were at the former White Hart Lane.
Senior ticket costs will be gradually increased until the 2029–2030 season, at which point they will match the prices paid by young adults.
On X (12 March), Stan Collymore referred to the action as “simply outrageous greed.” Although Robinson admitted that the move will have an impact on fans, he stated the club made a business decision by balancing the potential financial gain against the potential negative reaction.
He exclusively told Tottenham, “It’s tough, there are concessions everywhere, whether it’s transport, travel, airfares, whatever it is you do have that concession.”
“And you question the decision as to why. There are still concessions for children’s tickets and the OAP tickets…at the end of the day it’s a business and from a club point of view they’re taking up the seat of someone who will have the same view and the same matchday experience as them. On the other argument so is a child and there’s still concessions everywhere.
“The financial gain of changing it against the backlash of what they’ve had to deal with that’s probably what they’ve had to deal with.
“You look at people who’ve made these decisions and in the meeting or wherever they sat down they’ll have known there’d be some kind of reaction and it was never going to be a positive reaction with the price of seasons tickets going up and then taking away the concessions for OAPS it’s the fans again who get punished.”
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It is a business, that much is true but this decision feels particularly misguided and to do it without at least some form of consultation or compromise to be reached feels like a misstep.
It’s one thing that season tickets are going up by six per cent, that decision alone is pretty tough to swallow when prices across the board are so expensive.
Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy
Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy
But to do away with senior tickets entirely seems like a bad PR move, especially given the commercial successes Tottenham are enjoying right now.
Hopefully, there will be a rethink on this one, although no one is really holding their breath that there will be.
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