What was the entrance fee for your first game?

[Mad Mick]

Nowt! School used to give away free tickets. They didn't have many, but I was lucky enough to get one. My first game was around 63/64 so would have cost a bob.

 

[Silent Blade]

Not my ticket but 45p in todays money to go in BLUT in 1969/70 season

 

[spongebobblade]

No idea. Anyone know how much it was for a kid on John Street Terrace in 1971?

As Silent Blade says, somewhere between 20p and 55p in 1971

 

[spongebobblade]

One shilling 1962/63.

Well remembered!

 

[Upton_Blade]

Haven't got a scooby.

If anyone knows what price the south stand was for a 4 year old in 1982 then there's your answer.

 

[Inter_blade83]

Not sure about football, but my first Arctic Monkeys gig was £5

My one and only monkeys gig was a 5er. Leadmill after we played Spurs at home in the Prem. It was a Saturday so technically the gig was free as it was Sonic Boom after they finished releasing the second album.

 

[Inter_blade83]

Uncle paid. Liverpool at home 1992. Grobelaar going walkabout.

 

[spongebobblade]

Haven't got a scooby.

If anyone knows what price the south stand was for a 4 year old in 1982 then there's your answer.

£1.50 for juveniles in the 4th division though that went up to £1.75 the year after in 82/3

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

Two ciggies .

That's what my old man slipped the turnstile operator to let him lift me over it without paying . November 1947 .

 

[RammyBlade]

Just one shilling it was for me in the 60's - great value !

 

[chipsncake]

Pretty sure it was sixpence when I first started going around '57, but in reality it was nowt 'cos my dad always carried me over the turnstile.

 

[BigBed]

Fuck knows, that was dad's department!!

 

[BonnyBlade]

1/6 went on terrace with dad and uncle might have been 65/66

 

[Darnall Siam Blade]

9 d for kids in 1947ish ,for my first game, on The Kop - beat Blackburn 4-1. 9d being 9 old pennies. broomhillblade mentions something similar in an earlier post. 9 d being about 4p to-day (I think).The d stands for denarius in Roman terms. In fact pounds shillings and pence were known as L.S.D.=Libra, Solidus, Denarius. Now there's a thing.

 

[Tony Currie]

I came to Sheffield when I was 17 in mid 71. I can’t remember what I paid to stand on John Street, but I remember that bitter was 10p a pint where I lived.

I guess an adult ticket now is about 8-10 pints, so that would mean the equivalent in 71 was about 80p.

It would be interesting to see a table of say an adult Kop ticket price over time against the equivalent number of pints of bitter at the time.

In the early 50/60's the equivalent of the price of one pint was the same price as football entrance. I remember my Dad going on at length on how the working man was being priced out of football. I guess all entertainment costs have increased as the demand/disposable income has increased.

 

[Tony Currie]

Entry by silver disk who remembers them ?

Yep, my dad had one and he used to lift me and my brother over the turnstile - the ticket man never complained.

 

[sitwell]

Not sure about football, but my first Arctic Monkeys gig was £5

You were robbed.

 

[mattbianco1]

You were robbed.

Wesh thi mouth art

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

I k ow I was on John Street for its final game before the rebuild (did we play Villa?). Went with my dear old grandad god rest him. So whatever it cost back then.

Started paying for myself once I'd left school in 03. Probably about £15.

 

[sitwell]

Wesh thi mouth art

Sorry just read it back ,thought you said 5 pence

 

[Ivanhoe]

I think it was 25p on The Kop 73/74 season

 

[Blade in Brid]

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A shilling for me on kop

 

[riselikeasalmon]

28/4/79 blades v charlton junior blade 70p, program 25p my dad stuck me in the junior pen on my own while he went in the ‘new’ south stand tight git.

Thought we’d stay up after that, wasn’t the last time in the last 41 years I got it wrong.

 

[XM657]

A shilling was the price for kids on the kop or Bramall Lane end in 1948. That's 5p in today's money. I think adults paid two bob. When they put it up to half a crown my dad stopped going. He was the archetypal tight-fisted Yorkshireman. I used to go on my own from about the age of 10.

What you say helps me as the earliest I can remember is 2/6 adult on the Terrace. I believe children were a all ground half price, hence 1/3, 3d extra for being touch line against behind goal. This was '51/3 time although I had started being taken to a number of reserve games from August 1947 in the John St. Stand, Bramall Lane end, as seen on right of photo. I can still recall the bemusement of the glass end to the stand, although I don't think it had been cleaned for a long time at that point in time Price I ain't got a clue, reckon it was my grandfathers treat to himself and easier to keep me in control, Do recall we seemed the only ones in that area.

 

[Trigger Blade]

Entry by silver disk who remembers them ?

There’s been a thread on these not so long ago.

My Uncle Steve had one and he let me use it in the early seventies, when I was an impoverished student. There was a designated entrance to the Kop, on John Street and there was always a line of young lads outside, as the disc allowed one adult plus two juveniles in.

Two bits of social history in one post, but my Uncle Steve was Steve Butler, who owned and ran Butler’s Dining Rooms on Brookhill and although he and the cafe are no longer with us, his memory lives on through Butler’s Balti, down the road.

 

[XM657]

What you say helps me as the earliest I can remember is 2/6 adult on the Terrace. I believe children were a all ground half price, hence 1/3, 3d extra for being touch line against behind goal. This was '51/3 time although I had started being taken to a number of reserve games from August 1947 in the John St. Stand, Bramall Lane end, as seen on right of photo. I can still recall the bemusement of the glass end to the stand, although I don't think it had been cleaned for a long time at that point in time Price I ain't got a clue, reckon it was my grandfathers treat to himself and easier to keep me in control, Do recall we seemed the only ones in that area.

photo omitted in previous post.

 

[bornandbred]

Started going aged 8 and sat with Dad in the John Street Stand.He paid.As I got older I moved to the John Street Terrace using Dad's silver disc.Then Dad stopped going in favour of playing bowls and so when the Main Stand was built and Original Shareholders were given free Season Tickets it was me rather than Dad that used it.So apart from Cup matches,this is the first season I have had to pay.And I started going in 1961.

 

[XM657]

There’s been a thread on these not so long ago.

My Uncle Steve had one and he let me use it in the early seventies, when I was an impoverished student. There was a designated entrance to the Kop, on John Street and there was always a line of young lads outside, as the disc allowed one adult plus two juveniles in.

Two bits of social history in one post, but my Uncle Steve was Steve Butler, who owned and ran Butler’s Dining Rooms on Brookhill and although he and the cafe are no longer with us, his memory lives on through Butler’s Balti, down the road.

Did your uncle run the Kings Head, Pool Rd., Darnall at some point in time and does the name Albert Jackson, ring a bell with you. Albert was my mothers cousin and befriended a Butler who ran the pub, spending time helping at the pub despite having a job at the Admiralty on Janson St. The landlord had some connection with Butlers on Brook Hill, what it was I don't know, thinking it could be your Uncle Steve.

 

[Digs blade]

28/4/79 blades v charlton junior blade 70p, program 25p my dad stuck me in the junior pen on my own while he went in the ‘new’ south stand tight git.

Thought we’d stay up after that, wasn’t the last time in the last 41 years I got it wrong.

I also remember being put in there by my dad a couple of times. I remember specifically asking him one time why I had to go in there, might have been the River Plate friendly.

“ Cus it’s safer for you in there “ he said
“ how do you mean “ I asked
“ because someone might roll a barrel down from the top of the kop and it might hit you” he replied.

Okay I was only about 8 years old but looking back why on earth did I buy that reason from him

 

[Trigger Blade]

Did your uncle run the Kings Head, Pool Rd., Darnall at some point in time and does the name Albert Jackson, ring a bell with you. Albert was my mothers cousin and befriended a Butler who ran the pub, spending time helping at the pub despite having a job at the Admiralty on Janson St. The landlord had some connection with Butlers on Brook Hill, what it was I don't know, thinking it could be your Uncle Steve.

No, he didn’t, he was at Butlers until retirement, but he had a brother and they ran Butlers together in the late fifties and early sixties after their father died. Eventually, mid sixties, his brother Ernest left the business to run a pub, so presumably that was him. I didn’t really know Ernest or his family (Uncle Steve was married to my Mum’s sister), but I think his wife was Vera and they had two daughters, Stef and Pat.