Fans sick of ‘rip-off’ league

FANS have had enough of being “ripped off” by high ticket prices to watch “boring” football in the Premiership.

That is the view of the chairman of the Football Supporters' Federation, Malcolm Clarke, who feels falling attendances are a result of spiralling players' wages and continual movement of kick-off times in a league which has lost its competitive edge.

There were almost 62,000 spare seats across the nine Premiership matches at the weekend, which followed a significant drop in the crowds at the home midweek European ties involving Chelsea, Middlesbrough and Bolton.