Football fans 'being turned off by costs'

Premier League clubs may be courting Arab trillionaires but it is a different story for their supporters, the majority of whom are being priced out of watching live football on television, according to a new survey.

Premier League clubs may be courting Arab trillionaires but it is a different story for their supporters, the majority of whom are being priced out of watching live football on television, according to a new survey.

Around 73% of supporters polled by a research company on behalf of CentreForum, an independent think-tank aligned to this week’s Liberal Democratic conference in the UK, said they felt excluded from the game.

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