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Tottenham will not subsidize Champions League final tickets

By Barrett Rouen

LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 30: Tottenham Hotspur line up before the UEFA Champions League Semi Final first leg match between Tottenham Hotspur and Ajax at at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on April 30, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 30: Tottenham Hotspur line up before the UEFA Champions League Semi Final first leg match between Tottenham Hotspur and Ajax at at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on April 30, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images) /
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One of the worries in regards to the Champions League final among supporters has been that the cost of the tickets and the travel entirely will be very expensive. Unfortunately, the club announced they will not be able to help.

Since Tottenham earned their spot in the Champions League final one of the biggest concerns among fans has been the financial toll that the match would take on fans to go and support their team in the historic event.  With the flights, hotels, and match tickets all adding up to quite a healthy sum of money Tottenham supporters had appealed to the club to subsidize the trip for them.

This would have been an unusual move for a major club but still a lovely gesture had it happened.  That said it appears Tottenham will not be helping their fans with the financial toll of the match and capping the tickets at 100 pounds each.

A club statement released on the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters Trust website read as follows:

"We have and we would urge you to do so too, raised both ticket prices and the limited allocation with UEFA in the hope that future competitions can be priced more reasonably and made more widely accessible.“For the game in hand however we do not feel it is appropriate for us to subsidise ticket prices, not least because it would remove any incentive for competition organisers to price sensibly in the future.“Both yourselves and Spirit of Shankly have ensured that the issues of allocation and pricing have been aired and the hope must be that future competitions acknowledge fan sentiments.”"

In a piece of good news however Tottenham appeared to not rule out doing this in future. It seems with the increasing amount of money in the game it is becoming more and more tempting for clubs to forget that it is the support and the fans and the communities that make football what it is and instead chase bigger sources of financial gain.

Tottenham appear to as they have in their integration of youth and coaching maintained the principle that their support matter more than anything. Football is a game of the people in which too often the people seem to be forgotten in the modern game.  Tottenham while not subsidizing tickets in this instance do appear to have taken on the knowledge that their support are being priced out and are interested in taking the necessary measures to correct that.

Good on them and good for Tottenham Hotspur and their support.

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