For as long as anyone can remember, Tottenham Hotspur have offered half price season tickets for pensioners. No longer. This has been scrapped from the beginning of next season. Those already enjoying the 50 per cent concession in the vain hope they will live long enough to see the team win a trophy again will see their annual discount reduced, in phases, to 25 per cent. And only if they sit in certain allocated sections of the ground. For those of us approaching our golden years, we don’t even get that. The discount has been discontinued.
Older fans are being pushed to one side by a club that seems hell bent on appealing to a younger market
The price of a standard season ticket is going up too, by 6 per cent. It means that in many sections of the ground, the cost has broken through the £1,000 barrier. And that is not even for the most expensive seats.
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