History has shown football fans stick with their teams through thick and thin, through promotion and relegation, through price hikes and even the most painful of trophy droughts. They will never switch loyalties because the meat pies are expensive or the tea is cold any more than they would change families. The bonds are stronger, deeper and, in most cases, totally irreversible. But in this era of austerity the price of football, the basic cost of being a football fan has become a consideration where once it was simply assumed. "What I have noticed when I go to games in the Premier League is that it is more affluent people," former FA chairman Lord Triesman told BBC Sport. Read...
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