THST backs FSF's Share TV Wealth campaign

THST supports the call to #ShareTVWealth. Football has become a valuable business because of its deep roots in our culture. But the contrast between the vast wealth pouring into the game at the top and the price the fans who have made the game such a valuable asset for club owners, broadcasters and sponsors are asked to pay has become too great. Football is losing touch with its roots. And if it does not address this issue, the cultural and the financial value of the game will be adversely affected.

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We want to see far more done to reduce the cost of ticket prices for away fans who spend huge amounts of their time and money following their teams and providing the passion inside stadiums that the Premier League uses as a marketing tool. We also want to see clubs reduce the price of home tickets, prices that have risen by an average of 700% since 2000. 
 
Football has a chance to use the unprecedented increase in income from the latest TV deal to address key concerns about pricing and investment in the grass roots in order to restore a reputation that is becoming tarnished by accusations of greed. We will continue to work with those within the game and those who sponsor and market it for an outcome that has genuine financial impact, and that begins to restore the game's reputation.

To this end, THST fully supports the Football Supporters' Federation's Share TV Wealth campaign, details of which can be read here.
 
THST Board
11 March 2015