QPR And Derby County In Ticket Price Row

    Derby County have asked the Foot­ball League to look into QPR’s rais­ing of ticket prices for trav­el­ing fans in this Sat­ur­days upcom­ing Cham­pi­onship match. All clubs had agreed ticket prices before the start of the sea­son, Derby fans were to be charged £30 for seat­ing in the upper tier and £20 the lower tier in the upcom­ing match, but QPR changed that to £40 and £30 quid not count­ing con­ces­sions. Home ticket prices were also increased to a max­i­mum of £50 to the least expen­sive of £20. Derby County was angered by this sud­den price increase, as are the fans of both Derby and QPR. When Derby County received the tick­ets and it showed the price increase, Derby County refused to have thier fans pay the increase and had no issue with QPR’s appeal to the Foot­ball League to try and force Derby fans to pay the ticket increase. To show the price dif­fer­ence QPR’s match against Black­pool, Upper Tier seat­ing is only £30 and Lower Tier seat­ing £20.

The QPR Trust, QPR1st Sup­port­ers Trust has backed the Derby fans and said. “We fully sym­pa­thise with the response of the Board of Direc­tors of Derby Foot­ball Club who are act­ing in the inter­est of their sup­port­ers and will be writ­ing to both the Chair­man of Derby and the Chair­man of Derby’s Sup­port­ers Trust (as well as the Foot­ball League) mak­ing our feel­ings known.” The Foot­ball League has yet to make a deci­sion about the prices, a rul­ing is expected some­time this week. When the rul­ing comes down I will post it here.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/d/derby_county/7622683.stm

http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/sport/QPR-fans-Rams/article-341588-detail/article.html

http://www.ramsfans.co.uk/images/QPR%20Tickets.pdf

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