Post by staggerstag on Aug 28, 2019 0:17:44 GMT
I am back again for the annual look at the pie and a drink price situation around some of the grounds. This time round the drink is hot tea not ale. For many suffering fans it's the bog standard food fodder found on the concourses of a lot of stadiums. Taking the risk of food poisoning by the scruff of the neck and swallowing it whole, fans up and down the UK are paying wildly varying prices for the privilege of a soggy pie and a piss-poor imitation of hot tea. Not all of them, just some.
The pies at Tottenham (steak and ale, and also last season's delicious chicken and mushroom is also on sale and is now cheaper than the wallet-busting Wembley-set prices while Spurs were in residency there) are supposed to be top dog as are the ones to be found at Morecambe (steak and ale - homemade and voted numero uno by the Pierate Survey) Bristol Rovers (curry) Coventry (chicken Balti) Luton (cheese and onion) Accrington Stanley (peppered steak) Man City (chicken and ham) Wycombe (chicken and mushroom) and 24 other clubs from across the leagues also made the top grade for their pies in the survey.
That homemade pie at Morecambe will set you back £3.20 this season (£4.90 with tea) The least expensive combo in League Two can be found at Stevenage, £3.50 all in.
Most outlets are supplied by Pukka and Peter's, a familiar sight in your local chippie, so well done all clubs who have gone the extra yard in offering something different.
In League One look no further than Fratton Park, Portsmouth for the cheapest combo, just £3.20, while at the other end of the scale you'll pay a whopping £5.80 at Gillingham.
No bargains to be found in the Championship with the cheapest pie/tea combo coming in at £4.20 at Wigan while Fulham have slapped an outrageous price tag of £6.10 on their combo (£2.20 tea, £3.90 pie) topped on price by ten pence only by Brighton and Crystal Palace in the EPL.
So the Seagulls and the Eagles both weigh in at £6.20, although the price of their teas are lower than the shocking £2.50 demanded of fans at Anfield. EPL combo prices are an average of about £5.50. And the least expensive pie and tea in the EPL is £3.50 at Chelsea (last season's most expensive - and indeed a fair few prices this season have stayed about the same, or not gone up) - less costly new suppliers? empathy for the hard-working fan? or bring-yer-own-grub 2018-19 fans just pissed off at prices last season and getting a more reasonable deal this campaign?
All that said, unless your pie makes the Pierate Top 32 there's no telling what you're libel to get for your money. That £2 pie at League One Rochdale and League Two Mansfield may be one of the best you'll ever eat and is ten times better than the priciest pie of all, Brighton's offering at £4.10.
Up in the SPL, it's a top whack £5 combo at Ibrox (where, rather oddly, the tea costs the same as the pie, as it does at three other SPL grounds - unheard of in the four English leagues where pies are at every ground more expensive than the tea) and the cheapest combo can be found at Fir Park, Motherwell, £3.70.
The pies at Tottenham (steak and ale, and also last season's delicious chicken and mushroom is also on sale and is now cheaper than the wallet-busting Wembley-set prices while Spurs were in residency there) are supposed to be top dog as are the ones to be found at Morecambe (steak and ale - homemade and voted numero uno by the Pierate Survey) Bristol Rovers (curry) Coventry (chicken Balti) Luton (cheese and onion) Accrington Stanley (peppered steak) Man City (chicken and ham) Wycombe (chicken and mushroom) and 24 other clubs from across the leagues also made the top grade for their pies in the survey.
That homemade pie at Morecambe will set you back £3.20 this season (£4.90 with tea) The least expensive combo in League Two can be found at Stevenage, £3.50 all in.
Most outlets are supplied by Pukka and Peter's, a familiar sight in your local chippie, so well done all clubs who have gone the extra yard in offering something different.
In League One look no further than Fratton Park, Portsmouth for the cheapest combo, just £3.20, while at the other end of the scale you'll pay a whopping £5.80 at Gillingham.
No bargains to be found in the Championship with the cheapest pie/tea combo coming in at £4.20 at Wigan while Fulham have slapped an outrageous price tag of £6.10 on their combo (£2.20 tea, £3.90 pie) topped on price by ten pence only by Brighton and Crystal Palace in the EPL.
So the Seagulls and the Eagles both weigh in at £6.20, although the price of their teas are lower than the shocking £2.50 demanded of fans at Anfield. EPL combo prices are an average of about £5.50. And the least expensive pie and tea in the EPL is £3.50 at Chelsea (last season's most expensive - and indeed a fair few prices this season have stayed about the same, or not gone up) - less costly new suppliers? empathy for the hard-working fan? or bring-yer-own-grub 2018-19 fans just pissed off at prices last season and getting a more reasonable deal this campaign?
All that said, unless your pie makes the Pierate Top 32 there's no telling what you're libel to get for your money. That £2 pie at League One Rochdale and League Two Mansfield may be one of the best you'll ever eat and is ten times better than the priciest pie of all, Brighton's offering at £4.10.
Up in the SPL, it's a top whack £5 combo at Ibrox (where, rather oddly, the tea costs the same as the pie, as it does at three other SPL grounds - unheard of in the four English leagues where pies are at every ground more expensive than the tea) and the cheapest combo can be found at Fir Park, Motherwell, £3.70.
