As it might be a historic day for “Gunners” supporters if they win the title, tickets for Arsenal’s last English Premier League game versus Wolverhampton sold for an amount never before seen in the competition.
As soon as Arsenal released tickets for the league’s championship game versus the Wolves club, all seats instantly sold out. As a result, price gouging started to appear on online ticket promotion sites, pushing the cost of a single ticket to 53 thousand pounds (28 thousand euros).
The most costly ticket to see Wolverhampton, category B, in the middle of the high class stands, has an official price of GBP 75.50.
Many fans now find it challenging to get tickets because they worry that other fans would employ bots to buy and resell the highly sought-after tickets.
According to a survey on salaries in Britain by The Times newspaper, the cost of a ticket is comparable to that of a judge or a lawyer, but it is more expensive than that of a doctor or an employee in the disciplines of engineering or computer systems.
Arsenal now sits atop the English Premier League rankings, eight points ahead of its closest opponent Manchester City. The London club has a chance to win its first league championship since 2004, when it won the league without suffering a single loss.
