We’ve reached that point where there are enough rich people, who are willing to pay the exorbitant prices, that squeeze out everyone else.
A perfect example are the big European soccer clubs, who cater to the tourists who want to watch an FC Barcelona game, and are willing to shelve out a couple hundred bucks for the tickets. It’s squeezing out the local fans.
True for sure. Soccer is hardly a “major” sport for an audience vs say worldwide baseball (see: Japan)— soccer’s appeal is the very simple requirements that are not expensive— a ball, a marked field and two goals. Easy access.
This snot-nose meteoric rise in ticket prices is, Euro-Weenie elitists gouging those other idiots who “want to be in the club” and told to pay more to cut out all the others.
Very different for instance than Wimbledon, which derived all the way back to at the very earliest reference to Henry V— when a “tun” of tennis balls are presented to Henry by the herald from the dauphin of France-— with the excellent reparte reply from Henry in the play. “What treasure, uncle? Tennis balls my liege!” .... “when we have matched our rackets to these balls we will in France by God’s Grace play a set shall strike his father’s crown into the hazard... and we understand him well...”. Tennis not being of course any kind of a “commoner’s” sport or ever was until expanded by marketing and cash raising prizes.