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.
Tennis didn’t really join the mainstream until the start of the ‘Open Era’ in the late 1960s when the professionals were allowed into the majors.