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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport

Priced out of watching top-level football? Try athletics or cycling

Tour de France spectators cheer as riders speed by.
The Tour de France – the world’s biggest annual sporting event – is free to watch from the sidelines. Photograph: Getty Images

Having grown up in London going to rugby and football games for as little as £10 for a kids ticket, it dismays me to see the price of sports tickets now, as discussed by Jonathan Liew (Spiralling costs tear through notion of sport as a communal force for good, 11 July).

How fortunate we are in New Zealand that a family day out at a major sport event is still a perfectly affordable day out. We recently took out seven kids to the Super Rugby finals, with the Chiefs playing the Crusaders, and paid £6 for kids’ tickets and £12 for adults’.

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