[baud147258]

> Now only rich people get to enjoy a sport meant for the masses, yay.

By and large, the masses have always experienced football on a TV screen. (though removing lower price tickets from such public sport events is still bad)

[Barrin92]

Not true at all. In many of the big football/soccer countries there's always been very strong measures to ensure affordability. England caps premier league prices, the Bundesliga goes further still by having a 50 + 1 rule, that is all teams are majority member owned. Up until ~2000 they had no private investors at all.

The yardstick in European football has always been that an ordinary working person can go and see a game in the stadium. A fair amount of sports did until they got the privatization treatment.