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Tottenham Hotspur: Jack Pitt-Brooke concerned by stadium attendance in Champions League

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Journalist Jack Pitt-Brooke has claimed that Tottenham Hotspur need to do something to improve stadium attendance amid ’empty seats’ in their most recent game. 

According to reports, when Spurs took on Eintracht Frankfurt at home in the Champions League this week, there were 7,000 empty seats at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium.

And so while the club would have been delighted with the 3-2 win – owed to a double from Son Heung-min and a penalty from Harry Kane – they would have been more concerned by the number of empty seats on such a high-profile occasion.

While speaking about this issue on The View from The Lane podcast, Pitt-Brooke admitted that it was a ‘problem’ and something the club need to address.

He said (15:01): “I have to say there were quite a lot of empty seats. I mean, these were visible from where we were sat in the top tier of the stand opposite where the main stand where we were.

“And I think that, you know, this is a problem that is the responsibility of the club. I think it’s the duty of the club to price games in a way which fills the stadium.

“Clearly, I think, given that there were thousands of unsold seats last night that is, you know, I think the club should react to that in terms of their pricing policy for future games.”

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Interestingly enough, the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ Trust recently questioned the pricing of tickets in the home Champions League game against Marseille, saying that ‘the pricing at Category B was too high, and completely out of line with that of other clubs.’

They also noted how that game hadn’t fully sold out and seeing as the same happened against Frankfurt most recently it’s clear to see this is a recurring issue for Spurs.

And while they may be wary of losing money by putting tickets up for sale at a lower price, they’ll be damaging their finances (and atmosphere) if people simply can’t afford to go to games at all.

It certainly does seem as though this is a growing issue at Tottenham, but it should be one they are able to amend with relative ease should they opt to try and address the fans’ concerns.

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