The admission price to sit in K Stand for the FA Cup tie with Queen’s Park Rangers on 29 January 1977 was £1.20 for an adult ticket.
The Reds won the tie with Lou Macari scoring the only goal. Attendance 57,422
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Two shillings and sixpence (12½p in today’s money) would be enough to buy a ticket for the European Cup quarter-final with Red Star Belgrade at Old Trafford in January 1958. The true value of the ticket today, considering average earnings and inflation, would be approximately £6.
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A ticket to stand at the 1983 League Cup final against Liverpool could be bought for £4.
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£2.60 would buy a terracing ticket for the Old Trafford derby of March 1986. The game ended in a 2-2 draw before 51,274. In February 1990 £3.50 bought a similar ticket for the 1-1 drawn Manchester derby watched by 40,274.
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It would cost £8 to watch United’s Premier League meeting with Chelsea on 17 April 1993 in the uncovered West Stand lower tier. A similar fixture in October 1963 between the sides at Stamford Bridge would cost six shillings to sit under cover. The 1963 game ended in a 1-1 draw before 45,351, while the 1993 match saw the Reds win 3-0 four games from the end of their 1992-93 Premier League winning season.
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A junior Stretford End ticket for United’s 1-1 draw with Liverpool in Division One on 19 October 1985 cost £1.20, while an adult ticket for the same game (in the United Road Paddock) cost £2.60. Eight years earlier an adult ticket for a similar position at the Scoreboard End cost a bargain 80p.
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A seat ticket to watch Chelsea V United at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday 30 September 1964 cost seven shillings and sixpence. It would have been well worth it as United won 2-0 with goals from Best and Law. The attendance was 60,769.
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When United faced Everton in the fourth round of the League Cup in 1993 Reds fans had to pay £11 to sit in Goodison’s Park End. A crowd of 34,052 saw Giggs and Hughes score as United progressed to the fifth round. That season United reached the final.
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It would have cost £1.50 to stand in the East Enclosure when Gordon Hill netted twice against Derby County in the FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough in 1976.
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A League Cup quarter final ticket for United V Everton in December 1976 cost 80p to stand in the Paddock at Old Trafford. Attendance 57,738. To stand in the Paddock in 1959 would have cost 3s 6d (17½p).
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An FA Cup final seat ticket for the 14th row at either end of Wembley Stadium in 1979 cost £8. United faced Arsenal in a memorable final. 21 years earlier three shillings and sixpence brought a terracing ticket for the West Stand as United faced Bolton in the final.
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