High ticket prices for All Blacks cast dark shadow

PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

WHEN the RFU finished doing their sums for the autumn series of Twickenham’s centenary season, the revenue from ticket sales added up to a few quid short of £13,000,000.
There would have been high-fives all round at the figures generated by the November Tests against New Zealand, South Africa and Argentina, resounding proof of the Old Cabbage Patch’s capacity for generating cash by the shedload.
Fifteen years on, Twickenham’s commercial value is in the process of soaring higher still into the stratosphere. England ...

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