I COULDN’T help but notice the price of tickets for this year’s Champions League final at Wembley - then again, a blind man riding a wild horse couldn’t fail to notice the price of tickets for European football’s so-called big game.

Fans will have to pay £176 for the cheapest ticket on general sale. No, you didn’t read that wrong. Those prices are not something created by a Guinness and cheese induced dream.

The ‘category three’ tickets cost £150 plus an administration fee of £26.

Bargain.

And the worrying thing is that people seem to think it’s fair. I can’t get my head around it to be honest.

It isn’t all bad news though.

However, for fans of the clubs involved in the final, the cheapest tickets will be priced at about £80.

I can barely contain my excitement.

This is a case of football getting full of self importance. The fans need to boycott the game - because if they don’t you can see some bright spark at a Premier League club thinking that is the future of prices.

The game is eating itself.

* IT’S a sad day, a really sad day. A day when rugby league became tarnished with the same brush as football.

Beer has been banned at Hull FC.

Well, not totally banned but banned from the seated areas of the KC Stadium, which the Super League side share with Hull City.

Fans drinking on the terrace - or in the seats - alongside supporters of the other team; it is always an image shown by TV cameras.

Trouble at rugby is rare, although it does happen, and the fans are capable of behaving.

But Hull have been forced to take this action after incidents during last season - and it is sad.

I just hope other clubs don’t follow suit.

Last weekend TV viewers saw fans at the Magic Weekend in Cardiff drinking, they also saw packed crowds at the Six Nations matches - they were perfectly behaved.

Ban the idiots; don’t punish the majority.