Chaos as PM joins 'Cash For Tickets' row

Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday chose an unorthodox route to give his backing to The Sun campaign aimed at reducing ticket prices for football fans.

In an emotional and unscheduled address to the Working Men's Club in Sale, Blair shocked onlookers as he wept openly into his shandy and said loudly: "Leeds United added an extra 10,000 to their recent attendance versus QPR after Ken Bates finally realised that charging working class people £40 each to watch a bunch of over-paid muppets flounder around a football pitch, was not going to work." A visibly shaken Mr Blair had to be helped from the stage as he apeared to lose his footing getting down the steps. "I'm allright," he shouted but onlookers begged to differ. "He was pretty wasted," said a regular at the club. "He and a few of the other cabinet guys came in around 11.30 this morning after a foreign policy all nighter. You could tell they wanted to blow off some steam. A row broke out about football and Blair attempted to calm things down by jumping up on stage and waving a copy of The Sun at everyone." "What is it about bloody football?" he was later heard shouting as he queued for a cab. "It's madness when you think how bloody expensive it is. And clubs like Leeds are in serious danger of jettisonning a whole generation of would be fans whose parents can't afford the daft prices and who'll end up supporting the same old Premiership big guns as they can afford to watch them on TV. It's bloody sod's law, oi, I saw that cab first..."

isporty would like to know what you think of all this ticket pricing caper. Has the world gone mad? And if it has, what can be done about it? Come on, if it's good enough for the Prime Minister...