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derby1884
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 10:12 pm 
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Note the advert in the middle of the page - an 11 day trip for £19 tops.
All you had to do was shut your eyes to what was going on around you.........

I knew about the Germany v England match but not the Villa one the following day.


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PostPosted: Tue May 05, 2020 8:00 pm 
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According to the Office of National Statistics, £19 in 1939 is equal to £1250 today

The Aston Villa game the next day was effectively against the Austrian national team but was played in Berlin - interesting to see the advert billing them as the German reserves! Austria had been swallowed up by Germany as part of the Anschluss so the national team disappeared accordingly. Unlike the England game the day before Villa did not follow the official advice and declined to give the Nazi salute
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PostPosted: Tue May 05, 2020 8:03 pm 
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The average male blue collar worker's wages at that time were around the £2 mark, so the cheapest five day trip was the equivalent of six weeks wages. With average pay on the Living Wage in London being £500 for a 48 hour week (which is what they were on in the 1930s) it would cost the equivalent of £3,000 for that five day trip today. Hardly value for money when worked out....
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PostPosted: Wed May 06, 2020 7:30 am 
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The 5 day trip to see Villa in Germany in 1938 was £12, equivalent to £823 now.

Out of interest Villa were so criticised for not giving the Nazi salute at the end of the game in Berlin that they were pressurised into giving one at their next game in Stuttgart.

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