West Ham has topped a table produced by the Premier Inn for the best matchday experience.
The bold claim about the London Stadium was judged on nine factors which were, average match day attendance, modern stadium, stadium capacity, google review rating, team quality, quality of bars and pubs nearby, distance to the closest major train station, cheapest adult ticket and number of pubs and bars nearby.
The Premier Inn collected data to measure nine aspects of the matchday experience for every club playing in the four major English leagues. They said “We used fans’ polled opinions to determine the importance of each factor, ensuring our ranking system reflected the average fan’s ideal experience. Buoyed by their move to the 60,000-capacity London Stadium, the best-rated team for matchday experience was West Ham United. The Hammers ranked strongly for stadium modernity (second of all 91 clubs), attendance records (third), and stadium capacity (fourth). Completing the top five Premier League matchday experiences were Arsenal, Leicester City, Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur.”
A closer look at the sample polled revealed that the number of supporters polled was just 150 people which is where it quickly loses any real credibility.
The full survey can be found at https://www.premierinn.com/gb/en/short-breaks/the-best-matchday-experience.html
This is hilarious!!! I really have seen it all now.
I stay at Premier Inns all the time they never asked me?
100% of away fans said they love a trip to to the LS particularly when they’re on a bad run.
nice one wembley
Will say one thing and thats the majority of people who would not agree we would be near the top on questions asked have not been to another ground
Are you sure they don’t mean the West Ham Way pre match events instead?
I think the survey lacks significant questions if about the whole ‘matchday experience’ for example in-ground atmosphere/singing. But looking at the actual questions, regardless of sample size, we are objectively ahead of much of the competition in terms of price, attendance, and capacity. This is unarguable. Plus transport links. And I would say bars and restaurants, price and character though up for debate. But if our singing starts being Google Reviewed I fear we’d score poorly…
Complete and utter b*llocks, who did they ask? Moose? Jim White? Lee Clayton? Hahahaha
Google Review gives the London Stadium 4.3 average score, based on 9,289 reviews. Can’t all be by Moose, can they?
I imagine the reviewers are not scoring our singing support though…
Be interesting to see if the numbers of reviews rises substantially following this survey…
What a load of old tosh, match day experience couldn’t be further than at West Ham..Roll on the Championship, then they might realize what they’ve done to my club.
This must be a wind up? Surely!!!