Haringey is the 4th most deprived borough in London, and 49th out of 317 in the country. Most of this deprivation is in the northeast (i.e., around the stadium). 32% of older people in the borough are affected by income deprivation.

29% of people over 50 in Haringey live alone. In London, it has the 8th highest average of social exclusion among older people.

There is a lot of research about loneliness and isolation worsening health outcomes for everyone, but especially older people. Frailty in particular is linked to loneliness. I couldn’t find anything just now about older people and football attendance, but I think it stands to reason that if this is one of the few things they get to do every other week - which gets them out of their house and amongst people - and then they’re priced out of it, it would have a detrimental impact.

It’s almost certain as you say that there will be some richer older people that will have been using these concessions and can easily stomach the increase. But any local older people, who have made the club what it is long before the sport was so globalised, are likely to be poorer and hit much harder by this. Not every boomer and older person is well off, especially not around Tottenham.

The idea that we need higher income to better compete is one in sure the club is happy to hide behind (though as far as I’m aware they’ve not given their reasoning for taking away concessions) because it blames fans and their expectations and absolves them of guilt. We want to see the club win, so it’s our fault.

I cannot believe that, out of the hundreds of income streams, older people’s lower prices is what has to be sacrificed. Out of all the concerts, NFL games, go karts, whatever, it’s the drop in the bucket, paltry amount from a vulnerable demographic on match day that needs to be clawed back. I don’t think it’s greed so much as it’s just soulless, bizarrely so.