Pub, beer, sausage. The holy trinity of amateur football is at war with rising prices
Of course, gastronomic snobs would probably raise their eyebrows in disapproval, they don’t even talk about healthy nutrition experts, but they’re not very valid – the combination of a well-chilled and frothed juice with a toasted sausage delicacy doesn’t match anything.
Another thing is how much this earthy caress of the football fan’s soul (and stomach) will cost. The newspaper found out how the current price madness is reflected in the relatively conservative world of rural football. How much did a snack cost thirty years or twenty years ago, and how much does it cost today? And how are the traditional businesses right next to the playgrounds?
During communism, sausages were more like
80’s:
Beer 2-5
Sausage 5-10
90’s:
10-15
15-25
2000:
15-20
25-45
2010:
20-25
30-60
2020:
25-35
40-70
(prices in crowns)
Hospodský Zbyněk Sedloň has been serving refreshments during football matches at the buffet at the Svépomoc football field in Tábor for many years. He recalls that in the early 1980s, when, as a twenty-year-old boy, he stood at a bar in a train station, he drew beer for CZK 1.80. Since then, its price has risen, but it has gradually unfolded in the order of crowns – 3.60, 5.90, 7.50 CZK…
Today, beer is brewed at around thirty crowns, but Sedloň expects that another increase in price can be expected from the spring part of the season. The same applies to sausages, which used to be rare in stadiums during the communist era. Sausages flew, whether strong lean or two dietary legs.
Even in the communist era, such a strong lean sausage cost about CZK 3.50, and the attempt was made by the former operators to get a sausage, its price was around five crowns. The “boom” of sausages did not occur until the mid-1990s.
There were more and more species, and their price gradually increased from crown items to the current line of around CZK 60. Somewhere they add bonus ingredients such as horseradish, cucumbers, lamb horns and the like to the sausage and mustard, but destinations with a price above CZK 70 are an exception.
THE MOST EXPENSIVE BUŘT. As far as amateur football is concerned, you will probably pay the most for a sausage in Zdounky, not far from Kroměříž – it costs 80 crowns. On the other hand, the entrance fee is only “five”…
“But it is almost certain that the price of sausage will also go up,” is convinced Zbyněk Sedloň from the football buffet at Svépomoci. “Already their purchase price has risen, but I did not want to change the price for the three remaining bikes and I stayed at CZK 60. But we will have to increase the price in the spring, “he realizes.
When the coach is also a pub
He once fought for Bohemka, Slavia and Viktoria Zizkov, he even has one national team start to his credit. At present, Petr Holota divides his time between the work of the operating gas station, the training of the A-team Chýnov in the 1st A class and the operator of the Bistro Na hřiště. Traces of the 56-year-old exligist and pub business intersected about eleven years ago.
PARADISE FOR HUNGRY. If you go to the regional championship in Kvasice, you can buy a giant two-hundred-gram sausage for 50 crowns and pick up pastries as you wish.
“I didn’t know anything about the pub and had no idea what it meant. Operation, sanitation, cleaning… When the daughters saw my first draft beer, they said to my wife: Mom, I really don’t know if it will work with my dad, ”Holota recalls.
Former football player Petr Holota in his pub.
Today, the company is primarily fun for him, but being the operator of a pub on the field and at the same time the coach of the Chýnov “áčka” brings with it one pitfall. “Training or a match is over and I have to serve the boys. First I sand and force me to make them, and then it comes back to me nicely. And mistakes are not forgiven, “laughs the former successful footballer.
Fight inflation and boar greaves
The pub by the playground in Šumava Čkyně does not (yet) have to worry about guests. Not only around the championship match, the bar is littered with regulars, including local footballers. “Everything is practically the same. It can be said that ninety-nine percent of customers are the same as before the coronavirus break, “says pub Libor Schoř.
CHEAP BEER. At the divisional football in Přerov, fans have a beer for only 20 crowns. No wonder – the club is sponsored by the local brewery Zubr.
Rising inflation is affecting everyone’s lives, which is becoming more expensive. What about the head of the company? “I stayed with beer at the same prices as before coronavirus. Ten Bagpipers for twenty-five, Twelve Pilsen for forty. Breweries are becoming more expensive, but we are such a popular pub, so I took on the costs. “
In addition to the usual assortment, the company also offers a specialty – boar greaves. “It simply came to our notice then. A friend shot boars, made sketches and tried them. And people praise themselves, “says the pub Schoř.
He prefers to rent the visa
Čimická Kozlovna used to be one of the most famous football pubs, to be right next to any pitch. However, it was opened 32 years ago by the legend of Czechoslovak football Ladislav Vízek. “When I returned from France in 1989, I bought a pub as part of a small privatization,” he says.
SUMMER FULL OF OPTIONS. In Prague at Sparta, sausage costs 70 crowns, ie similar to other league stadiums. You can choose from ham, pepper and Bavarian. As for beer, it is mostly drunk in the surrounding Bubeneč and Holešovice pubs, in short, sellers of kebabs, hot dogs or Mexican specialties, of which there are more than enough in the vicinity of Letná, will not come either.
He led it himself for a long time, everyone in the football environment knew her, but a few years ago he decided that he would rather rent it to a friend. “It simply came to our notice then. Then it was a little better. It is a fact that the pub gives a picture of the nation’s financial situation, “says Vízek.
Legends also go to the former football player for a beer
For some time now, everyone can buy beer, coffee or something good to eat at football in Velká Dobrá, near Kladno, in a new pub built by a local Czech club.
Pub by the playground in Velká Dobrá.
Just two kilometers away, the former football player Petr Vostarek, who played for both clubs – Dobra and Družec, runs the pub on the field in Družec. Occasionally, even the former players of the hockey team, the legendary defenders František Pospíšil and Josef Horešovský, appear in his garden.