Led by fan group FCB Worldwide, Bayern Munich fans staged a protest against ticket prices during the first five minutes of Tuesday’s Champions League match at the Emirates Stadium.

Charged £64 for a ticket, Bayern fans left their seats empty and didn’t sing as a warning of what football will become, but what was the point?

They say the point was to raise awareness, to warn everyone in the game of a possible future. But I don’t think it’ll have the desired impact. No doubt we’re talking about it, and that’s something, but we’ve been talking about it for years now.

Fans have boycotted matches before but nothing has ever come if it in the long term. Boycotts are what really has to happen, in my view, for the price of watching the game to change. The message was sent by Bayern fans on Tuesday but they still paid for tickets, so what message do they think the people who set prices would have heard?

As long as tickets are bought, it’s unlikely that too many board members of clubs around Europe will be bothered. In England in particular, selling the tickets is all that matters. The demand very much sets the price, and the demand at Arsenal is incredibly high.

Tickets won’t go unsold, and the club will still make their money regardless of how noisy the fans in those seats are.