Mansfield Town have frozen matchday and season ticket prices for next season — and are considering reducing them — whatever division they are in.

Owner John Radford, writing in the matchday programme, said he made the decision after being focused by the protests over a planned increase in admission charges at Liverpool.

“It gave me cause for thought,” he said. “Football is a working man’s game. Nobody should be excluded from seeing their local club because of excessive ticket pricing.

“While you have to maintain a correct balance in pricing to ensure that wages and bills are paid, I cannot see the need to make football matches unaffordable.”