ACCRINGTON Stanley boss John Coleman said there are Premier League players who wouldn't get in his swashbuckling Reds side as he urged disillusioned top flight fans to get their Saturday entertainment at the Wham Stadium instead.

While the row over Premier League prices continues to rumble on, last week Stanley revealed season tickets for their 23 home games next season will cost just £199, regardless of whether they are in League One or League Two.

And Coleman believes the Premier League is not all it is marketed to be, with far greater entertainment on show lower down the Football League.

"I think it’s an absolute bargain when you compare it to the Premier League. I think you’re getting twice the product for a quarter of the price," the Reds chief said of the Wham Stadium prices.

"Anybody who is disillusioned with top flight football should get themselves down here, because what they will see here is committed teams playing attractive football and not the game of chess that has become the norm in the Premier League.

"I’d like the product to attract more people rather than the price but I know that in this day and age we are price driven."

Last Saturday over 10,000 Liverpool fans walked out of their home game with Sunderland on 77 minutes in protest at plans to charge up to £77 for some tickets next season.

This week the club's American owners performed a dramatic climbdown on planned price hikes, and other top flight clubs are likely to follow suit.

While Coleman admits he wouldn't be paying those prices to watch Premier League football, he feels differently about his own side.

"I wouldn’t be (paying those prices) but I’d be paying £50 or £60 to watch Matt Crooks when he’s on fire, Seamus Conneely when he’s on fire or Shay McCartan, players who excite and who have got a bit of passion about them.

"Thankfully we don’t have to charge those prices at Accrington.

"There's more commitment, more passion, far less play-acting, far less pandering to egos and status. People are getting away with all sorts in the Premier League and getting paid lots of money to do that. They’re being paid vastly inflated fees for what they produce."

Coleman believes the gap between the standard in the Premier League and the Football League is getting smaller, but the marketing budgets behind the top flight and the broadcast deals make it seem otherwise.

"I think the divide is getting shorter but the perception is getting wider. People are treating them like gods and superstars," he said.

"There’s a lot of players playing in the Premier League that wouldn’t get in my side.

"I know that sounds big headed, it might sound stupid, but I genuinely believe that.

"It’s a bit like the Emperor's New Clothes, nobody is prepared to stand up and say ‘this is rubbish’.

"It’s not all rubbish, but a lot of it is, and for what it’s set up to be it doesn’t equate in my eyes."