Ever thought you have to pay a premium for being English?

I’m not talking about the Scottish Referendum or the ‘no’ campaign’s suggestion our kilted cousins won’t be able to cope without our benevolence.

Tickets for the 2015 Rugby World Cup went on general sale on Friday and, apparently, more than one in five will cost £50 or less.

According to England 2015 chief executive Debbie Jevans: “We have a range of tickets for every budget.”

That’s a bit rich if, in reality, you only want to watch England.

Adult prices for England’s games against Fiji, Wales and Australia at Twickenham are £75, £160, £215 and an eye-watering £315.

The other England game, at the City of Manchester Stadium, may be nominally cheaper at £50, £125, £175 and £250, but throw in the train fare and the games at HQ suddenly don’t look such bad value.

True, it’s great the Rugby World Cup is being held in England (with eight games in Wales), but is it fair that the cheapest seats for the four England games total a whopping £275 while the Scottish equivalent is just £140?

And spare us the nonsense about adult tickets starting at £15 (or £7 for kids) – even at that price Namibia v Georgia isn’t going to capture the Exeter public’s imagination.

It’s not only rugby, of course, where the English sports fan is taken for a ride. Season tickets for Chelsea range from £595 to £1,250 and the Blues are far from the worst offenders, having frozen prices for the past four seasons.

Yet, do Chelsea fans get better entertainment than supporters of Bayern Munich? A standing ticket behind the goal at the German champions costs just £104.

The English attitude – and this equally applies to Test cricket, golf and the British Grand Prix at Silverstone - is that we charge as much as we can get away with.

We deserve to be spared the nonsense about legacies, attracting families and inspiring the next generation. It’s all about the money.