With a couple of exceptions – general admission prices rose all of $1 from $14 to $15 – Chivas USA has responded to the recession and its middling average crowd of about 15,000 last season – by reducing ticket prices for 2009.

End zone prices remain at $18, but side line tickets go from $32 to $26, midfield from $36 to $34 and preferred from $45 to $38.

The club has also introduced a new “family-oriented” corner section price of $22.

That’s good because it appears the city of Carson early this morning instituted a Home Depot Center ticket tax of somewhere between 2 and 5 percent.

Meanwhile, Scots, Welsh, Dutch and, um, Lichtenstein fans can rejoice: GolTV will now carry those nations’ World Cup qualifying games. The cable channel already shows games involving Italy, Germany and Spain.