FIFA should do something useful like impose a world wide rule that NO club can spend more than say £100m per year on wages for the squad...but I guess they'd find some way around it. as for Bale - he's just misunderstood
I've lived longer outside of Liverpool for longer than I did when I lived there. All of my formative years were spent in the city and I've supported Liverpool for more years than many of you have existed. Call me plastic if you want and I'll counter with I've paid my dues over and over again. No, I don't have a season ticket and never have done. If I want to go to a match it costs me and arm and a leg. But for me that is worth it. So I see absolutely no reason why I should pay even more for my ticket than a local who does not have the same problems and costs of attending. Locals are no more Scouse than I am and have no greater love for LFC.
Yes , yes it does , why ? What was your original thoughts on supporting the team ? Not many grow up wanting to support Rotherham when they were born in Exeter do they ?
So if my father in law wants to go the game and does not want to sell his season ticket for the game what does he do ? You are a hard man indeed , he has been a season ticket holder for well I dont have a clue to be honest years , I have been a football fan for as long as I can remember , the ticket would not be used , so he would go to the game on his own , the pubs would lose out , so would the refreshments in the stand , train etc etc , thats not a good business plan .
99% of the football clubs in the land would dream of your barren years , dont be foolish . Why would someone from Oslo support Liverpool other than glory ? Its obvious , its tickles me you label United as having prawn sandwich fans yet Liverpool have just as many if not more , Dublin/Cork/Oslo and London reds deny locals tickets , thats the harsh truth , to have the ability to say you have this frequent support coming in from other areas denies locals from going to the game . At least you have colourful flags...............
Let me get this straight, Liverpool fans from Dublin/Cork/Oslo/London are depriving Local Liverpool fans seats...but you being a Southampton fan are not depriving Liverpool fans a seat.
No because when I go (3/4 times a year) it because my mother in law does not want to go so I go in her place , there is no depriving anywhere at all , that ticket would go empty as my father in law would not sell it (there possibly may or may not be someone else to go in my place but thats speculation) so its actually helping your club , also the amount of uninformed day trippers who know nothing of your club is outstanding .
Total bollocks (especially as you use a club with a far bigger capacity as an example). So we have fans from abroad so what? Why do they have more chance of getting a ticket as someone local? Whether I live in Oslo, Dublin or Liverpool I have the same opportunity to get a ticket as anyone else. Do LFC give preferrential treatment to overseas/non local fans? No. It's first come first served. I can't think of many games I've struggled to get tickets for in the last decade because I know how to get tickets can't honestly think of an occasion where I've thought "damn these foreigners for preventing me going to the match" so your argument (wind up) is total rubbish.
So you believe that people who aren't local should pay more for a ticket, do you believe that you should pay more for the extras you buy inside the stadium as I am guessing you don't have a scouse accent? This thread seems to be taking a pop at clubs bigger than yours purely because they have a global fanbase.
And we digress , yes it would be an incentive for younger locals to go and see their local club and I mean theirs not a club miles away that they have no affiliation to . It would strengthen football , lets be honest there are always going to be bigger clubs that others , if I recall Liverpool fans started calling Chelsea fans plastic (a trigger response that was untrue but because they came into money to buy success) ? Thats highly ironic dont you think ? If we were all like these fans that support a side from afar an dnot their own then we would be buggered so whats wrong witht the possibilty of an incentive to help football ?
And a club that's ticket prices are nowhere near the highest in the land If the crux of the thread was "ticket prices in football are too high in general" then he'd have a case. As it is it seems odd (or just a **** wind up) to single out a club who's prices aren't that high in comparrison to others.
Simple answer to that is because its stupid to do it on the grounds of who's local and who's not. Plenty of people grow up in a city then move away so do they not get discounted tickets? If I'm an out of towner who owned properties in different cities would I get discounted tickets just because I own property there? It's a farcical argument. I lived in Edinburgh for 3 years so should I have been entitled to cheap tickets to watch Hearts or Hibs?
You really are stupid aren't you. What if i spent the first 20 years off my life in Liverpool and moved away? What if one of my family members played for the club? What if I couldn't give a **** about your opinion? One of those statements is true by the way.
That quote in itself proves your thread is flawed and on the WUM. Your mother in law should sell or give her season ticket to one of the many supporters that our unable to get tickets for our games, not to a saints fan.
