Fair play for real Liverpool fans organising a boycott, no need for any tickets being over £35-£40 in the cash rich prem. What the boycott did was put a spotlight on the scabs and local Liverpool plastics, we still have work to do to erradicate this but back to back home wins against the former mighty reds has certainly helped. We support our local team.
To make sure the seats remained empty, they had to buy them and leave them empty, they all bought £11 kids seats.
It highlighted the cause but I wouldn't be too hard on the people turning up, with any action like this it has to have a starting point and on seeing this action, some who went this time will certainly stay at home next time.
Well seeing how you bring the social services into the debate, I might as well add that it isn't much of an idea. Despite the social services, Britain remains a relatively unfriendly place to grow up ... which is reflected by the attitudes of some people commenting on this website. The disgusting mistreatment of British children is only just beginning to emerge in the press. It is about time some grown men became mature.
I don't actually know what Arsenal are planning, they've now used their ASI money to provide coaches for £10 and chartered a train for £20, so I think they're planning on coming and protesting outside the KC ahead of the game, but I've not been involved so I'm not entirely sure.
As I recall it we arrived just before kick-off and the place was chock-a-block. We were also strangers and didn't know where the civilized section of the crowd would be, so we just stayed where we were.
That's not quite the full picture. They have to build up loyalty points to buy future tickets. That's why they bought kids tickets, as they still count to their loyalty. You'd think that's a loophole the club would close tbh. Was still impressive mind, really was expecting a fuller away end.
It means the £10 they've paid needs adding to the cost of their next ticket, which means that they could now end up voluntarily paying more for the tickets against Chelsea than they would have paid for ours.
That's unfair, just because the self-appointed ticket price police decided to boycott the game doesn't mean that everyone should. Its their opinion and their entitled to it, but there's plenty of people who can happily afford to pay £48 and wanted to watch the game, good on them for turning up.
Sorry mate don't believe ya, Mid 80's before all seater stadiums, behind the goal would have been standing terraces. To arrive just before kick off and yet be among the most vocal support ( the kop )
Back in the day, these things tended to Police themselves. You didn't need a ticket or a second mortgage either. How would todays plod handle large numbers turning up with little forewarning or other information and just expected to pay money at the turnstile? The queues seemed less then too.
So if they made the tickets £200, you'd be quite happy ass there'd still be some people who could afford them?
That's not the point is it? Those involved in the boycott have been paying those prices all season (and many seasons before), essentially justifying the prices and defining the market value. It would then be hypocritical of them to criticise others for paying those prices just because this game happened to be the one they personally decided to boycott.
The Kop is a description of any terrace inhabited by hard core fans at a football stadium, it's named after Battle Of Spion Kop in the Boer War. The first one was at Arsenal, the most well known one is at Liverpool, but dozens of clubs have a 'Kop End'.
Well there you are. Nobody is too old to learn something. Only where I watched my football as a young man was called Bunkers Hill, not the Kop. I grant you we were ignorant,but the only Kop we spoke of was the one in Liverpool; and more to the point, I have been referring to St James' Park, which according to Wikipedia doesn't have a Kop either.
