Touts cashing in on Sunday game.

The websites allow those with tickets to the games, including away fans, to sell them on securely but for an amount of their choice. The cheapest ticket in the Man City end is valued at £430, more than £350 its original price.

Tickets for the crucial match were said to be sold out within one minute of going on general sale, leaving thousands of Liverpool and City fans missing out.

Liverpool entertain City hoping to secure their tenth consecutive victory, and Brendan Rodgers ' men know the Premier League title is theirs if they win their five remaining fixtures.

With Mamadou Sakho having labelled it "the biggest match Liverpool have played in 24 years", all eyes are on Sunday's tie.

The game will kick off seven minutes late as a mark of respect ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster .

The selling of over-priced seats comes less than a month after it was revealed 10 tickets for the Hillsborough memorial match were flogged as fake Premier League tickets for Liverpool's 4-3 win against Swansea.

A spokesperson for the Liverpool FC supporters union, Spirit of Shankly, said: "Fans are being charged well over the odds for a ticket, and it's disgraceful really.

"Supporters want to go along and support both sides, and it should never be a question of only those who can afford it.

"We call on Liverpool Football Club to try and take action on this.

"Those who charge such extortionate amounts should be found and challenged.

"These aren't just touts outside the ground, these are on websites.

"Why can't the authorities, or Liverpool, buy one and find out who it originally belongs to?

"If they're going to tackle it properly, they need to take action and get to the bottom of this."

The ECHO’s Liverpool FC reporter James Pearce said: “It’s disgraceful that fans desperate to get tickets for Liverpool’s biggest league game for more than two decades are being priced out by touts simply looking to make money.

“This is a match every loyal Reds fan would dearly love to attend. However, sadly, some tickets appear destined to end up in the hands of those with little emotional attachment to Anfield who can simply afford to pay the astronomical sums being demanded.”
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/internet-touts-selling-tickets-liverpool-6941141

 

So what's new! Nothing changes always been this way.

 

The "El Classico" has been quoted at similar prices so if anfield were 60k sweater utd still be the same

 

always happened, and probably always will sadly.

world cup tickets seem to be the worst for this, but of course FIFA dont give a **** as they make enough money out the game normally by corruption and deceit,sadly the EUFA and FA are the same, all about the profit not trying to control the sport properly.

 

FIFA members are probably the touts!

 

Players are as bad..... You know it used to go on... Who knows but we do know every game some seats in the hands of travel agents etc they have a random in it

One thing lfc fans could do is organise and name the seats they see randomly filled each week and thus force real change.... However the only way to solve it is go for Id checks really as in picture id check v name on ticket as per gigs

 

My biggest gripe is that there's a ****ing 70k waiting list for a season ticket. Never in my lifetime will I be able to watch LFC every week live and instead, will have to rely on friends or family unable to make certain fixtures to be able to go - unless I get really lucky with gen sales, but I work long hours and can't afford to sit on the phone or on a website refreshing for them.

 

but yet someone with one sells it to travel agents etc to cash in... thats life eh? i wonder if fans groups could actually identify seats sold like that...

 

I bought my ticket in December.

 

how much do you want for it