But demand will still be high if hundreds have bought kids tickets that they won't be using Good on them I say We've got bigger things to campaign about IMHO but in the impossible event that we became so successful that we became the expensive club then we would have the same problem.....high prices being paid by people in an area with generally low wages £30 max for an away ticket seems reasonable to me But then ticket prices should be coming down every time the TV money goes up anyway.......
Politicians react when votes are affected. The general tactic is, by fair means or foul, create a ground swell of opinion that suits your agenda, latching on to as many issues as you can along the way. Then step forward as the representative, rather than the driver of the opinion. At the moment, a call for a reduction in ticket costs is competing against the marketing power of Sky and the Premier League. Fans of clubs, as opposed to fans of the football product are at best a quaint marketing tool, at worst, an inconvenience. Past misinformation and propaganda means there are few votes to be gained from helping football fans, because the media driven public perception is the one form the 70's and 80's. While there's a demand for the product, it'll be token gestures and soundbites, bolstered by unchallenged but misleading statements, like the one from West Ham.
I don't want this to get political, but just for it's relevance to football, Labour have announced that if they get in they'll legislate for all clubs to have a fan representative on their board within 100 days of getting into power. Assem will be wanting a refund.
A few elections ago, John Prescott was pushing a credit card size list of his promises, asking people to keep it, and challenge him if he didn't deliver. It'd be interestng to see that list. Point being non-party orientated, they all promise the earth when they're not in a position to deliver. And the reality tends to be nowhere near the expectation. A fan rep on the board's not always the best option anyway.
That is meaningless tokenism. Promising a review into ticket pricing and a report that makes recommendations or something enforceable would get popular support and actually achieve something. Maybe.
A "review" or a "report"? Christ I assume you've never been someone who can decide how to respond to either of those things?! Im not sure that having a fans rep on the board is perfect, and of course how they would be selected might be an issue, but it is at least an actual change that would happen Plenty of reviews and reports laying dusty on shelves with either no action or often not even any response at all
How dare these so called Liverpool fans, most of whom are football tourists anyway, use the great man's name in such a way, when in reality he would turn in his grave at the sight of so many average foreign footballers (as well as fans themselves) wearing the famous red shirt without any real pride in who they represent? This not a Shankly team. It's simply a combination of average cheating foreign players putting good British youngsters out of a job! Shame on you all.
And the last time I went to Anfield, this season, I don't remember feeling as though I'd got a bargain at the ticket office. Forty odd quid to sit in a cramped space with no leg room and surrounded by stewards itching to throw anyone out who stood up. Not to mention the **** view. If Liverpool had a sniff of silverware we would be infested with them tomorrow night and the price of a ticket wouldn't be mentioned. Having said that £50 for a football match on a Tuesday night is taking the piss.
Well that boycott went well a sell out Although £50 is a disgrace it might be more effective to boycott their own stadium to make a bigger point
They did say they're all buying kids tickets but not turning up, to ensure that the seat remains empty and they still get the 'away match credits' at their ticket office. Dunno how many will actually have done that but that was the plan.
They were aiming for 500 empty seats, though unless they're close together I'm not sure they'll be all that noticeable.
They are hypocrites, they want to keep their away match credits so the can go to the big games, which they will likely pay more than £50 for a ticket. This was an easy game for them to boycott, nothing game, Tuesday night, away at Hull, if they start boycotting the Manchester United games or the derby games with Everton they might have a little more integrity.
Didn't they sell out their allocation for Arsenal at £64 a ticket then make some token gesture by missing the first 5 minutes?
No, there was a complete boycott planned, but Liverpool used the ASI money to reduce the ticket prices to £32 each.
Are tou sure?....I thought they put some £3 "Liver birds on tour" T shirts on the seats and that's why their fans dropped their boycott? I'm pretty sure that's the case. Using the ASI to reduce ticket prices would a ludicrous waste of it......
So they were happy to attend as long as someone else was footing the bill? The principles they supposedly have seem pretty flexible.
They were boycotting a game because the price was ridiculously high and went when the prices were halved, so they're threatened boycott had the desired effect. I only raised it to point out that your suggestion that it was only happening because it was a game against us was incorrect.
Pieces of Hate: Turning On Your Own By Iain Macintosh We are all the same. I am you. You are me. We are all just sentient sacks of meat, strapped to a lump of rock by gravity, hurtling through the infinity of the cosmos. Ignore Nigel Farage. Ignore Katie Hopkins. Forget about their politics of division. We are inconsequential lumps of matter in the eternity of nothing. So let’s stick together, eh? Let’s at least try to bring ticket prices down. Nothing in football is as depressing as the way rival supporters turn on each other, dividing and conquering themselves for the benefit of the rich. Next week, Liverpool supporters will boycott their trip to Hull rather than pay £50 a ticket. Now, you might consider £50 a price worth paying for Premier League football. Those footballers are, after all, really good at football. But Hull don’t charge all away fans £50 a ticket. They charged Everton £35 a ticket. They charged Stoke £16 a ticket. Will rival supporters back the Liverpool fans in their battle? Will they bollocks. First they will point out that £50 is not dissimilar to what you’d pay at Anfield, as if the Liverpool fans are delighted about the prices there as well. Then they’ll do what they did to the Manchester City fans who had to pay £64 a ticket at Arsenal. They’ll mock and sneer on social media. They may, if we’re really lucky, make jokes about Scousers and dole money. I recall with a shudder the tweeter who told me that City fans couldn’t moan about ticket prices because their transfer policy demonstrated that they clearly weren’t short of a few quid. As if Sheikh Mansour’s wealth had been magically redistributed amongst the supporter base. Or the Arsenal fan who said that if charging £64 a ticket was what it took to match City’s financial muscle, then so be it. Up and down the country, the same people who proudly declare football to be the sport of the working class gleefully allied themselves with wealth and then threw their fellow supporter under a bus. You don’t have to make everything a partisan issue. It’s okay to hate a football club, but to still find common ground with their supporters. Take Chelsea for example. No-one likes Chelsea. We have the stats to prove it. If they somehow screw up the title, you are more than entitled to laugh at them. In fact, I demand it of you. But don’t laugh at their supporters when they’re told to pay £55 for an away day at Loftus Road. Because if QPR do it to them and no-one makes a fuss, they’ll do it to you too. You can hate Liverpool if you like. Pick a reason: Suarez? Brenton Rodgers? Ian Ayre arbitrarily deciding that Liverpool should have more TV revenue on the basis of intangible ‘big club’ qualities? Knock yourself out. But don’t hate their fans for actually having the balls to try and do something. Because they do it, and the next club does it and your club does it, then maybe things will change. We’re certainly not getting anywhere with retweets and likes, are we? James Clark wrote powerfully about the battle between football and its supporters and he concluded that it was lost long ago. I don’t believe that. I believe that there is now so much money sloshing around in football that there is no longer an incentive to keep ticket prices so high, not when it’s set against the benefit of full, noisy stadiums. I believe that the Premier League realises this. Once I believed that the people who worked there sat upon thrones made of kitten skulls and sent fire-eyed ravens to do their bidding. In transpires that this is only true in isolated cases. Most of them are okay. And they’re definitely not stupid. If they see solidarity from supporters, they will take note. If they see a movement that threatens the earnings of their members, they will be forced to take action. They may have to listen to the Football Supporters Federation’s idea about a £20 maximum price for away tickets. But all of that progress is compromised every time you take the piss on Twitter. What is wrong with you? Do you like paying more money? Look at you. You’re like me. You’re like him in the Liverpool shirt and you’re like her in the Chelsea hat. Save for being a sentient sack of space meat, you have nothing in common with Jose Mourinho. You have nothing in common with Wayne Rooney. You have nothing in common with Daniel Levy. You have nothing in common with Richard Scudamore. Stop siding with them. Stop fighting their battles for them. Stand together with your own people or roll down your trousers and assume the position. But don’t come bleating to me the next time you get hit for a £60 ticket. http://thesetpieces.com/features/pieces-hate-turning/
All they did was undermine their own protest. If you are boycotting a game because prices are too high then it is hypocritical to go because of a one off subsidy, it undermines and devalues the entire campaign and detracts from the larger issue. I didn't say it was only happening because it was against us, merely pointing out that our game is a very convenient one for them to boycott. Their tickets for the Chelsea game will cost them £49 but I imagine they will sell out and some of those that have maintained their 'away credits' during the boycott against us will be going.
