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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"

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A club supported by exhibitionists.

At the end of the day ticket prices will have to fall. After the initial excitement of a new stand they will fail to fill a 60,000 stadium given their mid table status.
If they had any nouse they would threaten to boycott the new stand (and follow through with it) I sense that today's action smacks of wanting to 'own' the wider ticket price debate
 
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Why I walked: Liverpool fan explains protest during Sunderland draw

An estimated 10,000 Liverpool fans left Anfield in the 77th minute of Saturday’s 2-2 draw with Sunderland in protest at the club’s new £77 match ticket for next season. Liverpool fan Rob Gutmann was among them

I’ve never seen a crowd finish a football team like that. The match was won, Liverpool 2 Sunderland 0. Then the 77th-minute protest began. About half the Kop walked, and a significant portion of the rest voted with their feet too. The dissenting mass totally sucked the life out of their team, Sunderland seized the moment, and the win was stolen. The point, emphatically made.

No witnesses could have failed to draw the inference. Crowds matter. People matter. Without fans it’s just 22 fools in a field. Even Jürgen Klopp has referenced this in the past.

Before the game there was plenty of talk but no real sense of what might actually unfold in the ground. The week was tense: plans were hatched, black flags prepared.

The point we were making was this: we’re worth more. An £8.5 billion TV windfall deserved to be shared and the launch of a new 8,500-capacity main stand at Anfield represented a major opportunity to do that. The planets were aligning: this was the moment when our club could have made us proud. We could have been first to the punch.

I’ve been giving Liverpool my money as a season-ticket holder for 30 years. They’ve got me. Like all of us, a slave to football’s rhythm. We’d just like to feel they weren’t laughing at us.

Today felt like a flag had been planted, and maybe things will never be the same again. I expected sadness but there was mainly stoic pride. The Kop, defiantly mute for an hour, roused itself with trademark angry majesty on 75 minutes and cheered the faithful home. Never so literally.

77 and out. So many of us gone – hopefully not for ever. But enough is enough.

In some ways, protests, welcome home.
What is it with them, eh? I mean really.
 

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