And it's not just tickets. Membership costs me £35 (I think) which is £70 to me 'cause I pay for my student daughter's too. And what do I/we get for that? For the last season and this, absolutely nothing. I can't get tickets 'cause I haven't been to enough games, and I haven't been to enough games 'cause I can't get tickets, and I can't get tickets...........etc etc. I don't live locally anymore so that has an impact on what games I can get to but without membership I'd have no chance whatsoever unless I want to pay shitloads through some ticket agent like the tourists do. But the club don't care they're taking my £70 for sod all. And I' know I'm not the only one, there must be thousands like me who have money taken by DD and get nothing whatsoever in return. More fool me I suppose.
In contrast we have membership at Reading, yes I know championship and not much cop, but it cost me £2 for me and £1 for my daughter 5 years ago as a one off payment. So it covered when they were in the top league. We've seen some superb games, including Liverpool in cup and league. The atmosphere's shite but it's live footy and we're drifting that way as we get more and more alienated by Liverpool. My daughter's at Nottingham Uni, she's been to Forest a couple of times (pisses me off big style, late 70s etc etc) but it's good value, it's live footy, and she can get in.
Liverpool's getting too big for its boots. It's in my blood but the greed and the treatment of fans as customers then poor treatment of customers is slowly eroding my will to keep coming back.
Carragher:
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“I was at Anfield on Saturday when Liverpool fans took their stand about the club publishing a price list for tickets next season that will cost as much as £77,” Carragher said. “I walked out, along with another 10,000 or so, in the 77th minute."
“People have said to me since then ‘it’s ok for you on your big wages, that’s why the prices are so high’. I was paid well, yes, but I was there for 17 years and in comparison to some of the other players who were in that squad, it was fair."
“That’s what you want ticket prices to be: fair. I know the increase will not impact on me but I also know plenty about my city — £77 is too much to watch a game anywhere but that price is particularly over the top in Liverpool."
“The club say that £77 gets you the best seat in the newest stand in the country but why should that be an elitist thing?"
“Why can’t the normal working man have the chance to sit there? It isn’t fair."
“Walking out, though, wasn’t a nice experience. The pictures you will have seen were visually striking — and they struck a chord with Fenway Sports Group, the club’s owners — but it wasn’t a happy atmosphere inside the stadium as fans argued with each other."
“You want to be proud of your club. You chose them and stick with them through thick and thin."
“If Marks and Spencer’s increase their prices, you can shop somewhere else but when your team does it, you are obliged to stick with them. That’s what people need to understand about the walkout at Anfield."
“It wasn’t just Liverpool fans sticking up for themselves, it was Liverpool fans saying ‘enough is enough’ for every supporter across the land.”
