For me, it's about ticket prices. You won't get a home ticket for the Reading match under fourty quid. The cheapest tickets, for the Kop stand, are 42 pounds, well over 50 euros. If a father wants to take his two kids to the match next week, he'll pay over 100 pounds. On tickets alone. A bus fare, a programme, a pie and a pint could make that figure looking closer to 150 pounds. The average working-class Liverpudlian is probably just unable to fork out something like that. He'll go down to the local boozer with his lads instead.
Crucially, the working-class Liverpudlians are the vital part of the Anfield atmosphere. They are priced out of the ground and in their place come people who can afford the money, but they aren't Liverpool supporters. They are people who just want to be entertained. They want to take a seat and just have action in front of them. If they don't like it, they'll moan.
You can talk about standing, singing areas or whatever, but as long as the core of the Liverpool fanbase are priced out of the ground, the atmosphere won't improve.
