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I remember back in the 80's we had something called a ticket tout they sold you a ticket at twice face value and made a lot of money. I bet they don't make a penny these days. There probably is still touts around it's just that they need to be multilanguel to be able to communicate with the fans nowadays haha...
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I have just come from Anfield now had a pig of a morning. Basically the club have still not sent me my season ticket despite paying for it in June. This is my third attempt to sort it out I thought I would go on Sunday morning as I am sick of spending 40 minutes queuing on match days. Anyway sometimes the ticket office is open on Sunday mornings sometimes not and today was one of those days when it was not. It was great fun as all round queens drive is closed off for massive road repairs. I did phone the ticket office yesterday and they said they were open but never mind. To say I am starting to get seriously fed up with all this is an understatement. While I was at the ground there was a stadium tour going on and I could hear and see almost all those attending were from overseas clutching their carrier bags from the LFC superstore. Now I have no problem with that and just stating a fact and for all I know they could be on a UK tour and want to see Anfield. But I feel people like me are the past and they are the future. Worldwide PPV is the club’s focus and they will accept the £800 from the likes of me but they care not a jot for us and take us for mugs. I will soon be joining those watching on sky either at home or the pub. I have watched Liverpool for 35 years (25 with ST) and been to the European finals and the FA cup wins and seen many title wins. I know I have seen the best of Liverpool FC and no one will ever take that away from me. You can keep the future because it looks mediocre from where I am standing. We will never catch the likes of City and Utd without a massive injection and I don’t see that coming from Henry. Maybe we should share with Everton after all we might have more in common than we think!
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I have just come from Anfield now had a pig of a morning. Basically the club have still not sent me my season ticket despite paying for it in June. This is my third attempt to sort it out I thought I would go on Sunday morning as I am sick of spending 40 minutes queuing on match days. Anyway sometimes the ticket office is open on Sunday mornings sometimes not and today was one of those days when it was not. It was great fun as all round queens drive is closed off for massive road repairs. I did phone the ticket office yesterday and they said they were open but never mind. To say I am starting to get seriously fed up with all this is an understatement. While I was at the ground there was a stadium tour going on and I could hear and see almost all those attending were from overseas clutching their carrier bags from the LFC superstore. Now I have no problem with that and just stating a fact and for all I know they could be on a UK tour and want to see Anfield. But I feel people like me are the past and they are the future. Worldwide PPV is the club’s focus and they will accept the £800 from the likes of me but they care not a jot for us and take us for mugs. I will soon be joining those watching on sky either at home or the pub. I have watched Liverpool for 35 years (25 with ST) and been to the European finals and the FA cup wins and seen many title wins. I know I have seen the best of Liverpool FC and no one will ever take that away from me. You can keep the future because it looks mediocre from where I am standing. We will never catch the likes of City and Utd without a massive injection and I don’t see that coming from Henry. Maybe we should share with Everton after all we might have more in common than we think! if your a local season ticket holder then that 800 quid is all the Club will make from you just like me, they dont want local season ticket holders for the simple fact you turn up 5 mins before kick off and leave 5 mins after kick off whereas an Out of towner or foreign fan will spend a few bob in the souvenir shop and buy Liverpool pies, sausage rolls and programmes once inside the ground, here lies the clubs future am afraid and just what John Henry fought so hard for in the courts, nothin to do with football it's a business and we are all customers, best customers spend most money and the city of Liverpool and it's people are among the poorest in Europe, do the maths.
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the club is a buisness, what would you suggest they do? ban all the so called out of towner fans at the clubs expense so you can go back to the good old days when local people were the only ones at the game. get real will ya. if local people of liverpool dont want to go to the game its there buisness. out of town fans as you call them have to pay the same price for a ticket as a local fan if there willing to pay it and the local fan aint thats there buisness. if you dont want to pay for yourseason ticket someone else will tomorrow your nothing special because of where you live, money is all that counts. wether you agree with that or not its a fact
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Stunolan I agree with your points. One of the lads who is in our little band comes from Manchester believe it or not. The club is a business of a sort but not many other commerial businsses treat its customers which such contempt. I think they rely on the premise that a loyal fan will put up with anything. But they are about to get a surprise.
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Its sad that story! but one that's been happening for years,football has already sold its sole to the devil,i'm not sure it'll ever get it back? probably not,not the way we know it anyhow! i think in the future we will have a fan zone where we will congregate to watch on big screens,which will allow us to be fans together but we will be even more of a number bringing in the money,itl feel like virtual footie! OK you can laugh now! but mark my words! 
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the club is a buisness, what would you suggest they do? ban all the so called out of towner fans at the clubs expense so you can go back to the good old days when local people were the only ones at the game. get real will ya. if local people of liverpool dont want to go to the game its there buisness. out of town fans as you call them have to pay the same price for a ticket as a local fan if there willing to pay it and the local fan aint thats there buisness. if you dont want to pay for yourseason ticket someone else will tomorrow your nothing special because of where you live, money is all that counts. wether you agree with that or not its a fact I am trying to make people aware it's a business not a football Club nothing more nothing less we are no longer fans or supporters but customers and clients. The reason I mention local fans is because the local fan base was the first casualty because it happens to live in one of the poorest Cities in Europe, thats a fact, when the local fans went so too did the Clubs identity now we are like Manchester United just a massive, corporate, greedy money making franchise, all that fighting in the courts made me feel sick was like watching two big fat wealthy farmers fighting over a cashcow.
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the club is a buisness, what would you suggest they do? ban all the so called out of towner fans at the clubs expense so you can go back to the good old days when local people were the only ones at the game. get real will ya. if local people of liverpool dont want to go to the game its there buisness. out of town fans as you call them have to pay the same price for a ticket as a local fan if there willing to pay it and the local fan aint thats there buisness. if you dont want to pay for yourseason ticket someone else will tomorrow your nothing special because of where you live, money is all that counts. wether you agree with that or not its a fact I am trying to make people aware it's a business not a football Club nothing more nothing less we are no longer fans or supporters but customers and clients. The reason I mention local fans is because the local fan base was the first casualty because it happens to live in one of the poorest Cities in Europe, thats a fact, when the local fans went so too did the Clubs identity now we are like Manchester United just a massive, corporate, greedy money making franchise, all that fighting in the courts made me feel sick was like watching two big fat wealthy farmers fighting over a cashcow. thats the world we live in now mate
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the club is a buisness, what would you suggest they do? ban all the so called out of towner fans at the clubs expense so you can go back to the good old days when local people were the only ones at the game. get real will ya. if local people of liverpool dont want to go to the game its there buisness. out of town fans as you call them have to pay the same price for a ticket as a local fan if there willing to pay it and the local fan aint thats there buisness. if you dont want to pay for yourseason ticket someone else will tomorrow your nothing special because of where you live, money is all that counts. wether you agree with that or not its a fact I am trying to make people aware it's a business not a football Club nothing more nothing less we are no longer fans or supporters but customers and clients. The reason I mention local fans is because the local fan base was the first casualty because it happens to live in one of the poorest Cities in Europe, thats a fact, when the local fans went so too did the Clubs identity now we are like Manchester United just a massive, corporate, greedy money making franchise, all that fighting in the courts made me feel sick was like watching two big fat wealthy farmers fighting over a cashcow. thats the world we live in now mate So if thats the case and we both agree on that, the love we have for the Club is only for the way the Club used to be, it's not for the one which exists now which is a franchise.
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Of course its a franchise. BTW Liverpool won't be one of the poorest cities in europe forever not with the £50 billion waterfront project. And the north west of england has over 7 million people in it all within an hours drive of Liverpool. Liverpool fans have always come from round and about my grandad supported them from cheshire in the 1920's.
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