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It's easy to support a team that is constantly winning or challenging for things. Our 'match going fans' tend to fall into the fairweather category - now that we're doing poorly they've stopped signing, they don't want to go anymore and are blaming their lack of interest on rising ticket prices. These fans aren't what the club is all about when people talk about passionate Liverpool fans........The real football fans are those of lower league teams with no glamorous opponents, or teams that spend their life in mid-table without a hope in hell of winning anything - how do they pull themselves up every week to support a team that will never achieve anything?
These people who are fortunate enough to live near the ground and are able to get a ticket should be doing a bit more for the atmosphere I think. If they're fed up with not winning then they should surrender their tickets to fans who will contribute to the atmosphere.
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It's easy to write insulting things like that and make judgements when you yourself are not in the front line of FSG,s excessive commercialism.
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LFC cushions have just gone up in price but I'm not crying about it.
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It's easy to support a team that is constantly winning or challenging for things. Our 'match going fans' tend to fall into the fairweather category - now that we're doing poorly they've stopped signing, they don't want to go anymore and are blaming their lack of interest on rising ticket prices. These fans aren't what the club is all about when people talk about passionate Liverpool fans........The real football fans are those of lower league teams with no glamorous opponents, or teams that spend their life in mid-table without a hope in hell of winning anything - how do they pull themselves up every week to support a team that will never achieve anything?
These people who are fortunate enough to live near the ground and are able to get a ticket should be doing a bit more for the atmosphere I think. If they're fed up with not winning then they should surrender their tickets to fans who will contribute to the atmosphere. This not winning thing is hardly a new thing though is it.
That job interview was going so well until I realized I was fukked up on acid in the middle of a cornfield naked and talking to a scarecrow.
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It's a weird issue, I feel that you make very valid arguements however I would also feel like a bit of a hypocrite if I critised the match going fan as I myself am not one.
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I liken carheex viewpoint as similar to council tax. Council tax payers tend to want to control council expenditure. However those on benefits who don't pay council tax want council expenditure to be as hgh as possible because they are not paying for it. The TV viewing fan could not care less what admission prices are in fact they would prefer them as high as possible more money into the club. The paradox the match paying fan also wants as much money into the club as they want the club do to well but they are the ones directly paying for it. The TV viewer is relying on the mat ch going fan to support the club. I do recognise sky money and merchandising also contributes but the match going fan buys them too.
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So this debate about match going fans and ticket prices is still going? Feel like i've been hearing about this for months now. Constantly. On every thread. Everytime. Fairly confident it'll be the death of the forum.
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So this debate about match going fans and ticket prices is still going? Feel like i've been hearing about this for months now. Constantly. On every thread. Everytime. Fairly confident it'll be the death of the forum. It was the only topic of conversation at anfield yesterday
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I liken carheex viewpoint as similar to council tax. Council tax payers tend to want to control council expenditure. However those on benefits who don't pay council tax want council expenditure to be as hgh as possible because they are not paying for it. The TV viewing fan could not care less what admission prices are in fact they would prefer them as high as possible more money into the club. The paradox the match paying fan also wants as much money into the club as they want the club do to well but they are the ones directly paying for it. The TV viewer is relying on the mat ch going fan to support the club. I do recognise sky money and merchandising also contributes but the match going fan buys them too. A poor comparison Mr Park. Council tax is compulsory - buying a Liverpool season ticket is a luxury purchase of choice....something that only a limited number of priviliged people can do for various reasons.
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