Anyone who thinks the walkout yesterday was a waste of time and nothing will change don't understand Liverpool. That's the City, the People and Liverpool Football Club.
If the owners choose not to take notice and come back to the negotiating table, they definitely don't know what we're capable of or have totally misjudged the groundswell of feelings about the issues of not just the new prices but the pricing structure generally.
They said that ordinary fans wouldn't be paying for the new stand, that the corporates, hospitality and sponsors would cover the costs. They lied!
10000-15000 fans walked out yesterday, it was a massive show of support considering the idea only surfaced 2 days before the match. It's been shown worldwide, it's in every media outlet nationally, everybody's talking about it.
They've been in talks with supporter groups for over 12 months, there were positive vibes coming from Ayre and Gordon about the proposals, the fans groups were happy with how things were going and thought they had a consensus on how the Club would proceed but Boston didn't agree.
They were the ones who pulled the plug!! After all the rhetoric of working with the fans on how to take the Club forward, the setting up of supporter groups, the dialogue that they'd listen and here we are, 5 years on having to take drastic action to get our voices heard.
The ball's in their court now, if they choose not to respond there will be further action. The sponsors are next, emails are already being sent to a variety of top dogs at Subway as a starting point, others will follow.
They're happy to use the Kop, the fans, the songs, the chants, the famous "atmosphere", the flags, the banners to "market" their tickets but the ones they're pricing out of going to the game are the ones that provide all of the above.
The majority of people who were left in the ground yesterday are "the customers" they're trying to attract. The ones who pay their money to be entertained not just by the football but from the Kopites themselves. How many of those left stood at full time, scarves aloft, singing YNWA? Not F***ing many!!
We complain about the lack of atmosphere every home game and have done for a long time but when 3/4 of the ground is full of customers rather than the hardcore fans it's hardly a surprise the other 1/4 can't make themselves heard.
If there's one thing these Yanks love more than money it's good press, if there's one thing they hate more than losing is money it's bad press - well they got that in spades yesterday.
As a side note but sort of linked, anyone remember the campaign "£20 is plenty" for away tickets, the money that was "given" to Clubs to help reduce prices for away tickets across the whole PL, well there was a vote last week by PL CEO's - they voted against it and we were one of them.
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