Was a good post mate and theres thousands and thousands like you. I've never questioned your support for Liverpool, or anybodys on this forum, but in my honest opinion I don't think somebody in your position has more of a right than somebody in merseyside for tickets, its just how I feel mate. I'm not talking about anything else other than tickets here.
Obviously we have different opinions, because were on two different sides of the world, and ofcourse you will always feel you have just as much right as anybody, but when I see liverpudlians with a liverpool postcode who have been going the match since they were a tot who can't get a ticket for the match nowadays and somebody from across the world can, I feel for them. Possibly because ive experienced it sh*t loads myself and it pisses me off.
Im lucky that I live in liverpool and have LFC on my doorstep and I know there are people around the world who haven't got that sort of luxury. I also know people live in different countries and football may not be the main sport there and therefore the standard is piss poor. Those people though, especially the english speaking nations such as australia, only ever support the top clubs in england, they never support stoke city for example do they? It's all based about success.
So where as I feel sorry for you in so many ways mate, I still don't think somebody such as yourself should have priority for tickets over somebody like my grandad who was watching liverpool in the shanks days, not the michael owen days.
We'll leave it there anyway mate, its just a different of opinion, and theres thousands who agree with me from liverpool and thousands who don't. Not saying im right but its just how I feel about it. Its my own personal annoyance. Its actually not anything against the supporters either, its about how liverpool fc is run.
Understood mate, but still disagreed - I just don't like it sorry
And just to re-iterate - im not saying any Liverpool fan from abroad has any MORE right, just that if a fan from abroad is prepared to fly overseas to see his/her beloved club play, then they have just as much right as any for a ticket. Why should someone who is just trying to see their club play once, have that denied cos someone is pissed off that they can't see their team play once out of the countless times they see them every season? I know if I was there id be singing my heart out just like any of you locals that go to the match, and unless I talk with my accent you wouldn't know I was from anywhere else.
This club would not be what it is without world-wide support. You wouldn't see players like Reina, Mascherano, Torres etc playing for us without world-wide support. Not to mention the man who scored the second goal of that brilliant FA Cup final against the bitters - where was he from?
And that was at a time when foreign players wasn't as bigger thing as now.
Anyways, why don't you support Everton then? Shouldn't we then measure the exact distance from your house to Goodison and Anfield, see which one you should support. How far do you want to go?
Day trippers can come from anywhere in the world - but so can true reds.
Oh, and i know people back hom who support Spurs, Fulham, etc - i don't know the reason, but not everyone supports the big clubs. And just cos i and many others do, doesn't mean we are glory hunters. If i was, then my manc mate who introduced me to the sport at about the time they won the treble i think, i would have been a manc. But i chose the team that took my heart, not the one that was winning the trophies. Like i said, i didn't have much of a clue at the amount of trophies Liverpool had when i first started watching them.
Just fate they happen to be F***ing awesome
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