Having watched Liverpool fans walk out on Saturday, and having seen the club quickly backtrack on their decision to raise ticket prices when faced by open revolt from a group of people integral to the club’s global brand, the Football Supporters’ Federation quickly convened meetings with supporters groups of all the Premier League clubs.
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You can also use the example of Greece winning the 2004 European Championships in Portugal, very few of their players had been heard of before the tournament, but they showed how to use their strengths to be a strong team. The players are getting paid ridiculous amounts of money – we’d all take it by the way, don’t get me wrong.
The club previously announced they would keep the price for season tickets at the same rate for the fifth consecutive season.
After Liverpool fans walked out in protest of rising ticket prices and the club listened to them, supporters league-wide are trying to organise a mass walkout for the coming weekend.
Lyon president Jean Michel Aulas predicted Tuesday that market logic would prevail in the Premier League ticket price rift because full stadiums make exciting football, which in turn makes exciting and lucrative television.
The German was not at Saturday’s Premier League fixture as he was undergoing emergency surgery on an appendix problem.
She said: “Stoke City have actually been pretty good, and not put prices drastically up on season tickets. The TV revenue goes into a completely different product on the pitch and the prices of that could be X, Y or Z”.
The club’s owners were stunned by the scale of the protest and held talks over reviewing ticket prices in the aftermath.
He said: “An adult ticket for a Port Vale match can cost £22, and that’s for the cheapest seats”.
They have to work so hard to just maintain their average attendance figure.
Matt Owen, a Crewe season ticket holder, aged 37, from Crewe, said: “Ticketing prices in the lower echelons of the football league is a conundrum”.
BBC Sport’s Price of Football study found two thirds of Premier League tickets were frozen or reduced in price in 2015, and Liverpool have now joined Arsenal, Crystal Palace, Manchester United, Norwich and Swansea in freezing season-ticket prices for 2016-17.
The money-spinning English top flight is ending its 12-year association with Barclays bank in favour of becoming a “clean brand” and will from now on be known simply as “the Premier League”.
Those in favour of a price cap could also agree reciprocal arrangements with other like-minded teams, something which already happens in some instances.
“A more structured approach is required by all parties in relation to pricing but it won’t be resolved overnight”.
FSG who own Liverpool really get under my skin whenever they refer to Reds fan as “customers”.
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“I hope it doesn’t become a massive saga and that Liverpool Football Club itself realises it’s the principle of the matter at the end of the day”.
