Increased ticket prices provoke Liverpool supporters groups to walkout protest

The statement comes amid a huge backlash against the club’s new ticket pricing system that has introduced the first £1,000 season ticket and £77 match day tickets.

A week after the club revealed plans to raise some main stand tickets to a league-high £77, supporters’ group Spion Kop 1906, with the support of Spirt of Shankly, are attempting to organise a mass walk-out in the 77th minute of Saturday’s match against Sunderland in protest.

Liverpool fans and the club are at odds over ticket prices, and some supporters are ready to walk out over it. As part of that dialogue, we identified a number of key initiatives and they were predominantly around more access to local people, more access to younger people and more affordable pricing in general.

Its timing may work against the protest.

Rising costs for the best seats at Anfield, and the sticker shock of £77 tickets, have clearly gone over terribly with fans.

It is widely noted that the 77th walkout was ideated and orchestrated by members of group, Spirit of Shankly.

Next season the club will receive an additional £40million due to the increased tv deal. Love the team – hate the prices.

Still, so far the fans have not taken the drastic step of leaving a match in progress.

Liverpool FC have been approached for a comment.

Former Liverpool captain Jamie Carragher was pictured with Kopites who left the stadium early. Opened in 1884, it served as the home to Everton until an internal dispute prompted a move to Goodison Park.

Lijnders did not agree that Liverpool were nervous in general and added: “If you want to point at something, the amount of moments we get in between the lines and in the final third, we have to stay calmer and use our skill more to outplay opponents, to risk and to play the through pass”.

Liverpool Fans have every right to protest today, they’ve always stood up for what they believe in. For decades it was the largest standing-only terrace in Europe, large enough to accommodate as many as 30,000 people.

“It is an economic decision which has been made that the club could and should make more money from the supporters”. Jacked-up prices for a floundering team are fueling bitter resentment. The announcement was preceded by criticism from the Liverpool Supporters Committee (LSC), which claiming that the new prices were “morally unjustifiable” and represented “a missed opportunity”. “For those of us who were around when we didn’t have these types of owners making these type of decisions the club was in a real mess”. I’ve no doubt that there will be 200 people happy to pay the £77 for that seat for that game.

They happened to be 2-0 up at the time but Liverpool capitulated after the walkout, ultimately drawing 2-2.

“Saturday is your chance to make your feelings known”.