The whole PTS thingy

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First of all thank you to Antoine for giving me the opportunity to ramble on about the ‘bastion of invincibility’ that is Liverpool Football Club.  This is the first column/blog I have ever done so bear with me. 

 

Born in 1981, Liverpool and still living here. Grew up and went to school throughout the ‘L’ postcode area, funnily enough a certain Stevie G was in the year above me in high school.  He’s got his money, but I bet he would swap it all for my 100% attendance certificate in Year 9 J.

 

Started going to the home and away games from an early age and was blown away by the Kop (still am on those European Cup nights).  Was brought up to follow a ‘Kopite’s Charter’ – stand by your team, never boo and come home with no voice.  This was instigated by my dad who has seen LFC through their best and worst years and was there for are greatest success’ and our two main low points. 

 

I am just about to qualify as a teacher, so I will have to bite my tongue and not swear in case my pupils of the future find out that I’m a bit of a lad.

 

A lot has been spoken this week about the whole PTS situation and the fact that this policy has been removed.  I really feel for these people as I know a lot of them are real, genuine matchgoers and I have serious doubts about Ian Ayre.  This time last year these idiots announced that the Fan Card was to become an annual subscription – what a load of rubbish.  I had a fan card at this point and just thought there is no way I will subscribe to ‘belong’ (as they called it).  I belong – see above.  We all belong because we wear red, are loyal and get behind the team regardless of whether we are from Liverpool or Los Angeles.  Due to this I gave up my fancard and decided to get tickets via word of mouth. 

 

I have believed in a long time that a ticketing policy should be introduced.  Part of this ticket policy should be approx 2,000 tickets available on match day for those who wish to queue.  Getting there at 4am would be no problem to me and would separate the day trippers and glory hunters from those who live, breath and sweat the club.  There may be flaws in such a system and point them out and let me know, but for me it’s a simple system to satisfy local/national/international demand.  I don’t want to really discuss the local fans debate but I do think that with fans with an ‘L’ postcode should be at least on a par with overseas/nationwide fans– it seems that Peter Robinson was the last bloke to give a dam about this issue.

 

Anyway feel free to feedback and disagree.

 

Take care

 

YNWA J96

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7 Comments

  1. Great article.

    We need to see more ticket sales on the window rather than just on the phone line. We also need to see the phone lines opened on weekends and evenings rather than at the start of a working day.

    Price breaks for locals wouldn’t work. Many would exploit the policy in order to make a profit on selling the ticket to someone who doesn’t have an L postcode. Simple economics suggests price discrimination can only occur when the product can not be re-sold from one market to another.

    I feel a boys pen needs to be introduced, a small section of the Kop which is given to local schools for free each week. Let’s let the local young lads watch the team they support.

  2. Cheers for the response. Look forward to reading further dialogue from yourselves. Agree with Michael about the pricing for ‘L’ postcode fans as you would get the occasional scally who takes advantage. I stand by my point that either ‘on the turnstile’ or ‘window ticket sale’ are both feasible, even if its only for 5% of fans.

    Ta

  3. Hi guys… I have nothing to prove my theory but I do think that priority is given to those who don’t live in an L postcode. Reasons…. they’ll spend a few quid in the club shop instead of SportsWorld etc…. I agree that some tickets should be reserved for local schools and for walk on purchases on the day. Unfortunately I don’t get to as many games as I’d like – no contacts for tickets – but I’d be willing to queue from soft o’clock in the morning for a ticke to see the reds at least a couple of times a season (finances allowing)… done it loads of times in the 80s!

    YNWA FootieChick xxxx

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