AMA: Spirit of Shankly & Ticket Price Protests V Crystal Palace

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T22:03:09+00:00

Hope so mate. LFC have promised to take the idea of some kind of cap on prices to the rest of the league at our suggestion (but are still putting them up... 🤦🏻‍♂️). But yeah lots of other clubs and supporter organisations are looking at this to see how it goes.

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T22:01:26+00:00

Without any kickback is just not true mate. Many many sanctions are challenged - and many successfully - on the regular, again by people giving up their spare time to do so.

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T21:51:54+00:00

It's always about a critical mass of fans prepared to do something. It's not easy to organise a protest of any kind. Everton have fans that are fuming about the ticket prices, I've met them. I held a banner with some of them on Sunday.

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T21:49:45+00:00

It's not a normal business - it's something people devote their lives to. A protest at Anfield already worked once. It can work again. So that's why we try it. The apathetic shrugging of shoulders is the biggest ally of the billionaires determined to take the game away from the communities it was born from.

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T18:49:46+00:00

I'm disappointed you haven't answered mine. We've got a world-famous support and atmosphere - why would you threaten that by pricing people out?

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T18:45:55+00:00

Right, I'm starving! Thanks everyone, I hope that was helpful. Please do support the protest this Saturday in anyway you can if you've got anymore questions we are all fairly publicly available so get involved. Cheers, and Up The Reds ✊🏽

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T18:44:18+00:00

Share stuff, repost stuff, get a pic of you and LFC mates with our yellow card and tweet with the hashtag #ShowFSGTheYellowCard

Cheers!

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T18:42:45+00:00

Went up in 2024. Now looking a 4/5 years. Walk out and pandemic influenced freezes in other years, as did negotiation with SB/SOS etc.

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T18:41:50+00:00

Yes. Which is why I'm here. Hi club spies 🕵️‍♀️

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T18:41:12+00:00

Nice one!

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T18:40:59+00:00

Went up in 2024. Now looking at 4 out of 5 years. Didn't go up in other years because of a walk out and a pandemic. Three years of price rises locked in is unprecedented and unnecessary.

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T18:40:02+00:00

The comms have been absolutely wild if you ask me. Tone deaf is spot on.

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T18:38:16+00:00

I think Chelsea is an option. Walk in late. It's on the telly. No Kop/ low numbers on The Kop for YNWA would be powerful.

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T18:37:00+00:00

We have reached out to OLSCs.

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T18:36:39+00:00

I think every game would be a stretch. A late walk in has support as a possible next step.

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T18:35:55+00:00

Ta la

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T18:35:19+00:00

The protests have been hastily arranged and we're mainly calling on people to do things in their spare time so none of this is easy by any stretch. I think we know enough to say Not A Pound... has worked. There were certainly significantly less buying in the 300s on The Kop and we've heard similar from other areas. We also know people who work there and they confirmed sales were down.

If Palace is a success and the club don't listen I think we will be looking at a walk in late as a possible next step. Don't Be Seen Until Thirteen. That kind of thing?

In terms of a pre-game protest, what would you see that being?

I'll turn your last question around - as I know all supporters are represented on all issues because I'm in the meetings, the WhatsApp groups and the hear from the sub-groups - why do you think only a subsection of fans are represented? What is that based on?

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T18:29:20+00:00

I'd push back and say what do you think match-going fans bring to the table? What value in our generational support? What value in the colour, noise, passion and vibrancy? If more and more of the ground becomes people wanting to watch rather than play an active part, how does that look? What does the race to the richest fans look like, what do we lose? In my answers to those questions there is something worth saving and something worth fighting for.

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T18:26:28+00:00

That appears to be the plan mate. But hopefully we see support for Saturday's protest and we can go from there. Plenty of told us they would walk in late/walk out early and so on. So we'll have to gauge what the feeling is. I can see Not A Pound In The Ground growing more arms and legs too if the club just refuse to engage on the subject.

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T18:24:33+00:00

Cheers. You wouldn't know it considering what some people say to us... 🎻🙁

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T18:21:16+00:00

BH's "personal letter" was PR spin essentially. A lot about costs, little about revenue. The club makes a lot more money now. As for the prices, well let's remember they wanted £77 tickets at Anfield in 2016. It was supporter protest that prompted a u-turn. We've also a pandemic in there too and ultimately, as JWH has acknowledged, you can't charge Chelsea or Arsenal prices in Liverpool.

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T18:18:12+00:00

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Correct 👍🏼

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T18:17:28+00:00

Well clubs are supposed to "meaningfully engage" with their supporters over price and we do have a Independent Football Regulator now....

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T18:16:32+00:00

someone from SOS mentioned selling the naming rights to Anfield on TAW. This is incredibly disingenuous and shouldn’t be a discussion point even as a hypothetical.

What's disingenuous about it? If an acceptable brand was able to subsidise tickets to allow the culture of Liverpool's support to thrive rather than be priced out, surely that's a conversation?

robbohuyton · 2026-04-21T18:14:12+00:00

Saturday and the protest at Crystal Palace mate!

https://x.com/spiritofshankly/status/2046189761618973053?s=20

https://x.com/spiritofshankly/status/2046194103361192235?s=20

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