Of Liverpool’s allocation of 17,095 tickets for the final in Athens, only around 11,000 tickets went to fans.
Around 6,000 tickets were eaten up by corporate season ticket holders, players, former players and the largest chunk by ex-shareholders of the club. Rick Parry revealed the figures today – and our feeling, as is the feeling amongst the vast majority of our members on the forums is that this is nothing short of a disgrace.
Of the remaining 11,000 – around 3,300 tickets were guaranteed for the reds who had attended at least 7 Champions League ties (which would include at least one away game) and the remaining 7,700 went in to the ‘magical’ ballot. The ballot were, seemingly, if you knew people in the ticket office you (allegedly) stood a very good chance of getting a ticket.
So what do you think. Is it right that the likes of ex-shareholders – who have arguably already been sufficiently financially compensated and actually have no stake in our club at all – should have tickets ahead of fans who brave all weathers, phone lines and ticket queues?
We would argue that the touting fiasco has been caused explicitly by these ‘wealthier’ fans – many of who never had any intention of travelling to Athens but instead ripped off a fellow Liverpool fan and made a few quid.
Not good enough – New rules from next season please Gillett and Hicks – and as far as we’re concerned the only thing that should qualify you for tickets is your dedication to the club – not the size of your wallet.