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Coach Travel to Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace (A) Crystal Palace  Sunday 8 November 2026. Kick-off 2pm  Cost £56 members £66 non-members (includes membership fee) Book seat(s) online here Bookings are non-refundable unless we can resell the seat(s). Departs The Glenbuck Hotel (while there are roadworks on Walton Breck Road, see below) at 6am The Rocket at 6.30am Please confirm when booking where you would like to pick up the coach. Other pick-ups may be available depending on demand. The first five rows of the coach are reserved for disabled travellers, OAPs, children, women and MC members. After the game Please be [...]

By |2026-10-06T19:17:27+01:00October 6th, 2026|
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The Kop: A Fan’s History

Signed copies of Brian Reade's latest book THE Kop: A Fan’s History of Football’s Most Famous Stand is the latest book by Kopite and SOS member Brian Reade, out on Thursday 8 October. Here, Brian tells us how he came to write it and how you can pick up a signed copy. “The most famous stand in world football has just celebrated a landmark birthday. “On 1 September 1906, Anfield’s Spion Kop burst into life in the middle of a freak heatwave and over the following 120 years, over many nights, it turned the [...]

By |2026-10-02T18:06:05+01:00October 2nd, 2026|
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Coach Travel to Brentford

Brentford (A) Brentford  Saturday 17 October 2026. Kick-off 3pm  Cost £56 members £66 non-members (includes membership fee) Book seat(s) online here Bookings are non-refundable unless we can resell the seat(s). Departs The Glenbuck Hotel (while there are roadworks on Walton Breck Road, see below) at 6.30am The Rocket at 7am Please confirm when booking where you would like to pick up the coach. Other pick-ups may be available depending on demand. The first five rows of the coach are reserved for disabled travellers, OAPs, children, women and MC members. After the game Please be aware that [...]

By |2026-09-19T11:08:45+01:00September 19th, 2026|
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AGM Motion

From our last AGM EARLIER this year at our AGM, members voted in favour of a motion calling for Spirit of Shankly to join “the thousands of fans worldwide in adding their voice to the campaigns ‘Game over Israel’ and ‘Show Israel The Red Card.” Back in 2024, SOS made a donation to support the work of Ana Jeelani, a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, when she travelled to Gaza to treat people there. You can read about Ana’s experience here or watch her interview with Channel 4 News here. Our support [...]

By |2026-09-10T15:25:04+01:00September 10th, 2026|
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Walking to Rome…

...And meeting the Pope in memory of Brian and Gerard UPDATE On Thursday, 27 August, a group of more than 30 people, Reds and Blues, many of them members of Spirit of Shankly, including management committee member Ian Byrne, left Liverpool for Italy to do a sponsored walk to raise awareness and funds for prostate cancer. The walk, part of the Via Francigena, began in Montefiascone and, over six days, sometimes with temperatures reaching 40C, they walked around 100 miles to Rome. And on Wednesday 2 September, the morning after they arrived in the capital, [...]

By |2026-09-10T11:17:51+01:00August 26th, 2026|
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Meeting with IFR

Understanding ODSE test FOLLOWING the recent announcement of a minority investment in Liverpool FC by 1892  Holdings, Spirit of Shankly contacted the Football Supporters Association (FSA) to facilitate a meeting with the Independent Football Regulator (IFR). As the recognised supporters' trust, we support the introduction of the IFR in the belief that football needs strong governance to protect clubs.  Earlier this week, SOS (and the FSA) met with the IFR to better understand the process involved in any potential owners of football clubs: the Owners, Directors, Senior Executives (ODSE) test. As Liverpool supporters, we know [...]

By |2026-08-28T19:15:38+01:00August 28th, 2026|
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Coach Travel to Brighton

Brighton (A) Premier League Brighton Monday 19 May 2025. Kick-off 8pm  Cost £10 deposit members £20 deposit non-members (includes membership fee) Book seat(s) online here Bookings are non-refundable unless we can resell the seat(s). Departs The Twelfth Man at 12noon The Rocket at 12.30pm Please confirm when booking where you would like to pick up the coach. Other pick-ups may be available depending on demand. The first five rows of the coach are reserved for disabled travellers, OAPs, children, women and MC members. After the game Please be aware that the coach will wait a maximum [...]

By |2025-04-30T08:29:59+01:00April 30th, 2025|
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Coach Travel to Tottenham Carabao Cup semi-final

Tottenham Hotspur (A) Carabao Cup Carabao Cup Wednesday 08 January 2025. Kick-off 8pm  Cost £50 members £60 non-members (includes membership fee) Book seat(s) online here Bookings are non-refundable unless we can resell the seat(s). Departs The Twelfth Man at 12.00pm The Rocket at 12.30pm Please confirm when booking where you would like to pick up the coach. Other pick-ups may be available depending on demand. The first five rows of the coach are reserved for disabled travellers, OAPs, children, women and MC members. After the game Please be aware that the coach will wait a maximum [...]

By |2024-12-27T11:08:57+00:00December 27th, 2024|
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AGM 2024

Notice of AGM 2024 We're pleased to announce details of our 2024 Annual General Meeting, which will take place on Wednesday 13 November, 6:30pm, at Blackstock Studios, Liverpool. The meeting will be livestreamed, and recorded, for those unable to make it in person. The meeting will include usual business, updates on our work over the past year and our financial accounts. We will also discuss motions, elections for Management Committee members and answer questions. We will be joined on the night online by football finance expert Kieran Maguire, for a discussion on football tickets, pricing [...]

By |2024-10-17T13:39:08+01:00October 17th, 2024|
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