Spirit of Shankly: Supporting Fans, Supporting Foodbanks

Spirit of Shankly: Supporting Fans, Supporting Foodbanks By Gareth Roberts, Spirit of Shankly At Spirit of Shankly, we’re often known for our work as a pressure group, campaigning on behalf of football supporters and holding the club and football authorities accountable. But there's another side to what we do that’s equally important: our commitment to making a tangible difference in our communities. Through the support of our members, we’re able to contribute approximately £10,000 a month to local causes, including the incredible work of Fans Supporting Foodbanks. This partnership between Reds and Blues, founded by [...]

By |2024-12-12T15:28:30+00:00December 12th, 2024|
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Why Spirit of Shankly Are Supporting the Stop Exploiting Loyalty Campaign

Why Spirit of Shankly Are Supporting the Stop Exploiting Loyalty Campaign By Gareth Roberts, Spirit of Shankly This article first appeared in Red All Over The Land - the last remaining printed Liverpool FC fanzine. Find out more here and follow them on Twitter here. IF you’ve taken the time to buy this fanzine today, it’s likely you already value football as much more than just a game or another form of entertainment.  It’s a fair bet you value fan culture; that you care about the collective and that you want Anfield to have the [...]

By |2024-12-04T13:51:02+00:00December 4th, 2024|
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“The focus now seems to be on attracting the richest fans” – Interview with committee member Gareth Roberts

"The focus now seems to be on attracting the richest fans" – Interview with committee member Gareth Roberts OUR committee member GARETH ROBERTS was recently interviewed about the union for Polish Liverpool supporters' website, LFC.pl – here's the interview in English. 1) What motivated you to get involved with Spirit of Shankly? What are the main goals of the union? I believe supporters are central to the identity of a football club. The fan culture makes a club unique, and at Liverpool, much of the folklore is tied to The Kop, the Anfield atmosphere, and [...]

By |2024-11-20T11:57:37+00:00November 19th, 2024|
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Stop Exploiting Loyalty: Liverpool v Brighton

Stop Exploiting Loyalty: Support the campaign for fairer prices in football Are you worried about the price of football? Are you concerned about the direction of travel over ticket prices and the attack on concessions by some Premier League clubs? Do you worry that you, or your children, could be priced out of supporting your football club? And do you want to do something about it? This season 19 of the 20 Premier League clubs increased their ticket prices – tickets that have already rocketed in price way beyond inflation since the Premier League began. [...]

By |2024-11-01T09:52:37+00:00November 1st, 2024|
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Weekend of Action

Stop Exploiting Loyalty This weekend marks the start of a fortnight of action from fan groups across the Premier League as part of the Stop Exploiting Loyalty campaign, led by the Football Supporters’ Association. SOS and SpionKop 1906 will join Arsenal supporters at the AFC foodbank on Sunday 27 October ahead of the game to show solidarity. The following Saturday, 2 November, we will be joined by fans from Brighton outside of the Kop. This season, 19 of the 20 top-flight clubs raised ticket prices, only Crystal Palace deferred, showing complete disregard for regular matchgoing [...]

By |2024-10-25T15:33:11+01:00October 25th, 2024|
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Letter to Billy Hogan

FSA and motions We have written to Liverpool CEO Billy Hogan regarding ticket pricing and dialogue with the club. Dear Billy, I hope this message finds you well and good to see you at the Fans Supporting Foodbanks collection point prior to the Brentford game. The fact that you continually take time out of your busy schedule on match day and donate is much appreciated Onto Spirit of Shankly business. At the recent Football Supporters' Association (FSA) AGM, Spirit of Shankly (SOS) proposed two key motions focused on coordinated action regarding ticket pricing and integrity [...]

By |2024-09-09T17:09:36+01:00September 9th, 2024|
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Ticket Increases

Why we oppose them Liverpool are pressing ahead with their plans to raise ticket prices for a second successive season, despite strong opposition. Spirit of Shankly, backed by a mandate from our members, and Spion Kop 1906 believe tickets are already too expensive. The cost of going to a game far exceeded the rate of inflation a long time ago and this latest rise is a worrying trend.  We have heard criticism of our resistance to the increase as “it’s just 2%” or it’s only “about season tickets”. It is not. Season tickets and individual matchday tickets [...]

By |2024-04-23T18:32:26+01:00April 23rd, 2024|
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Youtube talk: the price of tickets

The money game For the regular matchgoing supporter going to the game is expensive – next season even more so. And it's not just Liverpool fans, price hikes have been announced at every Premier League club, with the exception of Crystal Palace, as record-breaking revenues are reported. But there is a shift in where this income is coming from and the next TV deal will see media rights as a percentage actually diminish for clubs. So how will they fill the gap? Spirit of Shankly MC member Jay McKenna sat down with football finance expert Kieran [...]

By |2024-04-20T10:18:06+01:00April 20th, 2024|
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Tickets on Expedia

Current Situation On Tuesday evening, Spirit of Shankly were made aware by supporters that tickets for forthcoming LFC matches were available to buy on expedia.com. Expedia are an official LFC partner and their resale web page was advertising tickets for games at Anfield (in hospitality seats) as well as away fixtures at Atalanta and Fulham (in home sections) at vastly inflated sums. We contacted LFC immediately to understand why an official partner was advertising such tickets, and to enquire about the source of the tickets. From our conversation with the club, they made it clear that Expedia [...]

By |2024-04-19T17:13:32+01:00April 19th, 2024|
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Ticket Increase Announcement

Joint statement with Spion Kop 1906 and Kop Outs For a second successive season, Liverpool have chosen to increase ticket prices for supporters. This is despite record commercial revenues and a place as the seventh richest football club in the world. They didn’t have to do this. There was no meaningful consultation with Spirit of Shankly, or the Supporters Board over this decision, instead following a presentation highlighting the planned rises, we and the majority of the SB strongly opposed the move. But LFC’s decision was made and we were told it would not be changed.  The [...]

By |2024-04-05T17:52:55+01:00April 5th, 2024|
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