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Return of Fans to Anfield
Return of fans to Anfield Following the Government announcement that Liverpool City Region will move into Tier 2 on 3 December, 2,000 fans will be allowed into Anfield for our next home games – against Wolves, scheduled for 6 December, followed by Tottenham, on 16 December. [...]
Profit Per View update
Profit Per View update On Friday 13 November, the Premier League dropped the idea of Pay Per View and committed to showing all games without charge. Last month, when PPV plans to charge supporters £14.95 were published, Spirit of Shankly called on the Premier League and [...]
Help Is Here Latest
Help Is Here Latest Spirit of Shankly’s ‘Help is Here’ campaign began back in March, as Covid-19 took hold. As a union, we are aware of the need to help our community in difficult times. We also wanted to act on our AGM commitment of supporting [...]
Boycott Box Office Pay Per View
Boycott Box Office Pay Per View Spirit of Shankly are calling for a boycott of pay-per-view Premier League games starting with our fixture against Sheffield United on Saturday 24 October 2020. Why we are doing this We recognise supporters will be torn about following their team, [...]
Project Big Picture: A Joint Statement
Project Big Picture: A Joint Statement The fans we represent are fortunate to support clubs that regularly secure the largest financial revenues in the Premier League. But all of us understand that football doesn’t work in isolation. It’s a family. It requires a fair share of [...]
PPV and Project Big Picture
PPV and Project Big Picture Over the past weekend, the Project Big Picture document leak and Pay-Per-View announcement (a disgraceful £14.95 per match) have again demonstrated, with zero formal engagement, a complete disregard for fans. The hedge funds and billionaire owners of our football clubs need [...]
Profit per view – a disgrace
Profit per view - a disgrace Today, Friday 9 October, the Premier League and TV broadcasters announced details of their pay-per-view plans for matches not currently scheduled to be shown live. Liverpool v Sheffield United on Monday 24 October is one of them. It is agonising [...]
World Mental Health Day Update
World Mental Health Day Update Unfortunately the arranged coffee morning event, on Saturday 10 October at Hotel Anfield, has been postponed. This is due to current government guidelines on social gatherings and mixing of household bubbles. We will reschedule this event at a later date once [...]
World Mental Health Day
World Mental Health Day The Reds have made a great start to the season and we can still bask in having won no19, but for many of us life is a struggle at the moment, which is why Spirit of Shankly’s latest partnership is a vital [...]
World Suicide Prevention Day
World Suicide Prevention Day Thursday 10 September is World Suicide Prevention Day. Spirit of Shankly are pleased to be working alongside LFC Foundation, Red Neighbours and Spion Kop 1906 in raising awareness of mental health. At any given time one in four of us is affected [...]
Help Is Here Update
Help Is Here Update Spirit of Shankly’s Help is Here campaign began shortly after the country went into lockdown five months ago as Covid-19 took hold. Over the past 20 weeks, we have provided more than 2,000 bags of food to the most vulnerable members of [...]
Champions of Everything and Everywhere
Champions of Everything and Everywhere On Wednesday, 22 July, Jordan Henderson will finally lift the Premier League trophy. Spirit of Shankly wish to congratulate him, the team, and Jürgen Klopp and his management team on this fantastic achievement. The downside of the victory is that fans [...]
Help Is Here Video Update
Help Is Here Video Update Spirit of Shankly’s Help is Here campaign was started as a response to the difficulties faced by the most vulnerable during Covid-19. It was clear from the start of lockdown there were a lot of people in our communities without access to [...]
A Statement
SOS and Blue Union Joint Statement Spirit of Shankly‘s message has remained consistent throughout this crisis and that is: public health considerations must come first. We have worked in partnership with LFC, Merseyside Police and the City Council and all our messaging has been joint, always [...]
Football returns to Merseyside
SOS and Blue Union Joint Statement Spirit of Shankly and the Blue Union welcome the news that games are to be played on Merseyside. Building on the community work both sets of fans continue to do throughout this pandemic, we are confident supporters will respect safety [...]
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Return of Fans to Anfield
Return of fans to Anfield Following the Government announcement that Liverpool City Region will move into Tier 2 on 3 December, 2,000 fans will be allowed into Anfield for our next home games – against Wolves, scheduled for 6 December, followed by Tottenham, on 16 December. [...]
Profit Per View update
Profit Per View update On Friday 13 November, the Premier League dropped the idea of Pay Per View and committed to showing all games without charge. Last month, when PPV plans to charge supporters £14.95 were published, Spirit of Shankly called on the Premier League and [...]
Help Is Here Latest
Help Is Here Latest Spirit of Shankly’s ‘Help is Here’ campaign began back in March, as Covid-19 took hold. As a union, we are aware of the need to help our community in difficult times. We also wanted to act on our AGM commitment of supporting [...]
Boycott Box Office Pay Per View
Boycott Box Office Pay Per View Spirit of Shankly are calling for a boycott of pay-per-view Premier League games starting with our fixture against Sheffield United on Saturday 24 October 2020. Why we are doing this We recognise supporters will be torn about following their team, [...]
Project Big Picture: A Joint Statement
Project Big Picture: A Joint Statement The fans we represent are fortunate to support clubs that regularly secure the largest financial revenues in the Premier League. But all of us understand that football doesn’t work in isolation. It’s a family. It requires a fair share of [...]
PPV and Project Big Picture
PPV and Project Big Picture Over the past weekend, the Project Big Picture document leak and Pay-Per-View announcement (a disgraceful £14.95 per match) have again demonstrated, with zero formal engagement, a complete disregard for fans. The hedge funds and billionaire owners of our football clubs need [...]
Profit per view – a disgrace
Profit per view - a disgrace Today, Friday 9 October, the Premier League and TV broadcasters announced details of their pay-per-view plans for matches not currently scheduled to be shown live. Liverpool v Sheffield United on Monday 24 October is one of them. It is agonising [...]
World Mental Health Day Update
World Mental Health Day Update Unfortunately the arranged coffee morning event, on Saturday 10 October at Hotel Anfield, has been postponed. This is due to current government guidelines on social gatherings and mixing of household bubbles. We will reschedule this event at a later date once [...]
World Mental Health Day
World Mental Health Day The Reds have made a great start to the season and we can still bask in having won no19, but for many of us life is a struggle at the moment, which is why Spirit of Shankly’s latest partnership is a vital [...]
World Suicide Prevention Day
World Suicide Prevention Day Thursday 10 September is World Suicide Prevention Day. Spirit of Shankly are pleased to be working alongside LFC Foundation, Red Neighbours and Spion Kop 1906 in raising awareness of mental health. At any given time one in four of us is affected [...]
Help Is Here Update
Help Is Here Update Spirit of Shankly’s Help is Here campaign began shortly after the country went into lockdown five months ago as Covid-19 took hold. Over the past 20 weeks, we have provided more than 2,000 bags of food to the most vulnerable members of [...]
Champions of Everything and Everywhere
Champions of Everything and Everywhere On Wednesday, 22 July, Jordan Henderson will finally lift the Premier League trophy. Spirit of Shankly wish to congratulate him, the team, and Jürgen Klopp and his management team on this fantastic achievement. The downside of the victory is that fans [...]
Help Is Here Video Update
Help Is Here Video Update Spirit of Shankly’s Help is Here campaign was started as a response to the difficulties faced by the most vulnerable during Covid-19. It was clear from the start of lockdown there were a lot of people in our communities without access to [...]
A Statement
SOS and Blue Union Joint Statement Spirit of Shankly‘s message has remained consistent throughout this crisis and that is: public health considerations must come first. We have worked in partnership with LFC, Merseyside Police and the City Council and all our messaging has been joint, always [...]
Football returns to Merseyside
SOS and Blue Union Joint Statement Spirit of Shankly and the Blue Union welcome the news that games are to be played on Merseyside. Building on the community work both sets of fans continue to do throughout this pandemic, we are confident supporters will respect safety [...]
