I must repeat that under no circumstance do I want to see any muppet comments in this thread. No muppetry
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Liverpool fans start new club
AFC Liverpool are the latest 'fans' club after the success of first AFC Wimbledon and then FC United and they have applied to the Vodkat North West Counties League Division Two to enter a team for next season.
But unlike FC United - formed in protest at the Glazer ownership - AFC Liverpool hope to flourish alongside the club and have been launched purely to give fans a team to watch outside of the big Premier League prices.
Club spokesman Alun Parry told the Daily Telegraph: "This has nothing to do with the ownership issue, it's about affordability. I've been going to Anfield since the late Seventies when I was six years old. A season ticket in the Kop cost £45 in 1985, today it's £650, which I know is a lot cheaper than some other Premier League clubs, but in inflation terms Eighties prices should equate to £98 today.
"We aren't blaming the club, we realise they have no choice, but the sad fact is that a whole community is being denied the opportunity to grow up in the 'match-going' culture. The average age of a Premier League supporter is now 43. At a recent game I spotted only two children, so kids who can't afford to go are forced to learn what it means to support a club from one source - television.
"Far from wishing to be estranged from the club, we are hoping that Liverpool will look upon us as a little brother."
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I really didn't think the prices were that absurd, even when I went over as a yank, I thought the prices were in the ball park relative to what I pay at an American sporting event. Of course American sporting events are souless and have been gutted by American corporations, but still.