Roy Goldie

Red til I’m dead

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Rest in peace, Kevin Keegan ❤️

[Roy Goldie @RoyGoldie2]

@andyburnham good luck for tomorrow Andy and just carry on doing what you have been doing and be yourself
The North West has got your back and even though you are a blue the reds support you too 🥂

[Roy Goldie @RoyGoldie2]

@Lfcsalesinfo Do season ticket holders who qualify for ACS still get their own seat or have rules changed

[Roy Goldie @RoyGoldie2]

@Lfcsalesinfo As a season ticket holder who qualified for and registered for all ACS do we still automatically get our season ticket seat

[Roy Goldie @RoyGoldie2]

@YTBENNYGPLAYZ 😂😂

[Aston Villa Updates @avfcbreaking]

There was a time when a European final belonged to the supporters who dragged their club there.

Not anymore.

When Aston Villa were handed roughly 11,000 tickets for a Europa League final in a 70,000-plus stadium, the number itself told the story. UEFA can package the event however it likes — “festival of football”, “European showpiece”, “global celebration” — but the modern European final is no longer built around supporters. It is built around clients.

The supporters fund the journey. The corporates inherit the destination.

Villa fans will have spent thousands following the club across Europe. Flights, hotels, time off work, loyalty schemes built over years. Yet when the final arrives, huge sections of the stadium are reserved for sponsors, hospitality guests, executives, delegates and “neutral” allocations that often end up on resale sites within hours.

And supporters are expected to accept it.

UEFA’s defence is familiar. Sponsors fund competitions. Broadcasters need space. Hospitality drives revenue. All true. But football crossed a line when the event surrounding the final became more important than the supporters inside it.

The optics are awful because fans can see it themselves.

A finalist gets 11,000 tickets while corporate packages costing thousands remain available. Genuine supporters scramble through ballots with lottery-like odds, while neutral areas fill with tourists taking photos during the warm-up.

And UEFA wonders why resentment grows.

Supporters are constantly called “the lifeblood of the game” until ticket allocations are discussed. Then they become an inconvenience to work around premium inventory.

Football did not become Europe’s dominant sport because sponsors created atmosphere. The noise, colour and emotion UEFA sells globally every season is generated by match-going supporters — the same people increasingly pushed aside at the biggest games.

The “neutral fan” concept is perhaps the biggest fiction of all. In theory it promotes access. In reality it fuels resale markets, inflated prices and thousands travelling ticketless out of desperation.

UEFA could change it tomorrow. Finalists could receive 70 per cent of the stadium combined. Corporate sections could shrink. Hospitality would still exist.

But that would mean sacrificing revenue.

And modern football has shown repeatedly which side wins that argument.
#AVFC #scfreiburg

[Roy Goldie @RoyGoldie2]

@FootballInT80s Remember it well 1st game I bunked in

[Roy Goldie @RoyGoldie2]

@JamesPearceLFC Delusional

[Roy Goldie @RoyGoldie2]

@StokeyyG2 100% intentional cos he kicks his leg out mid air

[Roy Goldie @RoyGoldie2]

@AndrewGMilburn @spiritofshankly @LFCHelp It happened in the Kop too

[Roy Goldie @RoyGoldie2]

@interesting_aIl Used to do that when I was a kid about 45 years ago, lighter fuel on clothing does the trick 😁

[HSA-Hillsborough Survivors Support Alliance CIC @HillsboroughSu1]

40 years ago today 56 people lost their lives due to a fire at Bradfords Valley Parade Stadium.
We remember those who lost their lives, their families, the survivors and everyone affected.
Never forgotten ❤️

[Adam @IamtheadamLFC]

As many of you know, I'm a survivor of Hillsborough & my beautiful family in the @HillsboroughSu1 is the reason I am here today. So I'd like to make a Request to all good Reds @LFC & Blues at @Everton too, please purchase this song & help us to help those who need it. #YNWA

[Roy Goldie @RoyGoldie2]

@elonmuskADO 88

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@we_we_we12 @elonmuskTN Mona Lisa

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@Realaldo474 Sorry about this Aldo mate but need to find my old school mate, hope your followers can help. UTFR

[Roy Goldie @RoyGoldie2]

@ScouseRepublic 😂

[Roy Goldie @RoyGoldie2]

@74pdv Good luck in kicking cancer’s arse, stay strong and keep kicking ❤️

[Noodles 💫 @NickieNoo22]

Lost my gold bracelet around Anfield today 💔 could well be in the kop, if you find it, please have a heart and return it as it was a very sentimental 18th birthday present for my mum, im 43 now and I feel lost without it! Can the power of social media please help? 🙏🏼 @LFC

[Roy Goldie @RoyGoldie2]

@lfc_nino Hi