Luke Bocskei

As you were

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

The UK economy basically works like this:

Get paid £2,000.

Give £900 to a landlord. Give £200 to the council. Give £150 to energy companies. Give £300 to supermarkets. Give £300 to car insurance and fuel.

Spend the rest surviving until next payday.

Then get lectured by someone who bought their house for £37,000 in 1988 about how you need to stop buying coffees and cancel subscriptions.

[Oasis Archives🍋 @OasisArchives]

“The World Keeps On Turning” Fleetwood Mac featuring Noel Gallagher

[Keighley News @KeighleyNews]

Keighley rapist among 15 jailed for total of 188 years for horrific sex abuse of teen https://t.co/msMERbpTAl

[Patrick Bury @PatrickBury]

"If Arsenal are unpopular with neutrals, it’s because they waste everyone’s time. Not just their opponents’ time, but our time too. Football fans everywhere are suffering Arsenal’s consequences. They are like a company that spews pollution into the environment in their production process, privatising the profits and socialising the costs. To them, dumping toxic sludge into the river is just free waste disposal. It’s the rest of us who get a headache when we drink the tap water" https://t.co/PHpC1FRgv7

[Luke Bocskei @Lukeib]

@DKingTelegraph I just don't believe that for 1 minute Dom. I think they've know for quite some time that Ireola was the man and Slot was gone. Either way it's all a bit of a shambles.

[Bealo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @bealolufc]

English lads sat in a bar having a drink, uniformed overseas hooligans attack them. Over and over and over this happens and yet British fans still get the bad rep. Horrible bastards 👍

[Lee @LeeE1874]

Scotlands fucking shame

[Simon Jordan @Sjopinion10]

What a shame for Scottish football #hearts … nothing exciting or new about #celtic winning the league ..

Everyone can go back to not caring about Scottish football again 💤💤💤💤

[Dominic King @DKingTelegraph]

That, regrettably, was a shameful conclusion to what had a season to capture the imagination. Hearts deserved more, so much more, than leaving Celtic Park still in their kits and having two players assaulted by idiots in the pitch invasion. What is wrong with people now?

[David Lynch @davidlynchlfc]

I know Celtic fans won��t agree but, as dramatic as today has been, that’s an awful outcome for Scottish football. If Celtic can cycle through three managers, struggle for most of the season, yet win the title anyway, what does it say about the state of the game up there?

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: The Texas televangelist who claimed God is using the Iran War to begin the Biblical Apocalypse and Rapture up all the Christians to Heaven on Trump's birthday this June 14th because Trump is the "2nd Messiah" just got arrested for cooking meth in his church basement.

[Luke Bocskei @Lukeib]

@mhardysport Bit pathetic is that

[Stu thats all you get🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Boldyboy1975]

Imagine going for a pint ,then go viral 🤪🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Liverpool fans’ success in getting the club to re-think elements of their ticketing strategy will resonate across football. Most clubs have done their ticketing announcements but will note Liverpool’s climbdown. Fans of other clubs will see that well-organised protests work, especially those designed for maximum exposure and embarrassment. Others already have: West Ham fans conducted a successful campaign over the club’s attack on concessions.

Some boards’ behaviour, treating crowds as cash cows, is offensive and counter-productive. It’s wrong for boards to ignore that many fans are hurting given the cost-of-living crisis. It’s wrong to go for multi-year increases. It’s morally wrong and commercially naïve to alienate your most loyal fans. Respect them and they will spend more in the store. Think.

It’s hypocritical when clubs emerged from lockdown, and the soulless, soundless games behind closed doors, promising to appreciate fans more. They did - for a while. It’s also stupid of boards to price out fans who generate the backdrop in sound and vision that TV pays fortunes for. Fans are part of the Premier League spectacle. Tourists are good for the club shop but not for atmosphere. Fans should lobby broadcasters to make clubs see sense.

Clubs brief that hikes are required to cover fees and wages of the stars that fans crave, to improve facilities in the stadium and to guard against PSR breaches. It’s spin. Liverpool would be generating only a reported £1.5m to £2m extra a year from the original planned increases at a club which spent £33m on agents’ fees in a year. That raked in £174.9m from Premier League prize money. That had revenue of £703m last year.

Liverpool fans, ably organised and mobilised by Spirit of Shankly, firmly made their point to club owners Fenway Sports Group with banners “FSG GR££D” and “NO TO TICKET PRICE INCREASES” along the bottom of the Kop during the recent Crystal Palace game. Fans held up yellow cards (75,000 were printed apparently) carrying messages about Fenway. Pictures were immediately posted on social media and beamed by TV around the world. Messaging is instant nowadays.

The campaign was sophisticated. Organisers also targeted club coffers with their “not a pound in the ground” campaign to encourage fans to spend their match-day money away from Anfield. During games, they chanted “you greedy b*st*rds, enough is enough”. It was a PR disaster for FSG and the club. And probably expensive financially given fans’ snubbing of in-stadium outlets.

A club historically celebrated for its bond with fans looked unthinking and unfeeling. It needs acknowledging that, overall, John W Henry and FSG have proved good owners – they’ve redeveloped Anfield, added to the squad and to the trophy cabinet. But they occasionally fail to read the room. They fail to listen to good advice.

They have made this mistake fairly spectacularly before – on the high ticket prices in the redeveloped Main Stand in 2016, seeing 12,000 fans walk out during a game in protest, and backing the European Super League in 2021, bringing a backlash from fans (and players). They backtracked on both. Now they have spoken to fans, heard the concerns and made a U-turn. GA prices will rise 3% for 26/27, but are frozen for 27/28, instead of three seasons fixed to inflation.

Clubs have to understand that many fans are feeling the pinch, that even the movement of a kick-off time has a knock-on effect to travel plans and costs, that even geo-politics affects those driving to games with petrol more expensive. Fans are also having to pay for more subscription channels.

A club’s own costs would be slightly more manageable if they were collectively more sensible in resisting wage inflation – make salaries even more performance-related - and more clubs made the pathway easier from academy to first team. And listen to fans’ groups before risking own goals. You’re on the same side. #LFC

[Luke Bocskei @Lukeib]

@DKingTelegraph Oh it can, as Mick Mcarthy once famously said!
The most embarrassing thing about all these losses is when Slot speaks after the game, utter nonsense everytime. He's now in the realms of Hodgson & Rodgers for me & unfortunately he has to go.

[Luke Bocskei @Lukeib]

@robbohuyton Exactly mate, if he was called Jonesinho they'd all love him!

[Borussia Dortmund @BlackYellow]

"I'm extremely confused."

[Luke Bocskei @Lukeib]

@kevinhatchard I know he won the league last season but this bad form has been for the last 12 months. We we're terrible at the start of the ssn but kept finding these late goals to win games. He tried something tonight and it was absolutely catastrophic, that game should've finished 6-0.

[Luke Bocskei @Lukeib]

@RobHarris I'd say it's higher than 75%

[Lewis Steele @LewisSteele_]

So, so, so poor from Liverpool again and I would’ve said the same if they held on to win. How many times this season have they put in a nothing performance like that? So vulnerable, so naive, so unimaginative. Boring. Both teams got what they deserved.