Having been in these meetings, the patronising replies and disingenuous arguments are an absolute piss take. So are the attempts to dress this up as reasonable discussion and negotiation.
The Supporters’ Board was formed in the aftermath of @John_W_Henry trying to drag Liverpool into the European Super League (five years ago today). Something no one wanted and no one asked for.
Other supporter groups look at the SB as a gold standard. The reality has been far from it. Simply ending scrutiny and accountability by declaring “three years, end of” is a joke. It calls into question the point of the whole thing.
The PR since has more spin than the wheels on Ian Ayre’s Harley.
We were previously told concessions could be ring-fenced. So presenting that now as a win for supporters, when it was the club who moved away from it in the first place, is bollocks.
So are the endless lines about the “need” to do this. There is no need. It’s £1.2m. What it is, is the start of something. A slippery slope towards annual increases and normalising rises.
And what happens after three years? They won’t say. But we all know. They keep going up.
This is on Boston. And it’s about billionaires being out of touch. They don’t get what they’ve got. And they don’t get what they risk losing. Passionate, loyal, generational match-going support. The culture. The Kop. The habit. The love. It isn’t a product.
So the only move left is to protest. If it works, it works. If it doesn’t, then this is the road we’re on now. Good luck to the kids wanting to do what we always did.
But if you care, now is the time to stand up and back it and make it work. Support Not A Pound In The Ground. Support the next steps. Get your mates on board. The people who have given up so much of their time for the greater good can’t do it on their own.
If you don’t, if you can’t be arsed, or if you want to spend your time opposing affordability, then as Ian Ayre once said:
Be careful what you wish for…
'But even then, my favourite thing is when he scores, celebrates, shows his faith and humility but then turns and has one last look - get on me, though. Get on me. So Liverpudlian...One of ours. One of the greatest.'
✍️ @Knox_Harrington’s column on your favourite Salah moment…
👉 Read here: https://t.co/VAWdXsoa7B
How many illegal immigrants are living in the UK?
Are they put up in ‘four star hotels’?
Are phones and iPads provided?
Following comments made by Rylan Clarke, BBC Verify Policy Correspondent Ben Chu goes through the data and information for #Newsnight
Hugo Ekitike is set to be the 5th player with a palindrome surname to play for Liverpool, after Andrew Hannah, David Hannah, Ozan Kabak, and Sheyi Ojo. #LFC
Today I reintroduced the Hillsborough Law to Parliament.
The Prime Minister promised enacting this legislation would be one of his first acts in office. A year on, he still hasn’t done it.
I’m showing him that it’s here and ready to go. It just needs political will.
1 - Liverpool are the first side to be crowned Premier League champions and then spend the next 3 weeks going on booze cruises, only interrupted by popping back to the UK for a kick-about on the weekends. Joyous.
Football fans have to deal with ridiculous, ever-rising ticket prices, train ‘services’ that don’t know the meaning of the word, airlines, hotels and ownerships trying to fleece them, being viewed as a public safety threat… the list goes on - and it shouldn’t include people constantly preaching to them about how to feel, how to celebrate or not, what they should be thinking…
Let fans be true to themselves. They’ve paid an enormous financial, emotional and time cost to let it be so.
"I'm sick of people telling Liverpool fans how they should feel" 👀
Jamie Carragher has his say on the reaction of football fans and journalists to Trent Alexander-Arnold's decision to leave the club 🔴
If that's not a perfect example of why we need a LEGAL duty of candour then I don't know what is.
Police officers involved in tending to people who died at a public event & they can refuse to engage.
The only people who fear a legal duty of candour is those who fear truth!