All is well on Planet Origi. (Extract from James Milner’s book Ask A Footballer)

79' Origi scores, Liverpool now ahead on aggregate 🔵🔴 #LFCBarça (4-0, agg 4-3)

When $BTC and $ETH descend out of ascending channels - we don't have to wait long for the drop to "complete" and begin the next "range" (generally between 3-5 weeks) ... we are currently a little over week 3 now

RT @SalligatorLFC: Beforehand: Slot's gonna make it all about him, he's a narcissist with a massive ego, they'd better not give him a mic!!…

Almost as if all the abuse the man who won us number 20 meant he decided to stay out the way and let the players have the moment. Anyone who thinks it's okay to be genuinely hateful to a man who's trying to do his job to the best of his ability is a clown. The club have chosen to keep Arne, the only appropriate way to react is to support the team and hope he turns it around.

I might be going mad, but what are these two on about? If you can’t enjoy yourself after winning the league when can you? We’re all a long time dead and I love the fact he went and did that. He clearly won’t be here for much longer, but I think that was amazing

Gonna say this again. I understand wanting a change of manager. I'm probably there myself, but if you're resorting to abusing the manager or even just insulting a man who was part of number 20, fuck off.

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

A year ago today. A league title that half the internet have tried to undermine to push a narrative, don’t get that myself. We were magnificent from start to end. And they should have gone Ibiza even more that they did imo.

For that generation, this is why it’s important. What will they pay, when they’re our age?

The Kop & Anfield stood as one today, supporters totally united. A clear message to @LFC that couldn’t be louder or more honest. Take this appalling three-year run of price rises off the table. Football was built by the working classes. Price them out, and you strip the game of its soul. #FootballWithoutFansIsNothing

So today, take a yellow card. Take some to give to people by you. Don’t spend in the ground. Tell your mates and family. Make yourself seen and heard in the 13th minute. And let’s hope after today, further action and escalation isn’t necessary Unity is strength ✊

Yes – Not A Pound In The Ground. Yellow card on the 13th minute.

Everyone needs to get behind this. They reckon it’s “some fans.” We need to show them different. People are already talking about walking in late, walking out early. This is step one. 🟨 13th minute. Yellow cards up. If this lands, we go bigger at Chelsea.

🕒 Saturday: @LFC v Crystal Palace. ⚠️ Show FSG The Yellow Card 1️⃣3️⃣ Raise your yellow card on the 13th minute ❌Tell them: Enough Is Enough – *NO* to THREE YEARS of price rises 🟨Pick one up outside Anfield before the match.

Last weekend at Anfield, supporters demonstrated how they felt about LFC’s multi-year ticket price increases. The next day, Virgil Van Dijk said that he hopes supporters and the club can find solution. We asked the club if they were willing to do so, as we are. They said no.

Re ‘Not A Pound In The Ground’ - you are allowed to take a *sealed* bottle of water into Anfield as per the club’s rules 👇

Spot on @NickyAllt - using the Bank of England inflation calculator, clubs now like to use, it would be £10.47 to go in the stands and £4.41 in the Kop if we used inflation as the calculator- some will say look at the wages but that is fuelled by TV money not admission prices

Everton the latest club to push up prices and the backlash is overwhelming from ST holders replying to their tweet. Last year 115 FSA supporter orgs wrote to PL clubs asking for a two year halt on price rises to allow dialogue to take place on future ticketing policies, all within the current broadcast cycle. Clubs on the whole have ignored this, and we are once again gearing up to see more protests, more anger towards our clubs, and for what? The money this raises in the grand scheme is minimal. A couple of million squeezed from ST holders is loose change compared to the revenue received from broadcasters (who want to see full stadiums btw). Matchgoers have warned you time and time again about the damage that is being done. #StopExploitingLoyalty