Liverpool Football Corporation: The Business of LFC

Discussion in 'Liverpool' started by dcc134, Mar 2, 2015.

  1. LorneMarvello

    LorneMarvello Member+

    Jul 1, 2014
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    yes but thats footy those mls fans have already adopted the culture including the group mentality.
    I wouldnt be surprised over the past 20 years, if many an MLS fan has become more socialistic in their views due to the sport
     
  2. RevsLiverpool

    RevsLiverpool Member+

    Nov 12, 2005
    Boston
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Shankly was a socialist and I may vote for one in November - good enough for me. :D
     
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  3. liverbird

    liverbird BigSoccer Supporter

    Sep 29, 2000
    Mars
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I am sure Gordon and Ayre are the villains in this piece.
     
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  4. LorneMarvello

    LorneMarvello Member+

    Jul 1, 2014
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Bernie! Bernie!

    You know they will kill him if he gets elected and he trys to break up the banks
     
  5. liverbird

    liverbird BigSoccer Supporter

    Sep 29, 2000
    Mars
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yeah we have supporters groups and I belong to two. I stand with one and party with the other. We all travel by bus to Philly, and the two NY teams. These distances are close to England. About two hours to Philly and four to NYC. As one would say in England we bring a lot of tins on the bus and sing all the way. And when we win we sing on the way back:)

    But I pay $20 a game and $10 to park (and tailgate) per game as a season ticket holder. I stand in an all singing and standing section. But the scale is different. We have about 2,500 standing supporters. Not 15000. Of course the play isn't the same level either. It's a good standard of football but our highest paid player is on
    about £7000 a week. Kids in the U21s at Liverpool can make much more. We have squad players that make £400 a week. And they play sometimes. So it's truly apples and kumquats.

    Now they are gonna build a new stadium for us and they are looking to go up $10-15 a game for supporters. Scousers might say that's still 20 quid a game. But think about the difference in the standard of play. I think we may need to walkout too when that comes.

    Any way all sport is a bit different. I fell for football and Liverpool and DCU because the game never stops, my friends and I and my son can stand and sing for 90 minutes and argue about it before and after. I only get to do that live about 10 times for Liverpool but it's the same. Every week though we eat and drink and sing (really right along with the TV) in our official supporters club pubs. YNWA
     
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  6. Dotterbart

    Dotterbart Member

    Nov 7, 2015
    Berlin
    Club:
    Borussia Dortmund
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    The Dortmund fans are really mad when BVB is playing in the cup final. 40-50 k of fans travel 500 km to Berlin. 20k watch in the stadium, 20k in an open air place with a big screen which the club rents and the rest charges thesports bars.
     
  7. B.A.

    B.A. Member+

    Sep 12, 2007
    IL
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    the President doesn't have that power - Congress does. But they don't have the balls.
     
  8. Dotterbart

    Dotterbart Member

    Nov 7, 2015
    Berlin
    Club:
    Borussia Dortmund
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    Lol, you think the Congress has the power? How about big business, CIA and NSA. The First pay your politicians, the others knows every skeleton in their cupboards or placed them there.
     
  9. ScholesyLFC

    ScholesyLFC Member+

    Aug 23, 2005
    Holladay, Utah
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
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  10. RevsLiverpool

    RevsLiverpool Member+

    Nov 12, 2005
    Boston
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #110 RevsLiverpool, Feb 12, 2016
    Last edited: Feb 12, 2016
    Good read but astonishing that there will still be price increases during a "freeze". As with the red sox, they are VERY good at managing PR disasters. I will say I disagree with Jim on the new seat views being awful. Yes they aren't great but at Fenway there are also support beams in front of some seats blocking home plate, so it's not unheard of. I would have to imagine the architects put them where they are for a reason. If you said I had a ticket to the match and that was it, I'd take it and either stand elsewhere or move so I could see the nearside goal. Not the end of the world to me.
     
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  11. newterp

    newterp Moderator
    Staff Member

    Jun 6, 2007
    North Potomac, MD
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Apparently the beams must be the way they are for any future construction of the Anfield Road End
     
  12. B.A.

    B.A. Member+

    Sep 12, 2007
    IL
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Technically, they do.

    Why do you think I said they didn't have the balls?
     
  13. liverbird

    liverbird BigSoccer Supporter

    Sep 29, 2000
    Mars
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Ok there is a politics forum on BS. I get enough of jejune political analysis on my Twitter and Facebook feeds. I really don't have the energy to put up with it here too. Read the Constitution. Such large scale, transformative, economic action would, inevitably, involve all three branches of the Federal Government
     
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  14. ryered

    ryered Member+

    Jan 15, 2007
    Hill Country
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    Good word, LB! Positively Stiltonian.
     
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  15. StiltonFC

    StiltonFC He said to only look up -- Guster

    Mar 18, 2007
    SoCal
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    could it be? does LB have a ghost writer???:cool:
     
  16. liverbird

    liverbird BigSoccer Supporter

    Sep 29, 2000
    Mars
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    You don't quite understand that I actually write to my audiences reading level :eek:
     
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  17. B.A.

    B.A. Member+

    Sep 12, 2007
    IL
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I learned a new word today.

    Thanks.
     
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  18. Wingtips1

    Wingtips1 Member+

    May 3, 2004
    02116
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
  19. RevsLiverpool

    RevsLiverpool Member+

    Nov 12, 2005
    Boston
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    LB for President!
    :D
    [/end of my political commentary]
     
  20. delaynomo

    delaynomo Member+

    Jun 1, 2015
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
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  21. SamScouse

    SamScouse Member+

    Jun 1, 2015
    Toronto
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    LOL. right on.
     
  22. zaqualung

    zaqualung Member+

    Jun 17, 2015
    San Francisco
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    That's why Bernie isn't really in it to get elected. He's in there trying to start a process of real thought. Long long long overdue in the US.....
    And he's managed it to an extent. Whether or not it stays alive is the question
     
  23. StiltonFC

    StiltonFC He said to only look up -- Guster

    Mar 18, 2007
    SoCal
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    ain't in nice that somebody can convince thousands of people to plonk down money so that an overdue conversation can get started. now that's sincerity at its most compelling.
     
  24. liverbird

    liverbird BigSoccer Supporter

    Sep 29, 2000
    Mars
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Wtf?
     
  25. StiltonFC

    StiltonFC He said to only look up -- Guster

    Mar 18, 2007
    SoCal
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    please tell me i don't have to explain what i meant...
     

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