This…I of course haven’t done the cost benefit analysis but the intangible benefit of having a loud vociferous crowd atrending the game who otherwise may not have been able to is obvious.
From the branding perspective it would be a very canny move to sell the club to potential new fans…“the best atmosphere in the league/this is anfield” and all that. Sounds much better than “funded by a morally questionable regime and playing robotic football with overpriced and overpaid footballers in front of a bunch of sky blue losers and their family empty seats”
The game is increasingly focused on increasing revenue from foreign markets, and 3 things that make a club attractive to those foreign customers and their $
Trophies
High profile players (as seen at Utd, not always the same thing as above)
Crowd atmosphere
The US is now the second biggest market for the Prem behind the UK. This is due to a very rapid rise in appreciation of the game over the past 10 years in the non-traditional fans. These are typically people who grew up watching the NFL, NBA and think that College basketball is a balmy atmosphere. Universal among these people is the appreciation of how much more our crowds bring to the experience of watching a game compared to anything else they have experienced in sports. These fans may start out paying attention to a club like Utd because of Pogba’s Insta, or City because they won the league the year before, but often will find themselves gravitating towards the club that provides the most visceral experience they simply cannot get from their traditional US sports. YNWA and the emotion of the anfield crowd is one of our most marketable assets and focusing on squeezing the people in the stands who produce that to keep that source of match day revenue is incredibly short sighted.
A fact not lost on the supporters groups when they took the club to task over their intended pricing policies and inadvertently cost the average match going fan more money. But at least the most expensive general admission ticket was no longer £77…
Everything I’ve ever posted about food-banks is correct. I have photos to prove it which I won’t be sharing with you. As for being smart, I’m under no illusion as to how clever I am. But I don’t insult you as I really don’t see the point. You seem to resort to name calling as maybe you never win the argument? I wouldn’t know.
Yes you do that’s the point, by picking at my grammar and sentence construction you are trying to imply I’m thick. And then when called out you can play dumb with the “I’m not the one insulting”. As I said you think you are smart, but I see straight through it. I’m happy to call you what you are, don’t need any passive aggressive fakeness.
Won what argument? That the club shouldn’t raise ticket prices to add more financial burden on already under stress working class supporters? It’s an idiotic comment, go ask that at the match. See how it goes.
It wasn’t an insult. It was a statement of truth. If you’re insulted by the truth then it ways a hell of a lot about you. As for seeing through me, did you actually buy a pair of those Xray specs that were once advertised in Viz? Somebody had to I guess.
Anyway, before the site team rightly tell you to leave it, to the matter in hand?
did you not? You aren’t as smart as you think you are. Go back to making up lies about food banks eh.
