March 25th, 2006

[Logic]

first, if this isn't the right place to put this I apologise.

 

Now, me and my friend are thinking about making the pilgrimage to Anfield (me for the first time and he for the second time) and the derby game that day (or whenever it is late in March) suits us both very well. But I have a few questions:

 

1. What's the chance of getting tickets for the game?

 

2. Where should we try to get seats inside Anfield (if there is even a remote possibility of getting tickets) and where would be best to try to get those tickets?

 

3. Where should we go before the match (pub or something like that) and where should we go after the game (yes, pub or something like that )?

 

4. Anything I'm forgetting but you think is important to know?

 

Cheers

[Swan Red]

you are really going to struggle for tickets

 

if you can get them take whatever is offered

[L19red]

1 your only chance is to pay over the odds outside the ground.

2 anywhere you can get htem they are like gold dust

3 if you dont come up very often the go to the albert for the singing

if we win then anywhere in town will be great. if we lose stay in your hotel or go home

4 stop trying to get the tickets that belong to real fans who go all the time. my little joke, im sure you understand. On a serious note dont be surprised if you find some people are genuinely a bit upset that someone who is a very occasional visitor manages to get derby tickets.

Edited January 18, 2006 by L19red

[mm2259]

1 your only chance is to pay over the odds outside the ground.

2 anywhere you can get htem they are like gold dust

3 if you dont come up very often the go to the albert for the singing

if we win then anywhere in town will be great. if we lose stay in your hotel or go home

4 stop trying to get the tickets that belong to real fans who go all the time. my little joke, im sure you understand. On a serious note dont be surprised if you find some people are genuinely a bit upset that someone who is a very occasional visitor manages to get derby tickets.

 

Never mind the derby. I was genuinely upset that I couldn't get tickets for the Spurs game only to find the world and his frigging aunt managed to get in. Seriously p*ssed me off.

 

[Barnesy_10]

Never mind the derby. I was genuinely upset that I couldn't get tickets for the Spurs game only to find the world and his frigging aunt managed to get in. Seriously p*ssed me off.

 

 

 

my aunt fell asleep before half time, you could have had her ticket

[RP]

If you are planning a trip to Anfield to watch Liverpool, you should find an alternative weekend that "suits [you] both very well", a weekend when we are playing a game for which there isn't such high demand.

 

If it's your first trip to Anfield, it doesn't matter who we're playing does it?

[Jonesy]

my aunt fell asleep before half time, you could have had her ticket

 

 

last of the Christmas Sherry?

[Guest rome84]

Day trippers into the derby! too many these days causing the lack of singing. Even the albert is full of them, and they dont know half the f***ing songs

[fyds]

I love joining in the singing and dropping one liners and all that, but if the game is really exciting or tense, I can forget all that and just stare speechlessly at times - I suppose many of us do that without realising we're doing it.

[stressederic]

I love joining in the singing and dropping one liners and all that, but if the game is really exciting or tense, I can forget all that and just stare speechlessly at times - I suppose many of us do that without realising we're doing it.

 

Can depend on the weather as well. It was pretty quiet at Anfield for the West Brom game on New Years Eve, but it was bloody freezing behind the Anfield Road goal, and hardly anyone made a noise at times.

[RP]

Can depend on the weather as well. It was pretty quiet at Anfield for the West Brom game on New Years Eve, but it was bloody freezing behind the Anfield Road goal, and hardly anyone made a noise at times.

 

Not that the game has gone soft or anything.

[Logic]

Thanks guys.

 

I suspected it would be almost impossible to get tickets but we're gonna try because that time suits us the best. If we can't get tickets to that game we're going to find another game though.

 

And you would have to worry about any lack of singing from us. We sing even when we are watching the game at home in front of the TV.

 

 

Oh, and perhaps I should tell you guys why I haven't been to a game so far. It's really simple. I'm not from Britain and just haven't had the opportunity nor money required until now. Nothing to do with being a "part-timer".

 

Thanks again.

[Swan Red]

Logic am not trying to be funny but if you are going to make the effort to get over for a game why not try and make a time work when you will be able to get tickets

[Logic]

Logic am not trying to be funny but if you are going to make the effort to get over for a game why not try and make a time work when you will be able to get tickets

I'll do that as well. Going to make at least two trips per year from now on.

[RP]

With Everton and Man United games always falling at convenient times?

[Logic]

With Everton and Man United games always falling at convenient times?

Hehe. Not quite. I really don't care what games I go to. Just want to get over there as often as I can.

[Guest Red Flame]

Thanks guys.

 

I suspected it would be almost impossible to get tickets but we're gonna try because that time suits us the best. If we can't get tickets to that game we're going to find another game though.

 

And you would have to worry about any lack of singing from us. We sing even when we are watching the game at home in front of the TV.

Oh, and perhaps I should tell you guys why I haven't been to a game so far. It's really simple. I'm not from Britain and just haven't had the opportunity nor money required until now. Nothing to do with being a "part-timer".

 

Thanks again.

Logic, there is no need to apologise to the gnarled and wizened curmudgeons that have grunted their replies to your thread. If Liverpool is in your soul and the spirit of the club has chosen you, then you are welcome to taste Liverpool (the city, the club and its people) whenever you can make it. Lazy locals who feel they have the right to pontificate about other people's heartfelt loyalties and question their allegiance while they themselves pick and choose which games to expend their energies on to get a ticket make me gag.

 

Having said that, it is indeed exceptionally ambitious to try to get tickets for the derby. Your timing to try and get into Anfield is not great even though your private arrangements may dictate that you can only come at that time. Apart from those that you find on the blackmarket (often fed by locals) most tickets are understandably passed round friends and family. This is true for any game but it is heightened for the derby as you can imagine. With practically every Liverpool family having Reds and Blues in their ranks there is a tremendous demand and there is a great expectation in Liverpool to see to family first.

 

If you cannot change your travel plans for whatever reason, I would advise you to expect to be disappointed about going to the game and make plans to see the game on television in a pub somewhere.

 

All the pubs close to the ground will have a good atmosphere and on derby day all will have singing in them to a lesser or greater extent. The Albert (which is nestled beside The Kop) is certainly the best bet. It is the closest you will get to a game atmosphere without actually being in the ground. The packed rooms where fans stand crushed together trying to lift the drink to their lips are also the closest you will get to the days of standing terraces without the aid of a time machine. Other than the Albert, personal favourites of mine are The Stanley and The Oakfield. (In The Oakfield, seek out the room upstairs where you may be able to bump into some of the names who frequent this esteemed website will be gathered).

 

Good luck. I hope the trip is enjoyable for one and all.

Edited January 19, 2006 by Red Flame

[mm2259]

Ok, besides realising that I'm considered a second rate fan by some because I'm not born in Liverpool and don't have the chance to go to every game I was wondering about another thing.

 

No-one said you were a second rate fan because you weren't born in Liverpool. I was born in Ireland but I chose to live in Liverpool because it made it easier for me to get to games.

 

If the people complaining go so regularly and so on and so on why is it so easy to get tickets to the "lesser" games? Are there so few in Liverpool that go to these games that we can't fill the stadium for those games?

 

I'm not talking about "people", I'm talking about me and I go to every game.

 

I'm going to try to get to whatever game I like and when it's possible for me. Some no-marks complaining that it so happens that it's a "bigger" game and that I'm "taking their tickets" won't have an effect on me or my decision. I'm not going with a big group of fekking tourists and behave like that. The only reason I'm going to England is to go to one game. And during that trip I plan to stay away from the tourist places and try to meet up with real fans. Not the xenophobic and ignorant. Those who don't like that....... well it's their problem and not mine.

But anyway. Thanks for the support guys.

 

Well, that's fine but as the original reply said "Don't be surprised if people get p*ssed off". Particularly if you are going to refer to loyal fans as no-marks.

 

[Logic]

No-one said you were a second rate fan because you weren't born in Liverpool. I was born in Ireland but I chose to live in Liverpool because it made it easier for me to get to games.

Nah, it wasn't said. It was just implied by saying I should go to the "lesser" games instead of the "bigger" games because the bigger games are for those "loyal fans".

 

And good for you moving there. Not everyone has that as an option.

I'm not talking about "people", I'm talking about me and I go to every game.

Sure, that good. But you are just repeating what has been said around here all since I first joined.

Well, that's fine but as the original reply said "Don't be surprised if people get p*ssed off". Particularly if you are going to refer to loyal fans as no-marks.

So I'm not a loyal fan? Again implying I'm a second rate fan. Good for you.

 

And I'm never surprised that people get pissed off. Every group of people has their idiots and that is why it happens. But it's not going to affect me in any way.

[mm2259]

Nah, it wasn't said. It was just implied by saying I should go to the "lesser" games instead of the "bigger" games because the bigger games are for those "loyal fans".

 

I think that people were merely pointing out that it would be much easier for you to get tickets for a lesser game. As far as I'm concerned you can try to get tickets for whatever game you want. It's the club's loyalty policy that is the problem. However I reserve the right to be p*ssed off if I can't get tickets.

 

And good for you moving there. Not everyone has that as an option.

 

Fair enough, can't argue with that.

 

 

Sure, that good. But you are just repeating what has been said around here all since I first joined.

 

Fair comment, but as I said I'm talking about me not anyone else.

 

 

So I'm not a loyal fan? Again implying I'm a second rate fan. Good for you.

 

Sorry, that implication was not intended. I was referrring to the fans you think of as no-marks, not you.

 

And I'm never surprised that people get pissed off. Every group of people has their idiots and that is why it happens. But it's not going to affect me in any way.

 

So you are you implying that I'm an idiot or are you stating it explicitly.

 

Edited January 19, 2006 by mm2259

[Joshytoohotty]

The same goes for away tickets....It pisses me off when I see all and sundry at London aways, when I know time served reds havnt got tickets.....but thats me

 

Strangely I find London aways easier to get tickets for than most apart from Midlands which never seem to have a big demand.

 

Only London away I've been to which has had a big demand is Spurs, that said I've not been to Highbury before.

 

North Western aways are obviously harder because of the location.

[matty]

Ah come on Dave. I think the lad is just after seeing a top game, and he shouldn't feel the need to ask 'permission' to see whatever game he wants to. Your ire should be directed at people who get tickets through corporate bolllox, not a lad living abroad who obviously wants to see the derby, and who can blame him?

 

It's the way they sell tickets which is obviously the problem that the regulars have. If you think the ones who go every week should have priority then I'd agree, but if the mode of selling tickets doesn't favour them (and I may be wrong but I thought these fancards did favour them), then moan to the club, not a good red who wants to see his team and hardly ever gets the chance.

[anny road]

Ah come on Dave. I think the lad is just after seeing a top game, and he shouldn't feel the need to ask 'permission' to see whatever game he wants to. Your ire should be directed at people who get tickets through corporate bolllox, not a lad living abroad who obviously wants to see the derby, and who can blame him?

 

It's the way they sell tickets which is obviously the problem that the regulars have. If you think the ones who go every week should have priority then I'd agree, but if the mode of selling tickets doesn't favour them (and I may be wrong but I thought these fancards did favour them), then moan to the club, not a good red who wants to see his team and hardly ever gets the chance.

 

 

Matty....I couldnt give a rats a*** wether or not he gets a ticket, if he does then good luck to him

 

My problem is him getting shirty when people raise an eyebrow and he starts bleating about being called a second rate fan

[stressederic]

Not that the game has gone soft or anything.

 

Definitely not. We're all hardcore

[treble2001]

If you get in the ground for the biggest game of the season with one and none games pervious ahead of others then why can't people complain?