New ‘people’s club believes tall ticket prices and demand for seats at Everton and Liverpool mean next generation is missing out on matchday experienceWhen the 225th Merseyside derby,sometimes also known as the most ill-disciplined and explosive fixture in the Premier League, takes station at Goodison on Sunday the football season can properly be said to be under way. Never intellect that another disruptive international demolish is just around the corner and that seasons these days are such stop-start affairs they seem to consume an age to net going, and Everton v Liverpool is always the real deal.
That is not to say the football is always grand because often it can be ordinary. And it may be fair to point out that in terms of actual importance,or relevance to title campaigns, there is usually more at stake when the two Manchester teams meet now, or two of the mountainous three teams in London. But everyone enjoys a Merseyside derby. Stuff happens that gets remembered for years,whether it is Gordon West being presented with a handbag in the 60s, Sandy Brown’s screamer of an own goal a few years later, and Robbie Fowler snorting the whitewash and Gérard Houllier hilariously attempting to suggest there was an innocent explanation or,a personal recent favourite, Luis Suárez celebrating a goal by racing to the halfway line to dive at the feet of a bug-eyed David Moyes.
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Source: theguardian.com