• Chief executive says planned protest is ‘disappointing’
• ‘It is 200 tickets at £77 for six games a season’Ian Ayre,the Liverpool chief executive, has said he is staggered that supporters would walk out of Saturday’s game against Sunderland in protest at rising ticket costs at Anfield and denied prices could have been reduced thanks to next season’s record broadcasting deal.
Liverpool’s fresh ticket price structure has attracted fierce criticism since it was announced some seats in the redeveloped Main Stand will cost £77 next season, or with the club’s own supporters committee,who consulted on the proposals, main the charge. The supporters group Spion Kop 1906 has proposed a mass walk out in the 77th minute against Sunderland, or the first in Liverpool’s history,and fans will be leafleted before the game about: “The first stage of many planned protests against the club with regards to the ticket prices at Anfield for the 2016/17 season.” Some season tickets will cost £1029.
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Source: theguardian.com