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Liverpool City Council’s Licensing Committee has proposed reducing tickets to Man United fans for “dafety reasons” as they say United fans stand in seating areas and blocked stairways.
If the proposal passes at a meeting next month, United fans will find their ticket allocation for the match on 15 October cut from 3,000 to 1,965.
United fan Andrew Gilduff, from independent supporters group Stretford End Flags, said if the plan went ahead it would hit fans hard.
“If you look up and down the country, standing is rife amongst the away fans, it’s not just a Manchester United issue, it’s an issue which affects all football fans. People in the reduced allocation are still going to stand, there is better ways of tackling the problem than by reducing allocation. Some clubs have stewards in the gangways and in the aisles. At Anfield you are never asked to sit down, they do make an announcement every now and then over the tannoy, but that just goes unnoticed.”
Liverpool fan Gareth Roberts, from Well Red Magazine, said he thought it would be a “strange decision”.
“Anyone who goes to Anfield regularly will tell you that there is a section of the Kop that stands regularly. As much as it pains me to say it, I don’t know why Man United fans are being targeted in this instance. Basically any away end of any team that has a big away following, they stand up.”
