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It is the Anfield Rap on this Monday.

I am Neil Atkinson and I am joined by Neil docking, by Phil Blundell and by John Gibbons.

It's the third in our big question series. We may well do these into the new year behind the

paywall, but this first one is, sorry, this third one sorry is about ticketing. It is the ticket question and we'll start in this

very specific area John Gibbons it's hard this and I've written an agenda

out and I was writing it out this morning going well all of number two could be the

whole show and I ended up hitting

number well hit number nine with conclusion but I ended up hitting number eight and I

think that's the first thing I want to sort of make clear as we get into this that

the ticketing questions are always difficult.

It is difficult because demand currently outships supply by a lot and so it's always going to be

hard and it's also hard I think for Liverpool Football Club and

and listen I'm sure they're going to come into some criticism during this

podcast it you know be weird if you didn't at some point get criticized but where I do feel for them is the I know they try and have dialogue and lots of people tell them they do it in lots of different ways and if we're honest it's it's whatever would suit them and so and so at the

moments you know I you know there's a solid theory of ticketing and it also at

times includes game kickoff times which appears to be whatever suits me and my mates please.

Yeah is a genuine sort of policy that a lot of people hold.

Yeah and so there isn't there isn't this obvious solution that the club are ignoring

you know either to make more money or to make it easier for

themselves I don't think I think the thing there are ways that you know it could be

better and fair do I think and listen we're going to explore them now but

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