Liverpool Thread - 2022/23

[VOOMER]

Maybe we should give them independence and stop any money going there. It would be fun watching them implode. It would be like escape from New York.

What do you mean "Like"?

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

Klopp fined £30,000 after being sent off in our game. It doesn't say anything about a touchline ban. Slap on the wrist for the wanker.

No ban……they probably thanked him for highlighting issues around people on the touch line abusing officials, in the same weekend local football in Liverpool was suspended, you couldn’t make it up, no wonder he looked smug when asked the question last week, as to whether he will be on the touch line, looks like managers all over will now result to abusing refs when some is on the counter

 

[VOOMER]

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Priceless

 

[VOOMER]

I despair I really do. As a scouser I despair at people like John, and they just use it as some form of Uber Scouse badge of honour. Definitely more a red than blue thing especially the scouse not english mantra.

You are not a scouser, your a Liverpudlian there's a world of difference. Fortunately most people in Liverpool are Liverpudlians.

 

[Slipper One]

Liverpool’s highest attendance would not be in City’s top 20. We’ve had bigger average attendances than them lot when we had the likes of Pearce and Keegan in charge. We have never had attendances as low as they have achieved for a European cup tie.

They are fair weather supporters, Klopp has put together a very good side so they turn up. When the likes of Hodgson was at the helm and they were doing crap they weren’t that bothered about going. Will be interesting to see how full their expanded stadium will be if Klopp gets off in 2026 and they appoint another Hodgson or Rodgers.

The facts appear to backfire on your comment.

In the 12 years prior to 2000, the highest average attendance was 28,273, compared to 43,321 for the Dippers.

Once the difficult days became history, ownership changed, Pep arrived and success became more consistent, that average has shot up to 54,219.

Fairweather fans?

Similar to your point regarding Klopp, when the time comes for Pep to depart, it will be interesting to see what happens to the support then.



The teams to admire are the ones who are not so successful, yet every week their fans turn out in large numbers in all weathers to support them.

 

[HelloCity]

The facts appear to backfire on your comment.

In the 12 years prior to 2000, the highest average attendance was 28,273, compared to 43,321 for the Dippers.

Once the difficult days became history, ownership changed, Pep arrived and success became more consistent, that average has shot up to 54,219.

Fairweather fans?

Similar to your point regarding Klopp, when the time comes for Pep to depart, it will be interesting to see what happens to the support then.



The teams to admire are the ones who are not so successful, yet every week their fans turn out in large numbers in all weathers to support them.

Maine Road was completely full and too small by the time the club were back in the PL and City would ultimately be averaging 40-47 thousand in the years before the takeover. These were top 4 crowds in the country.

 

[theres only one carlito]

The facts appear to backfire on your comment.

In the 12 years prior to 2000, the highest average attendance was 28,273, compared to 43,321 for the Dippers.

Once the difficult days became history, ownership changed, Pep arrived and success became more consistent, that average has shot up to 54,219.

Fairweather fans?

Similar to your point regarding Klopp, when the time comes for Pep to depart, it will be interesting to see what happens to the support then.



The teams to admire are the ones who are not so successful, yet every week their fans turn out in large numbers in all weathers to support them.

The 12 years prior to 2000? We were at Maine road max attendance was 32000 or so?

That’s an occupancy rate of around 88 percent. In an era that was far far from fair weather.

 

[PPT]

No to touch line ban for Klopp. £30K fine. Surprised. Not! Any other PL would have got a one match ban at the least.

 

[Slipper One]

The 12 years prior to 2000? We were at Maine road max attendance was 32000 or so?

That’s an occupancy rate of around 88 percent. In an era that was far far from fair weather.

Agreed Carlito............it was just the "fair weather" and Klopp comments. If things drop off when Pep goes and struggling to get a CL spot becomes the norm, how will it look then? Spouting off about things like that can just as easily happen here. I'd rather just get on and enjoy what is available now and not worry about what others are doing, have done or are going to do.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

The facts appear to backfire on your comment.

In the 12 years prior to 2000, the highest average attendance was 28,273, compared to 43,321 for the Dippers.

Once the difficult days became history, ownership changed, Pep arrived and success became more consistent, that average has shot up to 54,219.

Fairweather fans?

Similar to your point regarding Klopp, when the time comes for Pep to depart, it will be interesting to see what happens to the support then.



The teams to admire are the ones who are not so successful, yet every week their fans turn out in large numbers in all weathers to support them.

He said, ‘Liverpool’s highest attendance would not be in City’s top 20.’

Here are City’s top attendances and they aren’t extensive of those above the Liverpool record:

MCFC Attendances - Manchester City, Man City History - Bluemoon-MCFC

Attendance records of games involving Manchester City Football Club

bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk

Liverpool’s highest ever attendance is 61,905, there are 18 clubs with higher records than that and many with multiple attendances above that.

We did have higher average attendances than Liverpool when Keegan was in charge:
2003-04 - City 46,235; Liverpool 41,777
2004-05 - City 45,192; Liverpool 42,568

And under Pearce we had two attendances higher than Liverpool’s highest in 2005-06, and six attendances higher than Liverpool’s highest in 2006-07.

We were getting 54,000 before Pep arrived:

(Pep was announced in February 2016 and came in June 2016)

Have a read of this one:

69,463 watch MCFC and Burnley in Division Two

On this day (May 10) in 1947 a solitary goal from Alec Herd against Burnley was enough to give Manchester City promotion. The attendance for this Second Division game was recorded by the media at the time as 67,672 but official records reviewed almost sixty years later showed that City actually...

gjfootballarchive.com

‘For comparison purposes it’s worth looking at the attendances of the Division One champions in 1947 to see how the Blues compared. This attendance against Burnley was almost 17,000 higher than Division One champions Liverpool’s highest crowd that season (52,512 v Wolves in December) and the Merseyside Reds nearest home game to City’s Burnley match was watched by 48,800 and that was Liverpool v Manchester United (May 3). Liverpool did average 45,732 that season, whereas City averaged 39,283 but they were a Second Division club.

The City-Burnley crowd was the Second Division’s record at the time and it was higher than every First Division crowd since the 1937-38 season.’

And you do know that 28,273 average attendance you mentioned was when we were in the third tier in 1998-99 and was a record at that level?

I do agree Liverpool fans are not fair weather supporters though. They have the second highest all-time average attendance, while never having got massive crowds they’ve been one of the most consistent and least fluctuating set of fans for attending.