Actually, City’s percentage is 99.6%. Our capacity is 53,500 now
Yep, I've been trying to get Transfermarkt to make that correction(to stop people quoting incorrect capacity percentages), telling them about the front rows being removed for the LED hoardings, pointing them to the official PL website which has the updated capacity for PL games but it's been ignored.
In fairness, maybe there's a similar reason for Liverpool's average being lower than normal this season, with the final touches being put on the Anfield road stand expansion. It was partially open for the United game allowing for 7k extra seats for the first time. Edit:
Yep it was reduced to 50k at the start of the season, 57k+ for the partial opening of the third tier. The full capacity will be 61k and they plan on getting that fully operational by the end of Jan. That will make Anfield the 3rd highest capacity in the PL, behind United and Spurs. Seems like being able to say that is important to the owners/board/marketing people as petty as it sounds, expect to see more of this with other clubs.
What you can remind Liverpool fans of is that they have no room to talk about our manager asking for more support/a better atmosphere. He's complained about that multiple times in past, since arriving at Anfield, he even complained about the early leavers. The difference is there isn't a running narrative about Liverpool's support not being up to scratch, like there is with City(unfairly so), in fact it's widely accepted that they are pandered to as a fanbase in our press.
He also did it again very recently after the 0-0 with United and
again after the West Ham game. Both of those were 57k+ attendances. I haven't looked but I have to wonder did Talksport make this a topic of discussion? Was Danny Murphy asked what he thought about it? I doubt it and even if they did, they wouldn't have brought the same energy they did when Pep said similar.
