Liverpool supporters call new ticket pricing 'morally unjustifiable'

The Premier League continues to exclude those without money in their pockets, and Liverpool FC supporters are voicing their anger.

After Liverpool's Tuesday announcement of a new ticket-pricing structure for the 2016-17 Premier League season, the Liverpool FC Supporters' Committee condemned the new system, referring to it as "unnecessary and morally unjustifiable" in a statement.

The £114-million expansion of Anfield's Main Stand will increase the stadium's capacity to around 54,000, but some seats in the stand will cost as much as £77, while the ground's first £1,000 season ticket is available for supporters who can afford it.

From Spirit of Shankly's official website:

The outcome is extremely disappointing and a missed opportunity for LFC to lead in a fairer approach to ticket prices. After months of time and effort, meetings and debate of ideas and plans to lower supporters' costs, the owners have chosen to increase prices for many. In the context of the huge income rises the club will receive next year, to up their revenue from fans through season and matchday tickets is both unnecessary and morally unjustifiable.

At a time of ever increasing commercial and media revenues, the club's reliance on 'general admission' returns is diminishing, and this is a lost opportunity for LFC to begin the reversal of the effects of inflation-busting prices that have forced out many loyal fans over recent years. We had hoped to find a solution to better accessibility to Anfield for younger and future generations through reduced ticket prices.

The supporters committee says it made three proposals in negotiations with the club: pricing at least 70 percent of the ground affordably (suggesting £30 a ticket), "an end to match categorisation," and increasing the number of young supporters inside Anfield.

Jay McKenna, the chair of Spirit of Shankly, also tweeted to highlight a few of Liverpool's failings regarding its new ticket structure: