There's A Reason Liverpool Fans Are Involved In Tragic Events

First of all losing to Liverpool yesterday hurt, make no mistake about it, the ridiculous non use of VAR at the end of the game was pretty scandalous and has already been covered by many media outlets. It worked 'perfectly' for the visitors in order for Jarrod Bowen's goal to be written off, correctly as it happens, but was NOT USED at all despite one of the most blatant hand balls you will ever see from Liverpool, albeit despite being an 'accident'.

Mikey Antonio had a similar accident the previous week which was far less blatant but had a penalty awarded against him, such are the vagueries of VAR. However, a far more serious series of events had already occurred, before, during and after the game courtesy of the visiting support.

Viewers from Merseyside will say that negative comments about their 'wonderful' away supporters are just sour grapes, which to some degree is true, however they cannot deny that a huge number of them had attained tickets in the home fans area and ALL OVER the ground. In fact they are proud of how they manage to get 'unobtainable' tickets where ever they play, home or abroad!

Firstly there needs to be a serious investigation as to how SO MANY were able to gain entry, their presence is NOT heresay, at the Org we witnessed first hand just how many Liverpool supporters there were ALL OVER THE GROUND! This is totally unacceptable, the potential for disorder was rife and on another evening things could have gone from drastic to tragic very quickly and that is the point of this article.

The club should NEVER have allowed so many opposition supporters into the ground, that needs to be sorted out quickly, but more importantly 'innocent' Liverpool fans with the correct tickets were swamped by those who had acquired tickets nefariously and behaved accordingly.

It is NO CO-INCIDENCE that tragic events in Europe and Domestically have featured Liverpool fans, time and again their 'enthusiasm' for getting tickets has caused chaos and disorder resulting in death and injury. If it was a one off situation then that is fate, however 'Pool' supporters of a certain type have been involved in multiple incidents, many of them going unreported and something needs to be done before another 'tragedy' occurs.

West Ham AND other clubs are NOT blameless either, 'Ticket Exchange' that Hammers uses is a great idea, in principle, it is to allow fans who cannot attend games the facility to pass their tickets on to 'fellow' fans in order that they can attend, a hefty mark up is added with the additional funds going towards new players etc, again a good idea but then it begins to fall apart.

There are too many ways a 'determined' away supporter can milk the system, all they need is a greedy middleman to facilitate their purchase and they are away, it happens on most match days, but Liverpool supporters have an entire unofficial infrastructure in place to get hold of tickets, it has been going for years and has been responsible or partly responsible for crowd disorder across Europe on numerous occasions.

Perhaps we imagined all the Scouse accents right next to us in the Bobby Moore upper? And that we 'imagined' none of them celebrating Lucas Paqueta's wonder goal but somehow saw them jumping out of their seats when Liverpool scored?

The FA and Premier League need to make a serious review of this type of situation, after all, there is a reason it is Liverpool fans who have been involved in the bulk of modern day European football tragedies, isn't there or is it pure co-incidence? - Ed

NB: We apologise if this article upsets those who suffered injury or loss through no fault of their own in the incidents we have discussed, but feel it is VITAL lessons are learned in order to avoid similar tragedies