Arsenal and Chelsea have a larger fanbase than Liverpool?........I think not!
Article by Red Phil
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I almost choked on my cereal when I read that, apparently, Arsenal and Chelsea have bigger global fan-bases than Liverpool! That is so wrong as to be offensive. I have written to the Daily Mail to point out the lunacy of their statement!
If that is true then I’m the lead dancer when the Royal Ballet do “Swan Lake” and, believe me, I am NOT built for dancing or wearing skin-tight tights and leaping into the air!!!
Granted, Arsenal and Chelsea have bigger stadiums – and higher ticket prices - so get more money in through the turnstiles and their ability to promote their merchandise is almost second to none but could they go to Melbourne to play in front of 95,000 fans, with 90%-plus of them wearing THEIR club shirts or waving THEIR club scarves whilst singing the club song . . . if they had one? Watch the ‘You Tube’ rendition of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” at the Liverpool v Melbourne Victory game in Melbourne and you’d see that the Liverpool fans massively outnumbered the home fans with about 90% supporting Liverpool, holding Liverpool scarves aloft and wearing the club’s shirts. God, it is impressive! Chelsea or Arsenal couldn’t do that, even in John Terry’s wildest fantasies.
Liverpool have a season-ticket waiting list that was, a couple of years ago, equal to the current size of our ground . . . which means we could rival United’s attendances if our ground could accommodate enough fans. After our current expansion our ground will hold 58,000 but we could cope with much more than that just from that one waiting list alone.
We relatively recently, over the last couple of summers, played in huge stadiums in Charlotte, New York, Chicago, Indonesia and Thailand and always in front of sell-out crowds with the Liverpool support unbelievable and outnumbering the opposition massively. In one of those games, against Manchester City, in New York, the City fans took up an area the size of an average-sized chip shop and the rest of the Yankees Stadium was pure red!
I read somewhere that our support in Cairo is simply astonishing, almost off the scale!! I think I read somewhere that Everton have a couple of fans in Australia and maybe one poor lonesome soul in New Zealand . .
Next Summer, I think, we play in Adelaide, amongst other places, and, you’ve guessed it, it will be sold out and the crowd will almost certainly be massively supporting Liverpool. Arsenal and Chelsea, or Arsenal and Roman Abramovich’s cheque book and mere ten-year success story, are massive clubs but when it comes to long-term global support they cannot hope to compete with us, let alone beat us.
Has anybody been abroad and seen the locals wearing an Arsenal shirt? You could normally have a five-a-side game with young local lads wearing United and Liverpool shirts, but not Arsenal shirt-wearers.
In terms of world footballing support it is United, Liverpool, Real Madrid and Barcelona . . . and I wouldn’t like to try to put them in any order. The rest? Miles back, not even in the race! Other clubs may make more money than us by having a bigger ground and charging more for tickets but hardly any can claim to have more fans!
RED PHIL
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I almost choked on my cereal when I read that, apparently, Arsenal and Chelsea have bigger global fan-bases than Liverpool! That is so wrong as to be offensive. I have written to the Daily Mail to point out the lunacy of their statement!
If that is true then I’m the lead dancer when the Royal Ballet do “Swan Lake” and, believe me, I am NOT built for dancing or wearing skin-tight tights and leaping into the air!!!
Granted, Arsenal and Chelsea have bigger stadiums – and higher ticket prices - so get more money in through the turnstiles and their ability to promote their merchandise is almost second to none but could they go to Melbourne to play in front of 95,000 fans, with 90%-plus of them wearing THEIR club shirts or waving THEIR club scarves whilst singing the club song . . . if they had one? Watch the ‘You Tube’ rendition of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” at the Liverpool v Melbourne Victory game in Melbourne and you’d see that the Liverpool fans massively outnumbered the home fans with about 90% supporting Liverpool, holding Liverpool scarves aloft and wearing the club’s shirts. God, it is impressive! Chelsea or Arsenal couldn’t do that, even in John Terry’s wildest fantasies.
Liverpool have a season-ticket waiting list that was, a couple of years ago, equal to the current size of our ground . . . which means we could rival United’s attendances if our ground could accommodate enough fans. After our current expansion our ground will hold 58,000 but we could cope with much more than that just from that one waiting list alone.
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We relatively recently, over the last couple of summers, played in huge stadiums in Charlotte, New York, Chicago, Indonesia and Thailand and always in front of sell-out crowds with the Liverpool support unbelievable and outnumbering the opposition massively. In one of those games, against Manchester City, in New York, the City fans took up an area the size of an average-sized chip shop and the rest of the Yankees Stadium was pure red!
I read somewhere that our support in Cairo is simply astonishing, almost off the scale!! I think I read somewhere that Everton have a couple of fans in Australia and maybe one poor lonesome soul in New Zealand . .
Next Summer, I think, we play in Adelaide, amongst other places, and, you’ve guessed it, it will be sold out and the crowd will almost certainly be massively supporting Liverpool. Arsenal and Chelsea, or Arsenal and Roman Abramovich’s cheque book and mere ten-year success story, are massive clubs but when it comes to long-term global support they cannot hope to compete with us, let alone beat us.
Has anybody been abroad and seen the locals wearing an Arsenal shirt? You could normally have a five-a-side game with young local lads wearing United and Liverpool shirts, but not Arsenal shirt-wearers.
In terms of world footballing support it is United, Liverpool, Real Madrid and Barcelona . . . and I wouldn’t like to try to put them in any order. The rest? Miles back, not even in the race! Other clubs may make more money than us by having a bigger ground and charging more for tickets but hardly any can claim to have more fans!
RED PHIL
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Lol yet another deluded scouser those reports are based on research and facts where as yr claim is based on yr deluded believe that we still live in the early 80's
ReplyDeleteSadly, your opinions on this don't agree with the actual surveyed data collected over the past 5 years on global fanbases by Deloitte, et al. That was the actual data the Mail's article was based upon.
ReplyDeleteIf you, like most Liverpool fans, prefer to remain in some fantasy world as to Liverpool's supposed position in the Football hierarchy then I won't be surprised. The simple fact is that Liverpool haven't done nearly enough in the past 25 years to maintain and cultivate their fanbase. Most of the rest of the world chooses to live in 2015, as opposed to rehashing the years 1975 - 1989 ad nauseum...
absolute joke article by the mail,nuff said.
ReplyDeleteLol, a true liverpool fan -- nevermind the facts!
ReplyDelete"Offended by everything -- ashamed of nothing"
--Grief Monkeys F.C.
Any chance of some tickets to the next performance at the ballet
ReplyDeleteNo figures or anything other than the fact you filled a stadium in America to back up your argument then? I'm not sure why you think a team who has never won the premier league is streaks ahead of more successful teams of the era in worldwide appeal. One fact for example is that arsenal are the most popular team in England on social media. I'm sure you won't like that being stuck in the 80's, but that speaks volumes about where they are in worldwide following. And you certainly do see many people in all corners of the world wearing their kits, perhaps you just notice the Liverpool one's more. Or maybe there are more second hand one's around the world that people gave away when the 80's finished. Liverpool are a very popular team around the world, but I'm afraid, my deluded friend, that other teams are popular too. Arsenal especially have captured the younger market around the world like no other
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