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‘Stop exploiting our loyalty’
Liverpool fans are right to protest against ticket prices at key moment, JAMES NALTON says

AS LIVERPOOL prepared for their Europa League quarter final first-leg against Atalanta on Tuesday night, there was something noticeably different about the Kop end at Anfield.

It looked bare. The players were not met by the array of flags that usually accompany the pre-match rituals and rendition of You’ll Never Walk Alone.

It wasn’t the Kop as we know it. But that was the point.

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