I WAS chatting to a couple of contributors, Tashan Deniran-Alleyne and Ravit Anand, on Saturday when we turned to the Liverpool fans’ protest earlier that day.

Around 10,000 supporters walked out in the 77th minute after the club announced the priciest matchday tickets would rise to £77 next season.

Ravit said that those protesting were still likely to buy a ticket next year if the club refuses to back down and leaves supporters with no choice but to fork out the money.

But there is a choice and if the club isn’t careful, the number who walk out will double in the weeks ahead. There is already talk of widespread protests at every ground in the near future.

And I hope more fans look at what happened at Anfield over the weekend and use it as inspiration.

This notion that due to the increased television deal, clubs need to spend more money on players which means ticket prices need to be raised is backwards.

The extra cash teams will get from next season means they can actually charge less, they just choose not to. And it is insulting.

What made it worse was that Premier League teams rejected a £30 cap for away fans. Though seven or eight teams thought this was a good idea, the remaining clubs disagreed. Fourteen of the 20 needed to say yes for the idea to be passed.

Clubs are set to share over £8.3 billion over three years and yet are trying to con supporters into believing that the money has to be spent on overpaying for players who don’t care about the history and tradition of the club, players who will be gone in a few years and kissing the badge of the next team that pays their £100,000 a week salary.

“I believe the pressure on spending the money will become bigger and you cannot necessarily distribute the money to other people.” That was how Arsene Wenger put it. He is totally wrong. This will only divide players and fans further.

The pressure will come from fans as they fail to turn up to games. Or leave half-way through. Television companies will not want to show matches being played in front of half-empty stadiums. Droves of supporters holding banners and chanting as they march towards the exits. That isn’t good for business.

It makes perfect sense to me why Ravit said he will introduce his future kids to non-league football first and I don’t blame him. He himself has fallen in love with that side of the game and it made total sense for him to say that he would rather watch Dulwich Hamlet than Liverpool.

Non-league lets you watch people play and then speak to them in the bar after. Or even view the game with them as they stand with the supporters rather than on the bench. I will never forget when Billy Wise of Clapton did that.

It made you fall in love with the club and players even more.

Though the odd Premier League player has done that this season, the fact that the media make such a big deal out of it shows that this is not a regular occurrence. Speak to any non-league fan and they would probably tell you they have lost count of how many times they stood shoulder-to-shoulder with players.

Tashan also raised a valid question. If the Merseyside club charges £77, how long before the rest of the league follows suit, catching up with the likes of Arsenal and their £90+ tickets?

By the time our kids are old enough to be taken to games, could we be looking at £100 a ticket?

The model in Germany needs to be replicated over here. Fans are not priced out of watching the club they support and the atmosphere is better for it.

Tashan has sampled some of the biggest stadiums Britain has to offer and would rather his future kids sample the passion at a stadium in Europe.

I don’t blame him, having been to Borussia Dortmund’s Westfalenstadion. That experience was one I would never forget, the atmosphere inside the ground was electric and ticket prices were really cheap. I plan on going there again, as well as visiting countless other grounds across the world.

I may even try out other sports as they also treat fans a lot better. I met an American Football fan over Christmas.

He supported the Kansas City Chiefs and told me that for a game they were playing that night, you could get a ticket for $6.

That is cheaper than the price at a non-league football ground. Though it won’t be long before I take my son to the Old Spotted Dog to watch Clapton, long before he takes his first trip to Old Trafford.

For £6, you can stand anywhere you want, drink alcohol, smoke — which I don’t but if I wanted to I could.

And if he would prefer to watch league football, I would rather he watch Leyton Orient. That is a great ground to watch football with and for the price of two tickets, food and drink it still wouldn’t equate to one ticket to watch Manchester United.

I remember being angry that I was charged £10 to watch Clapton away a few weeks ago. That’s nothing compared to what Liverpool fans will have to pay from next season.

I shudder to think where this game is heading for supporters as owners purely treat clubs like businesses, as those in charge of Liverpool continue to work out ways to turn fans into consumers.