A.F.C. Liverpool
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| Full name | Association Football Club Liverpool | ||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 2008 | ||||||||||||||||
| Ground | (Temporary)Valerie Park,Hope Street,Prescot,Merseyside.
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| Manager | Derek Goulding | ||||||||||||||||
| League | North West Counties Division Two |
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AFC Liverpool is a English football club owned and run by supporters of Liverpool F.C.. Fans are able to buy into the club and receive an equal vote.[1][2] The club will kick off the 2008-09 season in North West Counties Football League Division Two.[3]
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[edit] About
The club is aimed at Liverpool fans who have been priced out of Premier League football.[4] The club will adopt the same colours, fan songs and will also be based around the same community as Liverpool F.C.. The club is a non-profit organisation. The AFC Liverpool spokesman Alun Parry said "I've been going to Anfield since the late Seventies when I was six years old. A season ticket in the Kop cost £45 in 1985, today it's £650, which I know is a lot cheaper than some other Premier League clubs, but in inflation terms Eighties prices should equate to £98 today."[4] He also stated that the forming of the club had nothing to do with the debated ownership of Liverpool F.C.. Parry stressed that the new club was not to be estranged from Liverpool F.C., but he hoped that it would look on AFC as a 'little brother'.
The formation of the club has already been featured in the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mirror, the Liverpool Echo, the Daily Post[5], BBC Sport[6], Radio City, City Talk FM, BBC Radio Merseyside, BBC London and Sky Sports News.
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- ^ "The fans are revolting", Daily Mirror, 2008-03-08. Retrieved on 2008-03-18.
- ^ "Liverpool fans plan AFC Liverpool", icLiverpool, 2008-02-25. Retrieved on 2008-03-18.
- ^ Conn, David. "AFC Liverpool join the rebels with vow of football for all", The Guardian, 2008-05-08. Retrieved on 2008-05-08.
- ^ a b "Liverpool fans form a club in their price range", The Daily Telegraph, 2008-03-18. Retrieved on 2008-03-18.
- ^ "Hunt for 1,000 fans for AFC Liverpool football club", Liverpool Daily Post, 2008-03-07. Retrieved on 2008-03-07.
- ^ "Reds fans form 'affordable' club", news.bbc.co.uk, 2008-03-18. Retrieved on 2008-03-18.
