Protests in London as Fans march on to Premier League Head Quarters to say NO to sky-high ticket prices.

Angry fans of rival Premier League clubs joined forces in London on Wednesday to protest against expensive ticket prices. Supporters of Liverpool, Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham marched  to the Premier League headquarters in Gloucester Place, London.

A delegation was due to meet with chief executive Richard Scudamore to discuss the rising cost of season tickets, prohibitive match days prices for away supporters and moving fixtures to accommodate TV demands.

Liverpool supporter's group the Spirit of Shankly explained: 'For too long supporters have been exploited with their loyalty taken for granted. Ticket prices have risen far beyond inflation and this has already seen supporters priced out of their game.

'With the ever increasing money in the modern English game, the benefits for supporters should be improving alongside the increase in wealth. But instead the football clubs and authorities rely on the rivalries of supporters to allow them to exploit those same supporters.

'In the FA's 150th year we find that the ethos of the game in this country does not represent the same values with which the game was formed. Clubs tell us they need more money to be able to compete, that they need to charge more for tickets because other clubs do. The Premier League tell us that it is the clubs' choice and that they are powerless in changing anything.



'All parties hide behind excuses expecting supporters to just accept them and begrudgingly continue to pay the high ticket prices to pay high paid footballers further extortionate amounts. They expect us to want to pay more to be able to pay a footballer who wears our shirt for a brief time even more money in the hope that it allows the club to finish higher to get even more money to pay those footballers even more.'

'Supporters from different clubs are uniting to make a stand so that clubs cannot use the line they charge more so we have to, or that the Premier League cannot just say well attendances are good so everyone must be happy.'

Last October, the BBC published a survey claiming ticket prices in the top four divisions in England had risen by 11.7 per cent in 12 months — more than five times the rate of ­inflation.

And in January, Manchester City supporters protested at being forced to pay £62 for a ticket to watch their team play at Arsenal, which prompted the FSF to organise a series of meetings across the country.