by Our Sports Desk

ORGANISERS of the Liverpool fan boycott of their match against Hull City on Tuesday night have labelled the action a “big success.”

Fan’s group Spirit of Shankly co-ordinated the action in protest at the £48 ticket price for the weeknight game.

Supporters purchased tickets at the lower £10 child price and then voted with their feet, protesting outside Anfield and London’s Premier League headquarters and leaving 1,500 empty seats in the away end of The Cirle as Brendan Rogers’s side slumped to a 1-0 defeat.

Spirit of Shankly chairman Jay McKenna said: “There were supporters at our protest at Anfield last night who weren’t in the away end for the first time in almost 20 years.

“We were anticipating a quarter of the away end not attending.

“But I think from what we saw last night it was definitely over half and we’ve had people saying stewards at Hull told them there were 1,500 empty seats, which just shows the anger about high prices in general but particularly the situation at Hull, where we were charged three times what Stoke were.”

McKenna warned that future boycotts were a possibility but they, along with other fans’ groups, wanted to pursue more dialogue with clubs and the Premier League.

“We will discuss whether there will be more action in grounds as boycotting a match isn’t an easy thing to do and we won’t be doing it week in, week out,” he added.

“We will talk to other supporters’ groups, asking them to take similar action, and sit down and talk with sponsors of clubs and the Premier League to tell them the relationship is broken.”