News & Updates

Spirit Of Shankly, the Liverpool Supporters Union, is currently looking at different methods of appropriate action that can be taken, against Tom Hicks, George Gillett, or those involved in the financing of their ownership of Liverpool Football Club. As part of this, we would like to consult with members, and ask for suggestions for the following:1...More

Spirit of Shankly (SOS) is aware that video footage has been posted on the internet from the SOS End of season party on 24th May 2009. This footage shows an unscheduled performance which the SOS Events Commitee had no prior knowledge of. The Events Committee will endeavour to increase back-stage security for future events to ensure improm...More

The Spirit of Shankly Management Committee arranged to meet with Ian Ayre, Commercial Director of Liverpool Football Club on the 27th May 2009. Prior to the meeting questions were put to Mr. Ayre from Committee members representing issues that had been raised with Committee members by members and also issues of general concerns and interest. Mr. Ay...More

The Spirit of Shankly reacted quickly when we discovered overnight between Wednesday and Thursday of this week that Liverpool Football Club were announcing a change to the Priority Ticket Scheme. We obtained feedback from Ian Ayre, Commercial Director of Liverpool Football Club that we published as quickly as possible on the SOS website (here). Fol...More

DIRECT ACTION NOW!!HICKS AND GILLETT OUT NOW!!NO TO REFINANCE!!Spirit of Shankly today launches direct action against Royal Bank of Scotland and seeks the support of all members and fans in a campaign to force RBS to refuse to refinance the loans taken out by our current owners. We have all seen yesterday's news, which while making us all angry, is...More

The Spirit of Shankly have studied the information that has been released in the last day relating to the accounts of Liverpool Football Club and its associated companies. The picture is alarming and underlines what we have said from the creation of the Union, namely that Tom Hicks and George Gillett are not fit or proper custodians of our Club.The...More

The Spirit of Shankly (SOS) recently met with Ian Ayre to question him on a number of wide ranging issues. We will be reporting back to members about this shortly. The question of the price of next season's Priority Ticket Scheme (PTS) was raised by the SOS and Mr. Ayre indicated that there was likely to be an announcement this week but that he was...More

Spirit of Shankly, Liverpool Supporters Union would like to wish good luck to a group of fans representing Liverpool FC this summer.   They will be representing Liverpool at the Eurofans International Football Supporters Tournament in Lviv, Ukraine in June 2009 (June 25th-28th) organised by http://www.gokarpaty.org/ Lviv will be one of ho...More

Spirit of Shankly, at its annual End Of Season Do on Sunday, will be presenting Liverpool legend Sami Hyypia with a small memento of thanks for his decade of service at the heart of the Liverpool defence, on behalf of members. We are sure that all fans would like the opportunity to give Sami a proper send off, one that he deserves, so we are asking...More

Saturday 23rd May will see a football match, between local lads and Norwegian Reds. with all money raised going to the Hope for Hillsborough campaign. The game will kick off at 1pm and will be played at Aintree Racecourse. The lads who organised this were unaware of the date clash with the HJC Cup but would like to ask as many people as possible ...More