Up to 1,500 Liverpool fans boycotted Tuesday's match at Hull due to their anger over the high price of tickets

The away end at Hull was quite sparsely populated on Tuesday evening

Organisers of the Liverpool fans’ boycott of Tuesday night’s match at Hull say they are pleased with the response after up to 1,500 supporters took part.

Sections of the away end at the KC Stadium were empty for Liverpool’s 1-0 defeat as fans registered their anger at the high price of tickets.

Many supporters purchased £10 child tickets and then, instead of attending the game, protested about the £48 adult ticket price outside Anfield and the Premier League’s headquarters in London.

Spirit of Shankly chairman Jay McKenna said: “We think it was a big success.

"When we said to people 12 days ago we would be taking this stance ourselves, and spoke to half a dozen coach operators from Liverpool who said they would do the same, 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.

“This just shows the anger about high prices in general but particularly the situation at Hull, where we were charged three times what Stoke were.

"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've never had people actively staying away from matches in protest like we did last night, not even in the very dark days of (former owners) Tom Hicks and George Gillett. That shows the level of anger from supporters, who had to make a very difficult choice last night.

"One of the most striking things was looking at people who you knew would normally be in the away end, hundreds of miles away from the ground.

"It shows how supporters feel. There was a lot of anger and passion from people not only saying 'this is wrong' but talking about what to do next."

With regards to further action, McKenna says future boycotts are possible but that he is also keen to pursue dialogue with clubs and the Premier League.

He said: "We will discuss whether there will be more action in grounds but boycotting a match isn't an easy thing to do and we won't be doing it week in, week out.

"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.

"I don't think they want to be seeing scenes like last night, a half-empty stadium devoid of passion.”

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