?Prices have risen 800% since 1992?: the Premier League fans? unions campaigning for

Bitter rivalries are being set aside, as supporters join forces to push back against ?absolute disgrace? of cost increases
Some issues transcend the biggest rivalry in the Premier League, as the sight of a Manchester United banner outside the Kop on Sunday underlined. Before Liverpool and United shared a point inside Anfield supporters of both clubs joined forces to make one about rising ticket prices and the attack on concessions in the world?s richest football league.
?There is an irony to this,? said the United fan Steve Crompton. ?What we are trying to protect is us going into the ground and hating each other for 90 minutes, and yet here we are. This rivalry is part of the Premier League?s product. If you fill the ground with corporates the atmosphere will eventually disappear and so will the ?legacy fans?, as we get labelled.?
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