After an estimated 10,000 Liverpool fans left their seats during their home game with Sunderland over the club’s announcement that they were raising ticket prices, Lee Davy trawls through the rubble and believes it all boils down to one question: are they fans or customers?

Who is your idol?

I assume you have many. I do. They change as we change. When I was nine years old, my idol was Manchester United and England captain Bryan Robson. I shook his hand the day United opened the Family Stand. Panini were the sponsors. United gave me a free program, free sticker book, and Bryan Robson signed them both with my free pen. Over three decades later I met him again. I interviewed him actually. He hadn’t aged one bit.

There were two reasons I was in that stand on that particular day. The first was my Man of the Match display for 7th Reddish. We beat New Mills away – a journey that always made me puke in my Kwik Save carrier bag – I scored one and hit the crossbar with a header from outside the box. As a reward, the manager took me to watch United. The second reason I was there was because my manager could afford to take me. The ticket cost less than three quid.