Who Sold Out! My Day At The Match: Liverpool 2-0 Burnley, Aug. 21st 2021

Who Sold Out! My Day At The Match: Liverpool 2-0 Burnley, Aug. 21st 2021
August 23, 2021 Andrew Beasley

 

Part 1 – By Andrew Beasley.

When you work in football media and publicise your contact details in the hope of scratching out some new gigs, you tend to get a lot of emails from PR companies who want you to spin their latest findings into an article.

Only last week I received one which boldly claimed in capital letters that ‘JACK GREALISH HAIRSTYLE VOTED SEXIEST ON TINDER’. Aside from confirming that I clearly have no idea what constitutes sexiness in a hairstyle anymore – if I ever did – this news was of little use to me.

And as that sort of subject matter is par for the course, you can imagine my surprise when I got an email offering me two free tickets to Liverpool vs. Burnley in exchange for one tweet promoting the Reds’ hospitality partner.

Selling out? Me? When it comes to an opportunity to attend Anfield for the first time in over two years and to cheer Liverpool on at the first full house since they became league champions? Absolutely.

The rest of this article is for subscribers only. Sign up for just a fiver a month

[ttt-subscribe-article]

Freelance football writer, lifelong Liverpool FC fan, and football stat nerd. More by Andrew Beasley
000