RENEWAL / NEW
MEMBERSHIP
MADRID REDS
OFFICIAL
LIVERPOOL FC BRANCH
MADRID REDS
Season 2017/18
Current members
Dear friends:
The renewal process for Membership of the official
LFC branch began some time ago. The club has been informing members that
renewal was automatic. Please check your bank statements and emails to see if
you have been charged by LFC.
Please remember that In order to be eligible to go
to Anfield with Madrid reds it is vitally
important to have one of the following two types of Membership cards:
* Membership Light: £26,99 (€30.44 subject to variations in currency*)
Or
* Full Membership, con un coste de £39.99 (€45.70*).
- International membership is
not accepted
PLEASE NOTE: Those wishing to apply for
membership for the first time you have to highlight the fact that you belong to
the Madrid reds branch each and every time you request tickets through the
branch. As such, once you have your membership you must link it to the branch
through the Friends and Family system. In order to do this correctly please
contact Simon H by email and he will talk you through the process.
You
can see the benefits of having each of the memberships by consulting the
official website: http://www.liverpoolfc.com/
Please
remember that apart from requesting tickets through the branch you are also
able to request tickets personally when they go on sale.
NEW MEMBERS TO MADRID REDS
For those wishing to renew or become a member of
the Madrid reds Official LFC club branch the fee this year is €20
An “early bird” offer of 18€ is available if you
pay before September 30th 2017.
How
do I pay the Madrid reds fee?
Please do
not try to do anything via Facebook.
The above email is the only valid method for subscription.
Please note: The
account number is not the same as last year
2- We will
send you the account number.
3- Make the
payment. In the subject line of the bank transfer please add
“2017/2018
Branch fee and YOUR NAME”
Who
can become a member of Madrid Reds?
Obviously anybody that comes to see the games at
the Triskel Tavern can become a member and what´s more we´d be delighted to
welcome you. However, one of the main reasons for becoming a member is that
Madrid Reds offers you the chance to belong to a community, a family as well as
having the opportunity to go to Anfield through the branch.
In order to this you must be a Madrid Reds member
and have either a “Light” or “full” LFC membership. (As mentioned in the first
section the International membership
is not accepted)
When
and How?
Premier league fixtures will be released on June
14th so from this point onwards we will look at our options.
In July and November we will ask the branch which
games they would like to attend.
The club will then confirm if we are succesful
or not and how many tickets we will be allocated.
The club has not confirmed if this year will see
any changes but last year we had the right to choose between:
- 6 matches
- 3 in the first half of the season and 3 in the
second.
(We had 14 tickets for each match.)
The club asks us to choose the games we want to
attend in the first half of the season in july and in November for games in the
second half of the season.
This year, and in order to avoid what happened last
year, the commitee will have the final say on the games that we will attend. We
have decided this because the club has stopped us from requesting tickets for
matches against the same teams year on year. Additionally, matchdays can be
changed from Saturday to Sunday and, with the various petitions we receive from
members, we felt it best proceed this way given our experience over the last
ten years at Madrid Reds.
Please remember that, as Membership holders, you
are free to request tickets individually, independently of the branch, when
they go on sale.
We also ask that once we know the matches that we
have been allocated tickets that members request tickets responsibly knowing
full well that they will able able to travel to Anfield on the specified date.
Usually we have lots of requests for tickets and then later people drop out or
decline their tickets (at the last minute). This causes a great deal of
problems for the branch not only financially but also in terms of the way the
club views our commitment to ticket allocation and our other requests.
Match tickets are paid separately but the branch
administers this receiving the money in the aforementioned account. LFC usually
contact us for payment 8 weeks before the game.
This year we expect ticket prices to vary between
€45-70.
On the vast majority of occasions we have been
given tickets all together on the Kop.
However, this is not always the case and we have
been given tickets in every nook and crany of Anfield over the last 10 years.
We pay the same as every other fan that goes to the
stadium unlike internet ticketing agencies who hike up the prices.
Please note that the Branch only has the right
to a Premier league ticket allocation.
We don’t have tickets for Cup or European matches
with no exceptions.
However, having an LFC membership allows you to
request cup matches individually.
Every year we try to have an official Madrid Reds
branch trip usually in the first half of the season (September/October) in
order to avoid problems with television rescheduling.
The branch only adminsters the ticketing operation. We do not reserve flights or hotels.
These are to be reserved individually by each
person who requests a ticket.
* Every
season each branch member receives a gift. Up to now we have had everything
from scarves,T-shirts, Polo shirts, key-rings, breakfast glasses and pint
glasses. We will ask you about your preferences in terms of this gift.
* Any remaining money in the account at the end of
the season goes towards the end of season party, towards the cost of making
Branch banners and towards anything that management consider necessary towards
the running of the organization. A donation to the LFC foundation would also be
considered if this was approved.
* Another aspect of membership of the branch that
we are looking into is the increased participation in the LFC Foundation
events.
Last season (16/17) we were able to donate €600 to
the foundation something that previously had never been done before.
We think that it would be really good to repeat
initiatives in the Madrid community and continue to support local NGOs, food
banks (a great success for us with Aaqua), Christmas presents for children,
blood donations and raffles etc.
Amongst many other things one of our initiatives is
to try and bring an explayer here for Sportsman’s evening or a Q&A session.
We are
currently working on this tirelessly and we have some serious possibilities.
As a branch we all need to think of initiatives we
can get involved in: social, sporting etc.
We are open to you contributing articles on the web
and on Facebook etc.
Throughout the year there will be a small stand of
Branch products for sale in the Triskel.
posted by Pax at
June 07, 2017
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