Liverpool fans will fume at official Carabao Cup ticket news today
Arne Slot has adapted to life at Liverpool seamlessly this season and has already taken his side to a final.
After beating Tottenham 4-0 on Thursday (6 February) in the second leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final, the Reds are heading to Wembley Stadium in March to take on Newcastle United.
An FA Cup defeat at the hands of Championship side Plymouth means that Slot and his side will certainly be keen to to come away as victors in the capital city.
Liverpool fans will be fuming with ticket news
Liverpool have announced the ticket news for the final at Wembley Stadium and confirmed the allocation for eager supporters.
On the official Liverpool website, the Reds confirmed (10 February) that the total allocation of seats for their fans is 32,196.
Meanwhile, Newcastle United confirmed that they have an allocation of 31,939 tickets for their supporters in the final.
This means the total allocation of seats in the Carabao Cup final is 64,135.
Supporters not thought about in Carabao Cup final
Although a total allocation of 64,135 sounds like a fair amount of tickets that have been split fairly evenly between both teams in the final, given Wembley Stadium is a 90,000 seater stadium, there has to be some questions over where the rest of the tickets are going.
It cannot be seen as fair that nearly a third of the stadium capacity is being held back from supporters of the two sides who have actually made it into the final on merit.
Furthermore, given both Liverpool and Newcastle are very well-supported sides on a regular basis both home and away, they would no doubt both be able to fill more of the stadium if they were given the opportunity to do so.
This only builds off further issues that already exist surrounding the cup final in March with train strikes making the journey a difficult one to do via public transport.
As it stands, Reds fans can only make it to London on the day of the final by going via Birmingham in a journey that will take four and a half hours (This is Anfield, 7 February).
It does seem absolutely ridiculous that so many tickets have been held back for the final as supporters are what really makes football so successful and it seems as though the higher powers in football are hell-bent on continuing to deliver decisions that show supporters they are no more than customers rather than anything of value to the game.
You can certainly imagine that the Reds will still have their supporters show up in high numbers, even if the journey to show that support is a tough one, and the atmosphere inside the stadium will surely be an excellent occasion as supporters look for their first trophy under Slot.