RTK & SOS

Spirit Of Shankly · June 16, 2008

RTK & SOS

The People's Front of Judea? The Judean People's Front? Questions have been

raised lately asking why there are two separate fan groups at Liverpool FC.

To make it clear to everyone - there are not.

A meeting was held 2 weeks ago between those involved in the Reclaim The Kop

(RTK) campaign and the Spirit Of Shankly (SOS) Management Committee, a

committee which incidentally, includes people involved in RTK since it's

inception. The meeting was held to explore ways in which the two groups

could not only co-exist, but also work together to achieve our aims. In all

theses respects the meeting went extremely well. It became evident that both

groups can compliment each other and work together in addressing the key

issues that affect all LFC supporters.

RTK has always been about addressing the issue of the match-day atmosphere

and experience; working on it, improving it, and hopefully returning it to

the days when opposing teams feared a visit to Anfield even before they had

set foot on the pitch itself.

RTK are still working with the club on all issues related to the atmosphere

at Anfield. There are lines of communication in place to discuss such issues,

the latest result being the expansion of the vocal section at the back of

The Kop.

Before the formation of SOS, RTK were the only recognised and active

Liverpool FC fan's group. This meant that RTK were often looked upon to

provide leadership at times when fans deemed it necessary. Issues such as

the Athens Ticket protests became RTK tasks. RTK arranged an open Q&A

session with Rick Parry last year to discuss the fall-out from this debacle

and ways in which similar occurrences could be avoided in future. This is

obviously something that would now fall under the jurisdiction of The Union.

Both groups can now work together to hopefully arrange a follow up

session.

Since the formation of SOS, there has been no need for RTK to step

forward as it did in the past, hence the lack of public visibility RTK has

had over the past few months. RTK does not represent all fans. It exists

purely to improve the atmosphere on match-days. RTK recognise that there is

now a new body that represents vocal and non-vocal fans on a much broader

range of issues; a body speaking for us AS ONE. The Union have been active

on these and other fronts, and will continue to be so, leaving RTK to

continue its work on the Anfield atmosphere and experience.

RTK will fall under the umbrella of The Union, reporting fan related issues

into the wider body. RTK fully supports all of the SOS agendas, both short

and long term, and will continue to wholeheartedly support the aims of SOS.

The Union now has a Management Committee in place. The bank account is open

and all the hard work in setting up The Union is finally coming to fruition.

Online memberships will be available sooner rather than later. All the

pieces are starting to fall into place. RTK are now going to form part of

that structure for fan / atmosphere related issues, leaving the wider issues

to the Management Committee and membership of The Union.

There can be no division between Liverpool supporters at this time. This

summer the threat of falling even further behind our main rivals, both

financially and on the pitch, is starker than ever. Throughout the next

fortnight we shall be in touch further; outlining our broader aims in

general and taking the fight to the ownership in particular. We would also

like to restate the importance of ALL of us speaking with ONE voice.

We are all in this together. Strength in numbers.

Spirit Of Shankly and RTK

fyds · June 16, 2008

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