A mother wipes away tears outside Anfield as she comforts her young son on a bitterly cold night.
Liz O’Driscoll, who has travelled to Merseyside from County Kerry in Ireland with eight-year-old Liam, has just been informed by Liverpool staff that the two tickets she bought for the Premier League game against Aston Villa are fake.
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“We got to the scanner at the turnstiles and the light went red rather than green, so they sent us here to the ticket office,” she says. “I got them through the grapevine in Ireland. This fella said he knew someone who could sort it and put me in touch with him.
“I paid £200 through
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