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Internet touts are flogging tickets for Sunday's sold-out clash between Liverpool FC and Manchester City for as much as £5,000 a pair.

At £2,453.14 for a seat in Anfield's lower Centenary Stand, fans desperate to see the potential Premier League decider would be paying more than 60 times the lowest face value ticket.

There are more 'modest' figures in the region of £500 to a £1,000 but the extortionate prices are staggering, considering an original ticket for the sell-out Category A clash would be between £44 and £52 when sold by the club..

Those wanting to experience the atmosphere of the Kop would have to fork out a minimum of £795. For less than that price, fans could get next year's season ticket in the central section of the same stand.

Tickets for the World Cup in Rio have been hitting the dizzy heights of £5000, with officials warning the majority of these tickets don't actually exist.

The websites allow those with tickets to the games, including away fans, to sell them on securely but for an amount of their choice. The cheapest ticket in the Man City end is valued at £430, more than £350 its original price.

Tickets for the crucial match were said to be sold out within one minute of going on general sale, leaving thousands of Liverpool and City fans missing out.

Liverpool entertain City hoping to secure their tenth consecutive victory, and Brendan Rodgers ' men know the Premier League title is theirs if they win their five remaining fixtures.

With Mamadou Sakho having labelled it "the biggest match Liverpool have played in 24 years", all eyes are on Sunday's tie.

The game will kick off seven minutes late as a mark of respect ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster .

The selling of over-priced seats comes less than a month after it was revealed 10 tickets for the Hillsborough memorial match were flogged as fake Premier League tickets for Liverpool's 4-3 win against Swansea.

A spokesperson for the Liverpool FC supporters union, Spirit of Shankly, said: "Fans are being charged well over the odds for a ticket, and it's disgraceful really.

"Supporters want to go along and support both sides, and it should never be a question of only those who can afford it.

"We call on Liverpool Football Club to try and take action on this.

"Those who charge such extortionate amounts should be found and challenged.

"These aren't just touts outside the ground, these are on websites.

"Why can't the authorities, or Liverpool, buy one and find out who it originally belongs to?

"If they're going to tackle it properly, they need to take action and get to the bottom of this."

The ECHO’s Liverpool FC reporter James Pearce said: “It’s disgraceful that fans desperate to get tickets for Liverpool’s biggest league game for more than two decades are being priced out by touts simply looking to make money.

“This is a match every loyal Reds fan would dearly love to attend. However, sadly, some tickets appear destined to end up in the hands of those with little emotional attachment to Anfield who can simply afford to pay the astronomical sums being demanded.”

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