MIKE NEVIN on an emotional day in Liverpool’s history – and the home-made video that captured the magic. AS the standing Spion Kop embarked on its final voyage, I watched from the same Kemlyn Road quayside when it first sailed into my view in the late 1970s. The...
“THE Atmosphere tonight, not that I’ll forget it, was absolutely unbelievable. It was really great and I want to say thank you to everyone who was involved in this atmosphere. “It was easy to enjoy from the first until the last second. This was Liverpool how I...
I’M writing this with a headache. A pain in the head brought on not just by last night’s booze, but the also the cacophony of Anfield at its best. Prior to the match against Manchester United, I was thinking about an angle on the game because by the time this...
I DON’T go to Anfield every week. I’d like to, and I put the feelers out for a season ticket at the start of the season, but to no avail. So instead I go whenever I can, getting tickets as and when. When I do go, I tend to end up in the Centenary Stand or the...
BIT of background first. My season ticket is in the Upper Centenary Stand. It has been since it opened in 1992. My dad took the opportunity to buy two when the new tickets were released, and luckily we’ve had them ever since. They’ve shoved us back a few...
LAST night, during Liverpool’s 1-1 draw with Sion, I responded to a tweet from Rory Smith, my colleague at The Times, in which he stated that “the utter silence of English grounds in Europe has to be a small factor in poor results.” Sat at a near mute Anfield, I saw...
ON the infamous Panorama documentary, with the iconic black and white footage of a boisterous, swaying 1960s Kop, there is a reference to “Wacker – The Spirit of Scouse.” The term “Wack” (or Whack) is a precursor, taken from “The Sailors Farewell” printed in 1768, to...
IT’S a debate that has been going on for years. How do we reclaim The Kop? How do we bring back the famous atmosphere that made Anfield different, that made it special and so revered? It’s a debate that needs to be had. Yet it’s a debate that always...
