I knows we’ve done this before but always love to hear about people’s first trips to Anfield
Can everyone remember vividly their first time?
Can everyone remember vividly their first time?
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Yep. Mine was to watch a QPR 1-1 draw as a voucher game for the Utd game later in the season. QPR scored early through Gallen and Scales equalised.
Back in the day when all you needed was 1 lower tier game to see better opposition a month or two later.
Much happier memories of game #2 later in the season.
Back in the day when all you needed was 1 lower tier game to see better opposition a month or two later.
Much happier memories of game #2 later in the season.
My first few times to Anfield we were fucking shite. Don't think we scored a goal in the first 4 or 5 times I went. Then I played there and we got beat. Even now, I have a bit of a shit win/loss ratio when I go.
Inter Milan, 1965.
It was the greenness of the pitch that first blew me away. Then the Kop in full voice. Awesome.
It was the greenness of the pitch that first blew me away. Then the Kop in full voice. Awesome.
first time was 1-1 vs City with the Charlie Adam deflected goal. Joe Hart was unreal that day.
Did @King Binny have a chance to visit Anfield yet? If not, I hope you do, mate, it will be unforgettable and worth the trip.
Unfortunately not yet, @rurikbird . I hope to too, hopefully while Klopp is still in charge and Salah is still with us.
Can't wait for the in detail match report when that happens 🙂
My first game I went with my sister's fiance it was Bolton 2003 Sinama Pongolle scored just after half time. loved it but didn't get the chance to go again until I was 18 and I could take myself. Which was also easy since Hodgson was in charge and noone wanted to go the game
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First trip to Mecca... Was standing at the very back of the Kop, Literally. There was nobody behind me. After the game, I stayed so late because I just didn't want to leave, I stayed so late that I ended up locked in, and had to be escorted out through the players entrance by the police! 🙂
Some time around 2000 and we won 2-0 against Tottenham. Four things stick in my head from it:
- Emile Heskey looks like he could’ve birthed Michael Owen, Owen is tiny
- Some woman beside me couldn’t pronounce Patrick Bergers name
- Ginola had some top drawer keepy up skills
- There was a guy from Hollyoaks roaming around
I cant really comment on the quality of the game being played out in front of me but what I do remember is I was in my element, as was my younger brother, who's a scum supporter. The scum fans shouting utd, and the kop responding with 'shite' Hearing that live as a 12 year old... unreal. To see Kenny Dalglish was just outstanding. But yeah I remember the goal vividly, typical Stapleton!
I went to loads of games at both anfield and goodison when I was a kid and even got dragged to aways and finals but it was always because someone else wanted to go and needed an excuse (dad or uncles). I didn't really like watching the football, it was old men (who were younger than I am now) patting my head and stinking of shit beer and cigs when I just wanted to go out and play football with mates. I realise now that I was being used as a basis for my dad and uncles to get out the house. As in, I'd love to come shopping with you love but I promised to take this little scrote to the footy, I was a pawn in their game.
The first game I willfully went to on my own was Liverpool v Leicester in about 84 or 85. It was nil nil with ten mins to go, but dalglish was on the bench and as he came on the entire ground breathed a sigh of relief, as if it's fine now, of course we'll win. The next thing he set up Rush, who scored. The power of dalglish and how he calmed 50,000 people was amazing.
The first game I willfully went to on my own was Liverpool v Leicester in about 84 or 85. It was nil nil with ten mins to go, but dalglish was on the bench and as he came on the entire ground breathed a sigh of relief, as if it's fine now, of course we'll win. The next thing he set up Rush, who scored. The power of dalglish and how he calmed 50,000 people was amazing.
I watched a bunch of games in the early 2000s, especially at the end of Houllier's reign. They were mostly shit of course. I very much enjoyed walking to and from them though. That was the best part, and staying with my grandad for a few weeks.
The moments I remember are Hyppia rising like a salmon and heading one in against Wolves. Was Houlliers last season, 2004, and the mood around the ground was so jaded and moany. Oh, and Hamann's volley vs Portsmouth.
The last time I went wasn't for this legacy armchair supporter, the opener against Norwich, even though I can say I saw part of our march to the title. Everyone around me was just there to observe a curiosity.
The moments I remember are Hyppia rising like a salmon and heading one in against Wolves. Was Houlliers last season, 2004, and the mood around the ground was so jaded and moany. Oh, and Hamann's volley vs Portsmouth.
The last time I went wasn't for this legacy armchair supporter, the opener against Norwich, even though I can say I saw part of our march to the title. Everyone around me was just there to observe a curiosity.
I was at that game as well.They had a team of Internationals but we blew them away. The away leg is well documented. We wuz robbed.
My first game was at home V Walsall in the 2nd Div. 6-1.Oct '61.
So - what I'm picking up from all this is that SCM is all a bunch of bad luck omens.
I've never watched us lose at Anfield.*
*Partially because I couldn't get into a game versus any good team.
My Anfield blooding came when I stood on the Kop in the early 70s for a Cup game against Stoke (a top division side in those days). The great Ian Callaghan had got his MBE in midweek and the two teams lined up to clap him on to the pitch, after which Stoke proceeded to kick ten bells out of Cally (and anything else that moved) for the whole 90 minutes. We won of course but it wasn't the greatest game TBH.
The best of the afternoon's entertainment came courtesy of that other lot across Stanley Park. Everton were at home to Altrincham, a top non-league side then, who had made it through the qualifying rounds. On came the tannoy at half-time: "And now some news from our friends across the park [we could sense a note of irony in the guy's voice and a buzz started to go around the crowd]: Everton - nil [loud cheer], Altrincham [just the slightest pause] - two [a roar like the downdraft of a moon rocket nearly lifts the roof off the place]." Regrettably it soon became apparent that this was duff info, but Altrincham held out for a goalless draw in the end and those of us who had come from far away had some sport with the few blueslime stragglers we came across on our way back to Lime Street, trying to make themselves inconspicuous and failing miserably.
Happy days. 😀
The best of the afternoon's entertainment came courtesy of that other lot across Stanley Park. Everton were at home to Altrincham, a top non-league side then, who had made it through the qualifying rounds. On came the tannoy at half-time: "And now some news from our friends across the park [we could sense a note of irony in the guy's voice and a buzz started to go around the crowd]: Everton - nil [loud cheer], Altrincham [just the slightest pause] - two [a roar like the downdraft of a moon rocket nearly lifts the roof off the place]." Regrettably it soon became apparent that this was duff info, but Altrincham held out for a goalless draw in the end and those of us who had come from far away had some sport with the few blueslime stragglers we came across on our way back to Lime Street, trying to make themselves inconspicuous and failing miserably.
Happy days. 😀
I don't think Callaghan was there in the 1870s, Jules. In fact, neither were the Reds.
I'd love to say that my first game was either a brilliant end-to-end affair against a good side or an absolute hammering of a shit team, but sadly it was neither. We drew 0-0 with Coventry.
I was only a kid and to be honest, I loved it anyway.
The majority of games I have seen since then have pretty much made up for it I think. There was only one game where I remember thinking 'this is utter shit'. That was against Celta Vigo in the late 90s and we lost 1-0.
Sadly I haven't been for a few years as getting tickets seems like a huge hassle and life has got in the way. Aiming to go at some point this season.
I was only a kid and to be honest, I loved it anyway.
The majority of games I have seen since then have pretty much made up for it I think. There was only one game where I remember thinking 'this is utter shit'. That was against Celta Vigo in the late 90s and we lost 1-0.
Sadly I haven't been for a few years as getting tickets seems like a huge hassle and life has got in the way. Aiming to go at some point this season.
I’m 2/2. 6 goals for us, none conceded.
I'd say that I'm lucky enough to have gone 15 - 20 times down the years... Only saw us lose once. To fucking Ipswich. 0-1. Picked it for the easy win, of course...
I've seen us beat the scum 2-0 (Robbie's brace Vs Cantona, Schmichael, etc...), the bitters 3-2, Spurs 2-1, Chelsea 2-1, Newcastle 2-1 (last second winner by Jamie Redknapp), batter Crystal Palace (Big Jan's goal of the season game) and Kisusi Latti (our first game back after the European ban). We've beaten Coventy (Titi's goal of the season game) 2-0 (I think), West Brom 3-0 (saw Steve Finnan score), and most recently the last match at Anfield before the virus shut down the world, 2-1 Vs Bournemouth. I was at that cracking 2-2 draw with Citeh years ago (Suarez & Skyrtl), I took the girls to the 4-0 preseason match against Dortmund, and I was stood outside when we beat the arse 5-1 a couple of Xmas/ ago, couldn't get tickets. I know that I'm forgetting a handful of others...
Overall, I've been very lucky with the matches that I've gotten to.
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