Songwise, to me, it's our battle cry and our paean to the fallen. It never fails to make the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. On occasion, it has brought tears to my eyes. But it goes deeper than that for me. It reinforces the sense of LFC as more than a club; it's a family, more so than any other club around, with the exception, maybe, of Barca. It means I defend my club to the hilt and get behind the managers and players no matter who's on the pitch.
I was shocked to see Pepe Reina being referred to as a c*nt and a retard in the City post-match analysis thread. Benefit of the doubt, the post was probably written in the heat of the moment, and God knows I've had a moan about players not pulling their weight in the past. But to treat a person who has been a heartbeat of this club for so long in that way goes beyond the pale. Surely You'll Never Walk Alone, the song and the ethos, means that we look after our own, we forgive and forget, and we move on together. And we don't slam our heroes, our brothers, with insults like that.
What does YNWA mean to you?
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