Thanks bud. I'm high atm. City has been awesome and everyone has been super friendly. Exact opposite of what I get in America.
I'm not a crier, but I may be tomorrow come time to sing. This is a dream and to do it with my boys next to me...... Pinch me
So so happy for you. Win, lose or draw it will be a special day. You telling us that this will be your first ever game makes me think back to my first visit and every single visit afterwards. It really got me thinking about why I love Anfield so much. There's no place like it. Me, my brother and sister often take the walk up the busy road from the city centre. When we turn off right at Walton Breck Rd and the stream of the two up, two downs come into view it just makes me so grounded and I feel like a child. I don't get that from anywhere or anyone else. I could be 10 years old at that point. And then you see the top of the stadium. The hum of generators powering the burger vans, the smell of burger vans! Tannoy systems on full blare. The narrow pavements and the stream of hundreds walking past the two ups, two downs. I often wonder what it's like to live in those houses on match day. It's totally authentic, domestic, communitarian. That feeling of doing it with thousands of fans is an antidote to isolation and loneliness. Doing it with friends is great, doing it with family is even better.
At the risk of sounding like Simon Armitage or Paul Heaton, there's a modesty to the area that evokes a true northern working class spirit. It overpowers the multi billion pound industry that football has become and of which Liverpool FC is a major force. But for all the club's financial behemoth status in the grander scheme of football, that all dissipates when you get to L4. It's such a far cry from the soulless, sterile, corporate 21st century identikit stadiums built out on some industrial estate where the town sized B&Q across a mile wide car park is the most homely feature for miles around. If Liverpool were to leave Anfield for something more akin to those modern day stadiums then it would lose almost everything that makes the club great.
Anfield is Liverpool, Liverpool is Anfield. Hope you and your family have one of the greatest days of your lives.
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