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The History of The Boys' Pen at Anfield
Alan_X:
--- Quote from: Redsnappa on October 21, 2016, 10:10:20 am ---Quick glimpse of that corner of the Kop/Main Stand in this from 1973: 0.25 on.
The poor sods. Imagine having a main stand seasie next to that lot :o
Quick glimpse of that corner of the ground 20 seconds into this from 1973:
https://www.youtube.com/v/UGdctQzPAkY
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I think that was 1974 - my first game at Anfield. Heighway scored the only goal in a 1-0 win. I was too old when I started going and never went in the boys pen.
It was:
https://www.youtube.com/v/7zDPDkO2q6k
Strange - they've cut that first clip to make it look like an Alec Lindsay cross to Heighway.
Redsnappa:
Nice view of the Boy's Pen at the start of this fab Shanks interview:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1259868143238946817
Redsnappa:
Well played Nicky Allt, he found this pic, best view yet of the old Boy's Pen during (well, just after) the match.
https://twitter.com/NickyAllt/status/1374048302354808832
Redsnappa:
Another one with some punk band posing in front of it ;D
teine:
--- Quote from: Theoldkopite on February 8, 2013, 12:35:04 pm ---My first game in the Boy’s Pen was against West Brom in October 1963. Gordon Milne scored the only goal and from then on LFC was my first love (until I met my wife of course!).
I went on my own as all of my mates supported the Millionaires Club over the Park. I was a skinny little runt with NHS specs and I will never understand how I didn’t get beaten up every week cos I must have been a bully’s dream!
Our kid eventually joined us and a lad I got to know who lived by the Clarence Pub in Utting Avenue used to stand with us together with his sister. Now that was a rarity – a female in the Boy’s Pen. An attractive one too!
Apart from someone trying to pinch my programme once and someone trying to pick my pocket, I can only recall getting punched once by my fellow supporters (!). It was a very scary place to be in. The Bobby on duty was never really interested in what was going on in the Pen so you had to try really hard not to catch the eye of the tough lads!
There was no way I would have tried to climb out of the Pen – just not hard enough! It was quite astonishing to see the way some of the lads got out. Climbing up on to the girders which could only have been about a foot wide, high above the crowd. How nobody fell to their death is a bit of a miracle.
The best two games I watched from there were the game against Arsenal when we won the league in 1963/4 and the best game of all for me v Inter Milan in 1965. That was the best atmosphere I have ever experienced in my life. I dropped my school bag off at home and legged it up to the ground and still had to queue up for ages but it was well worth the wait!
I graduated up to the Annie Road end in 1965/6 and then spent time in the Paddock before moving in to the Kop where I have been ever since.
I can’t say I am a better person for having spent time in the Boy’s Pen – I’m just fortunate that I survived the experience - hence the comment by my avatar!
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Nice memory there about the West Brom game, 1963. Couple of photos here from the reseach I've been doing about Gordon Milne. This is that goal you mentioned - a fine 1-2 with St. John, Milne sweeps it home (with the wall of the Boys' Pen just visible in the background) then jumps for joy:
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