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The Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« on: January 16, 2015, 12:11:04 am »
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/liverpools-us-owners-plan-stadium-sign-that-will-put-manchester-uniteds-in-the-shade-9981718.html

Liverpool’s American owners are considering creating an iconic exterior sign on the club’s new Main Stand, marking out Anfield as home to “The Liverpool Football Club”, The Independent understands.

It would be the Anfield side’s equivalent to their old rivals’ own legendary name in lights – the bright “Manchester United” at the front of Old Trafford, which is one of that club’s most famous vistas. But using the article “The” before Liverpool is an interesting part of the consideration for Fenway Sports Group.

The official name of the club – whose new Main Stand will take Anfield’s capacity to 54,000 and may increase annual match-day revenues by £25m – is “The Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds Limited”. So “The Liverpool Football Club” would fit with that, but it would also be a more distinguished way of defining the custodians of the stadium.

What Everton fans would have to say is another matter, as they would challenge any notion that the team across Stanley Park is “The” club in Liverpool. Liverpool, for that matter, could say that Everton’s claim to be “The People’s Club” gives the red half of the city the right to call themselves exactly what they want.

There is no suggestion that Liverpool’s owners, whose consultations with supporters and the local community over Anfield’s redevelopment have been exhaustive, might be seeking a broader type of rebranding. But the iconic red lettering, on Anfield’s elevated land, could become a landmark visible from distances across the city.
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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2015, 12:43:02 am »
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/liverpools-us-owners-plan-stadium-sign-that-will-put-manchester-uniteds-in-the-shade-9981718.html
But the iconic red lettering, on Anfield’s elevated land, could become a landmark visible from distances across the city.

Maybe with "Forever in our shadow" underneath so our delightful blue friends on County Road can see it.  :wave
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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2015, 09:42:05 am »
Maybe with "Forever in our shadow" underneath so our delightful blue friends on County Road can see it.  :wave

I imagine the new stands will be so big that will exactly be what happpens.  ;D

As an aside though, this proposed sign, doesn't it smack more of a thumbing the nose at The People's Club rather than Old Trafford?

THE Liverpool Football Club, as opposed to merely a district in Liverpool.... ;)
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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2015, 09:43:20 am »
would prefer it to just say "LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB"
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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2015, 10:12:17 am »
would prefer it to just say "LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB"

Me too.
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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2015, 12:24:52 pm »
No need for the 'The' in my opinion but at the same time I'm not overly concerned about such things!

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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2015, 02:47:06 pm »
would prefer it to just say "LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB"

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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2015, 03:26:39 pm »
how about This is Anfield instead
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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2015, 04:36:28 pm »
would prefer it to just say "LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB"

I like the use of 'The'.  Not sure why, maybe because it sends a message to the bitters.
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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #9 on: January 16, 2015, 04:45:47 pm »
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/liverpools-us-owners-plan-stadium-sign-that-will-put-manchester-uniteds-in-the-shade-9981718.html

Liverpool’s American owners are considering creating an iconic exterior sign on the club’s new Main Stand, marking out Anfield as home to “The Liverpool Football Club”, The Independent understands.

Don't like the "The" but think a big sign with either "Liverpool Football Club" or "This is Anfield" would look good.

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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2015, 05:18:37 pm »
Thank's to 4Pool from the Everton thread. I thought this should be on here as well or if not in the Stadium forum.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/liverpools-us-owners-plan-stadium-sign-that-will-put-manchester-uniteds-in-the-shade-9981718.html



Liverpool’s American owners are considering creating an iconic exterior sign on the club’s new Main Stand, marking out Anfield as home to “The Liverpool Football Club”, The Independent understands.

It would be the Anfield side’s equivalent to their old rivals’ own legendary name in lights – the bright “Manchester United” at the front of Old Trafford, which is one of that club’s most famous vistas. But using the article “The” before Liverpool is an interesting part of the consideration for Fenway Sports Group.

The official name of the club – whose new Main Stand will take Anfield’s capacity to 54,000 and may increase annual match-day revenues by £25m – is “The Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds Limited”. So “The Liverpool Football Club” would fit with that, but it would also be a more distinguished way of defining the custodians of the stadium.

What Everton fans would have to say is another matter, as they would challenge any notion that the team across Stanley Park is “The” club in Liverpool. Liverpool, for that matter, could say that Everton’s claim to be “The People’s Club” gives the red half of the city the right to call themselves exactly what they want.

There is no suggestion that Liverpool’s owners, whose consultations with supporters and the local community over Anfield’s redevelopment have been exhaustive, might be seeking a broader type of rebranding. But the iconic red lettering, on Anfield’s elevated land, could become a landmark visible from distances across the city.

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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #11 on: January 16, 2015, 05:36:54 pm »
I hope it's displayed towards Woodison across Stanley Park, and projected into the sky in the evening.  Imagine the fume.  ;)
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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #12 on: January 16, 2015, 06:26:37 pm »
I hope it's displayed towards Woodison across Stanley Park, and projected into the sky in the evening.  Imagine the fume.  ;)
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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2015, 06:43:09 pm »
Not as good as them naming their shop Everton Two, but it'll still piss them off, so I'm all for it  :D
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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2015, 06:45:00 pm »
I really like that idea. If it annoys Everton fans, even better.

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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #15 on: January 16, 2015, 07:09:04 pm »
with a giant middle finger?

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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2015, 07:19:45 pm »
Up the arse.nal.

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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #17 on: January 16, 2015, 07:28:37 pm »
We are the liverpool
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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #18 on: January 16, 2015, 07:31:24 pm »
Let the ground stand for itself. No need for a sign.


Why would we want to copy the mancs anyway?
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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #19 on: January 16, 2015, 07:41:29 pm »
"In my the Liverpool home..........."

Fuck's sake.......what next? "This Is The Anfield"?

No need for a definite article - we know who we are.

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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #20 on: January 16, 2015, 07:48:12 pm »
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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #21 on: January 16, 2015, 07:53:53 pm »
god no, embarrassing. don't imagine for a second that it'll get anywhere near going ahead though

doesn't seem like a dig at everton, just using the business name. and frankly who gives a fuck about that, or about trying to wind everton up. we do that enough with the football

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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #22 on: January 16, 2015, 08:06:10 pm »
I really like that idea. If it annoys Everton fans, even better.
It is so boring to see how some posters on RAWK are obsessed with Everton. A story about a possible sign at the new Anfield and they are incapable of making any kind of sensible observation without bringing in our neighbours across the park. Bitters this, bitters that, blah, blah, blah... ad nauseam.
Why are their little minds so fixated on Everton?
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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #23 on: January 16, 2015, 08:31:06 pm »
It is so boring to see how some posters on RAWK are obsessed with Everton. A story about a possible sign at the new Anfield and they are incapable of making any kind of sensible observation without bringing in our neighbours across the park. Bitters this, bitters that, blah, blah, blah... ad nauseam.
Why are their little minds so fixated on Everton?
It's so, so sad, even more so because they do not have the limited brain power required to realise how pathetic their crude attempts at comments show they are.

Are you being ironic ?

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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #24 on: January 16, 2015, 09:07:05 pm »
It's too close to "The Arsenal" which I don't care for. We Are Liverpool would be slightly better, but not great. Liverpool Football Club is fine.

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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #25 on: January 16, 2015, 09:14:19 pm »
I think it's a good idea that the stadium will be seen across the skyline but not sure about the 'The'. Liverpool Football Club would be better.

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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #26 on: January 16, 2015, 09:47:29 pm »
Are you being ironic ?
I'll put this as plainly, as succinctly, as clearly as I can: No.
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« Reply #27 on: January 16, 2015, 09:56:53 pm »
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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #28 on: January 16, 2015, 10:12:06 pm »
It is so boring to see how some posters on RAWK are obsessed with Everton. A story about a possible sign at the new Anfield and they are incapable of making any kind of sensible observation without bringing in our neighbours across the park. Bitters this, bitters that, blah, blah, blah... ad nauseam.
Why are their little minds so fixated on Everton?
It's so, so sad, even more so because they do not have the limited brain power required to realise how pathetic their crude attempts at comments show they are. 

Barrell of laughs aren't ya.
I think most of it is in retaliation with regards to their little minds being so fixated on us

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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #29 on: January 16, 2015, 10:16:00 pm »
I smells a bitter.

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« Reply #30 on: January 16, 2015, 10:18:12 pm »
Tacky in the extreme but the thought of them gurning twisted bluenoses fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmin makes me warm to the idea.
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« Reply #31 on: January 16, 2015, 10:27:43 pm »
Dawn breaks on an early October morn, the sun rises catching that world famous wide shouldered Kop and letting its warming rays stretch the solid cast stone.
The sun keeps on rising, bathing the new 3 tier main stand, in warming sun, massaging the Kemlyn Road and throwing a mighty red shadow onto, and beyond Stanley park, even further out to that once old happy stomping ground of an away end, which is now a much lauded, but never supportive, home end - an end bathed under the shadow of the greatest football stadium in the world.

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« Reply #32 on: January 16, 2015, 10:51:29 pm »
I think it sounds daft. No need to be using a sign as a dig at the bitters (though I'm not sure that's really the motivation). Our trophy count does that well enough.
'The' works in the context of 'The Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds Limited' because it refers to the limited company. But it doesn't sound right to me in 'The Liverpool Football Club'. Sounds like they're just over thinking it.

Liverpool Football Club would be fine. Keep it simple and modest, in keeping with the club's ethos. Let the mancs have their tacky, shiny sign.

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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #33 on: January 17, 2015, 01:03:31 am »
Barrell of laughs aren't ya.
I think most of it is in retaliation with regards to their little minds being so fixated on us
You think? Well think again. The bitterness comes from a handful of youngsters and Johnny-come-latelys with limited knowledge of Merseyside football who spew out their bile because they don't know better. They have no class and are boring, like all sourpusses.

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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #34 on: January 17, 2015, 01:17:36 am »
Couldn't care either way really

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« Reply #35 on: January 17, 2015, 01:20:26 am »
That Liverpool Football Club
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« Reply #36 on: January 17, 2015, 01:22:39 am »
like revista la liga and revista de la liga?
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« Reply #37 on: January 17, 2015, 01:29:33 am »
Sounds very American.
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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #38 on: January 17, 2015, 01:35:37 am »
I actually don't mind having 'The Liverpool Football Club' on the outside of the new main stand. I think it would look okay  :)

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Re: Liverpool's owners plan stadium sign
« Reply #39 on: January 17, 2015, 01:38:01 am »
That  does look's good mate.  :D