Excellent performance all round on Sunday. Looked great with more flags too. There’s no ground in world football that reads and interprets the game like our place and the ability to react and affect the stuff on the pitch is truly remarkable. It’s not manufactured or choreographed. It simply reacts accordingly to what’s being played out on the park. As others have said before me, single episodes and key moments can be the catalyst to turn the place into one big fucking madhouse. A foul, or a shite decision. One kick is all it takes!!
You can’t learn that or be taught it. It’s in our DNA, it’s hidden in the pillars at Anfield and under the soil along with the ashes of our late dads and granddads which were sprinkled around and near the Kop!
The margins in such a high-level game of football like Sunday are minimal and any advantage needs to be used. We give the team that advantage and we are able to do it exactly when it’s needed.
But the fact that we don’t do it on a rainy 12 o’clock kick-off against Brentford shouldn’t be of major concern. We shouldn’t beat ourselves up about it and say that the Kop’s not what it once was. It’s there when needed and that’s good enough. And when it’s there, it’s the best in football.
What we do need though is a good hearty one-liner from the Kop when your Mickey Mouse teams give it the old ,”where’s your famous atmosphere?” nonsense . Something along the lines of the famous retort from the Kop to 1970s away fans who were mouthing bollocks, “sing something simple, you simple twats.” (The retort was brilliant and its tune came from an old BBC tv series “Sing Something simple).
A modern day equivalent would be great!
