Hello, everyone. This is my first post. What do you think of it so far?
Fantastic thread this.
I remembered one or two from down the (many) years. My favourite is probably the time when Larry Lloyd came back to Anfield after leaving us for Nottingham Forest and he was coming in for some fearful abuse. "Oh, Larry Larry, Larry Larry Larry Larry SHITHOUSE Lloyd" ringing round and everything. Anyway, Forest get a throw-in and the big feller comes over to take it and someone in the crowd screams at him, "You traitor, you should have stayed at Anfield" and Lloyd looks at him and shouts, "Piss off, dosser, you'll be emptying my dustbins tomorrow" which I thought was funny, but cruel, but the same feller comes back with, "Yeah, right down your throat, you big-mouthed bastard!"
Another one was when Steve MacManaman sees an opening and starts running up the wing and all he needs is the ball and we've got a break on. Jason Macateer is in possession but is looking the wrong way from Steve Mac. The crowd start yelling, "wing, wing, wing" and my mate goes, "Will someone answer that bleedin' 'phone?"
My son started getting in to football when he was about five and I took him to Anfield a few times and he loved it. My brother -in-law is from Burnley and we were visiting them one weekend and he asks if we want to come to Turf Moor with him. They are playing Wrexham who still have the legendary Joey Jones playing for them so we agree. We get in and the game kicks off and after about five minutes, ny son says "Dad, what time are they kicking off?" and I say, "They have kicked off, they're playing now" and he says, in all seriousness, "Well what time do the crowd get here?" I cracked up. Burnley had a crowd of 1,700 that day for a fourth division game!