What WAS the best bit of your day?

[Weststander]

2 brilliant days in Liverpool.
Friendly locals.
Nice litle hotel.
Being part of a 6,000 blue army.
Good game i.e. NOT a boring 0-0 between 2 Stoke's.
Amazing atmosphere in stadium & true football fans on both sides (not a lot of prawn sandwich corporates).

A great occasion, and nowt to do with our important league campaign.

 

[Weststander]

every thing but the result,what a great following we have .enjoyed the goal of the game the 1st of the four we scored, did not think that anfield was as big or good as it looks on tele,how bad was there support lol

lol into a pint of bitter, and plate of sour grapes.

 

[TigheRade]

Very VERY surprised at no big screens at anfield. VERY surprised.

Slightly relieved at times yesterday.


Best bits for me, having a meaningful goal to celebrate, witnessing how awful Andy Carroll is at football and repeatedly reminding him of this fact.

 

[DT Withdean]

Slightly relieved at times yesterday.


Best bits for me, having a meaningful goal to celebrate, witnessing how awful Andy Carroll is at football and repeatedly reminding him of this fact.

Like he heard, whilst celebrating sweeping the ball into the net.

Pro Albion songs were infrequent. Mainly 2,000 singing anti Carroll & Suarez songs that failed to stop them overwhelming us.

 

[m20gull]

5-0 is no longer the worst result I have seen.

 

[Gary Gurr]

Supporting BHAFC and being one of the 6200 that made the journey. It was always going to be a big ask to win there and after going 2-1 down we were chasing the game and getting caught on the break, our young players will learn from that. I was under whelmed at the stadium and the home support, if there was any - 4-1 and you still don't sing.

 

[ifuhatepalacestandup]

arriving at Warwick services and seeing the whole place full of blue and white
the singing in the fans area before the game
realizing what a wonderful ground the amex is
our support

 

[16bha]

The Everton fans all over Liverpool shouting seagulls and being generally nice.

We had he same. Everton fans shaking hands and wishing us good luck, although TBH every one was friendly in the city.

People watching in the hotel bar on Saturday night was very funny. Lots of orange women with yellow hair an 9 inch wedge heels (or is it the same in West St nowadays?) I'm getting old.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Goal by KLL.

The chap standing 2 along from me who took a ball straight to the nuts, when the players were warming up. What made it even better was that he wasn't watching. Focussed his mind!

 

[bassking]

lua,lua,s goal, and on way up there discovering there is a real place called NOTTY ASH, as in ken dodds diddymens home town

 

[Vatican Citys No.2 Keeper]

seeing the memorial - we were standing there and a Liverpool guy came up kissed his finger and touched his mates name - full respect to him.

Saw half a dozen do similar whilst standing by the memorial for a few minutes taking it all in. Very poignant that.

Best Bits for me:

The Mentalness at Kaz's goal! great moment! Fantastic Goal!
The fantastic atmosphere we provided
Andy Carroll Bashing...he deserved every bit of it for being a moany donkey imo!! Little annoyed that he got on the scoresheet!
The two scouse chaps getting chucked out the home end"2-0 to the Albion"!

And overall (despite the result) a great day taking in Anfield for the first time!

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

The whole day minus the score and some chavy twat starting on me. Also seeing people in Liverpool shirts taking pictures of Shankley Gates as if it was their first time there, and they weren't tourists..

 

[Jimmy Come Lately]

2 brilliant days in Liverpool.
Friendly locals.
Nice litle hotel.
Being part of a 6,000 blue army.
Good game i.e. NOT a boring 0-0 between 2 Stoke's.
Amazing atmosphere in stadium & true football fans on both sides (not a lot of prawn sandwich corporates).

I'd second every one of those. Disappointing result but otherwise a great weekend away.

 

[DT Withdean]

The whole day minus the score and some chavy twat starting on me. Also seeing people in Liverpool shirts taking pictures of Shankley Gates as if it was their first time there, and they weren't tourists..

Many Albion fans were taking pics of the Shankly Gates too.
A lot of smiling Albion fans before & after, who had another wonderful day in the Bloom-Poyet era, @ a great stadium full of true football fans on both sides.

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

Many Albion fans were taking pics of the Shankly Gates too.
A lot of smiling Albion fans before & after, who had another wonderful day in the Bloom-Poyet era, @ a great stadium full of true football fans on both sides.

Albion fans taking pictures is different though as that is not our home ground..

 

[Driver8]

Last time I was in Liverpool I noticed that, and the copious amounts of litter everywhere, although it didn't seem so obvious yesterday.

Wandering around the city yesterday was a bit of an eye opener though. Driving in on the coach, we were struck by how every single shop that wasn't open was locked down by metal shutters. Was that just a football thing, or does it happen every day? Most of the shops seemed to be Bargain Booze or 24 hour convenience joints. The garden- well, yard- of the pub we went in was surrounded by spiked fencing and razor wire, and CCTV cameras were everywhere. There seemed to be whole streets of boarded up and derelict houses, the sort you see on TV programmes when some developer comes along and pays £40,000 for the entire street before tidying them up and renting out for a profit. Only in this case, sadly, nobody has come along to save them. There were literally streets and streets of derelict properties, occasionally with what looked like a lone occupied house in the middle. I can't remember being anywhere that appeared to have been left to decline like that, though I'm sure places like Moss Side would run it close (I've never been).

I'm not saying this to take the piss, merely as an observation. Perhaps we don't realise how fortunate we are to live in an area where jobs are still- relatively- easier to come by, no matter how much everyone is feeling the pinch. You could walk around the so-called worst parts of Brighton, or Crawley, or Hastings, and it's nowhere near as depressing as large swathes of Liverpool seem to be. And yes, I'm aware there are some very wealthy areas not a million miles from the city too.

Is this view a fair reflection, or is the area where the football grounds are not reflective of the rest of the city? And is it just Liverpool, or is there really such a north-south divide in this country? I've always been a bit sceptical, given the levels of grants and funding that are chucked at the North by various organisations, but maybe there is genuine foundation to it. I should add, the state of the area was no reflection on the people I met, most of whom were great company...

Depending which way you came into Liverpool you may have driven through the Edge Lane redevelopment where a lot of houses have been compulsorily purchased for road improvement but there are one or two houses holding out on legal issues. This could explain the empty houses.

 

[Marc1901]

All of it except the travel and the result. The travel was long but then again that's part and parcel of away games and to be fair it's not the longest trip I've been on. The result wasn't great and we are better but it's Liverpool at Anfield and they were too strong.

Everything else was great, the locals were really friendly and were happy to have a chat, atmosphere was great once again. Loved it to be honest.

The area is a bit of a dump though mind you..

 

[Hatman1234]

Lua Lua's free kick

I missed it. I was taking a piss when it went in. Gutted.

 

[Seagull over Canaryland]

Depending which way you came into Liverpool you may have driven through the Edge Lane redevelopment where a lot of houses have been compulsorily purchased for road improvement but there are one or two houses holding out on legal issues. This could explain the empty houses.

Wait until you sample the delights of Hull on Weds, last time I visited parts of it made Liverpool seem highly desirable, courtesy of serious unemployment and deprivation. John Prescott didn't exactly do much of lasting value to help his constituents - apart from him keeping the take aways in business! Of course he is about to run for election as political head of the Police which could be interesting, standby for some robust policing!

Parts of Hastings and Newhaven have officially had areas of local deprivation in recent years, so not entirely unique to the grim north.

 

[Plastic-Fantastic]

1) Singing 'Sussex by the Sea' and chanting Seagulls in the Cavern Club on Saturday night and watching someone attach a plastic seagull to a musician on stage . . .
2) A filthy scouse tramp accosting me outside the Crown to inform me that he once lived in a half way house near the Seven Dials