by lakes10 » Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:02 pm
First of all what a great thread.
I don’t live in Liverpool, in fact I live in Thurrock, Essex, not I not a chav.
My family are from the east end of London (yes real cockney's, my dad lived in the same street as the Krays when he was a kid).
My dad was a Arsenal man, so that is how I started out life, Its not till 1980 that I changed teams, I was 8 at the time, but I did not go to be a Liverpool fan then, no I turned to West Ham, a lot of my mats were Arsenal and it was fun to stand with the West Ham fans in the playground the week before the final.
Then come 1982, I was very much into football then, I would not miss match of the day, one day I turn to my dad and ask who do the Liverpool player pass a ball like that, they seem to know were the player is without looking, my dad just look at me and said, “ they are just good”, I also loved the Liverpool away kit, then come the milk cup final , before the game my mate ( a big Liverpool fan) sat on my head and told me I must say that I am a Liverpool fan before he would get off. So be it that day I put down my hammers and turned to Liverpool.
Did not get to many games as a kind and it was not till the last year at school I got to see a Liverpool game for real.
Then come College, and what was this? A grant! What should I do with it, I know I will go to as many Liverpool games as I can, and so I did,
So days I did not get to go to the games as the friend I was with was a west ham fan so we would take turns who to see. But I sort of took over and we spent most of the time going to Liverpool. We had some great times and see some great game, 9-0 say no more, We often got chased by other fans on the way home, one night Millwall had been stuffed by Man u, our train had stopped just outside Euston, a Millwall train full of about 400 fans pulled up next to us, we asked the what was the score…oops, our train moved off and the Millwall train was held back, the next thing we know there was 400 Millwall fans running down the train track to get us, not sure why but we found it funny, I had chosen that day to stock up on my collection for Liverpool stuff from the club shop , I stuck the 4 posters down my coat and started running, we got down to the tube just as the train pulled in, the doors shut and we was safe, a Millwall fan come to the doors banning on it with a knife, all of a sudden the doors opened , the Millwall fan looked just as shocked as we did, by the time he had taken in that the doors had opened they had shut and we got lucky, I looked and my mate, I was still laughing, he was as white as could be and I was sure he was going to be sick.
During this time I made many friends at west ham and Liverpool, One of the Liverpool friends that I would travel up to games with was a lovely young girl, she always had time to chat about the games, She was always on her own so me and my friend would meet her at the station and go to the games. Sadly then come along Hillsborough, I had my ticket but that week I had met a hot girl and she had asked to to go out on a date with her on the same night, To this day I do not know why I said I would go on that date instead of going to the game. I told my friend to let Marion know that I would not be going and I will not be at the station. Sadly that was to be the last time any of us was to speak to Marion Macabre again.
I found it very hard going to games after that and it took a few years, I still try to get to a few games each year but its much harder now I am married with a kid.
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lakes10 on Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:03 pm, edited 1 time in total.