Anfield awaits ............ - Semi final -second leg
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:36 amWe are a week away and a game away from greatness as Liverpool Football Club teeter on the brink of a record breaking 6th appearance in the Champions League Final.
In our way stands a team bought with dodgy roubles and managed by the man who put the Arrg into Arrogance.
Anfield is truly one of the worlds great stadia, a cauldron of noise, colour and passion and it awaits it's next combatants with relish.
Chelsea may well have been to the Nou Camp and the Olympic Stadium in Munich this season already but nothing will prepare them for what awaits at the "Field of Dreams".
Anfield isn't a cauldron of hate and intimidation in the sense of threats to kill or maim like so many European grounds such as Galatassaray, Roma or Juve, it doesn't gain an unfair advantage by bending refs or linesmen , it doesn't even boast a massive capacity.....
BUT ............ What is does have is an unbelievably noisy and colouful fan base, steeped in the history and traditions of this great club. Flags and banners always look that little bit brighter on the KOP and coupled with a cacophony of noise it's enough to make any player tremble !
It's often said that when the KOP turn up the volume the LFC players rarely, if ever fail to raise their game and I expect no different next Tuesday.
If your not fortunate enough to be there next week I suggest you sack ITV for the audible commentary and switch on your radio and tune into either Five live or Radio City and shut your eyes and imagine the volume 10 times that and even then you will only get an inkling of what it is like to be there.......
Modern football philosophy says that fans don't matter as much as they did in the past. All I can say to that is they obviously haven't been to Anfield on European nights !!!!!
Walk on .............
In our way stands a team bought with dodgy roubles and managed by the man who put the Arrg into Arrogance.
Anfield is truly one of the worlds great stadia, a cauldron of noise, colour and passion and it awaits it's next combatants with relish.
Chelsea may well have been to the Nou Camp and the Olympic Stadium in Munich this season already but nothing will prepare them for what awaits at the "Field of Dreams".
Anfield isn't a cauldron of hate and intimidation in the sense of threats to kill or maim like so many European grounds such as Galatassaray, Roma or Juve, it doesn't gain an unfair advantage by bending refs or linesmen , it doesn't even boast a massive capacity.....
BUT ............ What is does have is an unbelievably noisy and colouful fan base, steeped in the history and traditions of this great club. Flags and banners always look that little bit brighter on the KOP and coupled with a cacophony of noise it's enough to make any player tremble !
It's often said that when the KOP turn up the volume the LFC players rarely, if ever fail to raise their game and I expect no different next Tuesday.
If your not fortunate enough to be there next week I suggest you sack ITV for the audible commentary and switch on your radio and tune into either Five live or Radio City and shut your eyes and imagine the volume 10 times that and even then you will only get an inkling of what it is like to be there.......
Modern football philosophy says that fans don't matter as much as they did in the past. All I can say to that is they obviously haven't been to Anfield on European nights !!!!!
Walk on .............
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Would it be something!