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Liverpool trip – Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012

Liverpool trip – Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012. L.F.C. - Anfield Stadium. Bill Shankly , player & manager. The Kop is named after a battle : many soldiers from Liverpool died there. Battle of SpionenKop * - 23–24 January 1900. Kop = hill. U.K. vs South African Republic.

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Liverpool trip – Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012

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  1. Liverpool trip – Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012 L.F.C. - Anfield Stadium

  2. Bill Shankly, player & manager

  3. The Kop isnamedafter a battle: manysoldiersfrom Liverpool diedthere.

  4. Battle of SpionenKop* - 23–24 January 1900 Kop = hill U.K.vs South African Republic

  5. April 15th, 1989: Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield. 96 people died, many of themwerefrom Liverpool.

  6. The part of the Stadium where the spectators and the supporters sit looks like a hill. It isnowcalled the KOP

  7. You’ll Never Walk Alone • waswritten and composed by Richard Rodgers et Oscar Hammerstein for a comedy, Carousel, in April 1945. Then, itbecame one of the best-knownpeacesongs in the 1960s. • In the United Kingdom, the song's most successful recording was released in 1963 by the LiverpudlianMerseybeat group Gerry and the Pacemakers (it was number one in the singles chart for four consecutive weeks). • The song quickly became the anthem of Liverpool Football Club and is invariably sung by its supporters moments before the start of each home game.[11] The words "You'll Never Walk Alone" also feature in the club crest and on the Shanky Gate entrance to Anfield, the home stadium.

  8. The crest The Shankly Gates

  9. Guess what? We’ve been there! We’ve seen it!

  10. We come not to play!* *“It means we’re not here to play, we’re here to win!"

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