THE SECRETARY’S PAGE LIVERPOOL F.C. SUPPORTERS CLUB - NEW YORK Welcome to another edition of your supporters club OUR FOUNDING MEMBER MOVES TO fanzine. Several events affecting our club have taken PASTURES NEW! place since our last issue, so we’ll get right to it with LFCSC-NY sadly breaks the news that our founding 25TH25TH OFOF MAYMAY the details. member, the man whose vision led to the formation of Hank our club, is leaving our American shores for the Issue 25 August 2000 green pastures of Europe. Yes, Sean Woods, our spiritual leader, without whom we would not have a AGM - MAY 19 2000 NYC Liverpool club, is moving on to Brussels, along Our annual meeting took place at the Kinsale Tavern with his lovely wife, MaryBeth and their adorable son on the eve of the FA Cup final. The following took Ian. Sean’s guidance made our organization grow into place. what we see today. Many thank to Sean for all he has The pieces are in place Club Officers for season 2000-2001: ! done, and we will try our best to carry on in his President – Daragh Kennedy absence. Best of luck to our good friend and if we Secretary – Hank Edwards ever hear of a new supporters club in Belgium, we all Treasurer – Tommy Kelly Now we drive to glory!!! th will know who the brains behind it is, won’t we ! “25 of May” Editors – Eddie Keane, Dave Brenner Kinsale Tavern Liason – Davy Lane T Shirt Person – Helen Turner LFCSC-NY T SHIRTS Phone Hotline – Dave Oettinger The latest model in LFCSC-NY T Shirts remain Website – Dave Fulton, Dave Brenner available for sale. We have a choice of two colours, All of the above members were agreed upon by all grey or red, both with the Liverbird & the NYC present at the AGM to carry on their functions on skyline over the breast, and the name of our home The behalf of our club for next season. We thank every- Kinsale Tavern, in gaelic font, on the back. Sizes are one above for volunteering to help out with running Large and Extra Large. Prices remain as follows: the supporters club, as no one gets paid for any of the $ 14.00 within the US (checks payable to T. Kelly) work that they do. Our support of LFC and the friends $ 20.00 overseas or 10 pounds/punts (cash only) we have made within LFCSC-NY is the inspiration $ 10.00 if purchased at the Kinsale during a match. for donating our time and energy. Thanks again to all involved. LFCSC-NY, PO BOX 7071, FDR STATION, NEW YORK, NY 10150 ANNUAL ANFIELD TRIP Hotline (212) 971-1959 Daragh Kennedy, will once again be running e-mail: [email protected] the supporters club trip to Anfield. Preliminary http://www.columbia.edu/~djb3/lfcny.html plans, which are subject to confirmation, are New York for us to visit Liverpool for the October 28 match against Everton. If possible, a UEFA cup match, if scheduled at home around the same time, would also be on the agenda. If Benfica, Sat Aug 5, 10 am at the Kinsale this second match falls through, a possible trip to Dublin might be in the cards. Any Arsenal Away, Mon Aug 21 3 pm at the Kinsale (+ evening tape delay) members interested in going on this trip, please contact Daragh as soon as possible at Check the Hotline / Website for other games [email protected]. Supporters Club ANFIELD FOR EVER??

The swelling opposition to club expansion by local residents led in 1999 to the release of plans drawn up by THE BACKGROUND the local council and the club, in secret, for a major regeneration of the ground and the area around the ground. The expansion of Anfield, our home for all 108 The plans, called the Anfield+ plans, were developed in secret mainly because of the local council and the seasons of our club history, has often been a clubs desire to develop a comprehensive, co-ordinated plan that would diffuse the hostility of locals towards hot topic over the last 40 years. As the Shankly era began, and the club was slowly elevated to the club and not allow the build-up of organised opposition to the plans if they were released in a piecemeal the status of one of the major clubs in the manner over time. Unfortunately for the club and the council, the plans were released early, before the club footballing pantheon, the club has had to look had finalised their plans for the remodelled stadium. The council was lambasted for developing public policy towards updating the ground to the point when in secret, much to the paranoia of local residents, and the club, once again, were accused of attempting to run the ground could match the burgeoning status roughshod over the wishes of the people of Anfield. of the club. A series of upgrades, was made to the dishevelled ground that Shankly inherited in THE PLAN 1959, mainly due to Shankly’s passionate fight As the Anfield+ project slowly withered on the vine, the new Chief Executive of the club, Rick Parry, put with the club for the facilities they had forward another plan earlier this summer, this time almost entirely driven by the club. This plan was the most promised when he joined the club from revolutionary agenda to come out of Anfield since Shankly’s suggestions of 30 years ago. The proposal was to Huddersfield Town. A series of minor upgrades build a new purpose built 70,000 capacity stadium on public land at the southern end of Stanley Park, removing was made to the Kop end and finally the Kemlyn Stand, which was completely re-built, upon promotion to the the club from the stranglehold of terraced houses around the current stadium. In return for taking public land, first division in 1962/63. Minor upgrades and extensions in capacity were made during the 1960’s as the songs the club would give the land used by the current stadium to the city, which would be remodelled into a park and of the Kop started to earn fame around the globe. During the early 1970’s, the Club tore down the old wooden public sports complex for the use of local residents. The plans didn’t stop here. The ground would be built on Main Stand and replaced it with a 8,771 capacity stand, and after that upgrade, the famous old stadium was to top of an underground car parking complex, which could handle 15,000 cars, reducing the parking problem remain untouched during the glory years of the 70s and 80s. The 1990’s saw major changes to the infrastruc- around the stadium. Whilst the plans did not contain any solid proposals for extending the road infrastructure ture of the ground, both as a result of the Hillsborough tragedy and the changing demographics of the around the ground, there were also proposals for the club to operate a park and ride scheme, utilising a disused Liverpool support. First to be upgraded was the old Kemlyn Road stand, which was extended in the clubs rail track running close to the new ground. The plans were received enthusiastically by Liverpool fans and centenary year and renamed, not unsurprisingly, the Centenary stand. The Kop stood unchanged for years until most city residents. It kept the club within a few hundred yards of its spiritual home whilst meeting the needs being demolished in 1994 as a result of the Taylor Report and replaced with a fully seated stand holding of fans facing up to a two year waiting list for season tickets. 13,000 fans.. Last and unfortunately least (see later), the Anfield Road stand was extended by building a second tier in 1997. Nothing now remains of the stadium that Liverpool inherited in 1892. THE OPPOSITION A few days after the release of the plans, dissenting voices to the plans started to be raised, firstly by a group Re-building of the stands to accommodate LFC’s burgeoning support has been a long-term effort on the clubs of fans and secondly by local residents. The fan opposition was led by Liverpool writer and internet journalist part, but the thought of moving to a purpose built ground has had almost as long a history. Shankly, ever the visionary, was the first to propose a move, suggesting in 1969 a move to a purpose built 100,000 seat stadium Alan Edge, whos pro-anfield argument appeared on the unofficial LFC website, Koptalk. Alan put forward the in Aintree on the outskirts of the city that could be shared with local rivals Everton and would rival the great following anti-move agenda: continental stadia of Lisbon, Milan, Barcelona and Madrid. The topic of a shared stadium was cautiously · Anfield is the clubs spiritual home. The club and the ground are one and the same; explored again in the mid-1980s as the fortunes of the two local clubs were at their Zenith, but a mixture of · The club doesn’t need an expansion in capacity to such levels and can’t support a 70,000 capacity; apathy from their great rivals in Walton and a lack of enthusiasm from the support of the two clubs led to the · Moving is not an option, as the tradition of the club and its ground make it unique; plan being sidelined. · The ground is the most famous ground in the world; · Capacity is no longer crucial for the club, as other forms of income outstrip gate receipts. Only recently, the idea of a move once again appeared as a distant possibility on Liverpool’s agenda. The · If any improvements are needed, then the Anfield+ scheme should be the one that is followed. building of the Anfield Road extension in 1997 was turned from an expansion that could have extended the A couple of weeks after his internet article outlining the above, a web-site opposing the move was set-up stadium into a ground holding approximately 50,000 fans into a fudge, with just over 4,000 added to the (www.anfield4ever.co.uk). Whilst the web-site proposed a debate between pro-movers and anti-movers, grounds capacity. The reason? The increasingly hostile and co-ordinated actions of Anfield residents, who, through the use of the forum for internet debate, the fiercly anti-move agenda was ingrained in the sites with strong support from local councilors forcede LFC to scale down their plans. Apparently the planned stand message, with the banner ‘Anfield Viability – Stanley Park liability’ –since removed - firmly describing the would reduce the sunlight available to the row of houses immediately behind the stand. Even when the scaled- views of the individuals that had set up the site. The site also appealed to the emotional attachment of the back stand got the go-ahead, some of the local councillors who approved the expansion were accused of LFC Liverpool fan to our glorious history, using a quote from Shankly from his official autobiography (published in bias in that the majority of those involved were Liverpool season ticket holders. 1976) that pointed to the re-development of anfield as his crowning achievement. THE REACTION WHAT THE PAPERS SAY Local residents have also expressed their opposition to the move. Not only have they rejected the idea of the This mid-summer, pre-season What the Papers Say is devoted to the Ins and Outs at the Club. …that club taking up public land on Stanley Park, they have also effectively killed off the Anfield+ scheme for good. Davy Thompson was not seen as fast enough to get around the outside is understandable, that he could They have now started petitioning the local council to reject all of the clubs plans and force the club to move not beat out the likes of Carragher, Murphy, Redknapp, Hamman, & McAllister for a future central out of the area altogether. midfield spot is something we may regret, that we sold him for only two and a half million pounds is insane. …that Nicky Barmby was a teenage goal machine is not in doubt, that he was revered by The reaction to the Anfield4Ever web-site has been interesting. Whilst the site has been successful in canvass- Tottyham supporters when he began his career is also not in doubt, that he got out of Teeside shows ing some support, it has also received a hostile response from many fans, angry both with the rather reaction- intelligence, that he signed for efc is best not talked about, that we signed the little shite…the mind ary response to the clubs plans and the flippant manner in which Alan has apparently appointed himself as boggles. the almost outs are…Maxwell on loan to Stockport, Newby on loan to Sheff Utd. Did Kippe spokesperson for the ‘silent majority’ of fans who have, apparently, yet to argue their opposition to the plan. benefit from his time at Stoke, he seems to be getting a chance this pre-season, we’ll see. And what The unexpected backlash of vitriol has resulted in the backers of the site writing an angry response on about our two West African players, Bertie and Titi – surely they must stay. Koptalk, decrying the personal nature of some of the more angry responses they have received, apparently There were more important events in the news this summer, the Hillsborough trial – a travesty of mostly from Koptalk forum users. Alan this week also wrote a letter to the Daily Post, one of Liverpools two justice. A report from the trial will follow. The new stadium, and the new company, Liverpool FC major daily papers, arguing for his opposition to the clubs plans and stereotyping most of the pro-move fans as university educated out-of-towners. broadband. Each will have full coverage in this and future editions of the 25th Ziege yes to Anfield - at last The arguments against the agenda proposed by Anfield4ever run along the following lines: Daily Express, August 4th, 2000, by Richard Tanner • The club and ground are not one and the same. Fans support the team, not the organisation, individual Christian Ziege on Thursday night finally ended his on-off transfer saga by quitting Middlesbrough for players or the bricks-and-mortar of the ground. Liverpool. After weeks of delay, the German confirmed Boro boss Bryan Robson’s worst fears by using • The greater capacity allows more fans to attend, and if full capacity is not achieved for the majority of an escape clause in his contract and move to Anfield for £5.5million. Ziege, 28, will complete a medical games, it allows the club to heavily discount tickets to local scouse kids, who are slowly being priced out on Friday before signing a four-year contract worth around £42,000 a week, that will make him the of the game. highest-paid player at Anfield. The defender will then be rushed over to Belfast to meet his team-mates • Whilst most fans want to stay at Anfield, opposition to any kind of expansion from local residents makes and make his debut in the friendly against Benfica at Windsor Park on Saturday. Ziege has become a ground move inevitable. Gerard Houllier’s sixth signing of the summer and takes his spending since taking sole managerial • Appealing to tradition makes the club seem even more backward looking. Liverpool fans are already seen control of Liverpool less than two years ago to £55m. by fans of other clubs as being awash with sentimentality for their teams past glories. Other clubs in the Coventry Sign Thompson North-West, like Preston, also have a great tradition, but their failure to adapt has put them into what Daily Mail, August 2nd, 2000, by John Brewin looks like terminal decline. Liverpool does not want to become yet another ‘sleeping giant’. Coventry City chairman Bryan Richardson last night hailed the signing of Liverpool midfielder David • Selective use of Shankly quotes (the supporters of Anfield4ever argue that because their quote was in Thompson. Richardson revealed the Highfield Road outfit have been chasing Thompson for many 1976, it holds more water than his plans for the move to Aintree, seven years earlier) does not hide the months, and he was delighted to yesterday finally land his man on a four year contract. He said: ‘We fact that the man was a revolutionary. He took the club by the scruff of the neck and changed it. Whilst tried to get him late last season and again earlier this summer. Now we have been successful. ‘Gordon he was undoubtably proud of the stadium he re-built (much to the chagrin of the residents of the Kemlyn Strachan has said it is like looking in a mirror because he believes David has a lot of the qualities he Road) he was not a man for sentimentality or tradition, as the Anfield4Ever site has portrayed him. had himself. He is very much in the Strachan mould - a bright, bouncy boy. He was keen to join us and I’m sure he’ll be good for the team.’ Coventry boss Strachan added: ‘I promised our supporters we MY OPINION would be acting as soon as possible to strengthen our squad for the coming campaign, and I hope Its clear to any reader where my opinions lie. I feel that if the opinions of Liverpools fans were truly as David’s arrival will not be the end of the action. ‘I am very pleased to get him to Highfield Road because divided as Alan thinks then his site would serve a great purpose, encouraging debate and galvanising the unity David is someone I rate highly. This was not our first attempt to prise him away from Anfield.’ of the fan base. The fact that the plans have such a groundswell of support, which anfield4ever underestimates, make their whole agenda appear divisive – while the Anfield4Ever group have gone further to drive divides Sporting Sign Star Defender from Liverpool between fans by couching it in terms whereby it can be interpreted as a scouser/non-scouser debate. El Lisboa Dia, June 28th, 2000, by Pedro Napoles translated by Davy Lane A crowd the size not seen since Dean Saunders arrived at this very same airport nearly two years ago greeted I would favour a move to Stanley Park or beyond only if the club wasn’t allowed further planning permission Phil Babb today. Phil will help us go far in Europe, said one Azorean bricky wearing his trademark green and to take it up to the 67,000 capacity outlined in the original Anfield + proposals. Given the local residents do white sun hat. An Angolan comrade was also excited, but it turned out he was there to meet a fine lass from not seem to want the club at all, I feel that the whole Anfield4Ever argument is pissing in the wind against the Brum that he’d met on the Algave the year before. The other person in the crowd, an older person from the wishes of both the majority of fans and the opinions of residents. I sense a lot more bitterness before the Lapa was more subdued, “he’s shite, isn’t he?” The bars in the Baixa will stay open an extra hour till 7 a.m. to whole issue is put to bed. accommodate Phil. Dave Fulton Allez Les Rouges! Davy Lane HOPE: NOW GLORY? THE PAST SEASON CONTEMPLATED The squad idea has shown encouraging potential this season. Carragher and Matteo have improved Bradford City’s great day disappointed Reds fans eager for the big-time - Champions’ League football immeasurably, and their places should be assured as respective right and left-sided utility men. Jamie C’s against our historic contemporaries, Barca, Inter, Bayern, Feyenoord. Instead, Liverpool’s 1999-2000 season performances at Highbury and Old Trafford, playing at right back then switching to the middle, were ended as it began, struggling for the critical winning touch against prosaic opponents of doubtful top-flight exemplary. Notwithstanding torture at the hands of Di Matteo, Dominic has also been diligent, learned quality. The latter trait predominated in the Evans era, with fourth place and nary a cup in 2000 seemingly from his mistakes and combined well with our player of the season, the untiring, devoted, creative, and showing no progress since infuriating 1997. Yet Kopites subliminally recognise in soft-spoken Gerard talented Patrik Berger. Henchoz and Hyppia ran him close for the ultimate accolade, with Sami’s superla- Houllier the mettle, energy and talent to guide usl back to the pinnacle of English and European football. tive central defending exposed only once all year- during his torrid first 20 minutes against George Weah Many underlying signs are good: the fewest goals conceded in the professional game; the reserves at Stamford Bridge. Next year, Djimi Traore should be first choice cover should either of the H&H combo romping to their League title; talent oozing from below towards the first team (and in Steven Gerrard’s case be unavailable, and that’s a contender of a defence. into senior international status) thanks to the well-founded Youth Academy; thirteen more Premiership points There are residual imbalances, than in 1999; every Houllier signing, with the possible exception of Smicer, having been an undoubted particularly on the right. It seems that success. The potential of the new outfit was best revealed in a 26-game league run between 2 October and 24 with Babbel’s arrival, and Carragher’s April, in which with only two defeats, we rose from 14th to 2nd, closing ominously on Manchester United: improvement, Heggem or Song may have indeed the lacklustre end to the season came only after United claimed the title, the zest was imperceptibly to go: Bertie is the less versatile, and knocked out of the chase and our strikers’ confidence waned after a typical dour war of attrition at Goodison unfortunate lapses at the far post in Park. crucial games may mean the end for him; Houllier insisted throughout that his team was inferior to Ferguson’s new-football prodigies, and to sadly, because he was fun to watch, a Arsenal, Chelsea and Leeds, notwithstanding good results against all of them. As ever, home defeats against believer, rock-hard in the tackle and good industrious journeymen playing with inexplicable pride and determination (M. O’Neill - Manager of the Year) in the air when centrally located. In cost us dear, including the FA Cup surrender to Blackburn Rovers. In the final five games, many of the players midfield, Smicer’s elusive talents seem who had worked so hard during the successful run, Camara, Thompson, Meijer, lost their places to more to be favoured, with good reason in my favoured ‘stars’, Owen, Heskey, Redknapp, with a corresponding dip in team application, productivity, resil- view, and if the pugnaciously enthusiastic ience and results. Still Houllier was entitled to try differing combos in competitive situations, having achieved [and possibly prematurely sold, Ed.] his objective for the year. So, what are we faced with? Davy T. is said to lack pace, Murphy is On balance, the UEFA Cup next season may be a better bet for an emerging side than the Champions slower, fades over 65 minutes, and when League, where unexpected reverses could put some of the younger players back another year, confidence and given the inside forward role his support- experience wise. To use boxing metaphors, when you’re building your boy into a contender, picking the right ers demand, simply wastes vital chances, kind of opponents, getting classier by increments, is the way to go. The self-belief that sustained the Reds for which in the case of Blackburn at Anfield, most of the year drained away, never to return, during the advanced lesson handed out in the 2 - 0 defeat at was a luxury we couldn’t afford. Yet, in Stamford Bridge in April: this game may have been the most significant of the season, comparable to our his favour, he is a superb user of the dead 1973 drubbing at Anfield by Red Star Belgrade in which limitations to our game were exposed, and changes ball, particularly corners, as Newcastle will recall, and this will be a prime selling point when he moves to initiated in tactics and technique that took Liverpool to the European zenith for a decade. Celtic in August for 2.5 million pounds. As he searches for the necessary evolutions, Houllier now knows not to overplay his untried hopefuls, and With Diomede playing outside left, Berger moving inside with McAllister/Gerard, or with Berger that the squad needs more variety, options, and experience, with the latter helping recovery from the inevitable moving outside in certain matches to accommodate the economical stopper and short ball specialist traumas of shock-defeat. Hence, Markus Babbel, Gary McAllister, French World Cup left-winger Bernard Hamman, it must finally be curtains for Jamie Redknapp. I hope so. Nobody in the current squad Diomede, and I hope, a left back . epitomises the vanity and self-deception of the Evans era more. He gives six good games a season, when Similarly, I trust rumours of a Camara move to Celtic are unfounded. His big heart, trickery and improvisa- everybody else in the team is playing just right for him; he never leads in a crisis (Club Captain? He has as tions have confounded opponents, saved and won vital games, and delighted Anfield all season. Yet, his flip- much backbone as a crustacean, and he can only run sideways), is woefully injury prone and exerts himself sided tendency to stumble in equal measure to the brilliant moments has put his first-team place in doubt. just enough to recover sufficient credibility, as against Newcastle, to salvage his fat contract with a token Ironically, this is the very factor that necessitates that he play 90 minutes weekly: he needs to build momen- run in the side. What happens? Results plummet. It happened in 1996, ruining Michael Thomas’ career; it tum, try the outrageous, and have adequate opportunity for the three mesmerising plays each game that will happened in 2000. Let’s hope other worthier players do not suffer for this favorite son. Chelsea, 7 million guarantee goals. It should be Camara from the start, with Michael Owen for the last 25 minutes in emergen- - do it, now! cies from now on, and not the other way round. Boy Wonder’s self-confessed injury anxieties, his tendency to Heskey? There’s a story for another cosy fireside chat, but with the right application on the training let his head go down when confronted by barriers such as Marcel Desailly over 65 five minutes, and his ability field, his powerful running and superb low crossing may develop into a considerable asset. But, it’s Fowler to use his speed and clever feet to score from nothing, make him the ideal first-change striker - that is, if all up front, it can only be Fowler, it must be Fowler. Next season he is the man to lead us to two cups and this talk about squad rotation as the essence of the modern game is serious, which I beleive Gerard Houllier second in the League. That’s what I think. Disagree? See you in the Kinsale this season, boys and girls! is. If the Hawarden Harlequin doesn’t like it - Lazio, 35 million: Ritchie Partridge will you please step up! Simon Davis THE HARD LEFT! But it wasn’t long after Stevo arrived that Shanks made yet another As we struggle to solidify the left side of our current team, let’s think inspired move, beating out Juventus and the blue noses to lash out a club back, and give thanks to perhaps the most potent left sided combina- record fee of £40,000 for Peter Thompson, footballing genius. A true tion in British footballing history, Willie Stevenson and Peter Thomp- genius. My all time favorite Liverpool player (funny, that almost every- son. Here was synergy at its best. The two individually were great, one who watched him play says that). I’ve even still got my Peter together they were world beaters. With apologies to the younguns like Thompson bubble gum card, shown here…. I quote " a dancer’s grace Ray Kennedy, Graham Souness, and Jan Molby, Willie Stevenson was and the daring of a matador". Exactly. A league championship in his first the consummate midfielder. He had it all, the biting tackle, the long full season, 1963-4, capped off with a truly memorable 5-0 clinch against pass, the penetrating through ball. Looking at Zidane in Euro 2000, I Arsenal at Anfield. I remember it like it was yesterday. Thommo turned could have been looking at Willie Stevenson (cept for the hair). And the Arsenal defense inside out. The Saint got one early, the flying pig who was the recipient of his passes? In large part, Peter Thompson, saved a pen, and Alf Arrowsmith (good guy, remember him??) put us two the greatest right footed left winger who ever lived. Anyone who ever up in time for pork pies. Then the second half. Two from Thommo, and saw Thommo jinking and swaying will never ever forget the sight of it. one from Sir Roger, and its was celebration time. Our first League since Here’s the magnificent left: Stevo, 1947. Shank’s first league. Here’s Thommo, naturally standing next to Willie Stevenson came first. Although Shanks had bought Big Ron and Thommo, and Gerry Byrne Stevo, celebrating that moment of moments. the Saint to get us into the First Division, we were struggling in our first season back in the top flight. Willie had won the league and cup with Rangers, but had lost his place to the likes of slim Jim Baxter, Thommo was unstoppable at this time. The and had actually moved to Australia. In just another of Shanks’ inspired moves, he snapped up next year was our cup year, and his great Stevenson for £20,000, and within a season, Stevo became the driving force behind the engine that was moment was in the semi against Chelsea, Liverpool FC. Unquestionable his greatest moment came on that day of days in May 1965 when we when he shimmied past two defenders won the FA Cup for the first time in our history. Man of the Match? Willie Stevenson. His passing was before destroying Bonnetti at the near post, the main difference between the two teams, and never let it be forgotten that he had to cover for iron much like Stevie Heighway was to do to man Gerry Byrne at left back, who played for 117 minutes with a broken collar bone (Rednaff out Bob Wilson against Arsenal at Wembley in again with yet another sprained toenail, I hear). And who made Sir Roger’s goal that day? Stevo and 1971. Speaking of that game, Thommo Gerry, of course, Stevo strolling past two men before freeing up Gerry to lay it across for Sir Roger. was incomprehensibly put on the bench in favor of the dubious Alun Evans. One of And of course there was Stevo a couple of Shanks’ few mistakes. When Thommo days later in the greatest game ever at finally came on he lit up the game. If he’d been on from the beginning...... Anfield, against Inter Milan in the European Cup semi final. In Cally’s own words: "Even The White Pelé, they called him (though, after one frustrating game, Shanks once called him when Mazzola equalised I was still confi- the White Nellie). Incidentally, looking fit and well, Thommo and Mrs T. now run the Delaine Hotel in dent this was to be our night, and after 34 Harrogate (www.smoothhound.co.uk/hotels/delaine.html). Looks absolutely wonderful. I’m going there minutes I scored the most treasured goal of on me hols….. Dave Brenner my career. What made it all the more rewarding was that it came from a free kick (Tune: Green Green Grass of Home) plan we had been practicing for some time. Well the old Kop looks the same It worked like a dream. We got the opportu- As I stand and watch the game nity to make it work when Peter Thompson was fouled a few yards outside the penalty There's the green, green grass that Liddell used to play on. area. Willie Stevenson and I lined up, then I Hunt, St. John and Peter Thompson dummied to shoot, ran over the ball and kept on running as Willie stroked it through to Roger Hunt, Score the goals who sidefooted it to me - and I hit it into the net." YES! When Shankly wants them It's good to watch the greatest team at home. OUR ROAD TO GLORY!.. Pre-season Friendlies July 22 Stoke (A) 0-1 RONNIE MORAN July 31 Freiburg (A) 4-1 March A HALF CENTURY OF LOYALTY, Aug 3 Glentoran (A) 4-0 3 Leicester (A) Aug 5 Benfica (A) 17 Derby (H) HONESTY, INTEGRITY AND SUCCESS Aug 10 Valerenga (A) 31 Man Ure (H) Aug 13 Parma (H) April THANK YOU! August 7 Ipswich (A) 19 Bradford (H) 14 Leeds (H) 21 Arsenal (A) (On live) 16 Everton (A) 26 Southampton (A) 21 Tottenham (H) September 28 Coventry (A) 6 Aston Villa (H) May 9 Man City (H) 5 Newcastle (H) 16 West Ham (A) 19 Charlton (A) 23 Sunderland (H) 30 Chelsea (A) Join LFCSC-NY in The Kinsale, Third Ave btwn 93 October and 94 Streets. 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