Anfield and Kirkby

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https://twitter.com/LFC/status/1772927482313707601

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The last game of the season vs Tottenham apparently has hospitality tickets going for 1500 GBP.

Wolves? :nerd_face:

Sounded like a shit atmosphere last night.

Performance obviously didnā€™t help, but the whole thing (both the performance and atmosphere) was a bit like ā€œweā€™re too good to be here battling with bloody Atalantaā€.

Really sad if that will turn out to be our last Anfield European night under Klopp.

Donā€™t think he has the motivation anymore to be the manager and cheerleader from the touchline. Heā€™s had enough.

Another horrible atmosphere.

I just donā€™t get it. These are literally the last Anfield games under Klopp and weā€™re also in a situtation to compete for trophies. Not ā€œmeaninglessā€ games.

Where is all of that, ā€œthis means moreā€, ā€œwe owe it to himā€, blah blah? Absolutely nothing special about our performances or atmosphere these last two games.

Have we really become that spoiled? Are we all too sad because we know in advance that this era is nearing itā€™s end and we just canā€™t give the team more support?

What a pathetic way to end this era, this hurts me even more than failing results wise (if we do).

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Yeah, Kloppo deserves better than that, but the Anfield crowd is always very responsive to how the team plays. If the crowd is lethargic during a match, it generally indicates a lethargy within the team as well, and how the game goes.

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I think the fans are the complacent ones, not the players. The arrogance in not giving it their all against Atalanta. European quarter-final night, and they squandered it.

Yeah, but especially now, taken everything into context, really poor.

At least a little bit more should still come from the stands, to help the team.

Not what I imagined these games would be. Regardless of the results. Attendance now up to 60k+, Kloppā€™s final season and final few games, battle for trophies. Every reason to make an effort.

Place sounds like we just canā€™t recover from these hits lately and just want this nightmare (still not over!) over and done with, remember all the good things from the past and onto next season.

You can even see on Kloppā€™s face and behaviour, heā€™s not even trying to lift them anymore. He seems like, f*ck it, canā€™t bother with this anymore, full focus on the football and then whatever happens.

Really sad.

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Iā€™m not an expert on acoustics (or anything else, for that matter), but has the expansion reduced the feedback to the pitch? Is more sound just escaping into the Merseyside air?

Sorry but I think we go too far re: expectations of ā€œAnfield.European Nightsā€. Itā€™s the fucking players that need to win the game; the fans can only be the icing on the cake. The players are the ones who have let two trophies slip away in the last three.games; the crowd have had a very minute part at most.

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As my lad mentioned to me about the atmosphere on Sundayā€¦ It is to be remembered, that probably a high majority of the fans were facing the ā€˜morning/day after the night beforeā€™ā€¦ in so much as it was Aintree festival over the preceding days after allā€¦ The City and all the revellers would have been in high spirits - come the gameā€¦ hangover time

Final day of the Kop as a standing terraceā€¦

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https://x.com/TheGuideLpool/status/1801294594463666322

https://x.com/TheGuideLpool/status/1801332398795149778

https://x.com/LFCGroove/status/1801350596781379910

Not sure what this is all aboutā€¦ Donā€™t believe LFC will be too happy though :man_shrugging:

A member of a loyalist flute band that marched through the grounds of Liverpool Football Club while playing sectarian music has called the incident ā€œan absolute disgraceā€.

Last Friday the Glendermott Valley Flute Band, from the Tullyally area near Derry, marched through the gates of Anfield while playing an instrumental version of ā€˜The Billy Boys.ā€™

The song has been banned at Scottish football matches and at Linfield games in Northern Ireland, being widely known for a version with the lyrics ā€œup to our knees in fenian bloodā€.

Sources at Liverpool Football Club have confirmed that no permission was sought for the march and that the club continues to look into the matter.

While identifying himself to the Irish News, the band member asked to remain anonymous and said he was deeply embarrassed by the sectarian nature of the incident.

ā€œI was with the band on Friday night and it never even crossed my mind that we werenā€™t invited,ā€ he said.

ā€œWhenever we were in the area, I pulled out and sat down because I thought ā€˜thereā€™s something funny about thisā€™.

ā€œThey were playing the Billy Boys and I was disgusted by the whole thing.

ā€œNot everyone in the band is responsible for that. Itā€™s scandalous, itā€™s an absolute disgrace what they did.ā€

While the Apprentice Boys of Derry host events in Liverpool, the organisation had previously confirmed they were not formally associated with the Glendermott band and had nothing to do with the decision to parade through Anfield.

He continued: ā€œYou donā€™t walk into somebodyā€™s living room if youā€™re not invited or donā€™t ask. I know itā€™s a public area, but Anfield is like the colosseum in Rome, thatā€™s what it felt like to me.

ā€œIt was done for one reason and one reason only and that was to put it to the Catholics of Liverpool.ā€

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Part of the band for several years, he said online suggestions that the band was linked to paramilitaries was not true.

ā€œIf you want to know a terrorist-linked band thereā€™ll be flags at the front with things like UVF, UFF or Red Hand Commando,ā€ he said.

ā€œThen youā€™ll know theyā€™re linked, because they have to ask for permission to carry them.

ā€œIf you look at the Glendermott flags itā€™s just a union flag and the banner.ā€

He said the group mainly plays tunes associated with the Ulster Volunteer Force during World War One, but admitted there were offensive elements.

ā€œThereā€™s only one modern UVF song played in the band. Itā€™s actually known, and youā€™ll have to excuse my expression here, as a ā€˜Kick the Pope band.ā€™

ā€œBlood and thunder, thatā€™s what itā€™s known as. Itā€™s called that for a bit of craic to be honest with you even though I know itā€™s very derogatory towards the Pope.

ā€œBut itā€™s always been called that, those type of bands.ā€

Wanting to speak out as an ā€œordinary loyalist in Glendermott and Tullyvally area,ā€ he said: ā€œThey definitely need called out. I just want to be clear that (itā€™s) not everyone in the band ā€¦ the Apprentice Boys did not sanction it in any way, shape or form.ā€

Earlier this week, a Catholic member of an official Liverpool supporters club in Derry told the Irish News the march felt like a deliberate attempt to antagonise the clubā€™s large Irish fanbase.

Addressing him, the Glendermott member said: ā€œIā€™d like him to know that my late father was a lifelong Liverpool supporter and heā€™d be turning in his grave if he knew that we were marching on what he would have seen as sacred ground.

ā€œHe loved that team. This is why itā€™s so embarrassing for me.

ā€œThe police have been involved as well as there was a bit of hate sent to us via email.

ā€œIā€™m very well known in loyalist circles here. Itā€™s very dangerous for me to be speaking like this but I had to say something.ā€

By Thursday morning, he added that he had just been informed by police that a credible threat had been made against him by a paramilitary organisation but that he was still determined to speak out.

A police spokesperson said that a report was received on Wednesday ā€œin relation to abusive messagesā€ and that enquiries were ongoing.

Regarding the complaint of a paramilitary threat, they added: ā€œWe do not discuss the security of individuals and no inference should be drawn from this. However, we want to reassure the public that we will take the appropriate action when made aware of anything that may put an individual at risk.ā€

Glendermott Valley Flute Band has been contacted for a response.

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