VAR has ruined the in the moment that slightly (though at the ground I am still going be crazy), but there are goals you can’t help going absolutely mad about when they hit the net.
And I thought it may be offside on first watch.
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In 1996, Enrico Chiesa scored at Anfield while representing Italy in the Euros 
In 2025, Federico Chiesa scored his first Premier League goal for Liverpool in the same stadium Like father, like son 
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https://x.com/nathrehman/status/1957513964285550755
https://x.com/TonyEvans92a/status/1957561473598730615
The comments btw are gold 
Some bits
Wait till he finds out there aren’t any fields surrounding Anfield Road
Bloke’s mind will be blown when he finds out Salah isn’t actually the King of Egypt
Wait till he finds out there isn’t only one Connor Bradley in the world
Nobody tell him Van Dijk isnt always calm as youd like
Wait until he finds out Luis Garcia actually hates Sangria
His next article will be him doubting liverpool fans have never actually walked on their own
FUCK OFF TONY, you’re a gob shite now!!
and many more
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“I’m always right”
I assume Tony is struggling since FSG spent a few pennies.
As for “enemies” they’ve never needed an excuse, if he is referring to opposing fans.
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What a weapon
This might work if South Yorkshire a police were a football club who mugged us off by signing a top player from us for a bag of chips
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Is he really equating Juve fans thinking about Liverpool supporters in the way we think about Duckenfield and the SYP?
This from a guy who I thought actually understood the tragedies of Hillsborough and Heysel, and their aftermath.
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Dear God!
He has completely lost his mind it seems.
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It did cross my mind last season.
I see where he’s coming from.
I’m 99% sure there was no malice from whoever created it, but in a sea of words and options, perhaps there were other choices.
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Evans is looking to take affront on behalf of Juve fans in order to cause some noise and rake in clicks since he’s been irrelevant for more than a decade. You’d have to suspend all logic to conclude that Chiesa’s song has something to do with Heysel, unless that’s the goal from the start, to stir up shit.
It’s bullshit to the highest degree.
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None of the Juventus fans really equated Heysel to the Chiesa song.
Just looking to ramp up clicks.
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I am not thrilled that some of our more popular songs of this era use swear words. When I read his opening comments about this I assumed that was what he referencing. I was stunned by the leaps he was making once I started reading more.
In most cases I will say that intention doesnt matter if the outcome is bad. But it still has to pass the reasonable person test and so its a fair position to listen to someone complain about a comment being unintentionally offensive and tell them to fuck off.
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Simon Hughes now has a piece following up on the controversy. It drops this gem…
Chiesa, for his part, says he is “really grateful for the song they are singing”, but that does not necessarily mean he knows about its potential implications.
This is something they claim is still raw in Italy and at Juve specifically and so we need to understand they will view this differently than we intended. Yet here is a blue-blooded Italian footballer whose connections to the game and in Italy specifically will run much deeper than just his personal time in the game, and someone who even spent 4 years playing for the club in question. Yet we acknowledge that he likes it and there is no evidence he sees the probalmatic association these journos are talking about?
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“Why is it making me and Tony Evans feel uncomfortable and we both need to be relevant”
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When the history of offensive football songs comes to be written, Chiesa’s won’t make the top hundred. It’s funny, based on the absurd idea that Federico would tell Juve to fuck off because he’s become a Kopite. It’s so silly that nobody with any sense of humour could be offended.
It also shows that, for the current generation of Reds fans, Juventus are just another big European club, as worthy of ridicule as any other. In fact it is one of the most corrupt and least admirable in Europe, as reprehensible as Real, Bayern and other arrogant behemoths. I doubt the song would have come about if his previous club had been Dortmund or Atalanta.
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People seem to forget how Chiesa was treated that time by Motta and the club.
Imagine taking a jersey number off sale to force a transfer from someone they don‘t include in their plans. He wasn’t allowed to train with them anymore etc.
Pathetic to shadow the support and the love we are giving him tbf. And, speaking from personally experience , I think this new generation of fans have the right to not be shacked by the actions of some now in their late 60s tbh, the younger generation of fans have no idea anymore why someone might get offended in Turin etc. I completely understand why some of the older fans still feel “guilty” and uncomfortable, I really do. But that’s a cross the younger generation of Liverpool fans shouldn’t have to bear anymore.
And btw, it’s not easy to get Anfield bouncing as a unit, the atmosphere was incredibly crazy and enormous loud. As a foreigner who speaks English really well, I can promise you that not everyone who watched the game and heard it on TV understood the lyrics of what was being sung at all; most probably still have no clue. (I had to read it up at the beginning, too, tbf.)
Why this is being blown out of proportion is probably just a very “British problem” of the older generation, or perhaps the atmosphere was simply too good and one can no longer laugh at the Anfield myth or call it a library, etc.
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I really hate to break it to Tony and Simon, but Bobby Firmino wasn’t the best in the world, and he didn’t score everytime we gave him the ball.
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