I miss George. 
Would rather meet him than some of our ex-players or managers.
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Proper old school.
āI let my record player do my talking.ā
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He actually introduced me to quite a few new bands during matches in the 1980s. You donāt really get that sort of passive exposure these days. It probably accounts for the turgid state of the music industry. Obviously, there will be good stuff out there, but no one is hearing it by accident.
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Gonna have to explain it to me as well,..
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I remember when we played Barcelona at Anfield in 2001, when we lost 1-3 (we went 1 up, but then Barca played us off the park, I think they scored one of their last goals after around 70 passes - we couldnāt get near them and at times it felt we didnāt want to).
The game was live on TV in Croatia and during HT, for some reason for once there were no adverts, the camera remained from the Annie Road End looking straight at the Kop. Even the lights were different inside the ground at that time, it made the Kop (back then even itās roof was untouched, the border of it was just a straight line, unlike today) look really imposing.
Being 11 at the time, I remember just staring at that sight for 15 minutes and listening to George, the stuff he was saying and the music he played. It was another extra something about Liverpool that made me fall in love even more with the club.
Then when I made it to the Barca game on the Kop in 2019, he was at his best. Lots of us were still in shock and tears after the final whistle, not wanting to leave the ground. Then he played some extra few songs (even YNWA after the game was only on special occasions, like Chelsea '05).
Then he gave a radio interview the day after, explaining why he played some songs (including Imagine), etc. Iām really happy that I was able to witness it live.
From what I know, heās often in Homebaked (great place, I love the Shankly pie) outside Anfield. Iād love to bump into him one day, maybe when itās not even matchday and too many people around.
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The āBody Boatā is the Glaswegian nickname for the Glasgow Humane Society. They operate a lifeboat service for the Clyde, but often this is recovering corpses that were found floating in the river:
I actually found a dead homeless person next to the service door of that office building as well. For what was essentially and office based job, I did seem to see a lot of dead bodies.
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Remember Iago Aspas (38 yr young)? Scored a screamer today for Celta Vigo vs Nice.
Credit: 4gjdtokurwa on Reddit
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Remember us having high hopes for him. Had a solid career in the end; especially cf our earlier startlets like LeTallec.
Random one for you from the 90ās. Roy Naylor!
I donāt think he ever played for the first team (I might be wrong) but I remember as a kid I used to get the official LFC magazine and there was an article on him in the form of an interview. He was talking about how hard he wanted to work to one day become Liverpool number 1. I was very young and assumed heād be our next keeper 
So why can I remember random stuff like that from 30 odd years ago but canāt remember why I walked into a room??
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Here in Germany, football fans hate āDidiā Hamann as a pundit. Of course, sometimes he says rubbish, but i think, him recieves lot of hate, because he spent the majority of his professional career in England instead in domestic Bundesliga. Since 1998, he has played for Newcastle United, at our āRedsā and Man$hitty.
It might just be because heās not a very good pundit, which is surprising as he was an intelligent footballer.
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But i can not do hate Didi. Too if he says rubbish.
I donāt mind Didi. His opinions can be strong and a bit unusual at times, but Iāve learned now that there certainly isnāt any rule like successful or intelligent footballer = quality pundit.
We all love John Barnes, but when we signed Thiago, he said some rubbish he slows the game down for us (in a negative way). You wouldnāt think someone of his game understanding would think that, but there you go.
Itās just like it is, football is a game of a thousand opinions. There will be some opinions from likeable characters from the past that some of us might not like or disagree with.
For me, itās not enough to change my overall memory I have with Didi.
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Walked out of Tesco once into the carpark early one Saturday morningā¦ big tall guy in front of me with two carrier bags loaded with bottles of spirits. It was Didi Hamman.
Obviously it wasnāt a āplayingā match day for him, so maybe he was stocking up for a barbeque later on, or his matchday commentary, or he just needed to refuel from the night before. Either way, he looked a right miserable bastard. Not once did he ever acknowledge anyone that had said hello to him, as you do, when passingā¦!
Whenever I look at some of these pundits on TV these days, it makes me wonder whether it is them that are talking, or the boozeā¦
There was a famous audio clip of him on Talksport telling the presenter he had just fallen off his chair, and sounding drunk while doing so.
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Itās great to see the 38-years old Aspas enjoying his goal as if it was the first of his career, and enjoying himself on that pitch! 
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Ayeā¦ but that corner that Aspas took. Iām still fuming!
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Good luck to Rafa. He was brilliant for us but then sadly got derailed trying to work under G&H when the club was in crisis.
The jobs he had after that always seemed to have something lacking, and I also thought that the wider footballing public didnāt think highly enough of Rafa. He was an excellent tactician.
He took a few poor jobs, on a hiding to nothing, but I always thought it was because he just loved the game, and he wants to do something.
So here we are again, and itās probably a similar thing. Either way, Good luck Rafa.
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There was a 4 or 5 year period after Aspas returned to Spain where the only two players who scored more La Liga goals than him were Messi and Suarez. Not Benzema, not Bale, not Griezemann, not Neymar. Itās a pretty remarkable level of success for a guy so remembered for his struggles with us.
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