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Liverpool FC 12 days of Christmas - L4, the home of Anfield

16 December 2010 11:57
As the festive season approaches, we have put together a special online 12 days of Christmas with a Liverpool FC twist. A new installment will be online at www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/lfc and www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/lfc each day up to the 25th[LNB] Walking through the streets of L4 on the way to the match, Anfield never fails to take you by surprise and appear out of nowhere. Go to most other Premier League grounds and the soulless stadia can usually be seen from afar, concrete citadels in industrial parks just out of town. But Anfield, surrounded by rows of houses and Stanley Park, seems like part of the furniture; an extension of the neighbourhood.[LNB]Reds fan and Liverpool University professor Rogan Taylor once said this about the game: "Football is more than just a business. No one has their ashes scattered down the aisle at Tesco." Similar sentiments apply for Anfield. For Liverpool fans, L4 is not just a sporting arena but a church, a shrine - a spiritual home. It can provide joy and it can console; as the gallery below shows, supporters congregated at the ground following the Hillsborough disaster in April 1989 as the Kop became a memorial to fans whose lives were taken.[LNB] Liverpool's future at Anfield is currently at a crossroads. Despite promises to get a spade in the ground within 60 days of the start of their parasitic regime, previous LFC owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett made no progress on building a new stadium in Stanley Park. Reds fans await John Henry's next move - will Anfield be redeveloped or will the club move to pastures new (but only just down the road)?[LNB]Quotes and video about Liverpool FC's home Anfield >>>>>>

Source: Liverpool_Echo