WH'S PLAYGROUND: At last I watched Gerrard playing at Anfield with my own eyes!!!

by wh

Anfield Stadium, Liverpool

That day, 12th Sept 2009, my life's almost completed... I've finally watched a Liverpool home match with my very own eyes, sitting one of the seats in Anfield, and joining around 40,000 liverpool fans cheering for the reds! Its opponent is Burnley that day, well they are not a really good competitor to Liverpool team. The home team scored 4-0 against Burnley!!! Well, the disappointment is non of the goals scored by either Gerrard or Torres but it was still a good match, a really good experience.

Anfield Road, Liverpool

A day before, I start travelled from Bristol at night and stayed overnight in Crewe station. Then I took about an hour train to Liverpool in the morning. It's exhausting but still worth it. 2 hours before the match, we've seen lots of Liverpudlians wearing red walking around the city centre. During our way to Anfield Stadium, fans were cheering and singing, having some drinks outside the pub, big banners of Gerrard and Torres were hanging outside houses along Anfield Road, and lots of Reds fans walking toward the stadium.

Me & SC's Liverpool Tickets

Arrived at Anfield Stadium at last...

"THIS IS ANFIELD"

Before the match start, " You'll never walk alone" came out from speakers, and all 40,000 die-hard liverpool fans were standing up, lifting up their scarves, and singing along to the song. That was an unbelievable moment and you wouldn't believe the atmosphere was that great! The song meant that the Liverpool fans will always stay support to their players and they'll never walk alone on the field. Well, before the match I thought it might be a 5-0 or a 7-0 match. Yes indeeed it ended 4-0 instead, an easy competition for Liverpool side. The atmosphere is much more intense in the stadium than in front of a TV. Liverpool fans were cheering and shouting at players to support them in every single moment.

Watching the match together with 47,000 more fans!!!

Liverpool's XI prepare to kick Burnley's ass

SC is a bit dissapointed as Torres didn't score that day, she couldn't sing the Torres song I taught her a day before. LOL... because everytime Torres score, fans will sing along Torres song to celebrate his goal... But still I heard the fans sang the Gerrard's song during the match.