The older I get, the less interested I seem to be in football. Having said that, I'm a season ticket holder at Tranmere Rovers. The World Cup in Qatar (November) is probably a compleat joke - how this will affect domestic league football, I just don't know. As a schoolboy/child and middle-aged man, I actively supported Liverpool, travelling into Europe and having a hoot. A lot of Liverpool reds and blues seem to have migrated away and started following Rovers. I really don't like fashionable EPL football any more. I rarely even look at EPL results
The older I get, the less interested I seem to be in football. Having said that, I'm a season ticket holder at Tranmere Rovers. The World Cup in Qatar (November) is probably a compleat joke - how this will affect domestic league football, I just don't know. As a schoolboy/child and middle-aged man, I actively supported Liverpool, travelling into Europe and having a hoot. A lot of Liverpool reds and blues seem to have migrated away and started following Rovers. I really don't like fashionable EPL football any more. I rarely even look at EPL results
The top 2 tiers of the English leagues is a completely different ball came from the one we remember. My first game at Anfield was Liverpool V Coventry in the 78/79 season. I was 9 years old, stood in the old Anfield Road stand and couldn't see a thing. Like you Cold I travelled all over the country following the Reds and had an incredible time especially as a teenager in the 80's. I wasn't in the Leppings Lane end but I was at Hillsborough in 89 and football changed for me from that day. I remember going to the next home match at Anfield and it was horrible. I've probably only been about 15 times since. The problem now is that it focuses more on the Corporate 'fan'. We used to stand on The Kop terrace with 20,000 other people. You knew everyone around you and you could just turn up and pay at the turnstile. It's virtually impossible to buy a ticket know. The last time I enquired I was told that I would need to buy a package deal i.e. fly in from Ireland, with a hotel & matchday ticket!!!! I'm now a groundhopper, mainly going to non-league matches from the West Lancs League to the Conference League - it has the same smells, passion and proper chips that i remember from my adolescence.
Think my first game would have been around 80-81. 4th division, terraced and a crowd so sparse that there were probably 10 yards between people in the stand. On a brighter note, there were a lot more dogs at games in those days
And there were tons of ways into the ground for an enterprising kid so no-one ever paid.
I got lucky with football, my first game was the 1979 FA Cup Final, eight years old. My Mum was the Arsenal fan and started taking me everywhere, when I was 16 she donated me the season ticket and an obsession was born! I've been everywhere to watch them, I've seen them win away to Real Madrid, AC Milan, Inter Milan, I was there for the league title wins at Anfield, OLd Trafford and White Hart Lane, I saw the 1994 CUP Winners Cup triumph, also the defeat the next season, I saw us lose to Barcelona in the Champions League final and also to Chelsea in the Europa League final. Arsenal have given me so many highs and probably just as many lows, I've made some fantastic friends along the way, Charlie now comes with me and loves it just as much as I do. Roll on Thursday!
I got lucky with football, my first game was the 1979 FA Cup Final, eight years old. My Mum was the Arsenal fan and started taking me everywhere, when I was 16 she donated me the season ticket and an obsession was born! I've been everywhere to watch them, I've seen them win away to Real Madrid, AC Milan, Inter Milan, I was there for the league title wins at Anfield, OLd Trafford and White Hart Lane, I saw the 1994 CUP Winners Cup triumph, also the defeat the next season, I saw us lose to Barcelona in the Champions League final and also to Chelsea in the Europa League final. Arsenal have given me so many highs and probably just as many lows, I've made some fantastic friends along the way, Charlie now comes with me and loves it just as much as I do. Roll on Thursday!