THE MYTH OF ANFIELD

Anfield is a football stadium built in 1884 in Liverpool. Anfield could be considered a stadium like many others but that isn’t true.

Today  the Reds play football in Anfield Stadium and if we go back in time we can understand that Anfield isn’t only a stadium but also an amazing  legend.

Liverpool F.C, founded in 1892, has always been a great team and it has a great history, of which the stadium is the “main character”.

Anfield and the club have always had a very strong relationship but the myth of Anfield started after a football match in UEFA, in a long and amazing night in 1974. In the first round of the quarter finals, Liverpool faced one of the best teams in that time, Saint Etienne and Liverpool lost 1-0 in France.

Saint Etienne had to face Liverpool again in the second round of the quarter finals and the French team was the favourite. On the matchday, Liverpool was a revolutionized city because of the match. It had to start at 7.30 p.m. but the Kop, the biggest bleachers area in Anfield, was sold out two hours before.

Anfield that night hosted almost 60,000 reds fans. Liverpool won the match with an exciting 3-1 but that night Anfield wasn’t the same. The atmosphere was unreal.

Since that match,  the stadium has been considered one of the magic places of football. After that event Liverpool fans created a new motto and wrote it in the tunnel that leads to the pitch and it is one of the most famous in the world of football: “This is Anfield!”

  

In the last two years Liverpool has become one of the strongest football teams in the world. The modern emblem of its myth is the Champions League semifinal against Leo Messi’s Barcelona.

Barça won the first round for 3-0 at Camp Nou ( Barcelona’s stadium) but Liverpool performed an incredible comeback beating the Blaugranas for 4-0 at Anfield. Liverpool won the Champions league in the same year.

Also the numbers say that Anfield is magic. Liverpool team hasn’t been beaten in it for about three years. In this season Liverpool has never lost and it is the first team in Premier League with a difference of 22 points from Manchester City, the second one. Liverpool is one of the biggest cities in England but it is unique from the point of view of football. Its two football clubs, Liverpool and Everton,  play in two different stadiums,  but these are  only 500 metres of distance one from the other. On the day of the derby there must be real chaos in the city!

 There will be many other magic nights in this stadium and they will be incredible and exciting. In football all is possible and in Anfield the impossible become possible.

DAVID