1974: The KOPITES of Liverpool FC | The Kop | Classic BBC sport | BBC Archive 

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Lol

Never saw Darwin on the scoresheet either.

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Used to see them a lot back in the day.

You used to see the odd the union flag but never the saint George flag you still don't to this day..

to be honest the Union flag (can only be called jack at sea) was nationally worn often even at 1966 world cup final. the emblem identified England as being part of the United Kingdom of which of course are Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. now before anyone from Scotland comes on and says we would never do that..just take a trip to Ibrox park and tell me what you see?

It was the Stars and Stripes with Everton painted on it that caught my eye

@@carlh429 Would you still see them in the Late 70s, or was once the 1981 Riots in Liverpool and Managed Declined that Thatcher tried to do.

Unlucky enough to be in the Boys Pen 🤣🤣

January 1981 my first visit to Anfield - Stood on the Kop for the visit of Leicester City. Liverpool had set a first division unbeaten home record and were duly beaten by Leicester 2-1! In fact Leicester got the double over Liverpool that season and were still relegated! Liverpool meanwhile had to make do with a first FL cup final win (I was at both games) and another one of those European cups.

@@kevinbeck6785 The Boys Pen had its own choir, sounded like girls on match of the day.

@@kevinbeck6785 It was only a bob and you had a better chance of seeing the game, close enough to the Kop to feel part of it.

@@Fairplay-ed6rs 🤣🤣 Can you say that now in this woke world 🤣🤣

That makes beer about £3.30 today and the ticket £5.25.

1974: The KOPITES of Liverpool FC | The Kop | Classic BBC sport | BBC Archive 0833am 21.5.24 having piss sprayed up yer legs optional...

@@JJONNYREPP Have experienced that, however it was in my coat pocket.

@@billybonds4449 Comments on ‘1974: The KOPITES of Liverpool FC | The Kop | Classic BBC sport | BBC Archive’ 0158am 22.5.24 i hope that kindda vile ode wasn't put down to the idiosyncrasies and part and parcel of what being scouse is all about? football was a great game. what has dealt it a blow? dare anyone say? certainly forgoing pish stained and pish soaked clobber after a match is a boon.... players bemoaning the fact they play too many games is a cop out ( pun intended)... after the war players played domestic league, european and domestic cup games.... and generally it was the same 11 that were assigned such tasks... with a few subs thrown in. maybe their being fitter and more health conscious has meant they're liable to break easily? sport per se has become a lot crapper.... is that a word? it is now!!!

I have two lads sat next to me who live 100yds away from the ground. Some of the myths some of our loony left fans spout are embarrassing.

​@@SteveLeggett-s6zLiverpool fc turned that area into a dump.Sold out the workung class people

@@Stephen-lx9nm And all the other clubs never raise their prices atall 🙄

​@@SteveLeggett-s6z that could be true but I'm from Anfield and it's spenny for a ticket

As an American that has no idea what the cost is, could someone fill me in? Obviously not a novel thing as you need 500 dollars to take your family to go to an NFL game.

Bang on, Mr Rob, they talk about the Kop today, nowhere near what it was like in 70s and 80s

Pipe that music in Wack 😂😂😂😂😂😂

They have boxing and MMA to cater for them nowadays

Ever hear of Leagues 1, 2, National and even lower ???

@@pressureworks yeah funnily enough I've been to 5 national league games this season. It's fantastic. Certainly different to my 27 years as a season ticket holder at Anfield

I was 70 on Saturday and we still have it at Millwall,where I first attended on 3rd September,1962. Just bought next season's "Over 63" season ticket covering 23 league matches. Cost ? £245 and NO VAR or having to take the (BLM) knee.

@@Isleofskye happy belated birthday, young man. I've heard a few championship fans say that in some ways they hope they never make it to the premier league and I know what they mean.

39 changed everything scum

Agree ❤

@@welshlad6427 Welsh Lad Too 👍👍

As Millwall fans discovered in 1972 when the police, inadvertently, directed the 3,000 Away fans in The F A Cup match,which, Millwall won 2/1 into The Gwladys Lane entrance. 6 fans were treated for stab wounds...

Most would tell you that they are scousers first and English a very distant (if at all) second.

@@Isleofskye Millwall! the biggest prickz in English football. Behave mate.

@@paulkersey9857The same Liverpool that was key to the British Empire and has a heavy loyalist presence…

Same at Birmingham, half the kop would shout for Celtic and the other half for Rangers. Another version was Tiswas/Swapshop. Half and half rangers/brum scarves and hats were popular up until the 90's.

Sorry, Birmingham Kop.? ? I Thought It Was The " TILTON ROAD" ! !

@@ChristopherGibb-p9k spion kop ran down the side of the pitch and could hold 40,000. Built in 1905

​@@TrevorFrancisWalksonWaterUsed to be a chant on the Anfield Kop "we all agree, that Tiswas is better than Swapshop". Personally, I preferred Swapshop. 😂

Used to be the same on the Kippax at Maine Road. You even had people with City Celtic and City Rangers bobble hats. Thankfully that is long gone and just concentrate on our own team!

Lovely man. Wasn’t my Church but met him a fair few times and he was always very kind and keen to help.

Yes, that didn't age well, did it? Saying MacDonald would put four past Clemence. I don't thing MacDonald even had four touches that day. Tommo had him in his arse pocket all game.

@@gary1961 And Tommy Smith doing his party pieces with his one one-two passes on the wing.

I experienced it!

@@StevenCullen-sx1ui There was indeed the widely held misconception held by many in the media/newspapers that an away supporter visit to Liverpool always meant being greeted with loads of Scouse warmth, humour and sportmanship. BUT indeed that was NOT the full story, because the streets and Stanely Park outside of Anfield (and Goodison Park) walls and gates were very uncomfortable, hostile and frightening places for many away supporters. So there was indeed no "Please to meet you".. or... "Toddle-pip on your way, we wish you God speed and a safe journey home, your team deserved the result”... blah blah. stuff. It was indeed more a case of being completely on edge with heightened senses, when the main hope of getting home safely became far more important than the actual result itself!

Was that the '81 game just after Shanks had died?

@@AshtonArcher Yep! And I also attended the next Anfield fixture the season after that which was an early kick-off when if memory serves me correct was on the same day that the Grand National horse race was being held.

1974: The KOPITES of Liverpool FC | The Kop | Classic BBC sport | BBC Archive 0830AM 21.6.24 fortress anfield! then the stands gave way to seating and the kop ends gave way to wheel chair access and then the stands will be reintroduced and the home-end will never be the same again...

What you on about, £3.75 to get in? Back in 74 when this was filmed, it was only about ten bob to get in ( 50p ). I got a ticket for that cup final against Newcastle for £1. Unless you're talking about a stand ticket. But for £3.75, I'd have wanted to sit on Shankly's knee in the dug-out.

@@gary1961 When I started going to the match on my own it was £3.75. As for sitting on Shankly's knee, he'd been dead six years.

@@gary1961 May have even been 40p. Even the main stand and Kemlyn Road would be nowhere near £3.75.

He said 74

@@kevinhunter3473 He did, I didn't.

so very true

Just the one glory hunter from dear old Wolvo😂🤣

@@anthonyduffy1278always has been plenty of Liverpool and United fans in the Black Country. Pisses me off lol

@@anthonyduffy1278 Give the fella his due, he must have liked LFC to do a 180 mile round trip every other Saturday.

First bloke on it was a brummie, but apart from that, yeah, good to hear.

It states all that in the programme. Anfield was the first ground to officially call a stand Spion Kop.

It's a shame you didn't support a Welsh team?. I'm a Cardiff fan for 50 years, through good and bad times. Lots of bad times, but I could never support an English team. Never. Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@@OwainGlyndwr1927 I actually also support my home town Rhyl FC who I follow regular. My father was born in Liverpool and moved to North Wales where I was born so my family are scousers meaning Liverpool FC are my equal love.

And you could pay at the turnstiles

@@Midge-xn9tp It was lovely in London too. 10 major teams and decide on the day where to travel,queue up and go through the turnstiles. Simple Things...

If I remember right... £3.50 for the Paddock stand at Old Trafford in late 80's. You had to be there at least 2-3 hours before kick-off to ensure getting in and plenty of times sat face on into a winter storm for over 4 hours. Soaked to the skin for the 3 mile walk home.

The Kop - 50p admission fee in 1974.

I was born in 1980 so missed out on these times, I got to visit Anfield a few times in the mid 90s, you could get tickets easily then and they only cost around £15, I did manage the standing Kop in 94 and had to queue for a few hours to pay on the gates, however it beat the prospect of having to do the same on a telephone for a game 3 months away, put me off going these days

I have been, seriously, watching Sports since the Chile World Cup in 1962 and the first game attended:Millwall 5 Hull City 1 on 3/9/62 and First Grand National was 1960(Merryman The Second) but most Womens Sport tends to be very uncompetitive like The WSL. 4 or 5 goof sides and that is it. Chelsea just won their last 2 games by 14/0. lol I don't like the hype as one Presenter said "The images that you are seeing do not match the commentary. For example: A decent strike=Absolutely SENSATIONAL etc...lol

@@Isleofskye The hype is applicable across all sport - undoubtedly true of Men’s Premier League too. At long last women’s sport is taking off more widely as for example in football and I see it enthusing a lot of juniors at grass roots. I’ll not suggest competitiveness is an issue… When I met my lovely girlfriend at the time in the 80s, it turned out she played football and my mates said I should have seen my face when she floored me in a tackle in a mixed game the first time I saw her play ! I hadn’t realised til recently that lots of schools still don’t let girls play (my poor excuse being I don’t have daughters but I have seen my son’s friends discriminated against). The women are doing well while still nowhere near from an equal footing. The engagement with fans is measurably accelerating support and attendances. Good news - It’s on the up for sure.

@@Isleofskye If I somehow found myself watching a women's football ball in my dreams I would pay to leave the ground.

@@billybonds4449 How can I argue when Iised to see Billy @ Charlton? )

Yeah I used to get in there about 1.00 or so.

Many red and blue in lots of families throughout the city of Liverpool.

@@anthonyo.6084 Indeed,my namesake:)

Probably Maine road was the worst.

Especially if you were black.

And your evidence for this is what?

​@@rhodestowndave8926 Must be a man U supporter

Went with Newcastle in the 70s and have to say we never had any issues there unlike other grounds

Especially considering that a lot of the revisionist history tells us that football crowds were too violent for women in those days

A tiny percentage....less than 1% - tops.

Transgender

Going to London in the 70s 80s and beyond was an experience. From Euston, to whichever ground you had to be on guard, as every cockney firm would be out looking for stragglers to hospitalise.

Calm down, calm down 🤷‍♂️as a scouser mate i can believe it we are actually very friendly right until were NOT as an evertonian you cant say were not all capable of that ive seen many instances so called “friendly fans” turn into full on barbarians 😂

@@lordred4116 Yeah I got punched in the head once outside Stamford Bridge after Chelsea once beat us and I said "well played mate" to a Chelsea fan. He just punched me in the head. For no reason.

The reputation some Chelsea fans have didn't come from being a friendly bunch either

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Anfield was the first ground to officially call a stand Spion Kop though.

Arsenal, "the gooners" first had the kop end, but it never stuck. After the South African boer war and the British 🇬🇧involvement with the Lancashire regiment Liverpool FC adopted The Kop and the rest is history. Y.N.W.A

@@niazpetkar53 It also never actually took off at the Woolwich Arsenal ground. It was just a term in passing which not many used. Hence why they never called the North Bank at Highbury a Kop, when they moved grounds because it was never really a thing for them.

I don't know about liverfool being the first' but even Preston had a spion kop. It was just a popular name at that point in time.

@@daveglynn748 Liverpool were most definitely the first to officially call a stand the Spion Kop. This is established fact.

Well alright!

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Your family must have been well off to have a colour telly. No one on our council estate had one.

@@billybonds4449 No They weren't. Never went Abroad Never Had A Car. Dad Still Alive 87 Work every weekend To Get That. Work in A Timber Factory All His Life. Never SCROUNGE Of The Government

Yes the good old days we were Liverpoll fans who came from North Wales and walked from Lime Street and back again after the match, real footballers playing on real pitches, football today nothing like it was in 70s 80s, remember when spurs beat us and was there when we beat you 7-0 and the Kop were booing Liverpool and cheering Spurs, magic memories ⚽⚽⚽

Don't forget the boy's pen, up in the top corner of the Kop.

@@gary1961 In the corner, next to the main stand!.

Show them the way to go home

And the 12th Man.

Biggest piss stones in British football .😂

@@Stephen-lx9nm Good to see you laugh at your own jokes ! no one else does !

Yup! When Nick Mason's band played here at the Liverpool Philharmonic couple of years ago they apologised in advance to any Everton supporters in attendance before they played FEARLESS!

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Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd

Fulwell end all day for me🔴⚪️🔴🫡. Hope they don’t change the kop or it might lose its nostalgia.

I was at that game Stan Cummings scored the winner

@@John-vh3xm yep he certainly did and we went mad in the kop, the liverpool fans were great with us 👍🔴⚪

28k at peak

​@@SteveLeggett-s6z officially?

not that old myth - the Holte held 1,000 more - the holte didn't go into the corners - and was nowhere near as packed, was nowhere near as loud either. Stood on the Holte a number of times - not even close to the Kop.

Great days then. Now sad times.

I was at that game. In fact, it was the first I'd seen us lose, and all the talk after was about how it was the first time spurs had won at Anfield since just a few weeks before the Titanic sank in 1912.

Was at that game. Was 13 years old and Waited outside the players entrance and had a chat with Glen Hoddle. He saw me looking sad and just said. It’s taken 70 odd years for us to win here and probably be another 70 years, so let us have this one today son. Made me smile and always had a soft spot for him since then.

@seckie1001 😄 🤣 Absolutely and I couldn't believe how unlucky I'd been because back then we never lost and all my mates in school were talking about going the match so you had to be going the match so you could go in school on Monday and brag 😄 🤣 😂 . I was gutted 😄 . I was certain we were going to win . I remember be carried by the kop in a wave everytime the ball come up our end it was so exhilarating but being a kid you,d hardly see ewt 😄 🤣. Magic. YNWA

@welshlad6427 No way man haha, that's crazy . Ye I was around that age , I was born in 71 so il have to Google the year I can't remember so whatever the difference. It made Garth Crooks stand out in my mind for years with him scoring the goal. I still loved all the singing and i always remember the fact the kop still sang we love you Liverpool at the end ..and the roars trying to push the lads to equalise and the surge forward that carried you with it was awesome . These the things that make a big impression on you on how to be a Liverpool fan. YNWA

Half of em if not more would be middle class Londoners. Real fans have been priced out now.

To be fair there was always the odd union flag in the kop, but you never ever seen Saint George flags and still don't to this day..

The apprentices would have done it after the cameras were switched off.

They used to burn the rubbish

It was less than that if I remember

30p in 72

myth...it's the old locals sat there with their arms crossed who only open their gobs to moan who are the big issue. I'm surrounded by them - reason (after 40 years) i'm giving up half me seasony cos of the silence about me.

Many people couldn't afford hot water, and didn't have bath tubs/showers in their houses back then. If they did have access to the facilitiea we take for granted today I'm sure it'd have been much different.

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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. Whaaooo we wash every day then bath or shower every other day. That's wild

They still do there !!

@@Evemeister12 behave! I was about in them times, it was the seventies not Victorian times! There was access to hot water!

Every Game, same spec. Even when the perimeter fence went up . She stood on a milk Crate to look through the gap.

myth

@@stel3209 facts!

@@fifagod1000 i've been a season ticket holder for 40years - you're talking shite lad.

@@stel3209 1 that's bullshit 2 I have a season ticket in the kop back of the goal annnie road and the main stand is full of them your chatting shite lad!

@@fifagod1000 well i'm surrounded by fellow locals in the Upper Kemlyn - sit in silence regardless of game or opposition. Middle of Kop is the same - only back centre sings regularly. The most singing in our stand is in the back corners....where the day-trippers sit (who are desperate for a good atmosphere). Older locals are the issue. We need far more young local fans (like the lads who go the away games) in the ground. To say it's tourists fault is laughable.

yeah utd used to wear liverpool scarfs in them days

Agreed, looks like Stretford Paddock to the far side. Possibly the FA Cup semi-final at OT, Liverpool v Everton.

That's a very good spot. I think you may be right.

Definitely right it’s just after a goal we are in the front

@@johnhughes547 Yes. That looks as if they have used a clip of the crowd after they had celebrated a goal. This film was taken at the Derby match on April 20th 1974 which ended 0-0, so they couldn't be celebrating a goal that day.

Like we have a choice?

What's that got to do with it. You haven't a clue

​@rogerdecoursey8341 'You haven't a clue?' You sound like another sanctimonious lefty winding, full of misplaced self importance, YOU haven't got a clue you melt

@rogerdecoursey8341 You sound like a typical self entitled, sanctimonious lefty, you make things worse & screech 'racist' when we notice

Have a day off ya prick.

just couldn't pay rent lad could they 😂😂😂😂

happened there first....not even debatable.

@@stel3209 fans being passionate for the team they love only happened at liverpool first? 🙄 Ok then... You do know football was already 100 years old at this point

@@MichaelChurchill1982 no ones saying there wasn't passion - but you only have to hear Wolstenhome's comments to know Liverpool took it to a completely new level. The chanting/singing was incomparable. That's a simple fact.

You're saying 'foreign players' haven't enriched English football? No Cantona, Bergkamp, De Bruyne, Henry, Salah, Ronaldo, Drogba? You're a moron my friend.

Theres still a union jack flag flown on the kop every week to this day. A st george flag however..