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Incase you haven't already heard the news (which may shock and upset many Liverpool fans) Liverpool F.C. are will today be desciding as to wether or not they finally leave the 45,000 Stadium 'Anfield' in search of a new and much bigger stadium to help keep the smiles of their local fans' faces.
This is shocking news for me, as a United fan, and I think that they have to strongly consider staying at the Theater which has hosted so many memorable matches and performances over the 100+ years Liverpool have been playing there.
It must be like a price-less piece of treasure to Liverpool fans, especially some of the greater players and loyal fans who have appeared their over the years.
With anything that is highly-valuable and means more than the world to you, you wouldn't just simply give it up or trade it in for a new one, just to get more money from it now would you! That's madness!! But it's what Liverpool may decide to do if they come to the conclusion that Anfield is simply 'too small for the big games'.
The Stadium itself was built way back in 1888, and it also played host to many Everton home games back then. Liverpool then moved in in 1892, meaning that Liverpool have now entertained at this famous ground for roughly 110 years in total.
So many games, so many goals, so many great matches.
Liverpool are still to date, the most succesfull football club in the history of Brittish Football. They're form of the past decade may favour United for this title, but when you do your research you'll see that Liverpool are still the no.1 team to beat!
Could the vast-majority of trophies they've recieved really have been possible without the full-support that the fans behind the goal have given them over the years at the Kop End??? I doubt it!
They would've looked lost and alone in the big competitions without such strong support, but many of The Kop won't be too happy with this moving news!
Is moving to a new Stadium really the answer????
Sure, it'll give their loyal fans a better chance of actually seeing their team play at home for the future, and it'll earn them a lot more money.
But all those memorable memories will still be left behind at the original Anfield site.
All the greats that have played there, including Ian Rush, Robbie Fowler, John Barnes and Peter Beardsley won't be too happy to see the go either - after the Liverpool careers they've had, making real names for themselves!
New stadiums don't come too cheap either. Especially if they're gunna plan to rival Old Trafford and St. James' Park (Newcastle) for the no.1 groud in the country!
Look at the Wembley project. Hundreds of millions have been wasted on a project that was set to create the ultimate National Stadium in Europe alone!
I'm agaist Liverpool moving to a new ground, like many Liverpool fans probably are too. But i'll suport the idea if the FA do something like decide that Stanley Park will be England's new home to replace the old Wembley.
But there is a possible solution that could be considered to keep everyone happy. The simple answer would be to expand the capacity of Anfield by another £20,000 or so.
This would not only keep all those memories with the current fans and players inside Anfield, but also save the club's board potentially hundreds of millions of pounds that would be used on a new stadium altogether!
So this is the answer to me, simply get an extension of Anfield.
Millions could be wasted on a Stadium that could either fall into the 'New Wembley Project Trap' or cause the club to loose money as the team doesn't start to create the expected results and success to come from an extra few thousand fans.
Money isn't the most important thing in football despite what many players' contracts may show to you. Money can be replaced, memories can't.
Anfield and it's superb history will go to a great waste if Liverpool do leave the stadium that has entertained with so much on display.
The Kop fans have always sung "You'll never walk alone", flooding and over-owering Anifeld. But with a move elsewhere, the club will be alone, without it's truth that lies only in the past.
We're all very dissapointed about how Wembley was just 'destroyed', who's to say that Liverpool Fans and maybe others too won't feel the same if the Stanley Park project does go ahead!
This is shocking news for me, as a United fan, and I think that they have to strongly consider staying at the Theater which has hosted so many memorable matches and performances over the 100+ years Liverpool have been playing there.
It must be like a price-less piece of treasure to Liverpool fans, especially some of the greater players and loyal fans who have appeared their over the years.
With anything that is highly-valuable and means more than the world to you, you wouldn't just simply give it up or trade it in for a new one, just to get more money from it now would you! That's madness!! But it's what Liverpool may decide to do if they come to the conclusion that Anfield is simply 'too small for the big games'.
The Stadium itself was built way back in 1888, and it also played host to many Everton home games back then. Liverpool then moved in in 1892, meaning that Liverpool have now entertained at this famous ground for roughly 110 years in total.
So many games, so many goals, so many great matches.
Liverpool are still to date, the most succesfull football club in the history of Brittish Football. They're form of the past decade may favour United for this title, but when you do your research you'll see that Liverpool are still the no.1 team to beat!
Could the vast-majority of trophies they've recieved really have been possible without the full-support that the fans behind the goal have given them over the years at the Kop End??? I doubt it!
They would've looked lost and alone in the big competitions without such strong support, but many of The Kop won't be too happy with this moving news!
Is moving to a new Stadium really the answer????
Sure, it'll give their loyal fans a better chance of actually seeing their team play at home for the future, and it'll earn them a lot more money.
But all those memorable memories will still be left behind at the original Anfield site.
All the greats that have played there, including Ian Rush, Robbie Fowler, John Barnes and Peter Beardsley won't be too happy to see the go either - after the Liverpool careers they've had, making real names for themselves!
New stadiums don't come too cheap either. Especially if they're gunna plan to rival Old Trafford and St. James' Park (Newcastle) for the no.1 groud in the country!
Look at the Wembley project. Hundreds of millions have been wasted on a project that was set to create the ultimate National Stadium in Europe alone!
I'm agaist Liverpool moving to a new ground, like many Liverpool fans probably are too. But i'll suport the idea if the FA do something like decide that Stanley Park will be England's new home to replace the old Wembley.
But there is a possible solution that could be considered to keep everyone happy. The simple answer would be to expand the capacity of Anfield by another £20,000 or so.
This would not only keep all those memories with the current fans and players inside Anfield, but also save the club's board potentially hundreds of millions of pounds that would be used on a new stadium altogether!
So this is the answer to me, simply get an extension of Anfield.
Millions could be wasted on a Stadium that could either fall into the 'New Wembley Project Trap' or cause the club to loose money as the team doesn't start to create the expected results and success to come from an extra few thousand fans.
Money isn't the most important thing in football despite what many players' contracts may show to you. Money can be replaced, memories can't.
Anfield and it's superb history will go to a great waste if Liverpool do leave the stadium that has entertained with so much on display.
The Kop fans have always sung "You'll never walk alone", flooding and over-owering Anifeld. But with a move elsewhere, the club will be alone, without it's truth that lies only in the past.
We're all very dissapointed about how Wembley was just 'destroyed', who's to say that Liverpool Fans and maybe others too won't feel the same if the Stanley Park project does go ahead!
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'The Anfield Memorial Garden' - BAH!
Where's the atmosphere in that!???
There'll surely be no "Never Walk Alone" echoing around the place, you'e got a better chance of hearing "You'll never grow alone" instead in a garden type of place!
And surely as a garden, it'll just get destryoed and burnt by hooligans.
Either mad Everton or United fans after a bad macth at Stanley Park, or England's Bad Boys after being knocked out as Hosts to a future World Cup!
Surely Liverpool know about how much the atmosphere means to them, and that's why they could name Stanley Park as 'Anfield' too.
But that won't make it the same as the REAL Anfield.
Do they really expect it to work that well!???
Where's the atmosphere in that!???
There'll surely be no "Never Walk Alone" echoing around the place, you'e got a better chance of hearing "You'll never grow alone" instead in a garden type of place!
And surely as a garden, it'll just get destryoed and burnt by hooligans.
Either mad Everton or United fans after a bad macth at Stanley Park, or England's Bad Boys after being knocked out as Hosts to a future World Cup!
Surely Liverpool know about how much the atmosphere means to them, and that's why they could name Stanley Park as 'Anfield' too.
But that won't make it the same as the REAL Anfield.
Do they really expect it to work that well!???
I am absolutely amazed by the negative response from so many so called REDS fans.I have been a liverpool fan for the last twenty five years.I try to get ticket as often as i can the new capacity would make this easier with some of the extra seats going for season tickets and some for general sale, i know you are thinking wouldnt 70,000 make it easier still.My answer to that would be yes,BUT i would raher go and watch world class players in a smaller stadium than the medioca ones we could afford if they went with the original plans.We should all remember the reason that anfield has such an original atmosphere is because the fans are so close to the pitch and the accoustics are perfect.I suggest all you doubters go to the official liverpool site and read the questions and answers from Rick Parry where it explains the reasons and the fact they are going to make the old anfield site into a memorial gardens so all of the memories live on.So please everyone lets get behind the club after over a hundred years its time to take a step forward BUT NEVER leave the old times behind
And for the record its got nothing to do with bloody MANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And for the record its got nothing to do with bloody MANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mattyboy wrote:
> I would be gutted if Liverpool move away from Anfield - Very few
> stadiums can match the atmosphere especially on those great european
> nights! However in order to move forward I guess a new stadium is
> always likely with any successfull club!
> There was talk about Liverpool and Everton sharing and 80,000 capacity
> stadium a few years back - Glad it was just a rumor though!
Thank you. Like I said, not ALL Liverpool fans will like the idea of leaving the original Anfield, even if the new ground will have the same name!
And as for the number of seats, it's absolutely rediculous and incredibley pointless if they're only gunna move a few miles away just to get 10,000 more seats, and have to waste absolute millions to do so, when they could by SEVERAL World-class players for the same fee!
If they ONLY want another 10,000 seats then they'd be better off staying at Anfield and adding them onto there. They'd also save a good few millions, and by improving the facillities in the ground slightly, the standards would be just the same as anything we could see at Stanley Park!
Hopefully, for Liverpool's sake, fans will begin protests in order to stop this!
> I would be gutted if Liverpool move away from Anfield - Very few
> stadiums can match the atmosphere especially on those great european
> nights! However in order to move forward I guess a new stadium is
> always likely with any successfull club!
> There was talk about Liverpool and Everton sharing and 80,000 capacity
> stadium a few years back - Glad it was just a rumor though!
Thank you. Like I said, not ALL Liverpool fans will like the idea of leaving the original Anfield, even if the new ground will have the same name!
And as for the number of seats, it's absolutely rediculous and incredibley pointless if they're only gunna move a few miles away just to get 10,000 more seats, and have to waste absolute millions to do so, when they could by SEVERAL World-class players for the same fee!
If they ONLY want another 10,000 seats then they'd be better off staying at Anfield and adding them onto there. They'd also save a good few millions, and by improving the facillities in the ground slightly, the standards would be just the same as anything we could see at Stanley Park!
Hopefully, for Liverpool's sake, fans will begin protests in order to stop this!
Exactly...
This new staduim must be easy to expand then...maybe in a few years time..
Its just not worth it for only a 10,000 larger capacity.
This new staduim must be easy to expand then...maybe in a few years time..
Its just not worth it for only a 10,000 larger capacity.
The GingerLord wrote:
> They should have saved the £11m+ they're gonna fork out on
> Anelka and got a bigger stadium!
Exactly - 55,000 is only 10,000 more than we can hold at the moment! If anything we should be looking at increasing the capacity as much as possible!
> They should have saved the £11m+ they're gonna fork out on
> Anelka and got a bigger stadium!
Exactly - 55,000 is only 10,000 more than we can hold at the moment! If anything we should be looking at increasing the capacity as much as possible!
They should have saved the £11m+ they're gonna fork out on Anelka and got a bigger stadium!
It has been confirmed - We are moving 300 yards across Stanley Park! The new stadium will be called Anfield and it will seat 55,000! Should have been 77,000 but as was said before its been cut so Houllier can fork out for new players in the summer!
didnt no that, aint botherd anyway
I think its been confirmed today that Liverpool are to move to Stanley Park, new 55,000 stadium, it was going to be 70,000 but they want Gerrad Houllier to have money for new players.
I would be gutted if Liverpool move away from Anfield - Very few stadiums can match the atmosphere especially on those great european nights! However in order to move forward I guess a new stadium is always likely with any successfull club!
There was talk about Liverpool and Everton sharing and 80,000 capacity stadium a few years back - Glad it was just a rumor though!
There was talk about Liverpool and Everton sharing and 80,000 capacity stadium a few years back - Glad it was just a rumor though!
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