Liverpool football

Sometime last year, watched Liverpool FC thrash Bordeaux 3-0 at Anfield Stadium, the spiritual home of Liverpool fans. To complete things, a small fight among the players broke out towards the end.

Watching a game live certainly gives a different perspective as TV still can't adequately capture the mood and atmosphere of a game. There is still reason for people to go to the stadium. The team chants of English football was rather impressive. The choir at a cathedral of football (soccer that is).

Growing up in a TV culture I was rather surprised having no replays of every 'special moment'. "Oops, what was that? Can you just show it again?"

The seats in Anfield Stadium (perhaps all football stadiums) were packed very close to each other but helped to keep me warm! Just outside the stadium, there was also a shrine to 96 Liverpool fans that died in a crushing stampede at another stadium many years ago. Also called the Hillsborough disaster. A reminder of the potential dangers of these crowded squeezy stadiums.

My brother though is a big fan Manchester United, the arch-rival of the Liverpool Football Club, and is using the Liverpool scarf I gave him for unspeakable things.