When I left Liverpool in 1998 they were relaying the anfield pitch that summer. One of my mates got me a sq ft of anfield turf as a going away present. I carefully kept it watered and transported it to Ireland with me, placed it in the back garden of the house I was renting. A year later we bought our own house and I lovingly transplanted the turf there.
About 5 years later, on a return visit home, I went out on the piss with the lads. That evening my mate drunkenly confessed that he had the idea of getting me anfield turf, all those years earlier, but couldn't be arsed, so for years I had been tending a sq ft of lawn from his allerton back garden ....