What’s your Liverpool fan story?

[bluebell]

Do you know, I never asked him. The pic suggests it was probably the Roundheads though. 😉

Good to know, but we never became a republic despite them winning

 

[Irishanfield]

I saw Ronnie Whelan scored one of the best goals ever for Ireland in 1988(i won't listen to anyone who says it was a miss kick/shin) asked who he played for, and ended up here nearly 40 years later.

It did actually role off shin/ foot though

 

[Judge Jules ★]

Good to know, but we never became a republic despite them winning

Not permanently, no. We effectively did for a little bit when the monarchy went into cold storage while Cromwell was in power but the people never wanted it.

 

[bluebell]

Not permanently, no. We effectively did for a little bit when the monarchy went into cold storage while Cromwell was in power but the people never wanted it.

You were 4 or 5 when it happened, surprised you remember much of it

 

[tombrown ★]

An ancestor of mine (John Blakiston) signed Charles 1 death warrant. Fortunately, for him, he died before the reformation.

Very proud of my regicide roots, may try the same with the 3rd.

 

[SummerOnions ★]

An ancestor of mine (John Blakiston) signed Charles 1 death warrant. Fortunately, for him, he died before the reformation.

Very proud of my regicide roots, may try the same with the 3rd.

That's some good tracing! I found quite some of my Irish ancestors round that time were getting hung by the Brits in the tower. Quite glad they all had kids early before getting lynched.

 

[tombrown ★]

Here it is, in case people didn't believe me - second signature in third column

 

[bluebell]

Here it is, in case people didn't believe me - second signature in third column

@Judge Jules do you recognise the signature as I am sure you met the man?

 

[Squiggles ★]

No great profound story for me. I grew up in a hamlet in the cotswolds to a single mum and no football club within 2 hours of public transport. Kids in school mostly just picked random PL teams they liked the most. I'm not sure exactly what sold me on Liverpool but that Mcmanaman goal against Celtic was my first jump out my seat football memory, so if I was on the fence about my team as a 8 year old, that confirmed it.


View: https://youtu.be/jzZ0k8fZZTg?si=omBsWY4Z1MkriRoL

Then there was only one city I was ever go to go to Uni in, and still happily here 18 years later

 

[dogboy ★]

Here's the thing, I'm from N Ireland so I've no direct lines to Liverpool.
My Dad was and still is a football fanatic and extremely knowledgable about the game. He managed teams in our local city/area, and although he never said he supported an English team he, at the time, had a soft spot for Arsenal, this being the late 70s/early 80s because of the Irish players.
As a child I got the weekly football magazines, Match or Shoot. One of the magazines, I remember it being Shoot, doing an illustration of the complete footballer. The drawing had an arm up in the air and a smile on it's face with the caption being something akin to Dalglish after he scores another goal. I thought that's who I want to be when I play, so LFC it was.
This was cemented when for some reason I met Kevin Keegan when he played for Southampton. I was about 9 or 10 in full Liverpool gear, he said to my Mum that she was bringing me up the right way.

 

[Irishanfield]

Have always been a Liverpool supporter... Can't point to anytime when I started supporting the reds, I always just was..
On another little bonus liverpool fact...
I hail from the town in Co. Wexford Ireland where the area anfield road got its name

 

[Markeh ★]

nearly 40 years later i still remember being quizzed by two boys in my primary school in belfast if i supported celtic or rangers and getting laughed at when i said id never heard of either of them.

the answer was liverpool cos that’s where my dad came from and who he supported. scottish football… no thanks 😂