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What’s your Liverpool fan story?

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tombrown said:
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.
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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.
 
Here it is, in case people didn't believe me - second signature in third column
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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
 
Here's the thing, I'm from N Ireland so I've no direct links 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.
 
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
 
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 😂
 
Yeah nothing super interesting here either.

My dad and his fam are from Liverpool and all long time Liverpool supporters.

I remember being given a bunch of old match programs by my grandad which I used to pour over a kid and listening to the games on the radio when I tagged along with my dad to work.
 
Mine's a really short one, I remember watching my Evertonian Dad pace the floor in irritation as we beat Madrid in 81, that's my earliest memory and thinking that if someone can wind my (otherwise passive) Dad up that much, they must be extremely talented.

Also my mum worked in the McVities factory at the time and used to bring red penguins home for me, so that became my colour and the rest is history.

That's fickle but intuitive 5 year olds for you.
 
No choice either really. My older brother by 4 years shared a room with me and he was crazy for the reds and so I thought it was the only thing to do. We had a This is Anfield sign above the entrance to our room. One of my earliest memories of watching the telly was watching the reds in a new black and white portable Hitachi TV when the reds were sponsored by Hitachi, probably in 1979 or so. First visited Anfield with my brother when I was about 14 (on a detour when we were driving to Scotland). They've just been part of my life throughout my entire memory, and I've always felt at home in Liverpool when I've visited (and had a good friendship with a scouser living in the City through my 30s until he moved to Oz, so had plenty of opportunities to visit).
 
Somewhere on the Northside of Baile Atha Cliath, late 1970's...

Brother (13) - "I'm going to support Liverpool now". (Puts up poster of Kenny on the bedroom wall)
Me (6): "I'm going to support them too!"
Brother: "No you're not, I am"
Me: "No I am"
Brother "NO you're not"
Me: "yeah I am" (scuffle ensues)
Brother: "Fine, you support Liverpool, I'm supporting Arsenal"...

And there we have it. As a 5 year old, I was an Ipswich and then a Derby supporter (with a Charlie George scarf, I remember well!)
 
Gerry_A_Trick said:
New Ross?
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Yep... The graves family lived on the kilkenny side across the bridge in rosbercon (I think it's probably a few feet inside the wexford county line). They owned a shipping company and one of the sons moved to liverpool and bought some land and called in anfield Lane after where his family castle styled house was in rosbercon new ross.. I actually lived in that castle from a few months back in the early 90s as a caretaker as such..
 
I was late to football, I was probably 5 or 6 when I was first introduced to it, partly due to my parents having no interest in it and being born & raised (until I was 4) in a small village in Scotland.

One of my neighbours introduced me to football (he was a Southampton fan, kind of a local PL team to where I grew up - halfway between London & the Coast), and once I mentioned this to my uncle & grandad they showered me with Liverpool propaganda. I very quickly got taught the rules via subbuteo, and absolutely loved having the 1996 home hit on a set of players. I had videos of Liverpool games on VHS, including the 5-1 against Everton highlights from MOTD that I realised about 15 years later were referenced in Poor Scouser Tommy.

Have never looked back. Long live subbuteo.
 
Brizzle said:
I was late to football, I was probably 5 or 6 when I was first introduced to it, partly due to my parents having no interest in it and being born & raised (until I was 4) in a small village in Scotland.

One of my neighbours introduced me to football (he was a Southampton fan, kind of a local PL team to where I grew up - halfway between London & the Coast), and once I mentioned this to my uncle & grandad they showered me with Liverpool propaganda. I very quickly got taught the rules via subbuteo, and absolutely loved having the 1996 home hit on a set of players. I had videos of Liverpool games on VHS, including the 5-1 against Everton highlights from MOTD that I realised about 15 years later were referenced in Poor Scouser Tommy.

Have never looked back. Long live subbuteo.
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Yeah we all know that you neighbour, uncle and grandad are the same person, and they have never broken a sweat, even in pizza express.

How was Balmoral in your formative years?
 
Ah Subbuteo. Saved many a childhood. Loved it. Still have a set for my 14 year old, and he plays it with his mates in Texas
 
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