Just back from an excellent weekend in Liverpool visiting Alice.  Among the highlights was a tour of Anfield...


The Liverpool museum and tour was really good. The history of the club is fascinating and the tour is full of interesting tidbits. We saw the away team dressing room and our guide explained how LFC do everything in their power to make the away dressing room as unsuitable as possible: it's slightly too big and thus very echo-y, it's got no decent ventilation so it gets really stuffy and they've got the cheapest flooring the FA will alow! Apparently all teams do something like this for their visitors - charming! The guide also let us in to the half-time secrets of the stars as well. It's coffee and Jaffa Cakes apparently. Nice.





Most interesting was all the Bill Shankly related info. He really was an incredible man. The story I loved was about his instruction to the Liverpool team to duck slightly as they walk out of the dressing room door (which faces the away team room). The idea was that the visitors would think they were all giants and could barely get out of the room! Genius. It was great to touch the "This is Anfield" sign (another Shankly innovation). It was a shame we couldn't run on the pitch but we had a walk around and down to the Kop end.

We also visited the fascinating Williamson Tunnels, two cathedrals, the Tate and a great restaraunt that does the best French Toast this side of Canada. Good times. At home we relaxed with a bottle of wine, a DVD and the house speciality - Jimmy Floyd Hasselbank potatoes. Yum

xxx to Alice for being the hostess with the mostest.

 
- They won't walk alone
- A permanent state of flux
- Scumbag!
- Frankly Mr Shankly
- This is Anfield
- Liverpool has ace purple wheelie bins!