1974: The KOPITES of Liverpool FC | The Kop | Classic BBC sport | BBC Archive

Writer and director Walter McEvoy examines the quasi-religious relationship Liverpool fans have with Anfield's Spion Kop - perhaps the most famous stand in English football - using testimony from a cross-section of self-confessed Kopites.
Clip taken from The Kop, originally broadcast on BBC North West, 6 May 1974.
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[@silversteel6312]

Thiago was injured at the time…

[@kevinbeck6785]

😂😂

[@Badders1977]

hahahahaha!

[@stretfordenders4013]

Lol

[@davedewsnap288]

Never saw Darwin on the scoresheet either.

[@HalfGodHalfManYourWelcome]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@geoffowens9770]

Fantastic when people who lived around the ground in terrace houses went to the game

[@user-te1hi9rx7b]

Lucky enough to have stood on the Kop once in the 80's. Amazing experience. Another pleasure of the working class that the elites just had to take away from us..

[@kevinbeck6785]

Unlucky enough to be in the Boys Pen 🤣🤣

[@apathyintheuk265]

January 1981 my first visit to Anfield - Stood on the Kop for the visit of Leicester City. Liverpool had set a first division unbeaten home record and were duly beaten by Leicester 2-1! In fact Leicester got the double over Liverpool that season and were still relegated! Liverpool meanwhile had to make do with a first FL cup final win (I was at both games) and another one of those European cups.

[@Fairplay-ed6rs]

@@kevinbeck6785 The Boys Pen had its own choir, sounded like girls on match of the day.

[@Fairplay-ed6rs]

@@kevinbeck6785 It was only a bob and you had a better chance of seeing the game, close enough to the Kop to feel part of it.

[@kevinbeck6785]

@@Fairplay-ed6rs 🤣🤣 Can you say that now in this woke world 🤣🤣

[@ianharley1726]

I remember all around anfield had real working class people attending. Not so today. Anfield area is poor those same people cant attend due to the outrageous costs. Our football has been stolen

[@user-ev3on3sv6j]

I have two lads sat next to me who live 100yds away from the ground. Some of the myths some of our loony left fans spout are embarrassing.

[@Stephen-lx9nm]

​@@user-ev3on3sv6jLiverpool fc turned that area into a dump.Sold out the workung class people

[@sophiejones8813]

@@Stephen-lx9nm And all the other clubs never raise their prices atall 🙄

[@peter-shauntyrell5613]

​@@user-ev3on3sv6j that could be true but I'm from Anfield and it's spenny for a ticket

[@sratus]

Interesting to see Union Jacks in the Kop and with the Everton fans. You don't see many of them at these games after Thatcher & Hillsborough.

[@carlh429]

Used to see them a lot back in the day.

[@anthonyo.6084]

You used to see the odd the union flag but never the saint George flag you still don't to this day..

[@peterwhitaker4038]

to be honest the Union flag (can only be called jack at sea) was nationally worn often even at 1966 world cup final. the emblem identified England as being part of the United Kingdom of which of course are Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. now before anyone from Scotland comes on and says we would never do that..just take a trip to Ibrox park and tell me what you see?

[@barryballsit4944]

It was the Stars and Stripes with Everton painted on it that caught my eye

[@DaveSeville-sf1ku]

@@carlh429 Would you still see them in the Late 70s, or was once the 1981 Riots in Liverpool and Managed Declined that Thatcher tried to do.

[@robbiethepict2783]

Pint of beer was 22p match ticket 35p.

[@Liofa73]

That makes beer about £3.30 today and the ticket £5.25.

[@JJONNYREPP]

1974: The KOPITES of Liverpool FC | The Kop | Classic BBC sport | BBC Archive 0833am 21.5.24 having piss sprayed up yer legs optional...

[@billybonds4449]

@@JJONNYREPP Have experienced that, however it was in my coat pocket.

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@billybonds4449 Comments on ‘1974: The KOPITES of Liverpool FC | The Kop | Classic BBC sport | BBC Archive’ 0158am 22.5.24 i hope that kindda vile ode wasn't put down to the idiosyncrasies and part and parcel of what being scouse is all about? football was a great game. what has dealt it a blow? dare anyone say? certainly forgoing pish stained and pish soaked clobber after a match is a boon.... players bemoaning the fact they play too many games is a cop out ( pun intended)... after the war players played domestic league, european and domestic cup games.... and generally it was the same 11 that were assigned such tasks... with a few subs thrown in. maybe their being fitter and more health conscious has meant they're liable to break easily? sport per se has become a lot crapper.... is that a word? it is now!!!

[@MrRob2904]

I wouldn't even consider paying to watch football now. It's not the game I grew up being a fan of as a kid in the 70's. Footballers now get treated like Hollywood film stars and most think that they are bigger than the club.

[@kevinbeck6785]

Bang on, Mr Rob, they talk about the Kop today, nowhere near what it was like in 70s and 80s

[@Stephen-lx9nm]

Pipe that music in Wack 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@markmcglincy3907]

Great video brings back some happy memories and great times of stood on the kop in the 70s,80s, and 90s, the atmosphere and banter was second to none 😂

[@kopthelotklopp1523]

Not a prawn sandwich in sight. How things have changed. The working class want their sport back.

[@TimmyTickle]

They have boxing and MMA to cater for them nowadays

[@pressureworks]

Ever hear of Leagues 1, 2, National and even lower ???

[@kopthelotklopp1523]

@@pressureworks yeah funnily enough I've been to 5 national league games this season. It's fantastic. Certainly different to my 27 years as a season ticket holder at Anfield

[@Isleofskye]

I was 70 on Saturday and we still have it at Millwall,where I first attended on 3rd September,1962. Just bought next season's "Over 63" season ticket covering 23 league matches. Cost ? £245 and NO VAR or having to take the (BLM) knee.

[@kopthelotklopp1523]

@@Isleofskye happy belated birthday, young man. I've heard a few championship fans say that in some ways they hope they never make it to the premier league and I know what they mean.

[@tonyred520]

That thick bluenose forecasting a Newcastle walkover..some things never change!

[@Stephen-lx9nm]

39 changed everything scum

[@anthonyo.6084]

The old chant from half the kop,. "Celtic", then the other half would chant " Rangers", then a loud roar of Liverpool, the good old days, everyone together supporting the team, even the early 1980s the half and half bobble hats, Liverpool/ Celtic, Liverpool/ Rangers, again everyone together, Liverpool a world in one city. YNWA..

[@TrevorFrancisWalksonWater]

Same at Birmingham, half the kop would shout for Celtic and the other half for Rangers. Another version was Tiswas/Swapshop. Half and half rangers/brum scarves and hats were popular up until the 90's.

[@user-ym4ox4kz9h]

Sorry, Birmingham Kop.? ? I Thought It Was The " TILTON ROAD" ! !

[@TrevorFrancisWalksonWater]

@@user-ym4ox4kz9h spion kop ran down the side of the pitch and could hold 40,000. Built in 1905

[@lyndoncmp5751]

​@@TrevorFrancisWalksonWaterUsed to be a chant on the Anfield Kop "we all agree, that Tiswas is better than Swapshop". Personally, I preferred Swapshop. 😂

[@tomben6180]

Used to be the same on the Kippax at Maine Road. You even had people with City Celtic and City Rangers bobble hats. Thankfully that is long gone and just concentrate on our own team!

[@garyrigby21]

Lovely video i remember those days

[@thomasrender]

They may get a little worked up at the match but I have found that Livepudlians are the nicest of the English.

[@Isleofskye]

As Millwall fans discovered in 1972 when the police, inadvertently, directed the 3,000 Away fans in The F A Cup match,which, Millwall won 2/1 into The Gwladys Lane entrance. 6 fans were treated for stab wounds...

[@paulkersey9857]

Most would tell you that they are scousers first and English a very distant (if at all) second.

[@deiniolbythynnwr926]

@@paulkersey9857 Only a vocal minority of vermin.

[@bootlegpete7984]

@@Isleofskye Millwall! the biggest prickz in English football. Behave mate.

[@tonythetyger99]

Bells sponsoring the Manager of the month... the good old days when they'd pass a bottle of whisky around the dressing room before a match to give the players courage!

[@shanklyreds]

Most famous stand in British football,,,FACT👍👍👍

[@billybonds4449]

And the 12th Man.

[@Stephen-lx9nm]

Biggest piss stones in British football .😂

[@sophiejones8813]

@@Stephen-lx9nm Good to see you laugh at your own jokes ! no one else does !

[@kevinbeck6785]

This is the real Kop nothing like today, standing on the Kop in the 70s and 80s magic memories ⚽⚽

[@welshlad6427]

Agree ❤

[@kevinbeck6785]

@@welshlad6427 Welsh Lad Too 👍👍

[@davidedwards7835]

So nice to see Neville Black,he was vicar of St Georges Church,he lived in Sherlock Street,so was the vicar of Major Lester as well.Neville and Father Carr from our Lady Immaculate on St Domingo Road were a great example of unity between the Orange and the Green.

[@frasierfreak92]

Lovely man. Wasn’t my Church but met him a fair few times and he was always very kind and keen to help.

[@atmeventsandmgt]

there werent mobile phones at all...no selfies during match days but i can tell it was fun

[@christianjohnhill]

Queuing up at 11am. Doors opened at 1pm. £3.75 to get on. Albert after the match. Waiting for the man with the pink. Happy days.

[@gary1961]

What you on about, £3.75 to get in? Back in 74 when this was filmed, it was only about ten bob to get in ( 50p ). I got a ticket for that cup final against Newcastle for £1. Unless you're talking about a stand ticket. But for £3.75, I'd have wanted to sit on Shankly's knee in the dug-out.

[@christianjohnhill]

@@gary1961 When I started going to the match on my own it was £3.75. As for sitting on Shankly's knee, he'd been dead six years.

[@billybonds4449]

@@gary1961 May have even been 40p. Even the main stand and Kemlyn Road would be nowhere near £3.75.

[@kevinhunter3473]

He said 74

[@christianjohnhill]

@@kevinhunter3473 He did, I didn't.

[@merseydave1]

The Old Kop, Anfield Road, Kemlin Road, Main Stand and the Paddock.

[@gary1961]

Don't forget the boy's pen, up in the top corner of the Kop.

[@merseydave1]

@@gary1961 In the corner, next to the main stand!.

[@andrewhayes9913]

Show them the way to go home

[@benphilips9918]

That fella in the pub at the end confidently predicts a Newcastle victory in the FA Cup that year. Didn't quite work out that way.

[@gary1961]

Yes, that didn't age well, did it? Saying MacDonald would put four past Clemence. I don't thing MacDonald even had four touches that day. Tommo had him in his arse pocket all game.

[@billybonds4449]

@@gary1961 And Tommy Smith doing his party pieces with his one one-two passes on the wing.

[@Nidge798]

Great to hear scouse voices.. not a tourist or camera in sight.

[@nikkibarrett2573]

so very true

[@anthonyduffy1278]

Just the one glory hunter from dear old Wolvo😂🤣

[@i_know_youre_right_but]

@@anthonyduffy1278always has been plenty of Liverpool and United fans in the Black Country. Pisses me off lol

[@billybonds4449]

@@anthonyduffy1278 Give the fella his due, he must have liked LFC to do a 180 mile round trip every other Saturday.

[@kevinhunter3473]

First bloke on it was a brummie, but apart from that, yeah, good to hear.

[@jdm65]

A bit of a myth that Anfield was a friendly place. A trip to Liverpool was a terrifying experience for any away fans in the 70s and 80s

[@lordred4116]

Probably Maine road was the worst.

[@i_know_youre_right_but]

Especially if you were black.

[@rhodestowndave8926]

And your evidence for this is what?

[@shazanali692]

​@@rhodestowndave8926 Must be a man U supporter

[@jmw-qt2ih]

Went with Newcastle in the 70s and have to say we never had any issues there unlike other grounds

[@rodeoruz]

I visited Anfield as a Swansea City supporter in the early 1980's and for any away supporters of my age group Anfield was "THE" number one ground to visit, and the Kop had a lot to do with that, because it was and still is reminisced and remembered as the most 'iconic' standing football terrace in the entire football league. And saying that you've seen and heard the Kop in person as opposed to just seeing it on TV had real bragging rights. That aside Liverpool could at times be a 'nasty' and very intimidating place for away supporters during those days!!!

[@StevenCullen-sx1ui]

I experienced it!

[@rodeoruz]

@@StevenCullen-sx1ui There was indeed the widely held misconception held by many in the media/newspapers that an away supporter visit to Liverpool always meant being greeted with loads of Scouse warmth, humour and sportmanship. BUT indeed that was NOT the full story, because the streets and Stanely Park outside of Anfield (and Goodison Park) walls and gates were very uncomfortable, hostile and frightening places for many away supporters. So there was indeed no "Please to meet you".. or... "Toddle-pip on your way, we wish you God speed and a safe journey home, your team deserved the result”... blah blah. stuff. It was indeed more a case of being completely on edge with heightened senses, when the main hope of getting home safely became far more important than the actual result itself!

[@AshtonArcher]

Was that the '81 game just after Shanks had died?

[@rodeoruz]

@@AshtonArcher Yep! And I also attended the next Anfield fixture the season after that which was an early kick-off when if memory serves me correct was on the same day that the Grand National horse race was being held.

[@JJONNYREPP]

1974: The KOPITES of Liverpool FC | The Kop | Classic BBC sport | BBC Archive 0830AM 21.6.24 fortress anfield! then the stands gave way to seating and the kop ends gave way to wheel chair access and then the stands will be reintroduced and the home-end will never be the same again...

[@ste9432]

12 then what memories being in the kop never forget them days. I lived in number 9 alroy road back then been knocked down now for the Extension of the ground

[@Coney572]

Great footage from the days when football was a sport for the working class

[@leod-sigefast]

Spion Kop was actually from the Boer War 1899-1902 battle of the same name (23-24 Jan 1900) a bloody defeat for the British Army to the Boers (Dutch ancestry settlers/farmers of South Africa). Spion Kop is the Afrikaans (Dutch, more or less) name for the mountain "lookout hill". Quite a few football clubs named their terraces "Spion Kop" after the battle, not just Liverpool FC, although the Lancashire Fusiliers (who might have had a few scousers in it) did feature prominently in the bloody fight at the summit of the hill.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

It states all that in the programme. Anfield was the first ground to officially call a stand Spion Kop.

[@MacAJ1874]

An era of football long gone and sadly missed. Modern day ‘Premiership’ football is a pile of shite.

[@p5rsona]

I imagine was actually affordable to see a game then

[@Midge-xn9tp]

And you could pay at the turnstiles

[@Isleofskye]

@@Midge-xn9tp It was lovely in London too. 10 major teams and decide on the day where to travel,queue up and go through the turnstiles. Simple Things...

[@jameshardy6277]

If I remember right... £3.50 for the Paddock stand at Old Trafford in late 80's. You had to be there at least 2-3 hours before kick-off to ensure getting in and plenty of times sat face on into a winter storm for over 4 hours. Soaked to the skin for the 3 mile walk home.

[@johnholmes8178]

The Kop - 50p admission fee in 1974.

[@Midge-xn9tp]

I was born in 1980 so missed out on these times, I got to visit Anfield a few times in the mid 90s, you could get tickets easily then and they only cost around £15, I did manage the standing Kop in 94 and had to queue for a few hours to pay on the gates, however it beat the prospect of having to do the same on a telephone for a game 3 months away, put me off going these days

[@paulbrodie6085]

It amazes me how many women went to football in the 70’s

[@TimmyTickle]

Especially considering that a lot of the revisionist history tells us that football crowds were too violent for women in those days

[@user-ev3on3sv6j]

A tiny percentage....less than 1% - tops.

[@welshlad6427]

Transgender

[@MrMarkyone]

28,000 in one end used to be,I remember standing outside at 10.30 in the morning waiting for the gates to open at 1 those were the days no tickets just queue up and get in.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Yeah I used to get in there about 1.00 or so.

[@welshlad6427]

. Had many times on the Kop in the 80s ❤️ Fantastic memories watching Europes greatest ⚽️🇬🇧

[@OwainGlyndwr1927]

It's a shame you didn't support a Welsh team?. I'm a Cardiff fan for 50 years, through good and bad times. Lots of bad times, but I could never support an English team. Never. Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@welshlad6427]

@@OwainGlyndwr1927 I actually also support my home town Rhyl FC who I follow regular. My father was born in Liverpool and moved to North Wales where I was born so my family are scousers meaning Liverpool FC are my equal love.

[@davidlong1459]

Great video. Just can’t get on with top flight these days. Back then it was about the attending fans and just about anyone could afford to go. One major change needed… I was on a week away junior school trip on the day of that Liverpool v Newcastle FA cup final in 74. Teachers said boys were allowed to stay up to watch Match of the Day in the tv lounge ! The women’s game is now on the up and much closer to the fan base.

[@Isleofskye]

I have been, seriously, watching Sports since the Chile World Cup in 1962 and the first game attended:Millwall 5 Hull City 1 on 3/9/62 and First Grand National was 1960(Merryman The Second) but most Womens Sport tends to be very uncompetitive like The WSL. 4 or 5 goof sides and that is it. Chelsea just won their last 2 games by 14/0. lol I don't like the hype as one Presenter said "The images that you are seeing do not match the commentary. For example: A decent strike=Absolutely SENSATIONAL etc...lol

[@davidlong1459]

@@Isleofskye The hype is applicable across all sport - undoubtedly true of Men’s Premier League too. At long last women’s sport is taking off more widely as for example in football and I see it enthusing a lot of juniors at grass roots. I’ll not suggest competitiveness is an issue… When I met my lovely girlfriend at the time in the 80s, it turned out she played football and my mates said I should have seen my face when she floored me in a tackle in a mixed game the first time I saw her play ! I hadn’t realised til recently that lots of schools still don’t let girls play (my poor excuse being I don’t have daughters but I have seen my son’s friends discriminated against). The women are doing well while still nowhere near from an equal footing. The engagement with fans is measurably accelerating support and attendances. Good news - It’s on the up for sure.

[@billybonds4449]

@@Isleofskye If I somehow found myself watching a women's football ball in my dreams I would pay to leave the ground.

[@Isleofskye]

@@billybonds4449 How can I argue when Iised to see Billy @ Charlton? )

[@robbiec9988]

I was born in 99’ this is before my time but I would truly give anything to experience anfield during this time. I go as much as I can and it’s not like this anymore… instead of a stadium in Sync singing the same songs it’ll be 3-4 songs at the same time and you never hear them for longer than 10-15 seconds…. I wish I was apart of the old Spion Kop it meant more than Life itself 🔴

[@paulkersey9857]

Oh yes, any away fan will tell you what lovely people the scousers were back in the day. I spent the day dodging darts being thrown at us (Chelsea 78). I have heard some absolute horror stories from many other fans about their trips to super friendly Liverpool.

[@lordred4116]

Going to London in the 70s 80s and beyond was an experience. From Euston, to whichever ground you had to be on guard, as every cockney firm would be out looking for stragglers to hospitalise.

[@gregodonnell1570]

Calm down, calm down 🤷‍♂️as a scouser mate i can believe it we are actually very friendly right until were NOT as an evertonian you cant say were not all capable of that ive seen many instances so called “friendly fans” turn into full on barbarians 😂

[@lyndoncmp5751]

@@lordred4116 Yeah I got punched in the head once outside Stamford Bridge after Chelsea once beat us and I said "well played mate" to a Chelsea fan. He just punched me in the head. For no reason.

[@MBO84]

The reputation some Chelsea fans have didn't come from being a friendly bunch either

[@Stephen-lx9nm]

​@@MBO84nf

[@Isleofskye]

Fans,probably,went to Anfield one week and Goodison the next. Millwall /Charlton: Chelsea / Fulham: QPR/Brentford r FUlham. There were plenty of London combinations. The Tubes was (still is) excellent and you just decided n the day,travelled and queued, and paid at the turnstiles. You could be spontaneous depending who was around or the weather etc.

[@anthonyo.6084]

Many red and blue in lots of families throughout the city of Liverpool.

[@Isleofskye]

@@anthonyo.6084 Indeed,my namesake:)

[@livvi67]

That geordie in the jungle joke is classic

[@lordred4116]

Bus to the ice rink (now gone) then a walk down sheil road, Belmont Rd, a hot dog from the cart and 25p on the turnstiles to stand on the kop. Great days

[@zafster22]

1:21 😂 - we don’t appreciate enough having phones today with instant access to information at our fingertips

[@vanessahawarden9028]

Brilliant ❤

[@johnnyboy18778]

Great insight into being a Liverpool fan back then. Would give my left arm to go back to that time. Saw a mad video other day, after each game the kop would be brushed down and all the rubbish would be burnt just at the last step of the kop.

[@daveglynn748]

There are plenty of english grounds with stands called the kop. It was a common name to call the high part of any ground after the boer war' where the name came from.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Anfield was the first ground to officially call a stand Spion Kop though.

[@niazpetkar53]

Arsenal, "the gooners" first had the kop end, but it never stuck. After the South African boer war and the British 🇬🇧involvement with the Lancashire regiment Liverpool FC adopted The Kop and the rest is history. Y.N.W.A

[@lyndoncmp5751]

@@niazpetkar53 It also never actually took off at the Woolwich Arsenal ground. It was just a term in passing which not many used. Hence why they never called the North Bank at Highbury a Kop, when they moved grounds because it was never really a thing for them.

[@daveglynn748]

I don't know about liverfool being the first' but even Preston had a spion kop. It was just a popular name at that point in time.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

@@daveglynn748 Liverpool were most definitely the first to officially call a stand the Spion Kop. This is established fact.

[@carterhunt548]

wow. Anfield in the 70s must be really cool.

[@calcallaghan2698]

when football was football before betting companies took over and cheating is rife...

[@grahamwalls9379]

I remember going to Anfield & experiencing the Kop atmosphere etc , with my late mother / brother . Both fervent Liverpool fans . And it’s right up there with the best atmospheres of any football ground . The old days of the Kop were great . But modern football has changed football fans now . And their is a different mentality around all football grounds . The old camaraderie is none existent . In the professional game . So much so that I follow non league now .

[@jacksonpauljackson2557]

I used to stand on there in those days 🥰

[@paulleech2968]

I'm A BIG SPURS FAN. But Remember The Program Well Because That's Wheb My Mum and Dad Got There First Colour TV. I Was 10. What A Program To Watch in Colour. The GOOD OLD DAYS. PROPER Grounds PROPER FANS Most From Council Estates. Later In The 80's went To See SPURS Play At Anfield & We Won First Time in 70 years. The 4 Miles walk Back To Limestreet Very INTERESTING 😁🤣😂. Don't Do Football Now. Go Away To NORTHERN SOUL WEEKENDS LOVE IT. PLOD KTF FROM SOUTHEND KOKO ✊✊✊

[@billybonds4449]

Your family must have been well off to have a colour telly. No one on our council estate had one.

[@paulleech2968]

@@billybonds4449 No They weren't. Never went Abroad Never Had A Car. Dad Still Alive 87 Work every weekend To Get That. Work in A Timber Factory All His Life. Never SCROUNGE Of The Government

[@kevinbeck6785]

Yes the good old days we were Liverpoll fans who came from North Wales and walked from Lime Street and back again after the match, real footballers playing on real pitches, football today nothing like it was in 70s 80s, remember when spurs beat us and was there when we beat you 7-0 and the Kop were booing Liverpool and cheering Spurs, magic memories ⚽⚽⚽

[@BeesWaxMinder]

1:46 - nice to see a young Mick Jagger earning an honest crust in the foreground🤭

[@version736ha2]

Well alright!

[@hennylevering7658]

😂😂😂 ..

[@richardcoffeygeneral]

If i could go back in a time machine to the Kop in 1974 - i definitely would ☺️ might have to change my clothes though hehe

[@anthonyo.6084]

" Scousers rule and don't you forget it ". 🎵 🎶. It was always sung on the kop and at away games, you don't hear it anymore..

[@user-qc1su4ty6p]

How many viewers heard "Fearless" by Pink Floyd in their heads as soon as the fans started chanting?

[@BeesWaxMinder]

Yup! When Nick Mason's band played here at the Liverpool Philharmonic couple of years ago they apologised in advance to any Everton supporters in attendance before they played FEARLESS!

[@BeesWaxMinder]

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[@rogerbeattie2263]

Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd

[@ynwa66a]

His MY HEART place ❤

[@talkinghead3169]

When the game still belonged to the working classes ..now they can't afford it!

[@welshlad6427]

Great days then. Now sad times.

[@davidedwards7835]

Used to also see Reverend Black on the Kop,on many an occasion.

[@johnpallas154]

I stood on the Kop 1981 watching my sunderland side win 1-0 in a game which the great Bob Paisley said, if that had been a horse race it would of had a stewards enquiry, then he took a crate of champers into the sunderland dressing room lol Millwall and St James park were the worst grounds in the 70's

[@Dragon-ic2mt]

Fulwell end all day for me🔴⚪️🔴🫡. Hope they don’t change the kop or it might lose its nostalgia.

[@John-vh3xm]

I was at that game Stan Cummings scored the winner

[@johnpallas154]

@@John-vh3xm yep he certainly did and we went mad in the kop, the liverpool fans were great with us 👍🔴⚪

[@mrknobchopps]

Watched the Manchester utd/city cup final a few days ago. Crowds just seem so quiet these days compared to back then. The least atmosphere I’ve seen at a Wembley cup final

[@indiekiddrugpatrol3117]

Half of em if not more would be middle class Londoners. Real fans have been priced out now.

[@garymills8839]

I totally agree with the comment made by someone that states he would not go to match as football is not the same as it was but at the same time if you do not go to a game no matter what team you follow then you can not claim to be a fan

[@heyjoe113]

when washing once a week was considered sufficient

[@Evemeister12]

Many people couldn't afford hot water, and didn't have bath tubs/showers in their houses back then. If they did have access to the facilitiea we take for granted today I'm sure it'd have been much different.

[@Londonechoes]

🤣

[@erniescullion8452]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. Whaaooo we wash every day then bath or shower every other day. That's wild

[@richardroberts8627]

They still do there !!

[@jamesvickers5998]

@@Evemeister12 behave! I was about in them times, it was the seventies not Victorian times! There was access to hot water!

[@laribormarbaniang8774]

35k on that old Standing Spion Kop is just amazing!!!! Today, barely 15k holding vloggers and people with phones, less flags and banners and no chanting of "Shankly"!!!! Pathetic!!!!!

[@user-ev3on3sv6j]

28k at peak

[@anthonyo.6084]

​@@user-ev3on3sv6j officially?

[@valiciprian2061]

I admire the passion that the english have for football.😊

[@jefffoster7105]

First match I went in about 1982/3 when I was 11/12 it was £1.50 to get in the kop😂 ( child ) £2.50 adult. We played Tottenham who hadn't won at Anfield for 70 odd years . We got beat 1 nil .. Garth Crooks scored 😢. That the last time your going the match me old fella said 😂😂😂.. I told you he was bad luck he said .. to me mam 😂😂😂 . Taking the mickey .. but it was just amazing so me and me mates went as much as we could depending on how much pocket money we had 😂. Pay at the turnstiles.. Magic . YNWA

[@seckie1001]

I was at that game. In fact, it was the first I'd seen us lose, and all the talk after was about how it was the first time spurs had won at Anfield since just a few weeks before the Titanic sank in 1912.

[@welshlad6427]

Was at that game. Was 13 years old and Waited outside the players entrance and had a chat with Glen Hoddle. He saw me looking sad and just said. It’s taken 70 odd years for us to win here and probably be another 70 years, so let us have this one today son. Made me smile and always had a soft spot for him since then.

[@jefffoster7105]

@seckie1001 😄 🤣 Absolutely and I couldn't believe how unlucky I'd been because back then we never lost and all my mates in school were talking about going the match so you had to be going the match so you could go in school on Monday and brag 😄 🤣 😂 . I was gutted 😄 . I was certain we were going to win . I remember be carried by the kop in a wave everytime the ball come up our end it was so exhilarating but being a kid you,d hardly see ewt 😄 🤣. Magic. YNWA

[@jefffoster7105]

@welshlad6427 No way man haha, that's crazy . Ye I was around that age , I was born in 71 so il have to Google the year I can't remember so whatever the difference. It made Garth Crooks stand out in my mind for years with him scoring the goal. I still loved all the singing and i always remember the fact the kop still sang we love you Liverpool at the end ..and the roars trying to push the lads to equalise and the surge forward that carried you with it was awesome . These the things that make a big impression on you on how to be a Liverpool fan. YNWA

[@Turtlefast235]

Fantastic video! It looks like all the Liverpool players went to get their haircut at the same barber on Penny Lane!! YNWA

[@Liofa73]

Someone needs to sweep that terrace.

[@carlh429]

The apprentices would have done it after the cameras were switched off.

[@jurgenklopp8771]

They used to burn the rubbish

[@Giggedy.]

What ?? Flyin Klopp 😂😂😂 1:14

[@paulrimmer391]

50p on the Kop 1972.

[@lordred4116]

It was less than that if I remember

[@user-ev3on3sv6j]

30p in 72

[@howwwwwyyyyy]

Bring it back,it was a great experience being there,get rid of the seats

[@version736ha2]

Interesting how many union flags there are in the crowd. Would be unlikely to see a union flag in the Kop now, given the sentiment from the fans to England and the Union

[@anthonyo.6084]

To be fair there was always the odd union flag in the kop, but you never ever seen Saint George flags and still don't to this day..

[@Giggedy.]

11:20 Roland Rat in the kop

[@martindavies4155]

Mick Jagger selling popcorn at 1:45

[@deanlatimer2323]

Wow its changed so much..football was ours once!

[@kuljitsingh1290]

Nice video 📷

[@joeymcloughlin6123]

Beautiful kidda ❤ are accents were mad then 😂

[@ozzie-sk9dh]

4:20 I bet nobody messed with this woman. Ever 😂

[@neilgraves5069]

Every Game, same spec. Even when the perimeter fence went up . She stood on a milk Crate to look through the gap.

[@terrylarkin7380]

Bloke was from Wolverhampton but went to see The Kop..............

[@Liofa73]

I wonder who thought of bringing back 18th Century men’s hair styles back in the 1970s.

[@kingarthurusatenniscoach1415]

Brutal & sad,,,It is a business then and now

[@peterwhitaker4038]

the clip at 12:33 isn't the kop..it's the stretford end at old trafford i would say?

[@properjob79]

yeah utd used to wear liverpool scarfs in them days

[@manalive1623]

Agreed, looks like Stretford Paddock to the far side. Possibly the FA Cup semi-final at OT, Liverpool v Everton.

[@apathyintheuk265]

That's a very good spot. I think you may be right.

[@johnhughes547]

Definitely right it’s just after a goal we are in the front

[@gary1961]

@@johnhughes547 Yes. That looks as if they have used a clip of the crowd after they had celebrated a goal. This film was taken at the Derby match on April 20th 1974 which ended 0-0, so they couldn't be celebrating a goal that day.

[@NeilOk-rz1lt]

Blaydon races went down well, as did his "main one "😂

[@mrperfectedkelly]

Everton’s first out of three stadiums

[@Porkcylinder]

When the average age of top flight supporters were 30 years younger than today.

[@kuljitsingh1290]

👍👍

[@InnocentPeacefulLake-zc5ml]

First guy was bingo out the banana splits ha ha

[@neilgraves5069]

We Are The Famous The Famous Kopites

[@roadend78]

Fearless Floyd / Liverpool fc YNWA ⚽️

[@user-in2mb3lq3j]

Now it's all gone. Sold from under our noses. The owners destroyed our atmosphere with stupid prices and day trippers who would rather take pictures that make noise. R.I.P. Kop

[@TheSilvercue]

How football has changed. No one can turn up and get in now. Waiting lists, secondary market at hundreds of pounds, tourists, middle class fans.

[@fifagod1000]

Now it's full of tourists

[@Keviin1977]

First supporter is from Wolverhampton.😂

[@gomey70]

Great stuff. A bitter bluenose talking nonsense at the end, some things have never changed.

[@MegaDaveFace]

This was filmed in 2024 😂😂

[@mfc2603]

You won’t see United Kingdom flags no more there.

[@patrickbateman878]

Theres still a union jack flag flown on the kop every week to this day. A st george flag however..

[@MichaelChurchill1982]

I love how kopites like to make out, even back then, that these things only happen at anfield 🙄

[@AlanAHAPartridge]

Is that Brian Cox's dad?

[@tonykehoe123]

Yep…I was there 😀 organised chaos at its best …..

[@merseydave1]

What Are You On About ... don't you mean "The Mecca of FOOTBALL"

[@Isleofskye]

The MECCA of Football is in The SAUDI PRO League, surely? :)

[@merseydave1]

@@Isleofskye I was responding to the audio introduction

[@Isleofskye]

@@merseydave1 Come on David. You Scousers are supposed to be quick like us Londoners:) MECCA is the holiest City in Islam and is in Western Saudi Arabia hence my "Saudi" comment. Millwalllll lol

[@MightyRoos]

I understand supporters may have a nostalgia for those times but if anyone complains about today’s foreign fans my response is do you complain about the foreign players in Liverpool teams these days?

[@christopherdenniston9013]

Like we have a choice?

[@rogerdecoursey8341]

What's that got to do with it. You haven't a clue

[@christopherdenniston9013]

​@rogerdecoursey8341 'You haven't a clue?' You sound like another sanctimonious lefty winding, full of misplaced self importance, YOU haven't got a clue you melt

[@christopherdenniston9013]

@rogerdecoursey8341 You sound like a typical self entitled, sanctimonious lefty, you make things worse & screech 'racist' when we notice

[@voidshell6273]

Interesting to hear the scouse accent has become a lot thicker over the years.

[@sarapiper385]

It was named after a hill in South Africa, it’s all to do with the boar war actually

[@martyndavid2094]

The good old days , the atmosphere in them days was a 100 times better than today. The working men’s game. And the skill of those players were amazing, no silly var , no silly shirt numbers or foreign players. The best

[@sratus]

You're saying 'foreign players' haven't enriched English football? No Cantona, Bergkamp, De Bruyne, Henry, Salah, Ronaldo, Drogba? You're a moron my friend.

[@antonycrowley3604]

anybody remember the Walrus

[@lyndoncmp5751]

The policeman who used to patrol in front of the Kop, with a mustache? Bit before my time but I know of him.

[@antonycrowley3604]

@@lyndoncmp5751 Correct also Steve Faye was in the movie he was my cousin,he passed last year.r.i.p.his real name was Owen Crowley

[@lyndoncmp5751]

@@antonycrowley3604 Ah sorry to hear that. RIP.