Sun 11 Nov 2007 11:40 PM
English Football - Check, Pop - Check, Nostalgic BBC Coverage - Check
Posted by Pete under Cross-culture , Friends , Hesitating , Media , Society , SportThis is a well-known clip from the motherland. It has everything one wants from black and white memories; Pre-hooliganism innocence; Blighty’s best musical export; and quirky, overstated analysis by the reporter.
This was The Kop a long time before I was born. I went to Anfield in 1994 to watch the penultimate match before The Kop was replaced by an all-seater stand.
Pre-match, I sat down at the back of the terraces. People looked at me funny. I understood why when (at half-time) the rear section of half the stand used the same spot as an open latrine. Liverpool got beat 2-0 by Newcastle and I saw a man bleed out of his head. A recipe for sad associations? Not a chance. It was The Kop. It was top.










November 13th, 2007 at 10:57 am
At first I was shocked, in that pleasing unexpected miracle way, that you landed a post without having to sit in the coffee shop under time constraints but the successful embedding of youtube? By God, man!
That clip is a summation of every horror known to my anxieties… I think that if I were to open my eyes in the midst of that crowd it would be a race between my stomach, chest and bowels to see what could kill me first…