15 Nov 2018 19:55:42
Evening fellow reds, kids in bed time for a catch up on here, started thinking about when I was a kid and my first memory of how I got to supporting Liverpool, my best mate supported villa it was 1982 and didn’t really no much about supporting a football team as all my time was spent in the park playing it. Like a sheep I thought I would follow villa as well but something didn’t feel right, so my dad god bless, suggested Liverpool, which was strange as he was a rugby man as a lot were coming for Wales.
That one suggestion was the best thing my dad ever did for me, i remember sitting on the floor listen to the radiogram wk days wkend whenever we played nothing better.
Today I have 5 children and I’m pleased to say they all are reds, maybe not to the extent that I am but there’s a lot more distractions these days.
I believe we are going to be champions this year, it just feels different to all the nearly years.
Sorry for long post, be good to hear other people’s story on how they started supporting. have a good evening reds and Ed’s.

1.) 15 Nov 2018
15 Nov 2018 20:02:50
John Barnes plain and simple.

2.) 15 Nov 2018
15 Nov 2018 21:19:37
I’ve supported Liverpool since the early 80’s Creesey, just getting my son into the reds. He turned four at the end of June, so come next season I’ll be taking him to watch the five times champions of Europe.

3.) 15 Nov 2018
15 Nov 2018 21:13:58
Back in the day aged 9, the 1974 cup final.

My family are from Leeds so that's who I supported, but in those days the fa cup was the be all and end all (only live game of the year I could watch) (Christ you'd watch the coaches from 11am whole day event) .

Anyway Malcolm McDonnald? bigging him self up, going to smash LFC, and I must admit i quite hoped they would, underdog and all that.

Then I watched the best team I'd seen give a master class, Steve Highway the highlight for me, never looked back.

4.) 15 Nov 2018
15 Nov 2018 21:39:35
You started a great thread OP!

5.) 15 Nov 2018
15 Nov 2018 21:57:33
Being Scottish only one reason I'm a Liverpool fan the Greatest player in Red and Dark Blue Kenny Dalglish. The season after the Hitachi kit.

6.) 15 Nov 2018
15 Nov 2018 23:11:59
Was at that game idontlooklikeklopp remember the build up well big Mac shouting his mouth of but didn't take into account what an awesome winger Tommy Smith was he was phenomenal that day.

7.) 16 Nov 2018
16 Nov 2018 07:20:32
I started following LFC in the early 1970's. Kevin Keegan was the main reason, even though the likes of Clemence, Neal, Smith, Heighway, Toshack and Fairclough were not exactly chopped liver either. That victorious final again Borussia Moenchengladbach sealed it for me, and it's been consistent ever since then.

8.) 16 Nov 2018
16 Nov 2018 11:07:23
I’d watched football matches on occassion, i’d developed a fondness for Michael Owen when i was very young, but my first memory of liverpool and being a liverpool fan is as clear as day.

I’d never taken too much interest in football because i was never very sporty. My dad called me into the front room one night and asked if he wanted to watch the game with me. It was supposedly important. Half time came and the team that was not liverpool were 3-0 up. I asked my dad what was the point in watching when it was clear we had already lost. He told me not to give up hope and that anything can happen in football, to stop being so pessimistic and spitting my dummy out. Full time came and we’d won on penalties.

As well as being probably the first time i was ever allowed to stay up past 10 o’clock, Istanbul was my first game as a liverpool supporter. I can’t decide whether that is as good a game as any to start supporting your team, or whether its a shame that i never got to fully appreciate it while it was happening. I’ve almost forgotten how it feels to win a trophy and i would give anything just to see liverpool lift the European Cup again. Safe to say i was somewhat disappointed in May!

9.) 16 Nov 2018
16 Nov 2018 11:58:51
Having grown up in the 70’s and not having a lot of cash I had to settle for watching games on the box. Not many televised games back then but Liverpool were always on, so I started to follow. Now based in Tampa 40 years later I am back to watching on TV. My two kids are truly Americanized but they are avid Reds and set their Alarms to be able to join me for the early games at the Liverpool supporters bar. If is absolutely fantastic watching their emotions throughout the games.

10.) 16 Nov 2018
16 Nov 2018 14:43:22
Good read lads thanks.

11.) 17 Nov 2018
17 Nov 2018 08:53:50
Seeing that many of the above posters started following LFC in the early 70's (like me), here's a blast from the past. ManU finished 21st in the First Division in 1973 and were relegated. Looking forward to the cycle coming back and history repeating itself.