Watching the Irons play Liverpool at Anfield on Prem Plus yesterday I couldn't help thinking how quiet the Kop is these days.
Yesterday was the 100th birthday of the most famous stand in World football yet it was more like a wake than a celebration. Throughout the signing of "You'll Never Walk Alone" you could hear the sound of "Bubbles" coming from our supporters, even during the game Ian Darke made the comment that the away supporters were making more noise.
The Liverpool supporters did manage one round of "5 times," but to be honest singing a song about winning the European Cup five times won't impress the supporters of the club that won the 1966 World Cup will it?
I don't think it's the "prawn sandwich" brigade, it's not even the new all seater stadium either, I think it's nerves. Liverpool supporters know that they have the ropiest back four of all the title challengers and that the lack of speed in the middle of the defence means they can be got at easier these days.
Liverpool look as good as anybody going forward, in fact with a front five of Kuyt, Bellamy, Pennant, Kewell and Gerrard , with Crouch, Zenden and Garcia in reserve they have the best group of forwards in the Premiership. But that defence is going to cost them the title.
The noisiest supporters I have ever heard, and as a Hammer I probably shouldn't say this, were Millwall in the old Second Division at Upton Park. The police restricted the number of away supporters for this match after trouble in the game at the old Den when a Millwall supporter was seriously injured.
Walking from Upton Park tube station down to the Boleyn was like being on Candid Camera, there were camera vans, police with hand-held cameras, plain clothed police in windows above the shops and you had to walk the two hundred yards or so behind barriers. The few hundred Millwall supporters that had made the journey made so much bloody noise that Sunday (another police request) that when they began the "We are Millwall, no one likes us, we don't care" routine you could understand why.
3 comments:
hmmm..I suspect that the WHU v Millwall history has been superceded by that of Millwall Cardiff...what with them flying at the top of the Championship (that's the first time I've ever written that!) I suspect Cardiff v Millwall is the new miolwow v weeiist 'am.
Still, if i'd av known that the Kop was 100 years old I may have used it for my 100th post!....no, ...no, I wouldn't. whinging scouse gits.
You could be right but now that Cardiff and Millwall are in different divisions where will the new rivalry be?
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