April 16th 2022. Our second trip to London for football in the season had arrived. The sense of summer had hit and the day was lovely.
1pm. We had arrived at the stadium on a full train, no City fans in sight. The atmosphere even outside of the stadium was calm and enjoyable. The Liverpool fan park was full to the brim (I was I could say the same about City’s) and Reds were singing for hours to come.
Walking into the stadium, an echo of voices hit me from the stairs up to the concourse. All the way up, the singing continued, my voice was nearly gone before we had even got to our seats.
Arriving to my seat, I could already see so many more Liverpool fans than City fans and a huge flag covering around 1000 seats was placed on the Man City side behind the cameras to show that they had not sold enough tickets.
The game kicked off after a raging You’ll Never Walk Alone filled London. 9 minutes in Ibou scored his second goal that week to open the scoring. This is only the start. 8 minutes later, Mane had capitalised onto Stefan’s mistake and scored the second, then just before half time Mane finished off an amazing build up and a spectacular volley to score his brace and put Liverpool 3-0 up at half time.
The atmosphere throughout the first half was amazing, nonstop singing led the boys to score 3 goals. Then, this atmosphere continued in the concourse at half time. 15 minutes of singing and all I need to say is, I’m So Glad That Jürgen Is A Red!
2 late goals from City in the second half gave the Reds a shock but luckily they could not find an equaliser. They were down and out! Liverpool we’re through to the FA Cup final and everyone knew they would win it after that performance!
What a day and what a game!
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