Aaron S.
Yelp
I've probably been to Anfield on more occasions than most Liverpool supporters, I've been here five times now to watch Manchester City play away here, and once previously for a stadium tour. It's been the home of Liverpool FC since 1892, originally opening as home to cross-city rivals, Everton in 1884.
Seen as an iconic home to Liverpool fans, with the Kop holding a piece of football, you can obviously sense the history in this stadium with the gates and the Bill Shankly statue, it feels like a stadium with a character, compared to many of these new soulless bowls.
As an away team supporter here, I have noticed facilities to be slightly improving, they have done some work to improve the awful view, but it still isn't ideal, if you're sat towards the front, it can feel like you're in the pits of the stadium, and it can be hard to see the left corner as well as the opposite end of the pitch. Due to the construction around the Anfield Road stand, they have made it much more difficult to get to the away end, where I had to virtually walk the entire length of the stadium to get in, and then be escorted through a security cordon, it isn't signposted at all well for away fans.
I hate to say it but the atmosphere as soon as Liverpool score a goal is probably the best I've seen in any stadium, I can understand why it is daunting for teams to come here as we've seen in Liverpool's home form over the years.
The stadium is showing its' age in some senses such as in the concourses, entrances and lack of a big screen, I love watching the replays and it's surprising that a stadium like Anfield has a scoreboard and not much else.
Getting to and from the stadium is easy enough, there is the 917 bus which lines up before and after a game, where they leave one after another, obviously, I would advise against openly showing away colours on these services as they are used predominantly by Liverpool fans, otherwise, it's just under two miles and perhaps a 40-minute walk back to Lime Street - which can feel like forever if you've not come home with the points.
I was also rather impressed with the stadium tour, where you got to see behind the scenes and learn more about the history of the stadium, as a football fan, even though it is a rival team to Liverpool, I rather enjoyed it, as well as the banter with the tour guide and group after they realised I was from Manchester.
4*