Liverpool FC is arguably as famous across the world for the Kop and You’ll Never Walk Alone as it is for the multiple eras of triumph which have established England’s most successful football club.
The Reds’ iconic home end, even in the modern era of all-seater stadia, still maintains the reputation of housing some of the game’s most passionate and devoted supporters who have time and again proven their ability to be the twelfth man and make a difference (just ask Chelsea, Barcelona and countless others).
The current 12,390-capacity Kop Grandstand has of course evolved from the original Spion Kop terrace, which was given its name by ECHO sports editor Ernest Edwards shortly after construction in 1906 because it evoked memories of ‘Spioenkop’ - the notorious hill in South Africa which was the scene of a British massacre during the Boer War six years earlier where 300 soldiers perished, many of whom served in the Lancashire Fusiliers and would have been from Liverpool.
