When the mum of the year awards are handed out, Ruth Baggs must be in with a shot. A season ticket holder at Liverpool for 30 years, the care home manager was watching Sunday’s crunch game not in her regular seat in the Kop, but outside the Park pub opposite, craning her neck to check the score through the window.
She had given her 16-year-old son, Dylan, her ticket, and was left jostling for position with vaping 12-year-olds and a bunch of Egyptian tourists who were beside themselves when Mo Salah scored in the 84th minute. “Dylan is in the middle of his GCSEs and I wanted to give him a treat,” she said. “He’s a mad Liverpool supporter. He was up, showered and dressed at 9am this morning asking when we were going to leave. That never happens.”
