Liverpool 1977-This is Anfield (Shown on 4/5/77)

foreigner and it's raining, but these Liverpool faithful are willing to queue for two hours to get a ticket for the following night's game against Manchester United. The day at Anfield has just begun and the phone has been ringing for 15 minutes. You know, thanks again. You are talking about 20 minutes, now we have no change, yes, only money, two drinks, please, two for the drink. The arrival of coach Bob Paisley generates neither more nor less interest than the rest of his team. He has been at Anfield since 1939. He replaced Bill Shankly three years ago and he is simply part of the family the players have spent on Sunday with their families.

Emlin Hughes is being considered footballer of the year and when the others arrive, if there's any tension it's hard to detect unless it's the Parking Irritation displayed by that trusty Dead in the Wool Liver Puddle and Tommy Smith. Would you park like

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on the main road? It's just not enough. Are you going to park that way anyway? 397 by Kevin 298. Excuse me, you know it's usually me. I'm just waiting for someone to work here, you meet foreign people. Saturday's game against the dips, which is the inevitable topic of discussion as the players spend half an hour at Anfield dealing with autograph requests and changing for training.

There are the two best players in the cup finals group. As the team makes the 20-minute coach journey to Liverpool's Melwood training ground, for them, like you and me, we return to work on Monday morning, meanwhile Anfield itself is taking Saturday out of their system, the garbage is burned, the police are swept away. The field is fighting and there is discussion about the referee. He was already here once before the whistle blew. You know, that can be played too. Come on, come on, come on, come on, in Millwood. Trainer Joe Fagan leads the way with trainer Ronnie Moran left between them.

They have 47 years of service at Anfield and

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continuity in the backroom makes Liverpool a satisfied Club. If you like your job then you are happy and I liked my job at Liverpool and I am happy, but when you talk about Success, yes, we were not always successful, but we have always been a happy club and we have always been a Fit club, so Strange as it may seem, and yes, we like to think that they are the training methods we use. There, dear, everything is thought of in the training program. Our training initially is more important at the beginning of the season.

This is where we lay the groundwork in hopes that you get something at the end of the season. you can stay strong and then when the two games a week come around, our coaches prepare for that and we keep it to a minimum and again it's just simple and they say well, if that's what they do, you know, and they get all the success. but yeah, really that's where the basis is for this kind of thing where you have players that have a bit of strength and stamina, you keep your fingers crossed on injuries because that's in the gods' love in the counting house . assistant secretary Tom Murphy collects Saturday's receipts his boss Peter Robinson is in Rome making arrangements for the European Cup final but life in the office continues as normal after training the players have lunch in the club restaurant it's difficult for Phil Thompson because he is injured and alone On the margin of current success and the same goes for reserves like Alec Lindsay, it is the first team that is always in demand.

Jamie, thanks because it's on the 26 inch screen, the CM11 is what he played, he finished the game on Saturday and yeah, on caligan, another model and Steve, he's out, obviously, they're really Stitch, right? It usually takes 10 days with the seams, but since they are not a defender and they continually saw the head and the ball, the central defender or something like that, but it would just have to wait. and I see three highway points on one treatment table John Toshak on the other um, all things being equal if they can get 58 and we can get 62 and we still do it, but I think it was 50 55 56 or win while the injured pass on Monday.

In the afternoon, under treatment, six of Liverpool's fifth first-team players go out into the city to disadvantaged districts to train children as part of a Sports Council campaign. Liverpool-born David Faircloth's own throwback Phil Neal is happy to see this as part of his job for a while. Although okay, okay, come on, you've got them out, whether in a vacant lot or a paneled boardroom. Loyalty to Liverpool starts very young. I started coming here when I was a very young child of three or four years old. years old, my father who was a big Liverpool fan used to go to the Ten Star Academy and I have been a Liverpool fan from that day until now and what do you think it is about Liverpool that has made you so special between English clubs?

I think maybe we have the formula for success in the sense that we are very conservative, not necessarily in the political sense, but we don't like change for change's sake. In fact, I'm sure you will have noticed that we are possibly the only Club Certainly, in the UK and certainly in Europe, without advertising on the ground, we don't like change. Our policy was set many years ago by our first life president, Tom Williams, who died 18 months ago and it was he who brought the bill in force. Huddersfield in 1959 we like continuity and if there is one word in our language that describes Liverpool FC it is stability, we don't like change for change's sake, everything is done in a simple way, you know, I mean from board level management to apprentices. nothing is complicated for them, we just go out and try to make things simple, we try to convey this to each player individually and make it a team effort and then they go out and do it, we hope, but why is it so much more successful?

Joe in Liverpool didn't start yesterday, it started many, many years ago and it's been building, but other than that I don't know why it's just one of those things. I guess it's the people in the club, it's the people who do it. There really is no magic, no there is no magic, but there is an unusual affinity between everyone connected with Liverpool Football Club, especially the fans. It is quite common for a man to request that when he dies his ashes be scattered on the Anfield pitch and one of those requests was granted on Monday afternoon, it was an occasion when the guy was putting his brother's ashes to scatter, but he was spreading them in the golden mouth and I told him not to spread them there, he might jump up and stop the ball again, so Mr Shankly took him in the corner spread them there on Tuesday, a new match day and Ronnie Moran lays out the shirts that Liverpool will wear against Manchester United.

The job of cleaning the boots of older players is traditionally that of the apprentices and from the boot room to the ground. There's a hive of activity now, hey, Peter, do you have a plane ticket for tonight? Secretary Robinson has returned from Rome to face a mountain of papers at 11 o'clock. Emlin Hughes and his team take to the field for their own light training session. The ground itself also needs a final check, although he doesn't know when his next match will be. Phil Thompson is nursing his injured knee on the police steps when he was a kid, he used to stand here and support Shankler's foreign Liverpool, that's what.

It's not very nice, are you ready? You never used to stay here. Don't try to enjoy this boy, yes, it was Jack Ferguson, was it with you? Yes, he was with us yesterday. Bob, um, looks like he has it all figured out now. The problem will be that he does, yes, well, the left to keep it in the other thing is the training ground that Tom is going to tell you about and that we couldn't find it, we didn't find it anywhere nearby with grass, yeah. I stayed behind in them, but I think Gigi is going to look around and see if we can find some grass there for the hotel as the afternoon comes.

The club's Development Association is preparing to cash in on a selling crowd of 50,000. almost 11,000 golden tickets for two top prizes of £200 each sales are also high in the club shop which today has a European flavor yes one hour to kick off and the car park is filling up quickly an electronic counter registers each customer passing through the turnstiles below the players are arriving for the cup final rehearsal the match is not as important for Manchester United as it is for Liverpool number 10 David Fairclough number 11 Terry McDermott and the Liverpool substitute this night it is Alan Waddle who is first out on a field where no The away team has won this season, thanks when referee Keith Stiles gathers the captains.

Emlin Hughes and Lou Makari have to pull not only to choose the wingers, but also to decide which club can wear their traditional red in the Cup final for the rest. of the season, I hope everything goes well for you, you realize that we are going to throw two things tonight, one for the shirts and one for the time, okay, okay, that draw is the only thing Liverpool have lost in recent weeks at Wembley. United in the rain hello, fantastic, thank you very much, it was the only goal and it put Liverpool two points closer to retaining the championship and achieving the first leg of the treble.

A win for Liverpool is nothing new, but what they can achieve in the next 21 days. everyone in football held their breath Johnson, I'll celebrate when they can't catch us. I was in the same position as the Central League, so I would celebrate, yes, Liverpool won, the united man, no, Keegan and the best of this club, you can go. down for your dinner and the dinner ladies will tell you the best tomorrow and the cleaners will tell you the best and the people who have come are only commissioners and it is Saturday, but they have come to collect the little money in the sense that they say the better and you look at them and you realize that they mean it and it means a lot to me, you know, I can tell people that they can't say the best and they better not say it because they don't mean it, but here There's a nice little spirit about the place and it carries throughout the club, you know, as far as spirit goes, I doubt there's another club like it.

I think Everybody thinks we're on the cleanup, they think because we just did it with the travel, they all have done their part and honestly, they will have.