One of Jack’s Christmas presents was a trip to see a Premier team play so I bought tickets from Wayne to go and see Liverpool against Sunderland. So Jack and I went up and Mike Ford and Alice had Liam’s tickets so we went up together. I offered to drive and met Fordy at his house and got a bit stressed as we ended up leaving Bicester an hour later than planned because of his work.
The journey up there was fine though and we did it comfortably within about 3 hours.
Parked nearby to Everton and then walked across Stanley Park to the ground. It was good being involved and seeing it all set up and getting the match day experience and Jack was loving it. We got into the ground and were based in The Kop so that was good.
Before the match they did loads of flags being dragged over everyone and of course sang ‘You’ll never walk alone’ and it was a good atmosphere. Once the match got going it was enjoyable but sadly Martin O’Neill had brought his team along to defend and play on the break so it wasn’t very competitive and it was no surprise when Liverpool scored. Once that happen Sunderland had no answer and funnily enough had an excellent chance but it would have been a travesty and they deservedly got thumped 3-0.
Luis Suarez played and he was excellent to watch, he really was the best player on the park. He gets a lot of bad press because he’s a cheat and dives etc but when he concentrates on the game it’s good.
We left 5 mins early and got back to the car before the traffic got bad and stopped on the M6 for some food, I let Jack have a treat of £6 chicken bucket and then got home and into bed by about 1.00am
All in all a really good evening but I must admit I’d not want to do that regularly…I don’t really like football (or supporters) it has to be said.
View from our seats…
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