So in English football (Soccer) there are many great and historic rivalries from the biggest teams in the biggest cities. Liverpool’s biggest rival is Everton, their stadium is only a mile away from ours at Anfield. There is also a rivalry in Manchester United and Manchester City, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspurs just to name a few of the major ones. These matches when they occur are basically bragging rights for the next year for whichever team wins’ fans.

Liverpool is the bigger of the two clubs with Everton but the rivalry is one of the top. That’s what our boys had to prepare for going into the weekend. This was a huge game and one that in the city of Liverpool every single person will be watching either at the stadium, in pubs, restaurants or at home.

As I said Liverpool are the better of the two teams and have forever shown why and in their last 18 meetings have not lost against Everton. They had drawn a few times though and to Liverpool that is a loss for these days.

So going into the weekend the boys were training very hard with no real injuries that are new and a scare to the club. Manager Jurgen Klopp had announced that the club is feeling good and ready to go to war at the weekend.

Match day arrives and the streets of Liverpool are absolutely packed with supporters wither wearing Liverpool’s red or Everton’s blue. Songs are being sung by the thousands of fans flooding into the stadium and the energy is always electric. I have myself been very fortunate to witness one of these events before and i have no doubt the atmosphere is just as great every time.

The game starts and the first half isn’t anything exciting at all. Liverpool didn’t look like scoring and most of the chances came from Everton making our keeper Allison perform some incredible saves to keep us in the match. The second half was no different with Liverpool making a few more chances but not really anything to shout about. In the last 10 minutes is when it got really exciting as tensions were rising and it was end to end football. Liverpool end up scoring in the last minute of the game from a complete fluke of a goal that you have to se for yourself if you haven’t. It was really quite bizarre but so awesome for us Liverpool fans. Here is a link to the video… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-LzI7tg_w4 

We now are only 2 points behind Manchester City at the top of the league instead of what looked like would be 4. Liverpool is red in the mean time and gives the fans something to brag about in their home towns.