28th Picture

Supporting LFC has been a life long passion of mine and I’ll be eternally grateful to Hanson Jerome. If it hadn’t been for him I’m not sure I would be a Liverpool fan today.

The story goes back to 1977 and it’s a week or two before the FA cup final. That years final was the two teams you see in today’s picture; Liverpool FC v Manchester Utd.

To fully explain this store we have to go back to the previous year’s FA cup final between Manchester Utd v Southampton. My older brother Surinder was a big Man U fan and as any younger brother I wanted to follow in his foot steps, but thankfully he refused to allow me to support the same time that he was supporting.  

So back to the story of 1977 FA cup final and Hanson Jerome. Somehow he had managed to smuggle a bottle of Cider into our junior school and was offering a free drink to anyone who supported Liverpool FC. I had no idea what the drink was that he had in his hands, but as there was a long line of eager kids waiting patiently for a swig I knew it had to be good. So I joined the queue and waited my turn.

He asked everyone the same question before allowing them a drink; “do you support Liverpool FC?”

So eventually when it was my turn to take a drink he asked me the same question and instantly I said yes and I’ve been a true fan ever since.

A week or two later we lost in the final to Man U, however a couple of days later we went on to win the European cup for the first time in our history.

Ammo