Reade, Brian

This work examines how and why the Kop became the globally-renowned stand it is today. It is told through the eyes of Brian Reade, an award-winning journalist, author and Anfield regular for 60 years, the majority spent on the Kop where he is still a season-ticket holder. In that time he has witnessed, and written about, all the highs and lows of Britain’s most successful football club. Reade traces the Kop’s history back to the South African hill it was named after and unearths astonishing parallels between that ‘acre of massacre’ in which Merseyside soldiers were killed and the Hillsborough Disaster almost a century later.