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Anfield atmosphere: What happened to the unique atmosphere?

How's the Anfield atmosphere lately? Anfield Stadium has undergone many changes since its inception. Let's learn about this stadium in the article below of 247sport.net!

Anfield Stadium

Anfield is a football stadium in Anfield, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, with a seating capacity of 53,394 people, making it the country's eighth-largest. Liverpool F.C. has called it home since its inception in 1892. Everton played there from 1884 to 1891.

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The Main Stand, Spion Kop, Sir Kenny Dalglish Stand, and Anfield Road End are the four stands in the stadium.

A match between Liverpool and Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1952 achieved a record attendance of 61,905.

As a result of the Taylor Report, it was renovated into an all-seater stadium in 1994.

Outside the stadium, both managers have statues: Shankly's was unveiled in 1997 by the Kop Stand, and Paisley's will be unveiled in 2020 by the Main Stand. Liverpool Lime Street railway station is 2 miles away from Anfield. 

On December 8, 2014, work on an addition to the main stand began. This expansion, one of Europe's largest single-stand all-seater structures, opened to the public on September 9, 2016, bringing the stadium's total capacity to 53,394. The Anfield Road Stand is being renovated so that the stadium's capacity can be increased to over 61,000 people.

Where has the famous Anfield atmosphere gone?

Anfield has been associated with unique atmospheres for decades.

Because of the intense atmosphere that the Kop managed to create on those big European nights, names like St Etienne, Olympiakos, Dortmund, and Barcelona will forever be linked to Anfield.

However, the atmosphere at Anfield has been eerily quiet in recent months.

Opposition supporters who have been to the library over the years have always chanted, "Is this a library?".

Because of the coronavirus outbreak, no fans were allowed in stadiums just a year ago.

Many people believe that football fans will no longer take coming to games for granted. However, for the majority of the season, the mood at Anfield has been dreadful.

Last week's match between Liverpool and Leicester was possibly the loudest Anfield has been in 2022 so far (which, by the way, includes the Premier League Cup semi-final against Arsenal).

Should it, however, be up to Jurgen Klopp to get the crowd singing? There's no denying that the atmosphere at Anfield can still produce memorable moments. 

There is no sound in football that compares to the sound of 'You'll Never Walk Alone' blasting through the speakers and the Kop singing along.

Players from the opposing team, like Kevin De Bruyne, are still intimidated by it. Clearly, Anfield is still alive and well during the big games.

The so-called 'lesser' games, on the other hand, suffer from excessive noise. It was disturbingly quiet when Liverpool played Brentford in January, for example. Even if it was an early kick-off on a Sunday, the traveling Brentford fans didn't have to do much to outsing the Kop, which is absolutely unacceptable.

Attendees' excuse is that 'it's only Brentford,' or that the kick-off is at an inconvenient time, and they're not in the mood to sing.

But why is that? It shouldn't matter what time Liverpool kicks off. If you're lucky enough to be at Anfield to watch Liverpool play, be prepared to sing your heart out all game long. Every opposing fan should arrive at Anfield knowing that they will be outsung for the entire 90 minutes.

However, this is no longer the case. Liverpool were encouraged by the atmosphere to reach the Champions League final. With the Reds still in contention for a quadruple, the Kop must reproduce that mood as many times as possible.

In football, miracles do happen, as the Anfield atmosphere has repeatedly demonstrated.

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