We’re lower than per week away from Liverpool returning to Premier League motion, and with it the beginning of the twenty third season of the This Is Anfield web site overlaying the Reds.
It’s, after all, a brand new period for Liverpool FC. Arne Slot turns into the twenty second everlasting supervisor within the membership’s historical past – the seventh since This Is Anfield began out in 2001 underneath Gerard Houllier’s reign.
This Is Anfield started at a time when Nicolas Anelka was making his Reds’ debut, and when the web was actually in its infancy; few ‘Premiership’ golf equipment had official web sites, and Fb, Twitter, YouTube, even MySpace had been some years away from arriving.
Talking of social media, we now have over 4 million followers, which is sort of unimaginable and actually humbling for a fan-run enterprise that began life as a interest between two pals over 20 years in the past.
These days, we’re a small enterprise, a real-living wage accredited employer, and help causes in the area people that imply so much to us, particularly the Followers Supporting Foodbanks initiative, Homebaked co-operative, Zoe’s Place and Alder Hey Kids’s Hospital.
Final season noticed us develop our video content material – if you happen to’re not already following us on YouTube, please do! Our video editor, Sam Millne, produced a 30-minute documentary on Jurgen Klopp’s period, which has over 100,000 views on YouTube, one thing we’re actually happy with as video hasn’t been our space of experience.
This season we’ll proceed to reside stream (the place attainable) each Liverpool press convention. By the way in which, do you know that we had been the primary web site of any nature in England to supply press conferences in full? We began doing so in 2015, earlier than Sky Sports activities or LFCTV had been doing so!
Final season we had been additionally capable of proceed our partnership with Carabao, which meant we had been capable of present 10 tickets to Liverpool followers for the Carabao Cup remaining – seeing the Reds elevate the final trophy of Klopp’s reign.
All this wouldn’t be attainable with out you visiting our web site, following us on social media, and displaying your help by both being a premium member or paying for our App. We actually admire your help.
The season forward
We kicked off the brand new period this season with our protection of the Reds’ US tour, with long-serving author Alex Malone in attendance and interviewing John Barnes and Sami Hyypia for us.
Forward of 2024/25, we’re happy to have Bence Bocsak be part of our editorial staff. Ben joins Jack Lusby, Joanna Durkan, Sam Millne and Matt Ladson, plus a bunch of your standard This Is Anfield regulars.
We’re delighted to be persevering with our partnerships with FourFourTwo and FotMob, so please do learn our writing there!
We’ll even be increasing our protection of the ladies’s staff as they transfer into their new house in St Helens and play three massive fixtures at Anfield. Matt Beard’s aspect had a massively spectacular marketing campaign final season and we had been lucky to interview a number of gamers on the new Melwood AXA Coaching Centre.
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As ever, we goal to proceed to tell, entertain and hold you absolutely updated concerning the Reds, whereas additionally educating and reminiscing concerning the membership’s superb historical past.
2024/25 guarantees to be a massively intriguing time for Liverpool FC, a brand new period and a fairly thrilling one at that. We’ll be with you each step of the way in which and we’re trying ahead to sharing all of it with you.
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