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, in fact, 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 below Gerard Houllier’s reign.
This Is Anfield started at a time when Nicolas Anelka was making his Reds’ debut, and when the web was really 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 unbelievable and really humbling for a fan-run enterprise that began life as a interest between two mates over 20 years in the past.
These days, we’re a small enterprise, a real-living wage accredited employer, and assist causes in the area people that imply loads to us, particularly the Followers Supporting Foodbanks initiative, Homebaked co-operative, Zoe’s Place and Alder Hey Kids’s Hospital.
Final season noticed us increase our video content material – should you’re not already following us on YouTube, please do! Our video editor, Sam Millne, produced a 30-minute documentary on Jurgen Klopp’s era, 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 are going to proceed to reside stream (the place potential) each Liverpool press convention. By the best way, 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 gift 10 tickets to Liverpool fans for the Carabao Cup final – seeing the Reds raise the final trophy of Klopp’s reign.
All this wouldn’t be potential with out you visiting our web site, following us on social media, and exhibiting your assist by both being a premium member or paying for our App. We really respect your assist.
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 crew. Ben joins Jack Lusby, Joanna Durkan, Sam Millne and Matt Ladson, plus a number of your regular 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 crew as they transfer into their new dwelling in St Helens and play three massive fixtures at Anfield. Matt Beard’s facet had a vastly 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 purpose to proceed to tell, entertain and hold you absolutely updated in regards to the Reds, whereas additionally educating and reminiscing in regards to the membership’s glorious history.
2024/25 guarantees to be a vastly 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 best way and we’re trying ahead to sharing all of it with you.
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