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 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 have been some years away from arriving.
Talking of social media, we now have over 4 million followers, which is kind of unimaginable and really humbling for a fan-run enterprise that began life as a passion between two buddies 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, specifically 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 – in the event you’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 pleased with as video hasn’t been our space of experience.
This season we’ll proceed to dwell stream (the place potential) each Liverpool press convention. By the way in which, do you know that we have 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 have been doing so!
Final season we have been additionally in a position to proceed our partnership with Carabao, which meant we have been in a position to present 10 tickets to Liverpool followers for the Carabao Cup ultimate – seeing the Reds elevate 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 displaying your assist by both being a premium member or paying for our App. We really admire 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 a part of our editorial crew. Ben joins Jack Lusby, Joanna Durkan, Sam Millne and Matt Ladson, plus a bunch of your normal 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 residence in St Helens and play three large fixtures at Anfield. Matt Beard’s facet had a vastly spectacular marketing campaign final season and we have been lucky to interview a number of gamers on the new Melwood AXA Coaching Centre.
Help This Is Anfield
Like what we do? Listed below are some methods you’ll be able to assist This Is Anfield and assist develop our impartial protection of the membership:
As ever, we intention to proceed to tell, entertain and preserve you totally updated concerning the Reds, whereas additionally educating and reminiscing concerning the membership’s wonderful historical past.
2024/25 guarantees to be a vastly intriguing time for Liverpool FC, a brand new period and a reasonably 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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