​LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND – JANUARY 28: Liverpool fans display banners on The Kop during the Emirates FA Cup Fourth Round match between Liverpool and Norwich City at Anfield on January 28, 2024 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Chris Brunskill/Fantasista/Getty Images) | Getty Images It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone why some of Britain’s top football pundits are eagerly waiting for the match between Liverpool and Man City at Anfield next Sunday. If it is then this writer is hoping to give a short explanation as a backdrop to this narrative that’s gathering support from even arch rival Man United’s ex players and fans.One of the biggest reasons behind the narrative is that the Jurgen Klopp vs Pep Guardiola era produced possibly the most exciting, tense and high fueled Premier league seasons since it’s conception on February 20th 1992 when clubs resigned from the Football League and the following August was the inaugural 22-club season. Regardless if that is agreed upon there is no escaping how intense some of the seasons were with Klopp at the helm of Liverpool and Pep at Man City.The added layer to this is Anfield’s Kop end where some of the most socially and politically engaged football supporters make the most of chants and banners as a way to demonstrate their feelings from the Hillsborough disaster, UEFA, FIFA and FA scandals, Anti-racism, protests against various FSG proposals like the Super league and many other subjects. It is also a place where the supporters celebrate the love for so many Reds players and managers with songs and banners.The first reported protest from The Kop was all the way back in the 1930’s when the club was making an effort to sell Elisha Scott who happened to be a favorite amongst the supporters and the supporters did what was natural to them and made a stand. Since that time Liverpool supporters have become renowned for their passion and expressing it through banners and chants of which FSG have had to grasp and acknowledge during their ownership due to finding themselves the target of such actions.When we step further back to the very birth of the globally respected stand that is the heart of Anfield there is a story that illustrates the inherent honoring that lives within the people of Liverpool. The Kop was first built as an open-air earth embankment in 1906 and the supporters named the new stand ‘The Kop’ in honor of all the soldiers from the city of Liverpool who died at the battle of Spion Kop during the Boer war in South Africa. The losses where so vast that the place became known as the ‘Acre of Massacre’ and the hilly nature of the area was seen by the local supporters as echoed in the newly built earth embankment and the standing fans upon it as the soldiers.In 1928 the Kop was expanded from a capacity of 25,000 to over 28,000 but more importantly the inclusion of a steel framed roof gave the supporters at the Kop end an added voice in the form of an acoustic box. A gift that continu