♫ Liiiverpool, Liiiverpool... ♫
CHEERING
♫ ..watched King Kenny play - and could he play! ♫
♫ And the sweet silver song of the lark...
♫ Walk on
♫ Walk on, with hope in your heart
♫ And you'll never walk alone
♫ You'll never walk alone... ♫
Today we remember our former players
Ray Clemence, Ian St John, Michael Robinson,
Donald Woan, Phil Chisnall, John Jeffers, Tommy Leishman,
and we remember our great manager, Gerard Houllier.
We also remember our supporters who can't be with us today
in our first home game of this brand-new season.
♫ Liverpool, Liverpool, Liverpool
♫ Liverpool, Liverpool, Liverpool... ♫
♫ We love you, Liverpool, we do
♫ Oh, Liverpool, we love you. ♫
FANS: YES!
♫ Go marching in!
♫ Oh, when the Reds go marching in
♫ I want to be in that number
♫ When the Reds go marching in... ♫
FANS: YES!
♫ Liverpool, Liverpool, nah-nah-nah
♫ Liverpool, Liverpool... ♫
♫ Our No. 9, give him the ball and he'll score every time
♫ Si senor, give the ball to Bobby and he will score... ♫
CHEERING
♫ Walk on, with hope in your heart
♫ And you'll never walk alone... ♫
We all looked forward to today, even with the rain.
Pleased to see everyone back. Everyone was buzzing and looking forward to it,
ready for the battle, and we are just very happy that we won
and seen all our fans together.
As skipper obviously you've unfortunately had to lead the team out to empty stadiums
so many times, you must have been dreaming almost of this moment.
Yeah, it was a long time, and I think we can appreciate the fans even more now,
with what we experienced last season.
But they make a huge difference
and it was really special today to walk out in front of them.
My favourite moment was the roar around the first whistle,
because I didn't hear it for such a long time,
when the whole...
I would be afraid if it wasn't for us - it's really, really, really nice.
And I didn't know I missed it, because I forgot it,
but after 529 days, hearing that today was absolutely outstanding
and it gave me the last little push - which I didn't need but I took it anyway.
Congratulations, thank you.
Thank you.