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The Anfield Wrap

The Terrace: Spion Kop 1906

The Anfield Wrap

The Anfield Wrap

Music, Sports, Soccer

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In a new TAW Player show focusing on Liverpool FC fan culture, Gareth Roberts speaks to Adam Kearns and Sam Evans about Spion Kop 1906 - a group of fans responsible for many of the flags and banners seen regularly on The Kop and trips away and abroad. To donate to future displays send donations via PayPal to SpionKop1906@hotmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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That kind of thing. We've got a few ideas on the go, but the one we're kicking it off with

1:04.6

we're going to speak to a couple of lads who are involved with the spy and cop 1906 group.

1:09.3

You may be aware of them, you may not. You should be. There are group of lads and anchors who

1:14.3

get involved making flags, displaying flags, making the cop colourful, and making us proud of

1:19.7

what is a traditional place for support for Liverpool FC. So with me to talk about that,

1:24.4

I've got Adam Keynes and I've got Sam Evans. He was one of the young brigade involved

1:29.5

16 years old and he's making me feel very old looking at him.

1:33.8

Adam, start with you, mate, I mean just explain for those who don't know what spy and cop 1906 is.

1:41.1

I've got started and where the idea came from.

1:43.6

Originally it was a gang of lads who just originally make flags themselves.

1:49.7

We have our own ideas, come up with our own banners and do our own things.

1:54.9

We ended up becoming a group of mates through it. We'd still carry on doing it just as individuals,

2:02.0

not as a collective. We realised if we wanted to go on to do bigger and better things,

2:07.1

we'd have to. Short of creating a name for a group, it was never an idea to be considered

2:12.7

like an altruist group or anything like that. It was just sort of a means of calling ourselves

2:18.8

a collective so we could do things like shell and mage and dice and stuff like that to raise funds

2:24.5

to become bigger and better and make the couple even better than what it was.

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