The Kop Magazine - 2014 Annual

In this issue

When we put together the first Kop Annual a decade ago we never envisaged the day when we’d be celebrating our 10th anniversary. Who knew that you had to do one every year?

Anyhow, The Kop Annual 2014 is the 10th we have produced and having failed to win a single trophy during that time we’re expecting a call from Fergie any day to offer us the Manchester United manager’s job.

Of course much has changed since the first Kop Annual 10 years ago. Liverpool are now playing in a 70,000-seater stadium on Stanley Park. The Mancs have won more European Cups than us. Everton have won a derby at Anfield. Leeds have returned to the Premier League. And Chelsea have the best, noisiest fans in the world.
Oink, flap, Oink, flap. Oink, flap.

As ever, The Kop Annual 2014 features the best bits of our monthly Kop Magazine from the last 12 months and plenty of new content, but to mark our 10th anniversary we’ve also reprinted 10 classic cartoons drawn by legendary Kop artist PAK.

Our front cover may be devoted to the young Liverpool team that Brendan Rodgers and Steven Gerrard are overseeing, but that’s not to say the old favourites – and our rivals – have been forgotten.

This year we reveal what Fergie has really been up to during his retirement, our Google Maps ‘whose ground is is anyway’ quiz takes you to places the Reds haven’t been to for a while and Every Other Saturday gets the Kop Karaoke treatment.

We introduce Brazil’s Copacabarnowl resort that England fans can stay in during the World Cup, there’s an exclusive extract from much-hyped novel Red or ZZZZ? and John Terry turning up at other people’s celebrations moves to a whole new level.

Then there’s the congratulatory telegrams we’ve received for our 10th anniversary, the best of our famous Kop back pages and plenty of ‘adverts’ that you will actually read.

Add to that our new Guess the Goal and Guess the Banners features, the best of the Kop Mole and Kop Challenges plus old favourites You Ask, We Answer and Kop Tips, and we’ll have your sides splitting quicker than they did on Fat Frank Lampard Junior’s England shirt when he put a medium on by mistake...