Liverpool could twin with original home of the Kop

Oct 2 2009

by Greg O'Keeffe, Liverpool Daily Post

LIVERPOOL could be twinned with the South African town where scores of Merseyside soldiers died during the historic battle of Spion Kop. Liverpool FC’s Kop stand was famously named after the Boer War battleground in 1906, after newspaper sports editor Ernest Edwards wrote that the newly-built steep terrace at Anfield reminded him of the Spion Kop hill. Now a proposal is set to be put forward to Liverpool council for a permanent twinning with Ladysmith, where more than 300 men, many of them from Liverpool, died as the British army attempted to capture the strategic hilltop. Full story at Liverpool Daily Post website - click here