Players of Liverpool sing You'll Never Walk Alone in front of the Kop, as the fans hold up scarfs and wave flags and banners after the Premier League match between Liverpool FC and Crystal Palace FC at Anfield on May 25, 2025
Words fail you about the parade on Monday, how it ended, until we find out what exactly has gone on. All we can do now is hope that everyone is okay and those who at ill at the moment pull through. Just pray and hope they get alright.
It could have been a hell of a lot worse. It could have been 100 people. It could have been one of the worst… but even one person is too many.
We just hope and pray for the people affected, their loved ones and families, that they’re going to be okay.
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We have to pay tribute to emergency services. Their response has been absolutely brilliant.
We always rise to the top when things happen in Liverpool. It highlights the best of what we are, and that showed again on Monday with the response from everyone.
We are back on our perch
I went to the Fiveways to watch the parade. There were more people at the Childwall Fiveways than there were at Man City’s parade last year!
The Fiveways was absolutely bonkers. It was great, the atmosphere was tremendous.
The reaction on the players’ faces was a picture, when you see the first real hub when you come into town. It fills up, the Childwall Fiveways. You could see the reaction on the players’ faces, they were in disbelief.
I probably thought they would see that in town, never mind there! And it just got better and better along the way in the different hubs and towns. Ohhh, it was magnificent.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, nobody does it better than Liverpool as a city.
Liverpool fans were immaculate. It was absolutely brilliant, it was superb. But nothing less than what we expected after the last parades we’ve had.
It was there for the world to see how we do it, it was quite spectacular.
I thought in 2019, it couldn’t get any better than that. But they did and that’s Liverpool fans for you!
I know thousands came from Ireland and other countries, and they had nowhere to sleep. That’s what the club means to them. They showed that on Monday, what it means. The passion and pride.
They wanted to show their gratitude for now making us the most successful English club by far! Six European Cups, 20 league titles, and all the other cups along the way. More will come too, you can be sure of that.
We are now well and truly back on our perch!
YNWA
I’ve been part of parades before, as a player and a fan. I put a picture on Twitter of me on one of them with my son and my daughter. It looked really good.
Liverpool footballer John Aldridge with his children as they celebrate with the trophy during an open-top bus tour through the streets following their FA Cup final victory over Everton (Image: Photo by Steve Hale/Popperfoto via Getty Images)
But it was a far cry from now. There were hundreds of thousands when we did it, but not in the eloquent manner we do it now.
It was a brilliant, absolutely amazing experience. I’d been on the route all through the sixties and seventies.
When we won the 1965 FA Cup, I was down in town! I was a six-year-old, there with my dad. So I’ve seen them all.
I’ve gone to see them all in town, St. George’s Hall. All of them, the European Cup ones, so for me to be on that bus as a player in the eighties was surreal.
And now the way it is done as a spectacle, it is absolutely amazing.
The trophy presentation was amazing too. We celebrated fabulously against Tottenham, but when you’ve got the trophy - the actual trophy that you have won and what everyone wants you to win from August to May - in front of you and in front of the Kop and all the stands, that’s the difference.
That’s the difference when you see the actual cup that the lads have won.
‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ has always been in my heart. It’s our song and we’ve always sung it at the end with the Kop when we’ve won things. It’s very emotive.
It’s our hymn, it’s our song. It gets your heart and your thoughts go back. For me, it’s back to Roger Hunt and Ian St. John, Ron Yeats and all the great players I know who have passed away. You think about them when you’re singing the songs.
So the players gathering to sing it in front of the Kop was the highlight for me on Sunday. And those words mean even more when something like this happens at the parade.