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Sunday 11 May 1986: Liverpool
and Everton fans find the
perfect rooftop vantage-point
to welcome back their heroes
after a thrilling FA Cup final
at Wembley.
The following morning's
Daily Post reported: “A quarter-
of-a-million people took to
the streets to stage their
own mammoth celebration.
They brought everything
to a halt [for] the first-ever
joint homecoming from a
big match...an 18-mile tourlaughingly scheduled to take
no more than two hours.
“More than 20 police
motorcyclists escorted the
motorcade into Speke Hall
Avenue. From the first yard an
ecstatic crowd drummed up a
deafening roar. There was no
room left on the pavements.
They climbed onto telephone
boxes and bus-stop shelters.
They stood on parked cars,
scrambled onto factory and
house roofs. No traffic-light,
signpost or tree stood alone. Itwas the same for virtually the
entire 18 miles around the city.
“Every face, young and old,
was wrought with excitement.
A glimpse of their footballing
heroes meant the world to
them. A line of boys and girls
sat perched on a 7ft high
mesh-fence topped with
barbed wire. Others stood
perilously on bridge walls
towering over railway lines.
They slipped around crumbling
chimney pots on top of the
highest of buildings.