Spion Kop's mixture of myth and magic; 100 YEARS OF THE KOP Saturday's first home game of the season marks the 100th anniversary of Liverpool FC's Spion Kop. In the first of two special reports, Mike Chapple looks at the creation of a sporting legend.(Features)

Spion Kop's mixture of myth and magic; 100 YEARS OF THE KOP Saturday's first home game of the season marks the 100th anniversary of Liverpool FC's Spion Kop. In the first of two special reports, Mike Chapple looks at the creation of a sporting legend.(Features) - Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | HighBeam Research

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Spion Kop's mixture of myth and magic; 100 YEARS OF THE KOP Saturday's first home game of the season marks the 100th anniversary of Liverpool FC's Spion Kop. In the first of two special reports, Mike Chapple looks at the creation of a sporting legend.(Features)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

August 25, 2006 | Copyright

Byline: Mike Chapple

THE Afrikaans name for the battle is Spioenkop, spioen for spy or look out and kop meaning hill or outcropping.

Logical then that, at the end of the 1905/6 season, the new brick and cinder banking at Anfield should be christened the Spion Kop by Liverpool Echo sports editor Ernest Edwards. It was named in honour of the many Merseysiders who died vainly trying to take the hill against overwhelming odds during the Boer War.

If Mr Edwards were still alive to celebrate tomorrow's 100th anniversary celebrations for the Kop, he would no doubt be pleased to note that, without the benefit of foresight, his moniker had come to mean something more profound than its literal t r a n s l at i o n . …

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