And we love it!
Its black with red and silver trim, is inspired by Liverpool’s 1977 European Cup win and features the Bill Shakily quote “Liverpool was made for me, and I was made for Liverpool”
What do you guys think of it? Let us know on our 23 Foundation Facebook page.
Today we had a lovely email from the Liverpool Lighthouse charity project today.
Jamie really enjoyed his visit and judging by the email we received this wonderful charity enjoyed Jamie’s visit too!
The email …..
Dear Jamie,
Alfie and I wanted to say a big thank you, for taking up our invitation to come and visit Liverpool Lighthouse today. It has really encouraged us that you have taken time out of your busy schedule to come and hear about our charity projects. Your visit has filtered through to our families and community and has left a real buzz and excitement in the air!!!!
Some pictures of you, on our face book page – https://www.facebook.com/llhfamilyconnect feel free to use them, but better quality ones will be on the way to you next week.
You’re a real star!!!! Once again thank you!!!!
Kindest Regards,
Aine & Alfie
To learn more about the charity please visit www.liverpoollighthouse.com
STEVEN GERRARD HONOURS SHIRT – Limited Edition
Steven Gerrard undoubtedly one of the best players of all time (and according to some, best there is, best there was, best there will ever be!).
Stevie played 710 games for his beloved Liverpool FC. The 23 Foundation is offering a beautifully embroidered “Honours” shirt for each one of the 710 games that Stevie played for Liverpool FC.
Each shirt is individually signed and numbered from 1 to 710 and can only be obtained from the 23 Foundation. As per the pictures attached Stevie signed each shirt on the front, above his major honours for the club.
This unique shirt is £225 plus shipping (£10 UK and £15 overseas) with all profits going to the 23 Foundation.
Buy the shirt today – just CLICK HERE and in 10 minutes one of these special shirts will belong to you!
A recent article from Carra in The Mail recently ….. not something we like to hear as Liverpool fans but as ever Carra tells it as it is! (And we still have The Normal One …. and we wouldn’t swap him for anyone!!!)
JAMIE CARRAGHER: Pep Guardiola SHOULD be worried… no way Jose Mourinho will change!
Spain might have the best players and by Saturday night they will have won both European club competitions after the all-Spanish Champions League final — but the invasion of the great managers will electrify the Premier League and confirm it as the place to be.
The Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho (22 trophies) battling it out with Manchester City’s Pep Guardiola (21 trophies). Then there’s Chelsea’s Antonio Conte (three Serie A titles) slugging it out with Liverpool’s Jurgen Klopp (a dual Bundesliga winner and Champions League finalist) and Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger (17 trophies). It means no other competition can rival England’s big league for expertise and swagger.
Jose Mourinho was named the new manager of Manchester United on Friday morning on a four-year deal. Some claim Mourinho does not play in the style preferred by United supporters but he will deliver trophies. The Premier League will boast some of the best names next season including Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp.
Whether you are a fan of his ways or not, you cannot deny that Mourinho is box office and will get United challenging for silverware straight away. The man is a serial winner.
Along with plenty of others, I have said for a long time that he doesn’t tick every box for United, but there is only one box they want ticking now — the one that says ‘trophies’. And they’ve got the best man for the job for that. In 14 attempts, he’s won eight titles across Europe. That’s more than a 50 per cent success rate!
United had the chance to get him three years ago but went for David Moyes, believing they didn’t need Mourinho and the baggage he brings. The argument then was that he was not the right fit for Old Trafford, but what the last three years have shown is that no manager can be what Sir Alex Ferguson was. He was a one-off in the modern game for promoting young players, playing with style and being able to stay out in front.
The other man to do that was Sir Matt Busby. Both Busby and Ferguson lasted over two decades at the club but they are the only two men in United’s history to be successful playing such attacking football. They also promoted youth, Busby with his Babes and Ferguson with his Class of ’92.
Busby and Ferguson are giants of the game and other United managers tried to bring success – including the likes of Tommy Docherty and Ron Atkinson – but couldn’t pull it off. So for all the talk of the ‘United way’, the achievements were based around two extraordinary managers.
Clubs like Barcelona and Ajax bring in managers to suit the club and have ideas of the way they want to play regardless of the manager’s c.v. Luis Enrique, for instance, was sacked at Roma but has thrived at Barcelona. United thought, when Ferguson left, that they could go down the same path, but it hasn’t worked for them. Others have caught up and overtaken them.
Moyes was very hard-working but he lacked the positivity and risk-taking that United fans had been used to. Louis van Gaal believed that a combination of a Dutch philosophy and his impressive c.v. would propel United forward, but it hasn’t.
Now they’ve finally turned to Jose: a man who won’t please everyone but a man who won’t change his way of playing. And why should he?
At times he will strangle a game if he feels the opposition are superior. For prime examples, look at the games between his Real Madrid team and Guardiola’s Barcelona. I’m sure Jose always felt his rival Guardiola had the strongest line-up in those titanic El Clasico battles, so he had an advantage.
Pep won five of those 11 clashes, and Jose just two, but with United’s spending power Mourinho will be able to go head to head with his great rival. They are playing on an even playing field — and he will relish that.
Also, it is harsh to say Mourinho doesn’t play good football. He broke plenty of Premier League records with Chelsea, while Real Madrid outscored Barcelona in two of his three La Liga seasons.
As for not bringing young players through, if they are top class, he plays them. He played 19-year-old Carlos Alberto in the Champions League final at Porto, he gave a chance to Raphael Varane at Real Madrid and picked Davide Santon at Inter when he was a teenager. So Marcus Rashford will be fine if he carries on as he is.
One man who won’t be fine, though, is Guardiola. He left Barcelona for a number of reasons but one of them, I’m sure, is the continual baiting to which he was subjected to by Mourinho in the media. It is inevitable, at some point, that theme will return. Guardiola must be thinking: ‘Oh no, not him again.’
Mourinho arrives at Old Trafford with a point to prove and, as a Liverpool supporter, it worries me! It should also worry the rest of the Premier League — he is coming back to win.
The Fields Of Anfield Road (FOAR) Facebook Group have released the below statement confirming their delight in partnering up with the 23 Foundation.
As detailed in our previous news story, the 23 Foundation are looking forward to an enjoyable and fruitful working relationships with the FOAR.
Here is the statement released by the FOAR today ……
“The fields of Anfield Road Facebook page, (now also on Twitter and Instagram), are absolutely delighted to be partnering up with The 23 Foundation.
It’s an honour to be associated with a charity that do so much incredible work for the young people of Liverpool and beyond.
FOAR is a dedicated Liverpool fan page, and with over 20,000 members, we hope to be able to make more people aware of the great work “The 23 Foundation” do, as well as helping out in anyway that we can. In promoting memorabillia, and other merchandise, from the website on our page.
Our entire admin team, Sean Spillane, Áisling Dooley Kelly, Sinead Dunleavy, Karen McKay, Simon Merrett, Tony George Marham, Gareth O’Connor, Robert Phillips, Val Yates, Imran Goolamallee, Suzanne Cray, Mark Allcock, Owen Michael Kavanagh, Ken Allen, Peter Stares, Keith Hansard and myself have worked tirelessly to get the page to a level we are proud of.
Working with “The 23 Foundation” is another step in the right direction and a huge one for us.
We would like to thank Tony Bowden for all of his hard work in setting up connection and liaising between the two groups.
Reading the description of the charity really helped us to make this decision. The values that you hold on working as a team mirror our own. Everything we do we do as a group admin, and a mass of amazing members.
We look forward to an exciting partnership moving forward, and hope to be able to help in any events or promotion that we can do”
Chris Stridgen, Admin at FOAR
The 23 Foundation are delighted to announce that we have agreed to work alongside the ‘Fields Of Anfield Road’ Facebook Group (FOAR) to help promote the charity and share news about ‘everything Liverpool FC’ both here on this website, and on Facebook too.
The administrators that manage the FOAR group are professional, knowledgable, passionate and lovely too. With 20,500+ great LFC supporting members within the group its a great place to interact with other Liverpool fans, both from the UK and across the World.
The group have great expectations about how members should behave, with rude and abusive behaviour, product selling and advertising and ticket selling above face value not being condoned in any manner. The group is all about building LFC relationships, information, news, banter and everything else you’d expect from a quality group of this nature.
The 23 Foundation are delighted to be working alongside FOAR and we have started discussions about how we can strengthen the relationship to benefit both organisations. At this time we’d also like to thank Chris Stridgen & Simon Merrett for making the discussions or a partnership become a reality, and to Sean Spillane, the founder of this great group, who still works hard as a group admin today …. a great achievement Sean!
We look forward to working with FOAR and are excited for the future and what this amazing partnership will bring!
To join the ‘Fields Of Anfield Road’ Facebook page search for them and request to join …. you won’t be disappointed!
