Message from the chairman

NOTES FROM THE CHAIRMAN PAUL MANNING

Here we are back at the Berry Street Garage Stadium after almost two years away.

Unless I am wrong, our last home game here was on Boxing Day in 2020 in a 2-1 defeat to Marine in front of a covid restricted capacity crowd of 600, which took place just 10 days before their historic FA Cup 3rd round tie at home to Spurs.

Covid had wrecked that season and it was officially curtailed shortly after the Marine game.

I won’t bore everyone with the detail of what led to us leaving Bootle, but history will show that it was not a good decision on the part of either club. We are now back at a much improved Berry Street Garage Stadium and looking forward to Season 2022/23.

Pre-Season is a funny period where the key focus is returning the players to fitness for the new season, but in games of football, staff, players and supporters all want to win, so it becomes a hard balance to find. Club Directors want to win every game possible in order to build momentum for the new season, and literally nobody likes losing, especially to teams below you in the pyramid, but it happens.

On a separate subject, club memberships are still available until the 31st August so if you haven’t as yet bought a membership or renewed for Season 2022/23 please do, its very easy to do it at www.memberships.cityofliverpoolfc.co.uk

We are about to buck the trend of memberships going down year on year. We are already at around 350 which is over 100 up from last season and about 50 up from Season 2020/21 and we’ve still got over a month to go before the window closes for the Season.

I am hopeful that we can get to 400+, which will stand us in good stead for the year ahead. Then it is just upto Ello and the lads to put on an exciting season where we are challenging, and we can all have a smile on our faces.

Thanks for joining us for the 1st home league game of the season v Skelmersdale Utd on Tuesday 16th August.

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