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The weekend came and LFC left for Toronto to play TFC at the Rogers Centre. They returned to training in Boston on Monday. I had taken the week off, my friend was supposed to come up, but he had to work, so my father came up for the LFC v Roma game Wednesday at Fenway Park. Monday, I went to the morning session. I was more excited than usual, the boys from the England EURO squad were supposed to return to training. I quickly learned from talking to people that they were flying in in the evening and training Tuesday morning. The morning sessions were two hours, as opposed to the one hour evening sessions. Training ended and me and a friend I had made (Daw (?) from Galway) walked over to the gate to meet the players. The young boys usually left first, for no one really knew who they were nor did they want their autographs. But me and Daw chanted , "Adam Morgan, Can't stop scoring!" He smiled and gave us a thumbs up. At this point I had most of the teams signatures, but the one I coveted was Jamie Carragher. I finally got his autograph, and I went home, excited for tomorrow. Steven Gerrard was coming to town. Tuesday 10am came and I made my way to Harvard. A crowd of maybe 150 people had gathered. They were at the far side of the field, but most of the LFC team were warming up on the near side, this could only mean one thing: Stevie was here, and he was. There with Andy Carroll, Jordan Henderson, Glen Johnson, Stewart Downing, Martin Kelly and new signing Fabio Borini. I watched Steven for the duration of the training session. People had lined the gate of the training field for a hour preceding the projected end of the session, doing the same thing I was doing, waiting for Gerrard. I waited across the street, close to their dressing room, but ushered away, the person saying they were late, for what? I ran to the entrance of the dressing room where a crowd had gathered hoping to get autographs before the players entered, and this is were I got Steven Gerrard's autograph. I didn't even say thank you I was so speechless. I walked over to a ledge to sit down, Daw spotted me and laughed, "Boy, you're shaking!" and he started fanning me. I laughed, and said, "I finally met Him".
My dad arrived Wednesday afternoon around 2 o'clock. We got lunch at Tasty Burger by Fenway, and then walked around Fenway to see what was up before it got crowded. They had a replica of the Shankly gates at either side of Yawkey Way, and a big, two-story 'This is Fenway' sign. We went back to my apartment to don our LFC garb and to get the camera. We had plenty of time so we went to the JFK house. The neat thing here is that my dad had just gotten back from Dallas, where he visited the Book Depository, full circle. We walked to Fenway from there and passed An Tua Nua, a bar where the LFC Boston Supporters Club had gathered pregame. They were shouting 'Fields of Anfield Row', it was quite a site. We entered Fenway on Yawkey way, and walked around till we found our seats. We sat, taking in the sites, and were commenting on the jerseys we saw. For me the highlights were a pair of Macca shirts and a Hyypia jersey. With about a half hour left till kick off, the teams entered the field to warm up. I started to get goose bumps. They went back their dressing rooms and then the full squads came out. Before they played the anthem, they played 'You'll Never Walk Alone' it was quite a sight, seeing and hearing the whole stadium sing YNWA. The game itself was uninspiring, although I was happy to see American Michael Bradley score.
Thus ended my week and a half with LFC, an experience I will keep with me forever.
YNWA
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