Ben McGovern

Die hard Liverpool fan and general football fanatic. Love a bit of banter so if you've got it...... bring it. YNWA

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

6 years ago today... No.19 🏆🤩

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

Minimum wage in 2005 was £5.05 an hour.

A Freddo cost 10p.

One hour of work bought you 50 Freddos.

In 2026, minimum wage is £12.71 and a Freddo is 39p.

One hour of work now buys you just 32 Freddos.

So despite minimum wage more than doubling, your Freddo buying power has fallen by 36%.

If wages had actually kept pace with Freddo inflation, minimum wage would be £19.65 an hour today.

Forget economists. Forget politicians.

The Freddo has just delivered the most depressing cost of living graph you'll ever see.

[Ben McGovern @BenMcYNWA]

@PaulSenior1 True. Any Max failing always brings some joy.
Defo better than last few years.
Let’s hope they have standing restart here. Could still be a nice twist

[Ben McGovern @BenMcYNWA]

@Monty_Mcfc Unfortunately that’s Adidas kits for you. If you have replica long sleeve top (which shouldn’t be allowed) they have the gap for all the stupid badges these days

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

I have witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions. It took hard work and I always did everything I could to help the club get there. Nothing makes me prouder than that.

Us crumbling to yet another defeat this season was very painful and not what our fans deserve. I want to see Liverpool go back to being the heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear and back to being a team that wins trophies. That is the football I know how to play and that is the identity that needs to be recovered and kept for good. It cannot be negotiable and everyone that joins this club should adapt to it.

Winning some games here and there is not what Liverpool should be about. All teams win games.

Liverpool will always be a club that means a great deal to me and to my family. I want to see it succeed for long after I have moved on.

As I’ve always said, qualifying to next season’s Champions League is the bare minimum and I will do everything I can to make that happen.

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Courage has usually defined Liverpool’s play, especially in Europe. Courage, not caution. Wanting the ball, wanting to take the game to the opposition, embracing the challenge. There was little courage in Liverpool’s set-up, actions or substitutions against PSG. Sad to see. #LFC

[MCFC Fans Foodbank Support @MCFCfoodbank]

Solidarity with Liverpool fans experiencing unnecessary greed from owners with price rises amidst record eye-watering profits, just as we saw at City in 2024/25.

Supporters will need to stand side by side with each other yet again, across the League. We're ready to do that 🤝

[Ben McGovern @BenMcYNWA]

@R1ggers @TheKopHQ You really think we can score 6 goals 😜😂

[The Anfield Wrap @TheAnfieldWrap]

The full 8 minute clip of @carra23 talking about @MoSalah on MNF

[lan Byrne MP @IanByrneMP]

Absolutely disgraceful from the South Yorkshire Police Federation & keeping with tradition sadly & shamefully.

They dare to whine about “trial by media” when it was their own secretary in 1989 who spread the lies that weaponised the media against Liverpool fans and was fundamental to the cover up.

And now they have the nerve to demand fairness and balance?
Whoever signed this off should consider their position.

[John Aldridge @Realaldo474]

it doesn't matter how you win 😁😁just win 😂YNWA

[Ste Hoare @stehoare]

Everything about that shootout was absolutely hilarious 😂

£70m striker Sesko on pen 10

Man United’s two forward saviours missing

Onana’s biscuit wrists

The manager sat in the fetal position in the dugout

Just glorious ❤️

[John McMahon @JohnMcMah0n]

Can you price a bet please @RequestABet

Joelinton and Bruno Guimares to commit 6+ fouls each in the first 15 minutes without a booking. Then any Liverpool player booked for their first foul.

[No Context World Cup @NoContextEPL]

This Portsmouth fan today

[Mirror Football @MirrorFootball]

🗣️"We'll remember you when you walk in fields of gold."

Diogo Jota's wife, Rute Cardoso, and his parents, as well as former team-mate Ruben Neves, were all in attendance as Molineux paid a poignant tribute

https://t.co/lvlhwI3qSn

[Nick Collins @Nick___Collins]

I’ll go into the details on tonight as I have hundreds of replies to my earlier post and there’s no point replying to them all.

So this fella has had his season ticket for many years at Anfield. He’s passionate but often takes things way too far but it is what it is. He has crossed the line before by throwing stuff at officials (usually chewing gum) and stewards looked embarrassed rather than do anything.

So I guess that’s allowed his behaviour to escalate maybe in his brain.

About 28 mins into the game, Semenyo goes to take a throw in. He’s not a player that goads the fans and seems like a decent lad. The sort of player that people want playing for their club.

For reasons I’ll never know, the fella near me in bay 7 (I’m bay 9) decides to go over to him in his wheelchair and shouts something at Semenyo. Semenyo then asks him to repeat it and he repeated it and threw his chewing gum at him.

Then 2 mins later the play is stopped. The fella next to me says he hopes Mark hasn’t said anything racist to Semenyo but then I’m getting texts from people saying it’s about the fan in the wheelchair allegedly abusing Semenyo.

We missed the first goal because all of us were uncomfortable being around this guy, who’s now sat in silence, probably realising what he’s done and he’s soon to be in the shit.

We didn’t want him near us and people (including myself) were calling him a racist prick. It was just uncomfortable to be around and we wanted him gone. The stewards didn’t have a clue what was going on either.

He was eventually removed from the ground at 21:01 by police. Firstly saying he’d refuse to move and wouldn’t leave but then agreeing to leave, then kicking off. I’d gone to the toilet by this point but saw him kicking off near the exit.

I believe there is some kind of protocol where the police have to remove them and not stewards and they have to get a sort of investigation going first. That’s why it took them 30 mins to get him out of the ground.

So the club now have to help the police with an investigation and rightly so. If he’s found to have racially abused Semenyo, he needs to be banned for life. No excuses.

Another fan chimed in saying “Semenyo didn’t look upset” so sorta sticking up for the abuser or playing devils advocate. But he just looked shocked to me, which is probably why he asked him to repeat himself.

So props to Semenyo for having the brilliant game he had. All 3 goalscorers were black, which was quite fitting really. The irony is, the fella had a “no room for racism” badge on his shirt.

I think at the time, it was annoying that we had to be around the prick but I think the club acted as fast as they could. I believe stewards can eject fans if they personally hear abuse but otherwise a report needs to be made for it to happen.

On the flip side of this, look at the amount of disability abuse there is in response to this. Discrimination is discrimination, so if you’re making your “edgy jokes” about disability on the back of it, you’re just as bad.

I’ve cropped his face out for obvious reasons but it’s incredibly ironic to have that badge on you and then do something like that. There’s obviously going to be a legal process ongoing now. The head steward asked us all a few questions and everyone was helpful.

Proud of the way the club acted in response to one prick. Anfield is a very welcoming place to people from all walks of life. Let’s keep it that way.

[Newcastle Supporters Worldwide @SupportersNufc]

A few years ago when Atsu died, We played Liverpool at home and they showed respect by signing YNWA.

We now play Liverpool on our first home game of the season we are asking all fans in attendance against Liverpool to sing YNWA at the start of the game to show respect to Jota.