"Thousands of Liverpool fans took to the city's streets this afternoon in protest at the club's plans to quit Anfield and move to a new stadium to be built on Stanley Park".
This is a line you will never, ever see written in any newspaper. But why not?
Why are Liverpool fans so ready to see Anfield, a ground which is so synonymous with all our success and which holds so many special memories, consigned to the history books?
Look at our friends and neighbours across the park. There is mutiny in the air amongst the blue brethren and it's not just because they're facing the stark prospect of quitting the city - many are simply unready and unwilling to give up on Goodison Park.

Their emotional connection to Goodison is no greater than ours to Anfield and if anything their need to move is much greater given the sorry state of Goodison.
Anfield, by contrast, is a thoroughly modern stadium which has proven time and time again it is fit to host the biggest and most important of football matches and, of course, generate an atmosphere that is second to none.
But still the natives are happy to go with the flow and leave Anfield behind for a brand new stadium to be built in a neighbouring park.
Is it because we are too trusting and compliant and too easily led by those who run the club? Or are we progressive by nature and ever ready to embrace change?
Over the years the number of protests staged by Liverpool supporters against the club can be counted on the number of fingers being displayed by an Evertonian depicting his club's European trophy haul.
The fact is, Liverpool have to mess up big time before there is so much as a murmur from their supporters (as happened with the Athens ticket debacle which caused the one and only protest against the club in its entire history).
When the team is awful and the manager is clearly failing we don't stage a Geordie style "Souness out" or a "Houllier must go" protest at the entrance to the directors box.
It's just not in our nature.
We just moan to our mates, whinge in the pub or rant on internet forums. The overriding feeling is that it just isn't the "Liverpool Way" to wash our dirty linen in public.
That means those entrusted with running the club are given a hell of a lot of leeway, more than the directors of any other British club are granted.
So messrs Hicks, Gillett and Parry simply must deliver on their promises. They are being given a free rein to do as they see fit and the future of our club is in their hands and their hands alone.
They will not come under anything like the pressure Bill Kenwright and Keith Wyness are coming under at Everton and because of this they owe it to us to always act in our best interests and deliver a stadium we can all be proud of.
Because giving up on Anfield is a massive thing for us and it is not something we are prepared to do lightly.
From my own experience, Anfield is the most important place in my whole life.
It is the place where I broke my ribs on a Kop crush barrier as a 12-year old. The place where I went to watch a game the day after my ma's funeral because I knew it was the only place that could take some of the pain away. The place where I hung a scarf in memory of 96 Reds who went to a match and never came back. The place I love so much that I have only missed a single home game in 20 years. The place where I have laughed, cried, sung, shouted and sworn. The place where my dad took me as a kid, knowing I would grow to love it. The place where I have met some of my greatest friends.
And that's without even mentioning the football.
I won't protest about its demise though. As I said that's not the Liverpool Way.
I am placing my trust in the club to deliver on its promise to build a stadium which is even better than Anfield and one that will play host to yet more success whilst continuing to stir the emotions and lift our hearts.
But, like so many others, it will be with an extremely heavy heart that I leave Anfield for the very last time and it is this thought that I want those who hold the fortunes of our club in their hands to have with them every single day until our new stadium is built.
Only if they do so will we get the stadium that Liverpool Football Club and its fans deserve.

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