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    Olive Grove stand on the south side of the stadium. The banking on the Spion Kop was also increased in size. The new south stand was completed in time...
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    after a dispute with the club president. The stadium has four stands: the Spion Kop, the Main Stand, the Sir Kenny Dalglish Stand and the Anfield Road End...
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  • northern side. A new terrace at the east of the ground, known as the Spion Kop, was opened in 1922, and in 1927 a roof was added over part of the western...
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  • in particular. India [1](in Russian) Ultras Major football rivalries Spion Kop Specific "Football in Rome". Italy Heaven. Retrieved 9 July 2009. "LO...
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    the Parc. They named it Kop K in reference to the famous Spion Kop stand in Anfield that groups the supporters of Liverpool. Kop K went from 500 subscribers...
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    loads of rubbish. This embankment was known from the beginning as the Spion Kop, stood 110 terraces high at its highest point, and had a reported capacity...
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  • front, and a large open terrace behind the goal to the west called the Spion Kop. To the north, there was a long covered terrace – the "unreserved" terracing...
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    who stood on them. By far the most common name was Spion Kop, named after the Battle of Spion Kop in the Boer War in South Africa in 1902 between Britain...
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    terrace known as the Spion Kop, or simply Kop, from a hill in South Africa on which 322 British soldiers died in the Battle of Spion Kop, in January 1900...
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    which is the earliest known terrace in the country to be nicknamed as the Spion Kop. With the club having achieved promotion to the First Division that year...
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    2012. They played out of Erina Ice Arena at Erina Fair, which is the Central Coast's only ice rink. The Erina Ice Arena has been closed since the 19th of...
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    fought in several battles in the Second Boer War, including the Battle of Spion Kop and the Battle of the Tugela Heights in 1900. McGuinness is a supporter...
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    initially became known as the Spion Kop, a colloquial British nickname for an open air earthbank terrace that resembled Spion Kop hill near Ladysmith, South...
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  • Meccano Stand ' by fans. The other two stands were at the ends with the Spion Kop, which only reached the goalposts, usually used for away supporters and...
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  • summer of 1992. Two years later, Aston Villa's Holte End and Liverpool's Spion Kop were both demolished. The 1990s saw the closure of some of the oldest...
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    decision regarding a foul. Can also be used to say easy or weak. Spion Kop – see Kop. Spot-kick – see penalty-kick. Squad numbers – numerical markings...
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  • Capacity: 60,725 Anfield has been all-seater since the mid-1990s, when the Spion Kop was rebuilt two years after the completion of the Centenary Stand on the...
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    victory. During the early stages of the match, there was a crush on the Spion Kop. As fans struggled to see the match due to a low-hanging haze, people...
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    Liverpool Echo journalist who christened the terrace at Anfield the "Spion Kop", wrote of the newly built stand, "The building as one looks at it, suggests...
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    although the ground has been completely rebuilt since the 1970s. The Spion Kop (rebuilt as an all-seater stand in 1994–95) was the most famous part of...
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    August 1974, a Blackpool fan was stabbed to death at the back of the Spion Kop, Bloomfield Road at Blackpool's home match with Bolton Wanderers. It was...
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  • Sixfields Stadium after 97 years at the County Ground. Liverpool's famous Spion Kop was demolished to make way for a new all-seater stand, as was Aston Villa's...
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