Who named the KOP at anfield?
A Kop is a steep hill (Koep) in Afrikaans “The Afrikaans name for the battle is Spioenkop; spioen for spy or look out and kop meaning hill or outcropping,” wrote Liverpool Daily Post columnist Mike Chapple. The first recorded reference to a sports terrace as Kop was at Woolwich Arsenal’s Manor Ground in 1904, when a local newsman likened the silhouette of fans standing on a newly raised bank of earth to soldiers standing atop Spion Kop. Two years later, in 1906, Liverpool Echo sports editor Ernest Edwards noted of a new open-air embankment at Anfield: “This huge wall of earth has been termed ‘Spion Kop’, and no doubt this apt name will always be used in future in referring to this spot”. The name was formally consummated in 1928 upon construction of a roof. It is thought to be the first terrace officially named Spion Kop. Many other English football clubs and some Rugby league clubs (such as Wigan’s former home Central Park) followed suit and applied the same name to stands in later ye
