Have been to Anfield for 81semi and have never known a more violent nasty place. All Mancs blues and reds knew they were taking their lives in their hands going there from early 70s to late 90s. Stabbings and slashings were common the worse dippers had to fear in Manchester was a thumping and booting. However I was there in 1970 aged 13 with a 12 year old mate two huge dockers could see we were shitting ourselves in the Annie Rd. They let us stand in front of them by the wall and told us to cheer our team and they'd make sure nobody bothered us. Afterwards they walked back through Stanley Park with us and saw us back to the coach. This goes to show their are some really decent Liverpool fans and we were lucky enough to meet two. In this day and age people would question their motivation but they were just two really decent guys.