Melwood Visit
Melwood Visit
So, alongside the vast number of gifts showered onto the grandkids by Liverpool FC they have also provided four VIP tickets to see the training ground at Melwood, watch a training session and meet the players. On this occasion, it’s going to be Adam and Oliver going, Oliver with his encyclopaedic knowledge of Liverpool FC and Adam with his enthusiasm for doing anything with his big cousin Oliver!
Sadly, despite the build up and excitement, Gary just isn’t well enough to go and Rachel who as I’ve said before knows only slightly more about football than I do is going in his place. Fortunately, Rob, Rachel’s brother is there to represent the family and give her a nudge whenever someone famous walks by.
To start them off, one of the Legends Ian Rush comes in to do a talk and answer some questions from the visitors and Rob is straight in there as Rachel video’s the proceedings. A bit later on, they all get to have their photo’s taken with him and it’s smiles all round. Just because Gary can’t be with them doesn’t mean he doesn’t want them to get the most out of it, so they’re keen to make sure they have plenty to tell him when they get home.
Adam gets to meet his favourite player Mo Salah and even managed to get a photo frame signed by the players for one of his friends who’s a massive reds fan. They all manage to grab a photo opportunity with Jurgen Klopp (the Liverpool manager) too.
When they get back, Gary is still feeling pretty poorly but is excited to see everybody as they let him know how the day went, especially Oliver who’s able to reem off the names of the players he’s been able to meet.
Again, we’re all extremely grateful to Liverpool FC and their community team for putting this together and I’m still finding it so heart warming to see how much effort people will go to for complete strangers going through a difficult time.