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When Liverpool FC players step through the cabin aisle to enter the Anfield Road stadium, a sign awaits them just before the exit above their heads.
It has taken on a patina from the many touches.
For decades it has been the custom for players to hit this shield with one hand - a superstition that is said to bring them luck at the game.
"This is Anfield" is written there.
When the professionals see the sign, they always get a song on their ears at the same time.
It is the anthem of world football.
From the stadium boxes and the mouths of tens of thousands of fans, “You'll Never Walk Alone” resounds to them.
Probably no song is as famous in the football world as the song by the band Gerry and the Pacemakers.
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Last Sunday the singer of the band, Gerry Mardsen passed away.
“Gerry died today after a brief illness that was in no way related to Covid-19.
His wife, daughters and grandchildren are devastated, ”said a message from the family.
Like the other band members, Mardsen came from Liverpool.
The song, which was to become the football anthem and club motto of Liverpool FC, was released by the band in 1963.
Frank Sinatra already covered the song
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The song originally comes from the musical "Carousel", which premiered on Broadway in 1945.
Frank Sinatra covered the song, but it wasn't until the Gerry and the Pacemakers version that it became a big hit.
Liverpool FC paid tribute to Marsden on Twitter: “It is with great sadness that we learn of Gerry Marsden's death.
Gerry's words will be with us forever.
You'll Never Walk Alone. "
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In an interview the club posted on its website in 2013, Marsden recalled how the song became the club's anthem.
The current top ten hits were always played before kick-off, including “You'll Never Walk Alone” for a while.
"I still get goosebumps every game"
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"When it flew out of the top ten, they took the song off the playlist and before the next match the fans in the stands shouted, 'Where's our song?'
So they had to put it back on, ”Marsden said.
"I still get goosebumps every game when the song comes up."
Gerry Marsden and his band in 1964
Source: pa / empics / PA
Marsden had worked on a new version of the song last spring.
The video contained encouraging messages to the employees of the NHS health service, who are more exposed than usual in the corona pandemic.
Also as a sign of solidarity, World War II veteran Tom Moore had previously recorded a cover version of the song, which even reached number one in the British charts.
He was previously known for walking 100 laps around his back yard on a walker before his 100th birthday to raise funds for the NHS.
The club motto of Liverpool FC is omnipresent around the stadium
Source: pa / empics / Martin Rickett
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Marsden was born in Liverpool in 1942.
With the most successful representatives of the so-called Merseybeat scene, the Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers not only had their hometown Liverpool in common, but also the manager Brian Epstein and the producer George Martin.
Other hits of the group were "How Do You Do It?" And "I Like It".
Liverpool Mayor Steve Rotherham wrote on Twitter that he was "devastated" by the news of his good friend's death.