The furore was unbearable and became a factor in the band’s decision to stop touring.
Over half a century later, there’s a new man whipping the city into a frenzy … only he likes it when things get turned up to eleven.
“There’s something very special about playing for Liverpool,” Mohamed Salah tells CNN’s Becky Anderson, as a remarkable debut season in which he has had a direct hand in 50 goals reaches its climax.
More often than not this season the Reds have marched to the relentless beat of Salah’s drum.
On Tuesday it was the Egyptian’s goal that turned the tide in Liverpool’s favor as Jurgen Klopp’s team won 2-1 and 5-1 on aggregate against Manchester City to reach the Champions League semifinals.
“The Champions League nights are special for the fans too,” says the 25-year-old, who joined from Roma for a club-record fee of $49 million. “You can feel it on the streets.”
“The atmosphere in that first game against Man City was the first time I had really seen something like that.”
‘We had to be positive’
Just over a week ago, Pep Guardiola’s celebrated City side visited Anfield having fallen to a single league defeat all season.
As he has so often done this season it was Salah who sparked that win, scoring the first goal in Liverpool’s 3-0 victory.
Having opened the scoring after 12 minutes, Salah then set up the third as Liverpool ran out emphatic winners.
The sheen of invincibility had gone.
Yet by the time the second leg came around three days later, you’d have been hard pressed to find a Liverpool fan who wasn’t worried.
Nerves were jangling even more when Gabriel Jesus found the net after two minutes to give City a glimmer of hope.
But just as the blue moon looked set to rise, once again Salah came to the fore. It was his 39th goal of the season.
“When we saw the draw, everyone knew it would be a difficult game,” he says. “I knew it would be difficult but I said we had to be positive and win.
“That’s what we did.”
Salah’s torrent of goals has prompted Liverpool fans to come up with a number of songs to honor the Egyptian international’s feats this season. No wonder he looks so at home behind those drums in the Beatles museum.
Salah was speaking to CNN’s Becky Anderson for an Inside the Middle East special entitled ‘Mohamed Salah: Liverpool’s Egyptian King,’ set to be released in the build-up to the 2018 World Cup. Watch Friday’s CNN World Sport at 1230 BST for the Liverpool star’s reaction to the Champions League semi-final draw.
Source : Nbcnewyork
