The Ruse, the hidden gem for Liverpool FC supporters in London

As every Liverpool fan outside of those who are season ticket holders knows, getting tickets to games at Anfield is like searching for gold dust.

If you can’t get down to Anfield the next best thing for supporters in London is The Ruse pub in Borough, London.  The atmosphere on match day is like being a part of mini version of the Kop with rousing renditions of You’ll Never Walk Alone, Fields of Anfield Road, Campione and Poor Scouser Tommy.

                                              The Ruse, YNWA, West Ham 1 Liverpool 2 (6/4/2014)

In the minutes before any televised game, Tony the publican plays a rendition of YNWA and gets everyone into a mood mirroring pre-match days at Anfield.  At the same time pizza’s, garlic bread, burgers and chips are being ordered or woofed down with alacrity and beer and Guinness are consumed with gusto.

I’ve been in the pub long after the final whistle and the songs are still being song with such varacity that the sound reverberates way beyond the doors of the pub.  The biggest compliment one can pay is that the atmosphere vies with many of the pubs in and around Anfield and what makes the pub really special if that anyone person in the pub on match day loves Liverpool as much as any supporter I have ever met watching the club either home or away.

The atmosphere which I spoke is of is relaxed and friendly and I have met fans from as far away as Japan, US, Africa and Scandinavia.

Tony, is a lifelong Liverpool supporter and decks the pub put with Liverpool banners and regalia on match day which befits the pubs stature as the LFC supporters place to be in London.

                                                Still loving LFC at The Ruse after a loss