Travelling Kop heading for London

Saturday, April 25 – 1914
If enthusiasm will win the Cup, Liverpool have a jolly good chance.

Something like 20,000 excited, shouting people left the city for London last evening, and the enthusiasm bubbled over into this morning, and filled one of the biggest trains on record, for the early football “special” which left Lime-street at 7.40 this morning carried 1,200 people. Eighteen coaches and a half had to be used to transfer the population of a “village” from Liverpool to London one swoop.

And the travelling village from Merseyside was very happy They did not seem to mind the crush, although in places they were packed like cigars in a box. But that was generally their own fault. They came in parties and refused to be separated; so if fifteen or sixteen people came together they crammed into one compartment, preferring to suffer the discomfort of standing or sitting…