This book examines, for the first time, how and why the Kop became the globally-renowned stand it is today. It is told through the eyes of Brian Reade, one of Liverpool's most famed and respected writers, an award-winning journalist and Sunday Times best-selling author, whose knowledge of, and passion for The Reds, is peerless.

Reade has been an Anfield regular for 60 years, the vast majority of them spent on the Kop where he is still a season-ticket holder. In that time he has witnessed, and written about, all the club's glorious triumphs, emotional comebacks and painful disasters at home and abroad.

Featuring exclusive testimonials from key players and managers from the past 60 years, SPION KOP is the definitive celebration of one of the most revered, and feared, spectator stands in the world.