Hospital staff moved a "mad Red" fan into a bed where she could watch over Anfield before she died.
May Lloyd, 87, who was born and raised in Dingle, started going to watch Liverpool FC after the end of WWII, when she was nine. She started going to Anfield with her uncle before taking herself to matches from the age of 13.
From then May saw almost every trophy Liverpool has ever won after going to home, away and European matches. She was well known in The Kop, with many remembering her for her knitted cardigan she would wear to matches with all the players' names on it.
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May died at the Royal Liverpool Hospital at 11.30am on Saturday, April 22, just three and a half hours before LFC's match at home against Nottingham Forest. Her son, David Lloyd, 55, also from Dingle, said how the family is "heartbroken" following her death.
He said: "She was 87 and just deteriorated. She was ill before Christmas, then had water infections and after that she deteriorated. She was in hospital for five weeks and at the end she was in a lot of pain.
"Even in the days before she died she was drifting in and out and I would play her You'll Never Walk Alone and she would be trying to sing along. The hospital staff were amazing and they moved her into a side ward and when you looked out the window it was over the north of the city so she could see Anfield.
"The hospital staff were absolutely incredible with her. She was just a mad Red, she lived for Liverpool and her family. She was the head of the family and I don't think it has sunk in yet that she is gone, we're heartbroken."
May and David had previously appeared in The ECHO in 1972 when they were interviewed at the fifth round of the FA Cup where David was one of the youngest fans in attendance. May had a season ticket in 206, with David explaining that "everybody knew her".
He said: "When she first started going to the match she used to get the bus and Bob Paisley would always come and sit next to her. He would talk to her about the football and gave her tickets for two years.
"All the stewards and staff knew her because she had been going to the game for so long. She only stopped going because of covid, the last match she went to was before lockdown, after then she knew she was getting too old and she changed the name on the season ticket."
May survived by her two brothers and sister, two sons, daughter-in law, four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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