If you had the chance to catch Timmy Howard and Everton’s extra time 1 – 0 win over Liverpool in the FA Cup 4th Round Replay at Goodison Park, you might have wondered why Liverpool supporters were throwing their socks onto the pitch and chanting “Sock Robbers, Sock Robbers”.

Well, there’s a story behind that….

Via DailyMail 

This was to taunt Evertonians about their proposed move to a stadium in Kirkby, which is outside Liverpool city limits.

Scouse urban myth has it that, in the dark days of the 1960s and 1970s, not even odd socks were safe on a Kirkby washing line from local thieves.

The legend has been taken up with a vengeance by the red side of the city.

It is claimed that burglars from the Kirkby area would enter rear gardens, steal socks off washing lines and wear them over their hands while robbing the contents of the victims’ home. An ingenious way of preventing finger prints being left at a crime scene.

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