It is the same every game plus I used to get the 26 from work and if there was a midweek game there would be hundreds of them wandering around outside the ground 3 hours before kick off, I suppose they had to get their half and half scarf for the big game vs 'team they play every season' before they are sold out.
I've always found this perplexing. You switch on SSN before one of their Sunday games (say 4pm kick off), and by midday they're milling around.
When Everton are playing at 4pm on a Sunday, I'm either still in bed at midday or fulfilling chores for the female-slave-driver that is the missus.
Why on Earthy would you want to be there so early? In fact, I make it my mission to ensure I enter the Old Lady as close to kick off as possible.
I have no need or desire to get to the ground so early, and it is the same with the overriding majority of football fans who aren't Liverpool fans.
It simply boils down to the fact that they're a quasi-religious cult whereby visiting Analfield is seen as a pilgrimage. Praying at the Shankley Gates.
Most of their tourist based fans probably do not realise that Liverpool is actually a city, rather than the football club.
If they're happy walking around the ground for hours on end in their full kits and half-n-half scarves then let them...