Vaguely Interesting Snippets | 29 January 2013 The Kop is a colloquial name for a number of football stands at stadia across the country. It is a contraction of ‘Spion Kop’, in commemoration of a famous battle in the Boer War. The steep terraces were said to evoke the hill near Ladysmith in South Africa that was the scene of the Battle of Spion Kop in January 1900. Arsenal’s […]
