Quite a day, indeed.
Am certainly jealous of the Anfield trip: my Dad's family are all from Liverpool and I have been a Red since the early 1970s, but I've never once been inside the ground or see the team play live. That may change finally next year, as the annual European Week of Astronomy & Space Science meeting will be in Liverpool and I accepted an invite to be on the scientific organising commitee in return for a Liverpool home game ticket (or at the very, very least, a trip to Anfield).
As for ARW, well, I did see Yes a bunch of times in the 1970s when they were at their very finest. I'm sure I've said this before here many times, but if you want to know why they were one of the very biggest bands of any genre at that time, go and get this recording of one of their 1978 "in the round" shows at the Wembley Empire Pool. It was broadcast as the very first Friday Rock Show with Tommy Vance and still utterly blows me away: I was there, and this recording (scroll to the bottom for a recent link) takes me right back:
http://yesshows.blogspot.nl/2012/10/10281978-wembley-uk-wembley-arena.htmlSo while I wouldn't say that ARW came close to that, I did think the Sunday show at the Apollo last week was excellent 40 years on, most notably for Anderson's voice, which was amazing. I know that not everyone on this forum likes his voice (hi, MikeEvs

), but if you're a fan, then it's so heartening to hear him still singing so well.
Wakeman played as he does, and there's nowt wrong with that, but I do wish he might smile now and again, and engage in the obvious pleasure that Anderson and Rabin bring to the stage. (And yes, the cape is now a partial paunch concealment device).
That said, I wasn't wholly convinced by Trevor's playing, partly because I'm an avowed Trooper rather than a Generator, and thus prefer Steve Howe's work (sorry, JM: I know that won't sit well with you), and partly because, well, Trevor seemed under-rehearsed and simply missed a bunch of notes.
For me though, to even be in a crowd of true Yes fans again after so many years, so many gigs, so much musical wonder, and with Anderson singing like that, simply brought goosebumps. Jerry Ewing of Prog was sitting next to me throughout (and hey, a sitting gig? jeez), and having seen them play the night before too, he kept looking over at me to see if I was enjoying.
Yes sir, I most definitely was

Glad you enjoyed too, Owen.