Spent a couple of years in Tranmere. Got burgled SIX TIMES. Often had plod jumping over the fence in our yard chasing thieves. All the girls...who can be very pretty..pregnant at 15...usually one of their dads mates being the father.
Utter dump.
The sectarian angle in Glasgow is certainly more disgusting than anywhere in the UK outside Belfast. It was a factor in Liverpool too, I remember fights in Hope St. between Catholic’s and Protestants but very minor in comparison to the blind hatred you refer to.
Racism in Liverpool was less...
I put it to you, Sir, that you are, in fact, a Woolyback.
The true Scouse would NEVER hang around in Maghull or Netherton. The moustachioed stevedores you encounter are aping the fine, upright gentlemen who reside within a mile of the pier head or wherever they claim as their spiritual home...
Even when everyone felt sorry for City, always in United’s shadow, noisy neighbours blah blah blah.. I always gave them the skunk eye.
Always a miserable away day, entitled fans...and that ****ing awful “Blue Moon” dirge.
Now they’re champions of the World and...it’s still a miserable away...
On a more serious note. I must just call to mind the historic association...in my mind...between destiny and fate.
It was fate thar led us to Wembley in ‘83 after doing the all conquering “Reds” at Anfield...all these years later...it’s destiny that we hand them the title at the Amex.
Then...
Me...Worthing to Kirby in 1976. I was terrified.
Anyway. I’m glad I spent my school years in Liverpool. They are, without doubt, the kindest and friendliest people I’ve ever had the pleasure to know.
Not all of them, obviously, but many.
These days there are almost none of my mates still...
Oh. And btw. I really want Brighton to just have a ****ing GO at City.
Show the twats in the media that we CAN play. Another performance like the FA cup semi final will do me. Just a different result please.
I agree to a certain extent. I’d be lying if I said I haven’t seen some pissed up scousers kicking off for no reason but I think there’s another reason there too.
The Irish/Welsh/Lancashire melting pot meant that made up modern Liverpool drew the lowest rung of those societies in for work so...
Oh yeah. I can’t stand them either.
I’m with Danny Baker. Get a map of England. Stick a pin where you were born. The nearest League club to there is YOUR team.
I’ll allow for family / historic ties..say for example your Dad hails from Liverpool and indoctrinated you from birth. Anything else...
I’m not fence on this as I grew up in Liverpool so have a real soft spot for them.
This was in the 1970a and 80s when Liverpool was on its knees with 40% youth unemployment, militant Labour in control, the worst Heroin epidemic in UK history raging and the docks and shipyards closing.
It’s no...