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Oh. I always thought it was because all the invaders were called Norman.

I was quoting your question asking why people defend Liverpool. Doesn’t matter when you posted it. I’m not convinced that critics differentiate between fans of the two teams. There’s a lot of very obvious anti-Scouse sentiment as witnessed by the "we pay your benefits" chant.

I’m not defending Liverpool FC. I’m defending the ordinary Scouser in the street, and I don’t care which team s/he supports.

The Everton stewards were superb. After the game, I was taking a few snaps of the ground and an elderly steward said to me: "Take yer time son [I'm in my 60s BTW!], you probably won’t see the old place again." We exchanged pleasantries and he said: "I know what you’re thinking. It’s a right...

Because they get so ludicrously stereotyped as something they’re not. The most embarrassed I’ve been for a long time was on Saturday when a bunch of condescending halfwits started singing "we pay your benefits". I’ve no doubt at all that there are some horrible Liverpudlians just as there are...

It’s an odd reference but it’s Chamberlain pre-war, after abortive attempts to mollify Hitler over the Sudetenland, which he refers to as a "quarrel in a far away country, between people of whom we know nothing".