I used to live in Tottenham and generally found their genuine local supporters to be decent people. Sadly even in Tottenham itself the majority of football ‘fans’ were non-attending plastic Gooners, who then as now were broadly a graceless bunch of ****ers.
Other than a baffling preponderance locally for plastic reds I never thought I felt particularly strongly either way about Liverpool until they were so dirty when we played them (think it was the 2-all draw iirc). After that I embarrassed myself with just how funny I found the iconic moment of Stevie G falling over and their dreams collapsing around them.
So Spuds for me, with a consolation goal for Robbo if possible, or Dennis’s 4-3 with a hat trick for him.
Seem to remember reading that Sperz have fewer fans living locally than any other club.
No one's fault that just the way the demographic piss pot cracks. Vast majority of Sperz fans have to come in from the 'burbs by public transport which is **** for WHL or whatever they call the new ground ( the Cock-o-drome?), so for a lot of folk even the home games are a bit of a pilgrimage.
A recurring theme of life these days is when you get introduced to someone or in the world of work you have a new starter/colleague/customer/supplier, and sooner or later it comes out about football. A lot of the time, whether local, national or international, it will be that the person or the person's husband/partner/civil partner etc is a Liverpool 'supporter', and that's when you have to count to ten and avoid discussing football because you know it will end in tears with them.