Totally agree as per my post earlier. Bloody awful if it gets like Germany, Spain or god forbid Jockland.
I live in Manchester, used to live walking distance from Old Trafford, now I'm about 5 miles from the Etihad. I know lots of people who've supported Utd & City for years, so I have no problem with them. Liverpool fans that I meet are mainly foreigners, with the exception of the few scousers I know & my mate from Scarborough, who's never been to Anfield. Most scousers I've met have been Evertonians. Of course, not living in Hull, I don't see the plastic side of football, although if someone is in their 40's & supported Utd for all that time, then I wouldn't really call them plastic. Same with my mate, he's supported Liverpool since he was a kid, with the exception of the cups they've won over the last 20 odd years, he's had a lot of fun watching them be runners up or worse before that.
Had talksport on the other night for some reason, it was just after Everton had won, and all the calls from Liverpool fans were clearly not scousers. Says it all. One of them wanted Klopp sacked. He sounded like he lived in ****ing Camden.
I know people in their 60s who have supported Man Utd all their lives. I call them plastics because they have adopted a club they have no connection with. Laughable to hear them saying how they stuck with them through the bad times. I always say do you mean 1974/5 when you spent a season in Div 2, the division we have spent most of our history in? Some say the club chooses them. Aren't they lucky that Rochdale, Crewe or Gillingham didn't choose any of them?
See, this is why I hate Arsenal fans above all others. They are the most entitled bunch of pricks, and whenever they don't win, act like they've been ****ing liquidated. It's a good job they support Arsenal tbh, because if they supported a lower league club, they'd be dead.
Bravo Barch. Think I've posted about the silly LFC **** I heard say "We've been through it" when reflecting on his crazy see saw odyssey from top to 6th place and back. over the last 40 years. These people are the Japanese knot weed that undermines our game - weak-minded, spineless unsure turds who are groomed by SKY, BT and MOTD to fill the coffers like clapping seals.
Another good article from the Daily Mail relevant to this. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...es-realise-just-football-really-means-us.html
Lovely article. My Dad died in October, and my mum has Alzheimers. I went to Stockport when I was a student in Manchester in the 80s, so this hit all those memory and family triggers at once.
I looked at the writer's mother in the picture and thought I recognised her so I looked it up. She is Eileen Derbyshire who played Emily Bishop in Coronation Street. Really good article.