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Comment on the BBC website from a North Walian Liverpool fan, posted a few minutes before the end of the Real Madrid game.
"I've never been so disappointed in my 50 years following LFC through thick and thin - goodbye Jürgen and thanks for the lovely memories". Mark, North Wales.
My heart bleeds for him.
Get a grip.
What he should have said was”The first team is no good,the reserves are no good, the Manager is no good, and he doesn’t know how to fix it.
"Thick and thin".Originally Posted by Moodybluebird
Imagine if losing in the quarter-finals of the European Cup two years after you won it and one year after you won the Premier League was your breaking point. Can you imagine if that was us? I'd be so delirious from what happened over the last two years I wouldn't even care.
I lived in Liverpool when I was a student back in the 1970s. At that time, Everton fans were fine; Liverpool supporters moaned more than any others when their team struggled which to be fair wasn’t very often then. Nothing it seems has changed in almost half a century!
thick and thick
whilst genuine Liverpool based scousers are ok , the woolybacks or outsiders as the liverpudlians call Cockney , Welsh , West Country Liverpool hangers on are the worst
Excess Baggage one old scouser described them as.
The plastic mancs in work were happy Liverpool were out but disappointed Citeh won.
Facking knobheads
It's always the same on the phone ins, can play a pretty good drinking game of shots when a Welsh Liverpool or man u fan comes on.
Read a comment, on a forum or article I can't remember now, some Liverpool fan in reply to someone moaning about their club was like " think about how us Liverpool fans feel this season". I get its all relative to you but I think if we had their success I'd still be hungover.
People from outside the community, supporting one of the biggest club sides in the world. Who would have thought it...
There's supporting them and then there's acting like you're one of them. It's OK for kids, but don't understand how a grown man can get worked up over a club from a place he has no connection to.
I feel exactly as you do. The thing is, there's more than one way to support a football club, i suppose. There isn't a handbook. To people like me and you and most others on here, it's an alien concept, although i'd bet that there are more people like that Liverpool fan than there are supporters like us
They've had a sense of entitlement ever since the Shankly-era and it shows no sign of easing up. Probably worse since their resurgence under Klopp, who ironically I like more than any of their previous managers.
It’s because everyone wants to be associated with a winner. All sports are the same. Most of them have never been anywhere near their nominated team, probably no further north than Caerphilly !
You could say the same about City fans who aren’t from Cardiff. How far do you want to strip this back?
I’d imagine the ones from far flung places have a connection with the area, born here, parents from here etc. I doubt if many randomly plucked us out to follow.
I'm a City fan because my uncle wanted to see the great Arsenal side of the late 60's. Just after Christmas in 1968, he took me to my first game to get a Hull stub (honestly) as you needed to get a stub to get a ticket for the Arsenal game. I was 8, my first time in Cardiff (my first time in any City). City beat Hull 3-0, Toshack, Clark & King and this randomly plucked out person with no connections to Cardiff became a through & through Bluebird.
Ironically many decades later I found out that my Grandmother was born in Cardiff (to Geordie parents who had been transferred from Durham to Splott steelworks).
It started with me and at last count I'd infected, wife, 4 sons, 2 cousins, 1 niece & 1 nephew all now Bluebirds, the closest 45 miles away from Sloper Road.
I did say ‘I doubt if many’.
Yeah, but it's a ****ing great story
But you went to a game. And I assume you went to many more. I'd have (slightly) less of a problem with some of these folk if they went to games. Most of them just buy a top and watch it on the TV.
I used to like Man Utd as a kid, and was lucky enough to get to old Trafford for a game in the late 80’s as a teenager. Whilst I enjoyed watching a big football match, I strangely felt out of place - the people sounded different, it was a long way from home and I never felt that I fit in there. The enjoyment of the atmosphere prompted me to check out Ninian Park after I returned home and despite the much lower attendance and significantly worse standard of football, I felt at home.
We were born and bred and lived in the City of Cardiff why support anyone else , not bothered with glory hunters and the awful new world of the big clubs ,they can have it , few good seasons here and there , are fine for me and the match day social interactions pre and post game are very equally or better sometimes .
well you could but that would be silly
Liverpool have support from Liverpool and towns in the hinterland such as St helens , Chester, Warrington etc , in the same way we have fans from the valleys , Bridgend, Barry, Porthcawl etc , for people in the valleys cardiff city is their local club
What Liverpool and United have is loads of plastic hangers on from South Wales, Devon, London, Hampshire, Dorset , Kent etc
Whats the local club for people in Hampshire? Its pompey , Southampton etc
As in the case of South Wales the area is represented by cardiff , Swansea and Newport
Its certainly not Liverpool or Manchester United
I’m talking about folk from Barry, the valleys etc.
They have local teams they could support, albeit not professional, but local.
How far do we strip this back?
What affinity does someone born and living in the Rhondda have, with the City of Cardiff?, or its football team?
Live and let live is a good motto.
Yea can support who they like but when you start driving past 1 or 2 pro clubs to support another you have no connection to then it's a bit odd for me. But each to their own.
My United supporting mate thinks I'm mad for spending money to see city. I thought he was missing out on plenty, and having watched on tele the last year I think it's even worse. Yea we are generally shit but even if we had got promoted this season watching on stream would still have been a pretty bland and poor version of the game for me.
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