Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
I have no doubt he loves football and loves Liverpool and does feel gutted when they lose but the wider football community know the score here

People like him haven't been up to catch the 0625 to Paddington or gone to Mansfield or Lincoln and lost

Genuine Liverpool fans from Merseyside and genuine United fans from Manchester would rather chat to proper football fans than these hangers on , many working class scousers and mancs were priced out of home games as the clubs knew there were loads of day tripper fans ready to fill anfield and old Trafford

The rest just watch on the TV

From Devon, Dorset , South Wales , Berkshire, Surrey
A few years back we met up with a family from Audenshaw on holiday in Lanzarote, kids were playing together and we ended up having a few beers with them. He was disillusioned Man Utd fan, he used to go to games at Old Trafford, few pints in The Trafford or Dog and Partridge before and after the game, he loved it. But, and this was over 20 years ago, he reckoned his club didn’t want the likes of locals like him any more just paying the watch the match. They were pushing the commercial side 100mph, his take on it was that they were more interested in coaches from all parts of the country pulling up at the megastore hours before kick off, spending a fortune on tat, the next home game there’d be coaches from other parts of the country doing the self same thing. It worked I s’pose, they became the richest club in the world through such a strategy but the disdain they showed for their local fans leaves a bad taste in the mouth. I wonder if FC United will make the Football League one day?