Quote Originally Posted by J R Hartley View Post
And so is Liverpool. They hate the Tories and the establishment more than you. If you dont think the people of Liverpool are obsessed with their football teams - Liverpool and Everton - in the same way as fans of Newcastle, Villa, and the others you mentioned, then you are seriously deranged.

I was listening to Pete Hooton of The Farm on the radio last week. Great guy, absolutley obsessed with football and Liverpool FC.
It's something that's rarely talked about these days. But Liverpool and Manchester are historically great football cities. For all 4 clubs. It's not their fault that they attract glory hunters. I see glory hunting as a weakness in character. When I say we/us about the City I think I deserve it. I stood on the Bob Bank with a gang of half a dozen mates that were 20 yards away from the next gang of half a dozen mates. I'll take the lows all day long because it's worth it for the highs. I'm still proud that we gave Liverpool a good game in the League Cup Final, I'm also still gutted that we didn't beat them. We could have. Pompey, not so much, we were never really in that game. The Cities of Liverpool and Manchester could ban "outsiders" and they'd still get over 200,000 fans attending games between them all. Normal people can't afford it these days. I have a mate who's a Chelsea season ticket holder, he treats himself to 3 or 4 games a season. The rest of the tickets he has to sell. But he's Chelsea. Always has been, it's not his fault they became a rich club. It's the glory hunters that keep his season ticket alive.