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Originally Posted by Tom R
Why do many Liverpool fans have some strange allegiance to Rangers or Celtic??
I've never understood it. Where does it stem from?
At the end of the day they're both just shit teams, playing in a shit league in another country. Why not get behind fucking Livorno or Cagliari or someone like that as well?
It's just really, really weird.
Please explain yourselves. I'm not having a go, I just really don't understand it. So what's the score?
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Tom R, you sound like Tom Hicks in your lack of knowledge regarding this, but we know you are clued up. For younger fans or people away from these shores I will add my two pence worth. (cos that is about all its worth )
Liverpool has always had a connection to both Rangers and Celtic and that was a regular chant on the Kop every week
Liverpool Like Belfast and Glasgow has a mixed population either side of the sectarian divide within Ireland
People from Ireland settled in those cities in times gone by.
Now it isn’t in anyway as hostile as it once was .
I was raised RC and as such Celtic was my team I come from a mix marriage with my mum being from the dark side and as such I have a lot of cousins that are not only on the dark side but some of them where in the orange order to boot
We all played together and from a very early age they would walk on the 12th July and kids being kids we wanted to go and see it (The March) coming back from Southport
My old man hated the Lodge with real venom and he would want us kept in on the 12th but if he was working or in the pub me mum would let us go and see them.
King Billy on his horse etc and a fella with a fish on a pole and a sign saying Cured at Lourdes so it was always confusing for me.
As I grew older and could make my own mind up, I couldn’t care if you where Black, White ,Blue, Green ,Orange or Yellow.
A cunt is a cunt not because of the team he follows or the faith he is born into, so I judge how I find but I still would pick Celtic over Rangers every time as you cant just change your team
I have been to both teams grounds to see games with both sets of supporters and have enjoyed both.
I can say that the only open hatred that I did see was in the company of Rangers supporters who I could not believe behaved like they did towards other people. shouting after a Priest that he was a kiddie fiddler etc
This I couldn’t believe for grown men to behave like that was disappointing to say the least
and in the Louder Bar having to listen to We Are The Billy Boys, The Sash my Father Wore and Here Lies a Soldier on the Duke box
Also No Pope of Rome sung with such bitterness i found quite funny if I’m honest
I knew some of the people away from football and they where really nice people but they changed as soon as they where in this environment
I cant judge them as it is the same for me with Man Utd I am a different person when we play them and i know I am but cant help that
Anyway great strides are being made by both sides and long may it continue to be so
Its easy when you are outside of the environment to shake your head and tut but its a lot harder to effect the change when you are living amongst it and I think its brilliant that fans who ally with both Celtic and Rangers amongst are own fans can be as one without the division becoming a barrier so Follow Follow or Hail Hail whatever floats your boat but YNWA to one and all