Liverpool 2 Atletico Madrid 0 (Nov 3 2021)

[stringvest]

40 minutes ago, s(k)aturation said:

 

We haven't been "better than that" for quite some time.

Decades.

Maybe it was easier to be "the best fans in the world" when we were consistently the best.

Maybe our decline post-1990 brought the graciousness of our supporters back to the pack.

Maybe it's the shitness of football and the type of supporter you get in the stands at today's premium prices.

Who knows.

I've only been to Anfield once since 1990, so I'm just going by what I see and hear on the telly and the anecdotes from matchgoers.

But we don't seem to be "better than that" any more.

We're as shit as all the others, too often.

We were much much nicer when we weren't upper-middle class perhaps.

Firmer, yes, but fairer too.

 

It’s nothing to do with upper middle class for fucks sake - it’s the feral scalls and thick as fuck superscousers.  

[s(k)aturation]

16 minutes ago, stringvest said:

It’s nothing to do with upper middle class for fucks sake - it’s the feral scalls and thick as fuck superscousers.  

 

Apologies, Stringy.

Who am I to argue with someone who appears in the acknowledgements of Das Kapital.

 

 

[stringvest]

14 minutes ago, s(k)aturation said:

 

Apologies, Stringy.

Who am I to argue with someone who appears in the acknowledgements of Das Kapital.

 

 

precisely.

[DaveT]

1 hour ago, Peter Cormack said:

Excellent Dave, one of your best. I can remember spontaneous funny chants fron the Kop. Some I remember are Mike Summerbee conducting the Kop who were singing „I‘d walk a million miles to the end of your nose“ and chanting „Eva Eva“ to Best when his Danish girl had left him. „Go back to Italy“ to the tune of Santa Lucia in the 1965 semi was probably the best ever. 

The Gary Sprake 'Careless hands' rendition must be up there too.

[dave u]

7 hours ago, Peter Cormack said:

Excellent Dave, one of your best. I can remember spontaneous funny chants fron the Kop. Some I remember are Mike Summerbee conducting the Kop who were singing „I‘d walk a million miles to the end of your nose“

 

I've never heard that one but it's quality!

[Remmie]

Match going fans of yesteryear have also mentioned casual racism being commonplace. Unfortunately there was a twattish element in the fanbase back in the day as well

[stringvest]

2 hours ago, Remmie said:

Match going fans of yesteryear have also mentioned casual racism being commonplace. Unfortunately there was a twattish element in the fanbase back in the day as well

Definitely.  

[JoeBuck01]

9 hours ago, DaveT said:

The Gary Sprake 'Careless hands' rendition must be up there too.

It was always funny when 20, 000 Kopites sang “Tina” at Shilton ( the lady he was caught naked with in a car in the late 70s). It seemed to inspire him more mind.

 

of course in those same Forest games, Viv Anderson would be getting a load of Tiswas’ Lenny Henry’s “ OKs” , the casual racism which was meant to be a “ laugh”. 
 

on United, there was a big problem with singing their songs between 82- 85( the Big Ron peak years ) and around 85 there was cries of shut the fuck up whenever the United Biscuit or Munich  songs got song. This social control meant those songs largely went underground after about 86…that’s when more creative versions such as “ Lost In Munich” or” Always Look on the Runway for Ice” were sung in the pubs pre and post match, but not in the ground.