Are there any ex-man utd fans who are now Liverpool fans?

[RedKnight]

No offence to the thread starter but I take it he isn't British?

[castle_red]

I'm a Liverpool fan from London. Yes, I know you've heard it all before, but I have been a fan since I was about 7 or 8, and I'm now 33, and I've got the yellow Crown Paints V-neck size 7-11-years-old away shirt to prove it.

 

The reason? My mum and dad aren't into football at all, but the mum of my best mate, whose house I went to every day after school for six years while my parents were working, was a mental Liverpool fan. I'm talking pennants on the wall in the living room. I get to Anfield when I can, money-wise, which is sadly only about a couple of times a season.

 

Anyway, as I've got older, many's the time I've wished I supported another team, considering the amount of shit I get for it, but I simply couldn't live with myself if I 'changed teams', like some scrotes seem to think is acceptable.

 

All I'm saying is, it's hard being a Liverpool fan when you're not from the city. Our recent relative 'lack of success' has probably meant I've got a bit less shit, but I still get plenty.

 

Nonetheless, there is nothing lower than someone who changes their team. As Unrighteous said before, that is just someone who doesn't give a fuck.

 

(I was actually born in Glasgow, so I suppose Liverpool is more or less equidistant between the two...)

 

 

I love seeing Chelsea fans who used to support Tottenham. That really makes me laugh.

 

I've always supported Liverpool since I was about 9 or 10. It was as simple as turning the tv on and falling in love with the team. Completely agree with ReddorDedd on everything. Even if you've supported them since you were a child with no clue about history or success you still get battered for it at times.

 

I'd heard about this one guy (someone I knew from Singapore or something told me about him) had changed from being a Liverpool fan to a manc because his girlfriend loved the ladyboy. It made me sick but happier to hear the club wasn't being supported by idiots like that.

 

Very much empathise with both of these; I come from Marlow originally and got into football about 5 years before anyone had even heard of Wycombe Wanderers (I got what I wanted in the 2001 FA Cup semi final - Liverpool to win but Wycombe not to be hammered). It was 1986 (28 now) and 90% of us in my class supported a BIG FOUR club - Liverpool, Everton, Arsenal or Spurs!!! There was maybe 1 Man Utd fan, 1 West Ham and no Chelsea! Charging around in my Crown Paints and my Candy, being Beardo AND Rushie AND Barnes AND Aldo AND Houghton AND Molby, I was the happiest kid in the world. I absolutely adored everything about the club from day one, and have never felt and could never feel any differently.

 

Not everyone is the same though. I could name an individual I went to school with (who I havent seen or heard hardly anything of in 10 years plus) who outdid every managerial great in football history by winning the league SIX years on the bounce! A Red throughout primary (late 80s), he then consecutively supported Arsenal, Leeds, Man Utd and Blackburn. Your talking 15 years old and still changing. Abhorrent.

 

I worked with a lad a few years ago who changed from the Mancs to us when he was in his 20's . He came from Manchester but only went to a couple of games a season & his wife ( from Liverpool , met on a work course ) & her brothers were all 42 games a season Reds fans and put constant pressure on him. He started to go to the odd away game with them rather than sitting in the house on his own all Saturday & soon got the bug .

 

Unfortunately for him , this happened in the early-90's so managed to miss all of our league titles and has missed all of theirs subsequently.

 

Ha ha, good.

[Tossed and blown]

Indigenous channel island women who became impregnated by German soldiers during the occupation were known as 'Jerrybags' and were ostracised, together with their offspring, during and after the war. Sort of sums up how I feel fans who convert between rivals should be treated.

[Antynwa]

I met a lad on holiday from Essex who wore a Liverpool top one night, and a Utd top the next.

 

What a sad, confused little child. Mind you, I guess thats what the spaniards thought of me when I donned a Barca top and Madrid shorts to the pool.

[Fowler 9 GOD]

I was Born a red, My mum, My grandad, infact my whole family wouldnt accept me if i was any other way. I love everything about this club, even in this hot glorious weather, i would trade it all for a freezing cold night standing on the kop watching another historic champions leauge game. Your born with your colours, you dont pick and choose, and once you pick there is no going back. Anyone who changes in my opinion is a scum back, and i wouldnt trust them again, there is too much loyalty in football with me, players like carra prove it.

[The Special One]

I was Born a red, My mum, My grandad, infact my whole family wouldnt accept me if i was any other way. I love everything about this club, even in this hot glorious weather, i would trade it all for a freezing cold night standing on the kop watching another historic champions leauge game. Your born with your colours, you dont pick and choose, and once you pick there is no going back. Anyone who changes in my opinion is a scum back, and i wouldnt trust them again, there is too much loyalty in football with me, players like carra prove it.

 

Shouldn't Carra be the last one you mention considering he was an Evertonian?

[kopboy11]

Isnt there a famous picture of our captain in a Manc top as a kid?

[jamespp]

Isnt there a famous picture of our captain in a Manc top as a kid?

 

Everton, i read his book it was apparantly just for a day out at Goodison with his grandad if i remember right, he did have a Man Utd top aswell because he liked Bryan Robson

[mgw100]

Not everyone is as bothered as football as the likes of us who spend time on this forum. I know plenty of mates who have a peripheral relationship with the game. They see it as an avenue for socialising or pub chat rather than a passion in itself. Often they are incredulous when I'm barely speaking after we lose. It's just not in their mindset to feel that strongly.

 

In that context, changing who you support isn't really that weird. It's just like starting to like bitter rather than lager. You thought you quite liked something, but actually you've tried something else and you like that more.

 

I couldn't dislike someone if they switched allegiance - I may slate them a bit, but really, it's just a case of whatever makes 'em happy.

[The Special One]

Isnt there a famous picture of our captain in a Manc top as a kid?

 

Everton. His mum's side is all Everton and his uncle was trying to convert him. His dad didn't stand for it though.

 

And the 'manc' top was an England shirt he borrowed off a friend.

[Hooch]

Strange thread.

 

Sort of related like, when I was 7, and my favourite player at the time Dean Saunders (stop laughing) left for Aston Villa, I said I was going to support Aston Villa. Then my Dad convinced me he was shit, which he was.

Very.

 

Kids eh.

[Nebnotsew]

Yes, thats me. My dad (who isn't from Manchester, he's from Wallasey..) supports them and he brought me up to do the same. My grandpa was having none of it and changed me and I'm so thankful for it.

 

I absolutely love Liverpool FC and I despise man u, when the footies on my dad can go jump off a cliff for all I'm concerned.

[Lario]

Hi.

My name's Lario, and I'm an ex-manc.:(

 

I started out supporting the mancs when I was a young fella, as my ol' fella's a manc supporter.

 

I'll never forget the night I became a Red though...May 29th, 1985.

 

I'd gone training for my local street league team, and it dragged on longer than normal. I was going mad as I was gonna miss the match.

Once training finished, I cycled home as quick as I could expecting to have missed most of the game, only to see the carnage in front of me :eek:.

 

Felt so sorry for The Reds that night :whoops:.

 

From that night on, I was a Liverpool fan, and forever that way I'll stay.:yes:

[RedKnight]

What? Negged.

[Lario]

What? Fuck you!

 

I was 8 years old, you fucking bellend. Sorry I wasn't born a pure blood like you.:wallbutt:

[RedKnight]

Smiliey use is smiley use, rules is rules.

[RedKnight]

Also, pure blood? What the hell? Are we vampires or something?

[Lario]

Not at all.

 

But a young fella supporting the same team as his father until he's old enough to make up his own mind is hardly a hanging offence, is it?

[RedKnight]

I never wanted you hanged.

[Lario]

Don't lie.

[roki.loves.lfc9]

me.

 

REALLY?! mind elaborating on that? how, why, when, who?

 

 

 

No such thing.

 

I've never met anyone who has even switched clubs and been taken seriously. Something in your life, a parent, a friend, a player, an experience leads you to follow a team, and once you start, it's done. Kenny did it for me, but by the time he left it was the club that had me, not any player. It's easy to get attached to players, but afters years of your heros leaving, you are left with one truth that remains in spite of the players. Liverpool Football Club.

 

i'm a new liverpool fan...before LFC there never was a club, i wasn't that into football anyway. but Euro '08 (yes, that new of a fan) was what did it for me. i became an avid Torres fan and decided to learn more about this magnificent player. i saw that he played for liverpool and so did about half of the rest of the Spanish first team! well the season started and i started watching games and that was it. i fell in love with Liverpool Football Club. i cant fathom following another team. i love the club, the players, the manager, and the fans. YNWA :)

[RedKnight]

Negged.

[roki.loves.lfc9]

No offence to the thread starter but I take it he isn't British?

 

 

errr...he is a she and no i'm not British. i'm iranian for that matter but i live in the US.

[RedKnight]

errr...he is a she and no i'm not British. i'm iranian for that matter but i live in the US.

 

An Iranian in the US, bet that's fun.

[roki.loves.lfc9]

bahahaha, yes fantastic. but im on vacation in London so its a bit better. i get "sympathy" for what' going on in iran right now....lol

 

i went to liverpool 2 days ago believe it or not!!! i went on the Anfield Stadium tour, i was speechless the whole time, the whole experience was unbelievable. i want to live in Liverpool when i get older...the cost to see games would be a lot less! :D