Blues and Royals
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They don't sing The Fields of Athenry.
But it’s a version almost similar.
They don't sing The Fields of Athenry.
It may have escaped your notice but we also sing a song to the FoA tune.
But it’s a version almost similar.
And buy who?Yep. They'll spend a fortune in January and blow everyone away second half of the season.
Thats what they tell you.This is true.
Where I work in China I drink in an Irish bar as it’s the only Western boozer around, and I’m friends with the 4 owners, all of whom couldn’t care that I’m a bear, they support Man Utd and Liverpool, they only have slight leanings to them but nothing bitter in the slightest.
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To be fair the Anfield songbook also includes several orange tunes and current favourites sung regularly are Every other Saturday and We'll be coming down the road. All inclusive.
Yes I would agree with the ‘ all inclusive’ tag. I would say the Liverpool support has probably changed more in the last 50 years than any other support in Britain.
Must just be my way of thinking thenIt may have escaped your notice but we also sing a song to the FoA tune.
A lot of Liverpool fans like Celtic, because of the match they played after Hillsborough and because of a lot of Irish Liverpool fans.I'm part Scouse from my mother's side of our family. I've loved LFC since I was a child.
There is no love in with Celtic.
Ceptic being Ceptic jumped at the chance to ambulance chase and offer immediately to to play LFC after Hillsborough.
LFC are grateful for that but you have to understand that to Liverpool fans, LFC is sacred. It's LFC and no one else. That's the mentality.
I used to attend Anfield in the early seventies with a Scouse lad whose brother ran a pub near the ground.
He was a loyalist and so were most of the pub's clientele who were to a man Reds.
At that time most of the city's RC's gravitated to Everton which remarkably also had a Protestant background and a core of traditional Orange support.
At that particular period, Catholics from the ROI never had a deep interest in football and the huge numbers that would eventually invest (infest ) themselves into the game in England hadn't yet occurred, although Irishmen in the North especially Prods were heavily into Manchester United.
I should add at that time, Liverpool had a fairly average record in Europe and Rangers a far bigger football club in international terms had been in three finals winning one trophy. My Scouse mate was a big admirer of Rangers.
Then the entire dynamic began to change.
Liverpool would begin to make inroads in the then UEFA Cup followed by a complete dominance of the European Cup as their team became the Real Madrid of the day.
Slowly football took hold in the ROI and Liverpool would become the team of the Paddies.
A connection with Dalglish from Filth FC would seal the deal and Filth fans who loved Man Utd because they viewed them as a Catholic club led by arch RC Busby suddenly turned turtle and the Liverpool love-in began, much to the disgust of many traditional Liverpool supporters.
RC's in Liverpool who had previously seen Everton as their cultural team of choice began to abandon that prejudice in favour of success.
Everton were kinda left a bit on the shelf.
Strangely enough, after Ferguson made United dominant, ROI fans began to flock to Old Trafford and the cycle changed again
Personally I have never been able to take ROI fans of English clubs very seriously.
As for Liverpool there is no doubt it is a great football club and it also has huge Scottish antecedents embedded in its history.
I think until Steven Gerrard set the record for time served as a captain, Scots had captained the club for more years than Englishmen.
And as you know myself and your brother used to go to Anfield and the odd away games in the early/mid 70.sBeen a Liverpool fan since early 70's.
In fact one of my old school mates commented recently I was one of the first he can recall with a full LFC kit on at PE in school, just as full kits were becoming a commercial enterprise.
Will not stop following them based on false allegations of a Cellik love in.
They have their own words to the Field of Athenty tune.I could never like a team whose fans sing Fields of Athenry.......but I understand your feeling.....Gerrards doing that to all of us I think!!!
They have their own words to the Field of Athenty tune.
I think Paisley took them to another level,they were some team from about '75 onwards, don't think they had a weakness. I'd say he's still their best Manager. That's why I follow their results.Shankly, Paisley and Fagan built them into the greatest club in Europe. They had it all, football, success, fans...
I think Klopp is going a long way to restoring that position.
(In the interests of honesty I have to admit that Stevie G has had a huge influence in actually giving a fuck about anything Liverpool do, but that's football, that's life.)
Yep. They'll spend a fortune in January and blow everyone away second half of the season.
You do not win all those cups and leagues being lucky.Have you ever known a team to get the luck that they get? Everything always falls perfectly for them, the flukiest team in all of sport.
Have you ever known a team to get the luck that they get? Everything always falls perfectly for them, the flukiest team in all of sport.
Have you ever known a team to get the luck that they get? Everything always falls perfectly for them, the flukiest team in all of sport.
You do not win all those cups and leagues being lucky.
They’ve not had one major injury in 2 years and none of their players ever get suspended because referees choose not to card any of them which means they’re playing the same settled team every game.
Inexplicable goalkeeping howler errors last season gifted them 8 points that almost won them the title and VAR was supposed to put an end to the amount of offside goals that were allowed to stand last term, but as we saw on Sunday with their first goal, VAR is never going to be used against Liverpool at Anfield.
So yes, they have been the luckiest team in English football for over 2 years now, but surely that luck has to run out eventually.
I don't like them but I'd rather they won the league instead of Man city.
They’ve not had one major injury in 2 years and none of their players ever get suspended because referees choose not to card any of them which means they’re playing the same settled team every game.
Inexplicable goalkeeping howler errors last season gifted them 8 points that almost won them the title and VAR was supposed to put an end to the amount of offside goals that were allowed to stand last term, but as we saw on Sunday with their first goal, VAR is never going to be used against Liverpool at Anfield.
So yes, they have been the luckiest team in English football for over 2 years now, but surely that luck has to run out eventually.
Used to like them in the late seventies and early eighties. They were the best around and had some of the best Scottish players at their core.I actually wanted to start a discussion of sorts about how much one man can do for you. I didn’t have any feelings towards liverpool at all a few years ago, now I find myself wanting them to win the league all cause of oor stevie
In the film Cilla's dad said to Bobby (Cilla's husband) could you please tell her old Aunts that you were a Catholic and please tell them he is an Everton fan not a Liverpool fan what you areCilla black had a lovely wee way to describe who supported who in the city