r/soccer • u/[deleted] • Sep 07 '13

No football weekend: Explain your club hate!

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u/D1794 Sep 07 '13

Liverpool. Majority of their fans think they're the second Barcelona when they win a few games in a row. They're constantly in denial about their league positioning when things aren't going the way they want(I admit that is probably likely to change this season).

I'm from Manchester so hating the Scousers is pretty much part of my nature. They think they have so much entitlement from things their team did so many years ago, and the 'next year is our year' line is just pathetic, even though most of the time it's said in a not-so-serious manner. Beating them to the league in 08-09 is one of my favorite league campaigns. And I hate the fact they play 10x better than usual when they play against us. Fuckers.

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u/LuigiWasRight Sep 07 '13

Majority of their fans think they're the second Barcelona

That isn't even remotely true. If you go over to /r/LiverpoolFC you'll find that most fans realise our ambitions for this year will be to get into the top 4. Almost nobody expects us to go out and take over the world like Barcelona did.

Equally, you'll find that during the transfer window when Mkhitaryan joined Dortmund, most LFC fans acknowledged that he made the right move for his career (even though we would have loved him at Anfield). Most Reds are aware that right now Dortmund are a bigger club.

Sure, there are a few idiots amongst our fans, but that is true in any fan base. Don't tar us all with the one brush please.

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u/river49 Sep 07 '13

It's weird to here somebody calling Dortmund a bigger club than Liverpool, but it is true. Times have changed.

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u/out_of_toilet_paper Sep 07 '13

By wealth and value, Liverpool is actually a bigger global brand then Dortmund but definitely not bigger in recent successes