I was raised in the North End, lived away for a bit, now live in the South End, so my accent is nowhere near as strong as it used to be, however if I speak to certain people it comes back. Carragher had to be trained how to tone his accent down, I knew a fella who used to take the teacher in his taxi, I'm not even joking. But with Carragher you can understand, because he comes from Bootle, it's why Rooney and Gerrard didn't have that strong an accent as him, because of where they come from.
With them you can tell it's fake, because your accent differs in strength depending on who your talking to, that's why when Geordies speak to one another you struggle to understand them, same with Glaswegians and Irish people. Your not gonna make it harder to for someone to understand you in a conversation, I used to have to speak to Americans or the phone and would have to completely change my accent.
They seem to get Scouser when they're speaking to non Scousers which doesn't make sense. Your not gonna have the accent of somebody from Stanley Road, if your from Aigburth or West Derby.
I remember some divvy on holiday telling everyone that he came from by Anfield and all these Southern RS and Irish RS were lapping it up, but he didn't know I was Scouse, I could tell his accent did fit. But then he mentioned drinking in his local The Fiveways, then going to game, I couldn't resist laughing at this divvy. He then made it even worse by saying he lived near where Rhys Jones was shot. Then he said he sometimes parks in Sefton Park rather than Stanley Park when he goes he game but all these mutants believed him. When I said thanks to the the waiter he realized I was Scouse, so automatically thought I was a RS, when I told him I was a Blue his accent all of a sudden changed. To cap off the stupidity of this RS he said he'd gone to Romania to watch Liverpool against Ludogorets, he wasn't too happy when I pointed out they're a Bulgarian side and his fellow RS even looked it up on the phones, so then he changed his story and said he few to Romania then flew to Bulgaria for the game.