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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3


For what it's worth I absolutely hate the term "scouser". It was originally created as an insult, and referring to yourself as one with some mis-placed sense of pride just shows a lack of intelligence. The "Scouse not-English" mantra is nothing short of embarrassing. You can take pride in your home city, whilst disliking the Tories and considering yourself a republican without publicly embarrassing yourself.

I'm a Merseysider, don't have a problem being referred to as a Liverpudlian. Scouser, that's just annoying but has been made worse by absolute idiots wearing it as a badge of honour like this Tony Evans fruit. People like him with this desperation to moan about something, anything, are the exact reason the city is sneered at.
 
EFCPaul said:
For what it's worth I absolutely hate the term "scouser". It was originally created as an insult, and referring to yourself as one with some mis-placed sense of pride just shows a lack of intelligence. The "Scouse not-English" mantra is nothing short of embarrassing. You can take pride in your home city, whilst disliking the Tories and considering yourself a republican without publicly embarrassing yourself.

I'm a Merseysider, don't have a problem being referred to as a Liverpudlian. Scouser, that's just annoying but has been made worse by absolute idiots wearing it as a badge of honour like this Tony Evans fruit. People like him with this desperation to moan about something, anything, are the exact reason the city is sneered at.
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I've lived in Barnsley, Coventry, and Birmingham.

I find that most people who have referred to me as a 'Scouser' , usually have a set of misinformed, prejudicial, and stereotypical views of our city and its people.

I have never been particularly offended by these people, just been happy to demolish their preconceptions by giving them the facts.
 
GwladysBlue said:



Crying laughing here. This from a club with less than 6,000 season ticket holders from a Liverpool postcode.

They have to shout about being Scouse all the time because their matchgoing fans certainly aren’t.

What a desperate, pathetic club this lot are.
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I've never understood their whole Scouse identity, I can understand clubs like Newcastle, West Ham, Birmingham City, Leeds, Rangers and Celtic having a strong group identity that unites them, same with clubs like Sunderland, Palace, Millwall and Boro. However this whole we're Scouse and we hate Mancs mentality may have been slightly authentic when most match going RS were Scouse.

However as you say with so many of their fans coming from outside Liverpool it's just ridiculous. More of our match going supporters are Scouse than their fans, however you don't generally hear people talking nonsense about non Scouse Blues. Also it's a completely fake and moronic Scouse identity, just like the Echo's nonsense about, Scouse nans sayings and their important journalism that involves going to a chippy on Stanley Road to talk about why salt and pepper dishes are so popular.

Also I'm not really in to politics, I hate the Labour Party and the Tories with a passion, I don't like this idea that all Scousers must be one thing or another, just like with any other group there's differences. There's the old saying a lion doesn't have to tell you it's a lion, the RS constantly have to brag about how Scouse they are and how they're the best supporters in the world.
 
JelavicBrate2 said:
I've never understood their whole Scouse identity, I can understand clubs like Newcastle, West Ham, Birmingham City, Leeds, Rangers and Celtic having a strong group identity that unites them, same with clubs like Sunderland, Palace, Millwall and Boro. However this whole we're Scouse and we hate Mancs mentality may have been slightly authentic when most match going RS were Scouse.

However as you say with so many of their fans coming from outside Liverpool it's just ridiculous. More of our match going supporters are Scouse than their fans, however you don't generally hear people talking nonsense about non Scouse Blues. Also it's a completely fake and moronic Scouse identity, just like the Echo's nonsense about, Scouse nans sayings and their important journalism that involves going to a chippy on Stanley Road to talk about why salt and pepper dishes are so popular.

Also I'm not really in to politics, I hate the Labour Party and the Tories with a passion, I don't like this idea that all Scousers must be one thing or another, just like with any other group there's differences. There's the old saying a lion doesn't have to tell you it's a lion, the RS constantly have to brag about how Scouse they are and how they're the best supporters in the world.
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So to summarise - RS fans are tossers.
 

GwladysBlue said:



Crying laughing here. This from a club with less than 6,000 season ticket holders from a Liverpool postcode.

They have to shout about being Scouse all the time because their matchgoing fans certainly aren’t.

What a desperate, pathetic club this lot are.
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"Truth is The Kop has a lower rate of Scousers than an episode of 'Bread'" lol
 
EFCPaul said:
For what it's worth I absolutely hate the term "scouser". It was originally created as an insult, and referring to yourself as one with some mis-placed sense of pride just shows a lack of intelligence. The "Scouse not-English" mantra is nothing short of embarrassing. You can take pride in your home city, whilst disliking the Tories and considering yourself a republican without publicly embarrassing yourself.

I'm a Merseysider, don't have a problem being referred to as a Liverpudlian. Scouser, that's just annoying but has been made worse by absolute idiots wearing it as a badge of honour like this Tony Evans fruit. People like him with this desperation to moan about something, anything, are the exact reason the city is sneered at.
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Well said, this whole scouse not English thing has become an embarrassment especially over the last few years and worryingly with younger folk, what’s just as bad whilst saying it there’s no context to it. The other ridiculous thing for those that buy in to all this tosh is the in house argument of trying to tell people from Knowsley they are not “scousers” hmmm ok, you tell someone from Kirkby, Huyton or Halewood that. Idiotic way of thinking overall.
 
They are so frightened by the thought of the vast majority of their match going support not being from the City that they have to over egg the Scouseness at every opportunity. It’s so false compared to Evertonians from the City who don’t need to highlight their heritage, or accent.
 


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