That indy article is like who's who of their self importance.
Edit: and how does booing the anthem help any of those issues, and what does it have to do with Jacob Rees Mogg? A total mess of a piece.
Barrett is a hack and cynic of the worst order: boosting his profile (and therefore career) by putting out a series of fairy stories about Liverpool's 'more than a club' status.
He knows (or should do) that far from the BS he peddles, Liverpool FC have a terrible history of racism and sectarian hatred from the top of the club right through to the terraces. It is an absolute falacy Barrett indulges and he gets cash from staying it all. A club whose own history is intertwined with the history of Liverpool Conservatism. A club whose fans took lives on football terrraces on an industrial scale and celebrated for decades an aircrash disaster that took the lives of footballers and journalists (an irony lost on that weapon).
He might be able to fool the middle class divies who read the Independent, but he knows his BS doesn't cut it with working class Scousers.
An absolute weapon of a man.