They were happy when these same owners were throwing around world record fees for players in multiple positions with money they didn’t have to let them win stuff. How they loved to rub it in all our faces. Now that the chicken has come home to roost they don’t want anything to do with it. They knew exactly what type of owners they had on their hands and at every turn they’ve still defended them as long as they kept success coming in. They’ve never once complained at how they’ve warped the competitiveness of this league as long as they were winning stuff. They always cared more about their media image than anything FSG did. Barely a protest against their own fans being run out their homes as long as it ended up with them having a big stand and winning more games. They were more bothered about the media criticism of their club when they furloughed their staff than they were about the staff who got furloughed. They laugh at our community activity whilst not giving two hoots that with their far superior resources they do nothing.
I’m sorry I haven’t got any sympathy for them whatsoever. As a club and a fan base they’ve been a stain on the league for a long time and even though we all know sound Liveprool fans individually, as a collective they are one of the most abhorrent fanbases in world football, massively overentitled impatient arrogant narcissists who turn violent when it doesn’t go their way. If that is just a vocal minority then the rest haven’t done anything to keep that minority in check and so must accept some of the blame for that. The type of behaviour they exhibit would be shamed out of fans at a lot of other clubs or by the club itself. Instead they stand by as these atrocities are carried out.
It’s not a shock to me that Liverpool are owned by those greedy charlatans and we’re not. That’s not a quirk of fate. They have the owners they deserve and deep down the owners they want and reflect the fan base. Owners who will do whatever it takes to win for their own benefit at the expense of everyone else. Isn’t that what Liverpool fans have applauded for decades? The diving, the cheating, the Suarez racism, the bus smashing, rocking Alan Smith’s ambulance, they laughed it all off as long as they were winning.
Everton and Liverpool fans are not the same. I don’t know why there’s this great myth that we’re all the same just in a different colour shirt. Yeah I’m mates with loads of Liverpool fans, I’m related to loads, I like all of them as people, but I’ve never thought we see football the same way for a single second, we fundamentally don’t. The things I value as an Everton fan, that I want to see from my team, the image the club puts out, what makes me proud to be an Evertonian, they don’t recognise any of that. The things they love about being Liverpool fans I find repulsive. It’s just a different opinion but we are not all the same. It’s like saying that Labour and Conservative voters are all at the root of it fundamentally the same people if they live in the same area. They’re not, they value different things, they want to live their lives in different ways, people are all different and that’s why they choose different football teams, that’s why some families have kids who are raised the same way but support different teams. It’s not always because the grandad took one to a different match, most of the time it’s because there was one kid who enjoyed winning and feeling popular all the time and there was another one who liked being a struggling underdog. If it made them feel a bit more virtuous.
So I’m sorry if some of their fans don’t like it. There’ll be a small minority of local matchgoing fans who will be worried they might lose the routine of going to the match and for them I do feel sorry, but the majority of them are really only agaisnt this because of the media backlash and they feel their clubs precious image is now under pressure. If it goes ahead and suddenly gains more prestige than the CL not a single one of them will be maintaining their faux opposition they’ll all be straight back to hoping they win it so they can mock rival fans with it.
