What's the backstory of these two things?
In England, a lot of people, particularly football fans, like to stereotype people from Liverpool as being a lowlife, workshy race of semi literate savages.
This city was an unemployment blackspot for years after we bore the brunt of Thatcher’s assault on the working people in the north of England.
In English terms “sign on” means to register for unemployment benefit......so they sing “sign on , sign on, with hope in yer ‘eart and you’ll never get a job”......which of course is doubly insulting to Evertonians
They sing another song about us “In your Liverpool homes, you search in the dustbin for something to eat” and that leads on to the “Feed the Scousers” thing, which of course compares us to starving people in a famine plagued African country in the 1980s.
And Mr. Gary Neville, currently being lauded as the moral conscience of anti racism in English football, has always been at the epicentre of this anti Scouse sentiment
