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Liverpool Legend
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Liverpool Legend
Joined: Oct 2009
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Yes of course sing all the songs including those celebrating past glories, no problem with that, it's the abusive chants and provocation that is stupid and silly and just lowers our own standing in the sport and in the eyes of the public at large. LFC supporters are a cut above that sort of stuff, and we should protect our good name, as that makes a difference when you want to develop merchandising, sponsorship, naming rights, players and supporters, not to mention the allocation of seats for away fixtures. Not sure thats altogether true before Hillsbourough we used to sing Munich routinely and male the plane signs its was the norm to do it at OT. And some of the chants we do even today John Terry's mum, gary Neville, Lescott etc not nice. So are we a cut above? Liverpool supporters are fair clapping opposing teams etc but chants we are not nice in my experience
IF YOU WANT TO BE HEARD SPEAK SOFTLY - BOB PAISLEY
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Under 16 Player
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Under 16 Player
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I think we live in the past and try and hold onto it as much as we can because the future is no longer rosy, those heydays of the 70s and 80s are things of the past and will never return so it's only natural fans want to keep bringing them up. My Evertonian mates still bring up the mid 80's and are forever singing that song of "If you Know your History" and it's the same for us and Istanbul and the "We won it five times" song.
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1st Team Regular
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1st Team Regular
Joined: Sep 2009
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I think we live in the past and try and hold onto it as much as we can because the future is no longer rosy, those heydays of the 70s and 80s are things of the past and will never return so it's only natural fans want to keep bringing them up. My Evertonian mates still bring up the mid 80's and are forever singing that song of "If you Know your History" and it's the same for us and Istanbul and the "We won it five times" song. mystic meg.
Luis Garcia, He drinks sangria
He came from Barca, to bring us Joy
He's five foot seven, he's football heaven
please don't take my Luis away.
"...AND 32 MILLION POUNDS WORTH OF GOALKEEPER CAN'T DO A THING ABOUT IT"
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Under 18 Player
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1st Team Squad
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1st Team Squad
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Yes of course sing all the songs including those celebrating past glories, no problem with that, it's the abusive chants and provocation that is stupid and silly and just lowers our own standing in the sport and in the eyes of the public at large. LFC supporters are a cut above that sort of stuff, and we should protect our good name, as that makes a difference when you want to develop merchandising, sponsorship, naming rights, players and supporters, not to mention the allocation of seats for away fixtures. Not sure thats altogether true before Hillsbourough we used to sing Munich routinely and male the plane signs its was the norm to do it at OT. And some of the chants we do even today John Terry's mum, gary Neville, Lescott etc not nice. So are we a cut above? Liverpool supporters are fair clapping opposing teams etc but chants we are not nice in my experience Liverpool fans always held a great reputation worldwide. Its only a relatively small section of supporters who go out chanting abuse and singing songs about Munich, Terry's mum, etc. and this is to be deplored and is deplored by sensible fans. Of course there were always head bangers going to matches even in the old days, doing and shouting stupid stuff, but they were ignored and sometimes told to shut it by the vast majority. In my view the numbers and cohesiveness of these characters has increased with the dominance of the gutter press in deprived and marginalized urban areas. They are being led, said and exploited by those greedy and unscrupulous scribes who infest todays tabloid gutter press, and said scribes are not adverse to stoking the flames of racism either. The tragedy is those type of fans are unable to see the stupidity of their behaviour or the facts of their exploitation by these media thugs. In my opinion football clubs should to organize a concerted fight back against the inflammatory and provocative behaviour in todays tabloid press, before it does irrevocable damage to both the game and race relations.
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