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From an Irish point of view, we are exposed to the premiership as much as England is on tv and our parents and family all support premiership teams (or Leeds in a lot of cases). The majority of fans support Liverpool, United, Leeds and Everton as far as I can tell and the main reason I think they do is because of the large Irish connection to those teams. That is how my family and the generation ahead of me started supporting Liverpool anyway. I was born in 88 so have seen no league success but I was brought up in an extended family where everyone supported Liverpool. We don't just sit at home and watch the game on our own, we go down to the pub and have the banter about it with mates etc. I don't personally sing when I go to any matches be it Liverpool or Dublin so I don't feel that I'm missing out on that anyway. If I lived in Liverpool I would fork out the money but geography dicatates that its not feasible to go to every game. I haven't swapped any club for Liverpool, and I'm sure most Irish fans are the same. The Irish League is a load of sh1te in my opinion and I wouldn't expect you to fanatically support your local park team ahead of Liverpool as they are the team you have always followed and cared about Ireland is different there is a very close connection with the uk and Northern Ireland is part of te uk. Plus you can go to the odd game. In a edition there s a very close connection to Liverpool both in terms f the seaport short hop over the sea plus the very close family ties some fair points there stanley, what about fans further away tho like somewhere in the uk like a Coventry, Swindon or Bristol, how would there support come around as there are no real ties like Ireland and Liverpool...
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I don't see a problem with that cool I know people in the north west who support spurs or arsenal they watch them when they play up here or travel to London not something I would do but ican see why they do it. Don't understand your position only those from merseysde I travel 40 minutes to anfield and that's no problem at all lets say you get there in 15 minutes really is that an issue? As for knowing the city of Liverpool I bet I know more than 90 percent of Liverpool residents. I coud just as easy support Everton both manchester clubs or even stoke. To me that is not a problem in fact it's an advantage
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I don't see a problem with that cool I know people in the north west who support spurs or arsenal they watch them when they play up here or travel to London not something I would do but ican see why they do it. Don't understand your position only those from merseysde I travel 40 minutes to anfield and that's no problem at all lets say you get there in 15 minutes really is that an issue? As for knowing the city of Liverpool I bet I know more than 90 percent of Liverpool residents. I coud just as easy support Everton both manchester clubs or even stoke. To me that is not a problem in fact it's an advantage stanley, I am just picking up a bit on the point you made in an earlier post about the difference in a match going experience and from watching from afar or on the telly, you said it couldn't be substituted or compared against as it was totaly different. I agree with ure point the actual going to the match part with friends, going for a drink, soaking up the atmosphere e.t.c. I am not questioning anybody's support or reasons and I am not saying nobody cant support any team they want just trying to understand that's all...
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The only thing I find hard to understand cool and I am not knocking anyone in fact I immensely admire them. It's those people who live many thousands of miles away who have very little chance f seeing the team play for real or once in a lifetime. Of course you can follow va TV or the Internet very successfully and I could follow. Say I us baseball team in such a way. But it will always be limited and with technology many of my mates here follow us teams Super Bowl and so on and are very knowledgable about the game. But it's not the same as Liverpool or man utd in their mindset simply because they have very little chance of ever seeing them for real and all their friends follow utd and Liverpool say. So for me it's a personal interest they may have developed different to your home base where you are expected to choose a premiership team to follow.
But in no way folks am I saying that is negative ant Liverpool fan who follows from anywhere is one of us. It's just I think it's maybe a Different approach and mindset.
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Mark Lawrenson(bless him) said he attended the game at Anfield last Monday,he said he hasn't been for a while but he couldn't believe how quiet the atmosphere was.Is this down to the real fans who attend not bothering themselves to sing or is it that our fans only sing when we are winning? I don't believe its down to the age of fans as there were/are those oldies that still lead the line when introducing new songs.
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Mark Lawrenson(bless him) said he attended the game at Anfield last Monday,he said he hasn't been for a while but he couldn't believe how quiet the atmosphere was.Is this down to the real fans who attend not bothering themselves to sing or is it that our fans only sing when we are winning? I don't believe its down to the age of fans as there were/are those oldies that still lead the line when introducing new songs. I think the make up of fans has changed in the 80,s they were younger now Broadly it's the same people but 30 years older. They have seen it all and better times and teams than this and when you are in your fifties you don't get up and sing etc. i used to but I don't now, Am I not a real fan probably not but I pay the money ad turn up which is what the young people no longer do. And therein is the problem.
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Mark Lawrenson(bless him) said he attended the game at Anfield last Monday,he said he hasn't been for a while but he couldn't believe how quiet the atmosphere was.Is this down to the real fans who attend not bothering themselves to sing or is it that our fans only sing when we are winning? I don't believe its down to the age of fans as there were/are those oldies that still lead the line when introducing new songs. The crowd were stunned into silence, wondering why man utd's biggest fan was at anfield watching Liverpool play west brom! If he was that concerned about the silence, did he get up and try to make a difference? did he fvck. The miserable corpse was probably hanging around to see if peter odemwinkie needed a lift anywhere!
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Hasnt lawrenson asked himself why this atmosphere occurs whereever he goes?
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There is no atmosphere at anfield these days other than utd and Everton and even then not a patch on what it was
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thing about games like WBA , wigan fulham ETC are the game more thomas cook tickets get sold so more who come as a day trip come to those games especially in the anfield road and monday night on the telly does put people off going .
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