Being a fan is whatever you want it to be the idea there is a narrow prescriptive definition of being a Liverpool fan and to be thus classed you must rigidly adhere to these rules is completely bonkers.
well stan you could be a fan of tranmere rovers or bootle fc i bet they all have faith , but liverpool fans dont , well i do even if liverpool lose its still my team and playing in the champions league or not makes no difference to that .