one guy just had a meltdown due to the idiots in the thread - some argue the 500 million debt is due to player purchases!
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to be honest I don't care any more. The opinion of certain posters here doesn't particularly bother me. God love them is all I can say. I come from Ireland and as such about half of my friends are liverpool fans, and half of my friends are man utd fans. my connection with liverpool, like so many irish people of my age is that my aunt moved to liverpool to teach for most of the sixties, and my uncle moved to work on the buildings, and used to go to matches. They both came back, and I caught the bug from my uncle.
The thing about having a circle of friends that includes many man utd fans is that we spend a lot of time arguing, and some of them are very sharp indeed. (I spend a lot of time in dark corners with my liverpool fans crying in my pint and cursing stewart Downing) I assume that there are a lot of posters on this board who are exactly the same. quite frankly a lot of what I've seen come my way really wouldn't pass muster. If I came out with some of the frankly delusional stuff I've seen here on this thread, I would be laughed out of it, and If I adopted the attitude of a number of posters here, I would start losing friends very quickly, and not just amongst the man utd supporters.
If you're going to argue with, and slag your mates, you have to at the very least be accurate, you can't say something about their team that is equally true about your own or you just get it thrown straight back in your face. Call ferguson a drunk, and they'll quote back mark lawrenson at you about how kenny dalglish is the last to leave the bar. Throw Bebe and jorge mendes at them, they'll throw back andy carroll's mysterious agent deal, and Tommy fecking Adams. Come up with nonsense about their finances, and it will come straight back at you. If I were to chance my arm with that story about ferguson supposedly shitting himself they would think I had lost my mind.
You simply can't behave in the manner of some people on here in the real world. I am confused by the idea that you can't be a liverpool fan if you don't think that bill shankly and bob paisley would broken club records for a player of andy carroll's limited ability or tendency to be arrested for punching people, or for a player who bit people and was responsible for the most high profile act of cheating since the hand of god confuses me. It's possible to be a liverpool fan and think that suarez is vastly more trouble than he is worth, and no amount of shouting abuse at patrice evra will change anything.
I don't see what is wrong with being a liverpool fan and thinking that we have been run into the ground by a collection of morons, crooks, and madmen over the last 20 odd years, (and even rafa went quite crazy in the end because of the strain) and I don't see what is wrong with thinking that we are mired in the shite, after the worst season since Shankly took over. We have a hell of a long road to come back, and I would have hoped that all of those forensic geniuses who have trawled through my posts and noted that some of them refer to man utd, but seem to ignore some of the other ones. Including the ones where I hope that Brendan Rodgers is going to be the one to eventually drag us out of the shite, not through blind belief, (which is for fools and children) but because he looks like a really smart, capable, rational, and thoughtful manager with a clear plan, who needs time.
But if that's not good enough for the resident self appointed arbiters of true liverpool fanhood, I simply don't care. I don't generally expect to find myself arguing with my liverpool supporting friends, and I didn't really come here to be continually hounded by people who can't read whole sentences without misunderstanding them and abusing me. If I wanted that I could have joined the homeless winos who drink bottles of linden village on the boardwalk, or signed up to the red issue forum.
