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Manchester United Supporters' Association (IMUSA), detest "the cheap sentimentality of Scousers, their attitude that 'we're unique and its us against the world'. Theirs is the mentality of the ghetto."
Whatever goes wrong in Liverpool, Scousers always say it's somebody else's fault. It's somebody else's fault that they're poor; it's somebody else's fault that the place is a shit- heap."
"It was them [Liverpool] that started it. For years, their coaches to away matches had 'Munich '58' slogans on the back. None of the papers ever mentioned that provocation, did they?"
Fever Pitch discussed the consequences of this style of Blackshirt posturing in the context of Heysel. "The kids' stuff that proved murderous in Brussels," wrote Hornby, "belonged firmly and clearly on a continuum of apparently harmless but obviously threatening acts - violent chants, wanker signs, the whole petty, hard-act works - in which a very large minority of fans had been indulging for nearly 20 years. In short, Heysel was an organic part of a culture that many of us, myself included, had contributed to. You couldn't look at those Liverpool fans and ask yourself, 'Who are these people?' You already knew.
