I've done my share of PMSLing at them after they fucked the league up. They behaved, as a body of fans, like a bunch of cunts of the highest order when they thought they had won the league. They got their comeuppance and it couldn't have happened to a more deserving bunch, given the way they were.
I'm bound to say though that with the dawn of the new season it will in my view be time to move on. They will probably not challenge for the league, because playing in Europe will probably sort them out. They will be top 4 rivals, but not serious title contenders.
I think there is a wider issue, though about how Liverpool Football Club is perceived by fans of other clubs, ours included. The problem with the way they made so much of Hillsborough is that the 25th anniversary of Hillsborough will be followed by the 26th anniversary. To my mind there is a very real risk that Liverpool and their supporters will find out next season that they lost a lot of goodwill when they used - or were perceived as using - the memory of the 96 victims of a tragedy that should not have happened to build momentum for a title challenge.
I do not think it is a coincidence that we played them away on the weekend that fell closest to the 25th anniversary - after the Munich anniversary I think we are the one club whose respect on the anniversary of Hillsborough could be pretty much guaranteed. And nothing more needs to be said about how Liverpool's fans 'thanked' us on the day for that respect. It pains me to say it but if the same sort of tribute was paid next season I would be far less confident than I was this year about the reaction it would get from City. There was a fund of goodwill on City's part towards that club and I fear that they gambled it on a title challenge and lost.
I hope I am wrong about this. I really hope the City fan base (as a whole) is able to distinguish between on one hand the respect that should be shown for the fans who died at Hillsborough and the injustice their families have suffered, and on the other the derision that is entirely deserved by their supporter base (as a whole) for the way they acted in the last three months of last season. But I am distinctly worried that what has been for a while quite a warm and respectful relationship has been tarnished in a very significant way.
