Yes I appreciate what you say as I referred to the dislike/hatred shown on here to varying degrees being down to more than the simple title win.
You arent going to get any fan developing a "hatred" as such from one simple season, there has to be more to it.
My pondering or thought was whether, if Liverpool were to fade back into mediocrity, would the feelings wane slightly and the usual more traditional rivalry/dislike/hatred with Utd return.
From my perspective in Dublin, I started following City around 1970 aged seven. We had a few early good years that I was too young to appreciate so I went through the 70’s seeing us win o e cup and things slowly get worse after that.
My best mate followed Liverpool and still does.
Liverpool were a team I admired.
I never had any beef with any Liverpool fans. I never heard any Liverpool fan have any problem with City until around 2013/14, I think it was, when I was coming back from a match and there was a load of pissed up younger generation than me giving it loads on the plane on the way back.
They were giving abuse to a City supporter and his young lad who was similar in age to my young lad, who was with me. Probably around 10-12 years old.
They were coming out with the kind of shite that the media frequently spout commonly now.
This was a real eye opener to me.
Since that, I have only ever got that kind of crap from Liverpool supporters here in Dublin. Not United supporters. United supporters over here seem to have the attitude of, ‘See what we were talking about’.
See what they’re like.
United supporters seem to have accepted that the game is the way it is and has been for a long time. It’s a business.
Liverpool supporters like to think they’re different.
Now I’ve educated my best mate and his two lads have no ill feelings towards City, but the truth is apart from the fact that both Red wearing fans don’t acknowledge their part in making football what it is, and both don’t seem to accept that they are treated differently as clubs than us,
I don’t get the same contempt and hatred from United fans as I do from Liverpool fans.
So in answer, I don’t think it would be any better if Liverpool were crap as it seems to have started from your side when you were mediocre and we were deemed to have taken a top 4 spot that you saw as a birthright.
Not you personally, but that’s the gist of it for me.