Both sets of fans are similar in so many ways. Two cheeks of the same arse is so apt when it comes to these two clubs.
The media are complicit with it all n’all. Right up the arses of both clubs. The funniest one was when they were marketing a game between them at Old Trafford a few years ago as England’s El Classico when they were 7th and 8th in the league in the Spring. Desperate stuff from the media but it’s also the way both sets of fans behave n’all; away with the fairies, heads in the clouds. The rest of the country were laughing at them, especially the 6 teams above them.
The truth is neither club have had more than a few decades where they were very successful and the rest of their history has been mundane. No club in England is that much more successful than the rest. 20 league titles isn’t that many really, and it’d only take other clubs to have a good few decades like both of them had to catch up. It’s not like we’re all chasing Celtic and Rangers or Nacional and Peñarol where it would take a century to catch up.
But the way both sets of fans, both clubs, and the media act and portray them both is as if both clubs have always been top clubs winning 50+ league titles each while the rest of England are insignificant.
You can see with Liverpool’s slogan the other year “This Means More” how deluded they are. The club believes it, the fans are like a cult and believe it, the media are proper sycophantically weird and also believe it and also push it.
It’s why both clubs draw in so many sad twats from here there and anywhere to “support” them. A load of losers who have no pride in where they come from so support a club from miles away to get some reflected glory in their lives and feel better about themselves. It’s why so many of their fans act like spoilt brats and can’t take it when they lose or go years without trophies. They’ve been drawn in by this myth that these two clubs are special and are always winning things yet both clubs have gone decades without winning the title in the past and they can’t handle it when they aren’t winning. They’ve been sold on a myth and don’t understand it’s a myth.
