It might be the autism talking and me taking everything literally but it's something I've never understood.
- Liverpool are not English, because they are Scouse. Liverpool fans do not support England because something something establishment.
- Trent Alexander-Arnold is a Scouser, therefore he is not English and therefore should not be playing for England.
- Neither is Steven Gerrard. (Although Wayne Rooney and Leighton Baines are Scouse, but they're of the blue persuasion so they're English. I guess.)
- Yet when TAA gets left out of the England squad, despite not being English by kopite logic, and kopites hating England, they complain. It makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER.
I've met a few nice Liverpool fans but I agree that something about that team turns people into monsters. Like, there's one man I know - he's a minor celebrity - who was generally nice but was an utter **** about football. I found out he'd been trolling City/United/Everton fans under a fake name that he used for his side project. He always rubbed Everton's losses in my face but got super defensive whenever anyone made fun of Liverpool. Gave it out but couldn't take it. (He also thought, as an aside, that women talking about football was 'weird', though oddly that didn't apply to female Liverpool fans, I guess they were 'one of the lads'.) He was a Suarez apologist as well. He and his band are supposedly anti-racist but oddly, that doesn't seem to apply to Suarez because Evra is 'a **** with a history of shithousery'. I got super paranoid about football around him because if I said anything negative or critical of Liverpool he'd be on it like a flash. We ended up falling out over it.
ETA: if the League Cup is low priority, why did Klopp take it seriously last season?
Re Asian fans, I had a couple of Asian colleagues in one job who were rags but tbf, they were Mancs and one of them was a season ticket holder at OT while the other one went to away matches (he worked in our London office). I remember him dashing off to a Shakhtar Donetsk game one night. I've never met an Asian Everton fan, although I've met a couple of Jewish ones.
