That's a fair comment. A few years back I was abused and threatened by a group of Liverpool fans in a town-centre pub (the Ship and Mitre which is usually ok). The opening comment from a middle-aged respectable looking woman was: "Youse would be nothing without your dirty Arab oil money." I told her she was racist and things went from bad to worse. I later found out the woman was a secondary school teacher. It is depressing to think that someone with such racist views is teaching children. Of course racism is not confined to LFC fans but LFC rarely get called out for it.
Large edit for immediacyHi m8y, out of interest what is making you still choose lfc to support, given the never ending list of issues associated with them, now that you’ve started looking outside the unreality bubble field?
My all time favourite Liverpool player in 2014 was also Steve Gerrard.The 2005 champions league final. My all time favourite players were Gerrard and Torres.
The city of Liverpool has been on the wrong side of race relations and has been quite a racist city throughout its history, even up until fairly recently too.I got banned from RAWK for saying that comments that comments targeting only City/Newcastle whilst ignoring Chelsea who seem to be playing football manager and buying everyone on sight could be seen as xenophobic, and I got abuse, hate and been bullied for days, plus I was accused of being an undercover City fan. Doesn't help that I'm British Arab and it hurts so bad seeing my fellow fans stereotype us like this, like we going to throw every LGBTQ Liverpool fan of the tallest stand in Anfield and we are all government owned who are going to require all female Liverpool staff to wear hijab and impose sharia law in Liverpool.
I'm not saying that Qatar and the middle east are immune from criticism, they deserve to be called out on issues like migrant rights, but I feel like there is a widespread stereotyping like we are all some savages and it's not a nice thing to read especially from our fans who claim to be socialist and left wing. The comments I've seen posted it about us were straight comments you'd see on a Nigel Farage show in GB News.
The city of Liverpool has been on the wrong side of race relations and has been quite a racist city throughout its history, even up until fairly recently too.
Back in the mid-1800s, during the American Civil War, there were numerous fundraising events for the Confederate Army in Liverpool. Ammo, weapons and uniforms were regularly sent from Liverpool to the Confederates. It was said that at the time, ‘more Confederate flags flew over Liverpool than Richmond, Virginia’.
The last belligerent Confederate Flag of the American Civil War was lowered in Liverpool as well as the final war ship from the war surrendering in Liverpool; chosen symbolically because of the city’s support of the Confederates, as if to say, ‘look, Liverpool, you’ve lost’.
Previous to this, Liverpool’s wealth as a city was built off the back of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
And right up to as recently as 2005, the Liverpool Echo wrote an article asking whether Liverpool was a uniquely racist city. In 2019 Howard Gayle did an interview with Al Jazeera where he spoke of being racially abused by his Liverpool teammate, Tommy Smith, in the late 1970s and early 80s. You can also hear many stories from City fans who attended games in Liverpool at both Anfield and Goodison where the large black contingent of our support were regularly racially abused at both grounds (probably moreso at Goodison… where for a time there was the saying ‘Everton are white’).
Even today, as you mention, there is a hell of a lot anti-Emirati and anti-Arab language and attitudes that come from the Liverpool fanbase. However, since 90% of Liverpool’s fanbase aren’t Scouse, it would be difficult today whether that is coming from Liverpudlian Liverpool fans or the wider fanbase.
You could always become a real City fan.I got banned from RAWK for saying that comments that comments targeting only City/Newcastle whilst ignoring Chelsea who seem to be playing football manager and buying everyone on sight could be seen as xenophobic, and I got abuse, hate and been bullied for days, plus I was accused of being an undercover City fan. Doesn't help that I'm British Arab and it hurts so bad seeing my fellow fans stereotype us like this, like we going to throw every LGBTQ Liverpool fan of the tallest stand in Anfield and we are all government owned who are going to require all female Liverpool staff to wear hijab and impose sharia law in Liverpool.
I'm not saying that Qatar and the middle east are immune from criticism, they deserve to be called out on issues like migrant rights, but I feel like there is a widespread stereotyping like we are all some savages and it's not a nice thing to read especially from our fans who claim to be socialist and left wing. The comments I've seen posted it about us were straight comments you'd see on a Nigel Farage show in GB News.
I see still no takers then?
So many billionaires, so many choices...
You look at the media on social apparently the rags have a queue of billions airs waiting to bid 5b and it be all done and dusted by end of February!
The money from Sheikh Mansour also helped -:)Exactly mate. You are owned by Arab owners and City haven't turned Sharia City FC, you still partake and support LGTBQ causes like any other English club, heck PSG gave a lot of flack for Gueye for refusing to wear a rainbow the LGBTQ kit and they are owned by Qataris. But to them it's all "sportwashing" which I don't even what that word even means ? also and they seem to incapable of understanding that we Arabs like other people have different views on many things and we can also be progressive. Even on reddit your club get a lot of hate for some reason that I don't even understand and label you as cheaters. There is no shame to admit that the reason you have won the league numerous times in the past 5 years because you have world class manager and players.