has anyone, at anytime, ever read such a pile of shit as this !!???
I think the difference going back to the 60s then coming forwards is that we organically and spontaneously invented that culture and made it our own. It was real, and born out of something real. We don't really need anyone to show us the way. The pyro has added a modern, colourful twist to it. One I really enjoy too. If George plays Dua Lipa it's because her song was adopted into LFC fan culture after a European cup Final we played in. Again, a natural absorption of something new into our cultural heritage and not something forced and contrived.
I understand it with Abu Dhabi. They are an artificial entity without identity. They have to contrive something because, if they don't, they have nothing. There is no sense of occasion in anything they do, so they have to force it. It's all a bit sad and contrived, like WWE. A horrible, contrived, choreographed charade.
We set the pace all those decades ago, and others are still trying to copy. The whole 'Ultra' thing is just trying to recreate the Spion Kop of the 60s, 70s and possibly 80s with a modern twist, yet all of it is contrived and overthought, unlike the Spion Kop, which was in-the-moment, of its time, unique and absolutely authentic. I feel utterly privileged to have been a young lad on the Spion Kop from the early 70s onwards.
Lights and pre-game songs over the tannoy don't put the shits up the opposition, yet even the current Kop can do, despite being a castrated and sanitised version of its former self. We still have something real, in a world full of plastic. I think we should cherish it and not go down the route of the likes of Abu Dhabi. They are trying to create a sense of occasion that we do without even trying. Of course, we'll continue to evolve our cult
