Never found The Dell particularly bad in my personal experience, saw City at Southampton's old ground a few times, absolute shit hole though. Now, The Den on the other hand and The New Den they certainly were 'edgy', especially that game in the 3rd tier in 98.
Talking of going in home ends, I went in the home end against West Ham at Upton Park in the early 90s when we got a last minute winner there,.Couldn't actually sit on my hands as I was standing so had to shove them in my pockets!!
Getting back to the actual thread, ever since I've been going to matches Liverpool have always had one of the most unpleasant , toxic fan bases. Most opposing fans no matter who they support tend to agree with this, but the media just don't seem to (or choose not to) accept this!