Vienna_70
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This rivalry with Liverpool they keep going on about?
I got into football in the 60s and throughout the late 60s and 70s there was never any mention of this rivalry in football terms. There was the old nonsense about the dockers, but nothing about football until we decided to educate lower division teams as to how a football club should not be run.
That's the first time any East Lancs Road rivalry was mentioned AFAIK. Leeds had already gone down, Everton were in a lull so the media brought up this rags/dipper bollocks. It was as though the rags had to have some sort of rivals in the same division.
Do any of the even older gits recall this rivalry from the 50s or early 60s?
It was the pisscan who started it, AFAIK, when the rags were closing in on Liverpool's record number of top-flight titles.
It was also, IMHO, another way for the hard shoulder shitter to belittle us.