I have always had a thing about scouse football fans- ever since I stood outside Fulham Broadway station after Chelsea had beaten Liverpool 4-2 in the FA Cup in January 1978. "No disrespect mate (imagine the accent), but to concede four goals to a team like Chelsea is a disaster." The arrogance, the cod-humour, the "great scouse character" and all the crap that goes with self-appointment I find unpalatable. They are not great football fans, but they are a noisy, partisan crowd- there's a difference.
We saw that in 1985, Liverpool fans contributed to the horror of Heysel, four years later the same fans rushed the gates at Hillsborough, prompting the worst football disaster we have seen in Britain. We have seen Liverpool fans as the great innovators- darts, bags of nails, car wrecking and smoke bombs. And now in Athens, we see the same fans- the greatest 'victims' of all - complaining of chaos. Well done UEFA- they have blamed the Liverpool fans and quite rightly so, too. It is time that everyone realised that this unruly mob, almost lawless like the city itself, are not great ambassadors for British football.
What is a great shame is that Liverpool's football team down the years does not require scrutiny- they have had some great teams and players. It's just their fans I can't stand. Forza Milan!
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