I have been contemplating this incredibly important and by no means pointless question.
I remember being really quite happy when Liverpool completed the comeback in the CL final. As was basically the whole country.
But why?
I certainly wouldn't now. What was different back then? Have we turned into ****s?
I don't think Arsenal and Liverpool have had any particularly heated rivalry over the years. Certainly not in the same way you have with United, or we have with Chelsea. It's always been reasonably friendly, considering we're both successful clubs.
And at the same time, it was only the start of the English domination of the CL for the next few years so there was probably a little bit of patriotic pride (I'm making this up as I go along since I've never given it a second thought either) whereas the next times it wasn't as big of a deal, so rather it was that it was us, it was as much that it was an English club.
I guess for next time () it would depend on who we were up against.
Edit: Though I daresay there were many Arsenal fans who wanted us to lose horribly, as well.
Last edited by Shaqiri Is Boss; 03-02-2013 at 08:35 PM.
I wasn't rooting for them, why would I want to see a rival achieve something we ourselves are so desperate to do? After the comeback though I didn't begrudge them the win, it was a great night.
I suppose that Liverpool team was quite poor and given it had been 6 years since there was an English finalist, them reaching the final itself was no mean feat, so it captured the imagination.
Maybe I misinterpreted the vibe, making this thread stupid.Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
I actually did want them to win.
Maybe I should change my name to Coney.
Perhaps you have a point about English domination. It had been six years since the last ones to appear in the final. But even 1999 was after a long time. Did anyone cheer for United? Fuck that! Or maybe they did but I was a kid and definitely didn't. Your point about rivalry is true but does it account for the actual willingness for Liverpool to win? I would've thought it'd be ambivalence at best. Out of the entire country probably only United and Everton fans were dead against them.
I guess the magic of the Kop got to us.
United are unquestionably the most hated club in the country though, no one wants them to win. Ever.
But I don't know if people actively wanted us to win, or whether it was just a case that the cup run and comeback was a memorable one and because of that people weren't repulsed by us winning it and had a begrudging respect for it. Many would have been dead set against us winning it though, not least Chelsea fans
Fuck it, I'm off to find a video of it...
Yeah, and I'm off to find a video of our 1-0 win over Barca in 2006.
I was reading Old GW the other week (I was incredibly bored) and the 2006 Match thread.
You all had such optimism for the future and in the project. What a difference 6 years makes...
Right about the former but all true football fans wanted them to win the 2009 and 2011 finals. Fact they didn't makes them hated even more.
just in the one off game, seeing a team come back from certain death is always fun - except for tottenham and chelsea.
but in all their cl games that season and before under houllier and benitez, i could never watch their dull boring approach. at least i could respect man utd for always putting on a show.
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