Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Yeah great city, had many enjoyable nights out there and always found the people to be quite friendly and welcoming. I’ve always been a little envious of how great the connection with the supporters and the club has been. Just something very organic about it which I like. Plus they stopped Spurs winning the CL so that’s something I’ll forever be grateful for.
There was always a little bit of a sense of community with Arsenal, when we’ve won the title before the trophy has been paraded through Islington high street and you would get the red bunting out for fa cup finals. But london and Liverpool are just very different.
Liverpool have this sense of togetherness through adversity, for all the rivalry between Liverpool and Everton…a few months after the Bishop of Liverpool’s inquest into Hillsborough was published…Trevor Hicks was speaking outside Goodison Park before a Boxing Day match (Everton vs Wigan I know because I went to see it) and he got a very warm reception because Hillsborough was seen as something that affected the whole city, sons and daughters of the city went to a football match and didn’t come home.
It’s why despite the fact that Everton are a god awful team of goblins that id be sad to see them get relegated and to be honest with the club in the state it’s in, I’m not convinced they’d come straight back up. But the club has been horrendously mishandled, feels like Bill Kenwright is used as a lightning Rod to protect people like Farhad Moshiri (and never forget he was partnered with Usmanov as part of red and white holdings…so kind of dodged a bullet there).
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