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The amount of media attention that Liverpool get, particularly from the BBC.

You can guarantee that at any given time, there will be an article under the features and analysis section of the BBC football website.

At the moment they're running the article 'Who will score the goals for Liverpool', and you can guarantee that this will be superceded by another similar article.

They get more attention than Manchester United from the BBC, never mind the other 7 clubs who are all better and arguably more worthy of the BBC's attention.

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Just...

Liverpool.

Would have been enough mate! :winkold:

Would i be right in saying that they could well be one of the mosted hated clubs in the country?

If they still had Kenny in charge I think they would be undisputed champions of hatred.

The only thing that saves them is the fact that Rodgers seems like quite an agreeable chap.

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I think I've nailed why Liverpool and Man Utd fans are typically such an insufferable lot. That's a generalisation and there are exceptions, but for the purposes of the post, we'll generalise.

Both sets are insufferable for very different reasons, but in equal measure. They both have an arrogance but it's implemented completely differently.

Now let me preface this by saying that this is based on the typical Irish Liverpool/ManU supporter which may or may not be the same as what you face over in England. Let me know if it's the same.

Here's the conclusion I have come to through years of extensive research.

You can never talk to a Liverpool fan about their own club in a way that is anything other than a positive light. A Liverpool fan will listen endlessly to effusive praise of how great everything is at Anfield and of how great the club is or was. But you can never talk in a negative light about their club for any length of time. You get told you don't know what you're talking about and that you don't 'get' the Liverpool way in an almost 'how dare you' kind of way. A case in point the other day even on talkSport (which suggests it's not an exclusively Irish thing) when one of the supposedly professional pundits (Liverpool fan) was talking to one of the others. The non-plop fan suggested that an improvement on the pitch this season even if it didn't mean an improvement in the league table, would be progress because of what they're trying to do. He was swatted down very ignorantly and dismissively as 'not having a clue' what he was talking about and that he just didn't get it - the inference clearly being that Liverpool in this pundits eyes had a divine right to be at the top end of the league and not a single thing; not a project of any size; would ever be accepted as threatening that. You basically can't properly discuss Liverpool with your average Liverpool fan without being told you don't understand if things aren't painted as rosey.

A United fan on the other hand is confident that he knows every goings on about every other club in the league too. Where a Liverpool fan will at least accede to your own assumed greater knowledge about your club, a United fan will sit and tell you exactly where your club has gone wrong and he will not or can not be told any different despite your best efforts. He is absolutely positive that he knows more than you do. He knows everything about everything despite in reality knowing **** all about everything outside Old Trafford. Despite learning everything he knows from Match of the Day, he can tell you where your chairman has gone wrong. Again, I only have Aston Villa as my example, but the amount of times Man U fans have defended things that have happened at Villa with only the most superficial understanding of wider implications has made me furious. But I quickly lose the will to respond and I usually end up nodding, placating them and moving on to some non-morons.

Now the difference between me talking Liverpool to a Liverpool fan and a United fan talking Villa to me is that I'm more than willing to learn and be educated BY the Liverpool fan on and about their club. This is what a discussion is. But a United fan doesn't want to learn, because what he doesn't already know simply isn't worth knowing.

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