If youāre genuinely interested in a club, being interested in what they are, their history and what the local community is is important.
Liverpool have much more of a compelling story than Manchester United in recent decades in that Liverpool fell behind the game and retained elements of ye olde Football League club while Manchester United ruthlessly monetised themselves and it was mainly success all the way for them. Liverpoolās lack of consistent success but regular near misses is why Liverpool supporters remain fanatical. Liverpool is a much more interesting club to follow.
Liverpoolās story in recent decades has been one of huge underachievement pock marked by occasional glorious and unexpected successes, but has also been coloured irrevocably by Hillsborough, and that has irrevocably shaped the club and the city of Liverpool and how fans of the club should and do think in a general life sense. Overall, thereās a romance to Liverpoolās story which makes them more compelling than any other club in English football. Manchester United had that air of romance about them for a long time because of the Busby Babes but it has declined in recent decades.
Thereās no romance at all attached to āManchester Cityā and their petrodollars fuelled rise, theyāre a horrific lab experiment of what happens when despotic state power buys something they have no connection to and transforms it into the death star. āManchester Cityā is totally divorced from what Manchester City as a club used to be 20 or 30 years ago. Liverpool still remains largely the same club, even Manchester United does to a large extent.
It would be hilarious if you live your life exclusively through Twitter.
In reality, football clubs and football in general are supposed to be a public good, not a plaything of infinitely wealthy despots. The real owners and curators of clubs are supposed to be local communities and the clubs are supposed to be things which are accessible to local communities and serve as a genuine rallying point for local and regional pride.
That goes for Liverpool, Manchester United and indeed the former Manchester City and Newcastle United. The Premier League was ultimately a disastrous thing for English football and football in general because it was the key change which concentrated wealth and pulled the rug up not just from other English clubs but from other leagues. Leveraged buyouts by the Glazers and Hicks and Gillet being allowed to proceed was a disgrace, then the buying out of clubs by human rights abusing petro state regimes as happened with the former Manchester City and former Newcastle United and PSG as well as Chelsea was an even bigger disgrace. That concentration of wealth and the political implications it has for advancing the interests of despots is a moral shame on the game and on the sportās governance and the UK and other Governments which permitted it to happen.
Enjoy the night guys. Whatever will be will be. This is a night filled with great potential for those legacy City fans on the forum like @Bandage and @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy
I doubt any of you would begrudge us long suffering guys what could be tonight
