Liverpool fans booing the anthem

Can anyone remember this anthem being booed before.

“Unlike say, Manchester United fans who call for their supporters to own the club, no such call for Liverpool to be owned by its fans.”

There are thousands of Man U fans who are doing somersaults at the thought of their club being owned by either a Middle Eastern Company or by multi billionaire capitalist Jim Ratcliffe.

I also think that the booing was more of a statement of disillusion with the establishment, Thatcher’s plan to let Liverpool die on the vine and the ongoing anger about Hillsborough, rather than not being happy with Mr Charles Windsor and his second wife being given a stupid looking hat.

There aren’t many fans of professional football (or professional sport for that matter) who can claim the moral high ground.

James 19 – “Pwel fans actually say they’re not English, they’re ‘scousers’?? Having no allegiance to King or Country…”

Can’t see that’s anything I would critisize. There are also several parts of England that have sizable portions of the population that do not consider themsleves as “English”. Lots of Cornish people see their identity as Cornish, I’m a Geordie and if asked I would desribe myself as a Geordie rather than being English. Travelling around the Northumbria area you see far more Northumbrian flags than you see England or Uk flags. I work regularly in Yorkshire and most of the people I speak to see themselves first as from Yorkshire than any particular Nation State.

There seems to be a move to a cultural association of identity linked to to an area more than the nation state style association, again I think that’s a positive move.

There was a poll in our local newspaper prior to Scottish Independence asking if people in the North East would prefer to join an independent Scotland or stay linked to England and the (admittedly unscientific) reslut was that 58% would prefer to join Scotland.