Liverpool - Third most popular team in Europe

[soccer365-old]

BY WINNING the European Cup, Liverpool have gained an extra ten million fans across Europe, making them the third-most popular team behind Real Madrid and Barcelona, according to a biennial report published today. Sport+Markt’s European Football Monitor finds 18 million people aged 18 to 69 in the five key media markets declaring themselves Liverpool fans. The effect of having Rafael Benítez in charge has also resulted in Spanish football fans switching allegiances from Arsenal and Manchester United. The Merseysiders’ support in Spain has quadrupled in the past six months, while Arsenal’s has halved and United’s has fallen by a third.

Here's the link (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22669-1698534,00.html)

[imasyko]

Here's the link (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22669-1698534,00.html)

To Hell with the numbers - I salute those of you who are at Anfield for every game and especially those who traveled to Turkey and serenaded the world with YNWA - Liverpool have the best fans, bar none. (well, except maybe The Ohio State Buckeyes, of course!) ;^)

[king_saladin]

Is most of eastern Europe more localized in their support, or do they predominantly watch the 'big three leagues' and support those clubs?

[Teso Dos Bichos]

Enjoy the glory hunters.

[quentinc]

Enjoy the glory hunters.
That's what I thought.

[Suss]

Enjoy the glory hunters.

Don't worry. There has been a rise in support for Man United in the Tampa Bay area.

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ManchesterBuccaneers/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c=

[usscouse]

Meanwhile, the Liverpool Reds are looking stronger than ever. Already officially the best team in Europe after winning the Euro Series, the Reds hammered Total Network Solutions 3-zip. And TNS have a championship-winning side, so the Reds must be pretty awesome this series. :D :D

[lfcli30]

I became a pool fan in 98-99, so I can never be accused of glory hunting


God we were SO BAD that year :D

[never walk alone TPK]

I became a liverpool fan 96 there but dint no jack i watched liverpool football games like once a year and now i am always on the net/tv/papers reading abt liverpoolfc and in kenya some of the sources are weird.

[Liverpool_SC]

Enjoy the glory hunters.

Rather hard to be considered a glory hunter as a 'Pool fan, as Chel$ki, Arse and Manure fans are so fond of reminding us that we have not won anything you can't get out of a Cracker Jack box, but for being lucky for about 6 or 7 minutes in Istanbul. And that wasn't much since Porto and Liverpool have now demonstrated that "anyone" can win the European Cup.

[youllneverwalkalone]

I became a pool fan in 98-99, so I can never be accused of glory hunting


God we were SO BAD that year :D

Me also, but I stuck with the Reds, even when our "dreams be tossed and blown". No better team, or fans for that matter than our glorious Reds.

[stanaccrington]

It doesn't matter when you started supporting Liverpool even if it was yesterday, it's staying with the team over the good and the bad times that counts. There you have the difference between Liverpool supporters and the Scum and Chelski, as I keep reminding scum supporters Football didn't start in 1991 with the introduction of the premier league, as for the we can buy anybody team I doubt thier supporters will be around in ten years time when they are back in the Nationwide.

[skipshady]

I started supporting in 1986, so yeah, I was probably a glory hunter. Things were quite different in the 90s though.

[edlova]

yeah I started following in '98, which was when I decided that I wanted to support a team overseas, I chose Liverpool, not for any reason other than I just did. No glory hunting over here :D I will support them no matter what they do.

[lfcli30]

as I keep reminding scum supporters Football didn't start in 1991 with the introduction of the premier league, as for the we can buy anybody team I doubt thier supporters will be around in ten years time when they are back in the Nationwide.

It's the Coca-Cola now. Can you imagine Manure competing for the Soda cup (forget the beer cup, they haven't come of age for that yet):D

[Liv'poolFaninAZ]

Maybe some good will come out of this surge in Liverpool support, like maybe being able to find some Reds MERCHANDISE in stores! Every single piece of Liverpool gear I own, Jerseys, T-shirts, scarf. Hats , posters and Pins I've had to order online, yet I can walk into almost any stupid sporting good store here and see manure and real Madrid shirts.

[soccer365-old]

Maybe some good will come out of this surge in Liverpool support, like maybe being able to find some Reds MERCHANDISE in stores! Every single piece of Liverpool gear I own, Jerseys, T-shirts, scarf. Hats , posters and Pins I've had to order online, yet I can walk into almost any stupid sporting good store here and see manure and real Madrid shirts.

I'm very dissapointed with the LFC online store. A large selection of products have been unavailable for weeks. :mad:

[quentinc]

I'm very dissapointed with the LFC online store. A large selection of products have been unavailable for weeks. :mad:
They've probably been gutted after the CL final.

Speaking of which, does anyone know where you can get those track jackets they were wearing before the CL final. I looked in the online store (a while back, mind you), and they were nowhere to be found.

[LiverpoolFanatic]

Maybe some good will come out of this surge in Liverpool support, like maybe being able to find some Reds MERCHANDISE in stores! Every single piece of Liverpool gear I own, Jerseys, T-shirts, scarf. Hats , posters and Pins I've had to order online, yet I can walk into almost any stupid sporting good store here and see manure and real Madrid shirts.


I found LFC, Everton, CFC, Man Utd, etc in a Champ's Sports in Pearl City Hawaii last year. I'm sure a lot of soccer specific stores in big cities will have stuff. I got my scarf from a store in El Paso TX several years ago, and the local store here in Lancaster, PA said they were expecting more LFC stuff soon.

[Xerxus]

one of which is diego maradona.
there was an article on him on liverpool website somewhere