NRC: Red Sox Owners buy Liverpool; Will you follow Liverpool now?

sorry.. but nope.

 

I have no real reason for following Manchester City beyond the fact that they entertain me. Even if I didn't already have a slight attachment to a prem team, I don't think this would push me towards Liverpool. I would weight US players being on a team as a much better reason to support a team than the team sharing ownership with the Red Sox. Granted, baseball is not my thing.

It could also be that I have found most Liverpool supporters that I have met to be insufferable. I guess if I was already leaning towards a team, the ownership thing might push me over the edge.

 

i'd rather walk alone

 

Since Kraft and Henry have from what I understand a good relationship I'll keep an eye on the team and see if any partnerships come out of this with the Revs, but my loyalty will be with Fulham who I started watching because of Dempsey but after the 2 relegation battles I became hooked on the team and will follow even after Dempsey leaves.

 

I just recently picked Chelsea as my team because I really enjoy watching Drogba, but I may have to take Liverpool into consideration.

 

I am not plastic therefore no.

 

You said it better than I, Monty. That's exactly how I feel.

 

If they acquire Donovan, I'll root for them.

 

I don't see that happening, given his declared allegiance to Everton.

 

If Liverpool were willing to give MLS the money they wanted I'm sure he'd be there in a second.

 

Straight cash Homie!

 

Therefore no, as in you won't support Liverpool because we're "plastic" fans?

What exactly defines a plastic fan? I always thought it was a fan of a front runner.

Funny, how you're talking about a club that has not won a league title in 20 years, no trophies in 4, a club in financial disarray coming off a 7th place finish in the league. This season we are in the relegation zone, off to the worst start in 50 years and playing arguably the most uninspiring football this side of Big Sam's Blackburn Rovers. Yet Liverpool fans are plastic. Right. Then what are real fans, paper?

I think Liverpool have, at least by my definition, the most loyal and least 'plastic' fans of the traditional "big 4" EPL teams. Chelski, Arsenal, ManU fans are probably much better examples. At least we were good before 1993. But each to his own.

 

Nope just makes me question my Red Sox allegance....j/k, but I hate Pool with a passion

 

Good post, I am just not a fanboy of the euro leagues, good soccer though. I have been to games in Rio (Flamengo), San Jose Costa Rica (Saprissa). I guess I do not understand the love for foreign leagues unless you lived there. For example id rather die than wear a Brazil jersey, (and ive been there). It seems to me that the EPL is more of a name brand than anything.

The greatest name brand in the world to me is the MLS.

 

Who are these mother ********kers?

 

Different countries must have different concepts of a flag. It is a very provocative act against a nation. I guess they hate Yanks. Crazy.

 

Is it in Liverpool?

 

Yeah, I would have to rank Man U as the highest in that area. I went to a game at Leicester City in 2002 (which clinched relegation for the Foxes). I was staying between Liverpool and Manchester, and for that night I thought I'd go to Rusholme, a Manchester neighborhood known as the "curry mile," known for great Indian food. I wasn't exactly sure where in Manchester it was, or even the name of the main thoroughfare, so I needed to figure this out. As I was driving back from Leicester, I stopped at a rest area on the motorway and spotted about 5-6 guys with Man U jerseys who obviously had been to the same game. I figured they'd be able to help. Turns out none of them had a clue, and they were not only not from Manchester, they had never even heard of the place. Anecdotal, to be sure, but I thought it was not the least bit ironic.

The bolded part is right. But if you did to a US flag what is pretty common in England and many other countries (put the name of your town or local club on the St. George's flag for display at a national team game), you could be arrested or at the very least, meet some nasty stares for "defacing" a flag. I don't know of any other country that makes kids in school pledge their allegiance to a piece of cloth.

All this is is a clumsy protest against a couple of unpopular owners who happen to be American. The Scousers loved Brad Friedel (at least for a while) and other American players have been quite popular in England, as long as they produced.

No big deal, no need to make more of it than that.

 

Yet another reason to support Everton.

 

In some ways, American cultural establishment like the Red Sox being involved with a core British cultural institution like LFC may open eyes on both sides of the Atlantic to outsiders in a very unique way. I may be hoping for this to go through. Hard to imagine burning the Union Jack would go over any better. I am sure this is a total outlier..

 

I don't doubt the "nasty stares", but arrested?