Thing is the whataboutery has reached new levels to such an extent you now have non man united fans saying well you lot sing Munich songs (never heard anyone sing them for Decades) like its an excuse to have a dig at us. I’m fucking sick of it. In fact I’ve recently fucked off friends I’ve known for years, since i was a kid because the anti scouse/lfc vitriol has got out of control. Sad times and a general reflection of society as a whole. Standards of what you can say/do are at an all time low in my opinion and they weren’t that high in the first place.
Yep, I saw someone on Twitter yesterday using images of Liverpool flags from the 80s and claiming that as evidence that our fans disrespect Munich. We're living in an age where truth doesn't actually matter, even though we have more access to information than ever before.
Every year when you can audibly hear thousands of United fans singing about Hillsborough and it gets called out, they just repeat the line that both sets of fans are as bad as each other, even though there hasn't been a shred of evidence for that in decades. It's brutal trying to reason with people who think narrative is more important than fact, and even worse, it means there's no chance of them ever self-policing.
The same goes for City's finances, we've spent over a decade in this country pretending that City's economic model is above board, we did the same with Chelsea until Russia invaded Ukraine and suddenly there was hand-wringing and faux regret. The thing is, in the mid-00s it was Liverpool calling out Chelsea. They hated us because we highlighted their lack of history, called them cheats, told them money couldn't buy a proper fanbase. We were held up as their rivals - new money vs. old money, North vs. South, right-wing vs. left-wing, plastic vs. passion.
Now, it's happening again. We're the only club or set of support that actually seem bothered by City's cheating, the only ones willing to stick their necks on the line and highlight it, the only ones who seem to have any semblance of a moral compass. The fact that City are shadily briefing journalists that Klopp is xenophobic should tell any neutral who hasn't worked it out yet, what's going on here. That is a deliberate attempt to shut down (completely reasonable) free speech and it's incredibly sinister. What next? Arteta questions their easier playing schedule, so they insinuate that he's a paedophile?
The chants, the sycophantic journalists and the financial doping are all intertwined. I'm sure in 10 years time the rest of the country will suddenly realise that City aren't the good guys, but, like with Chelsea, it will be too late then.
