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    #26
    (glances through the thread, whistles)
    And it's the Liverpool fans who are weird.

    Here's a bit of Rory Smith to cheer you all up.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/s...eague.amp.html

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      #27
      Yeah it really is.

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        #28
        I find many Man United fans go on and on about Liverpool more than they mention their own team. They even sing songs about us at Old Trafford when they're not even playing us, which is sweet of them. As for Chelsea and their fierce and dogged recourse to debunking our "history", well, you don't need much psychiatry training to see why that comes about.

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          #29
          "I find many Man United fans go on and on about Liverpool more than they mention their own team."

          In a pub in Chorley? It's possible. Chorley is weird too.

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            #30
            Man United fans in Chorley are definitely weird. Mind you so are Liverpool ones.

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              #31
              They just feel it more...

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                #32
                The odd thing about the piece in the OP is that among the all delusion and bombast is a moment of lucid self awareness that seems to reinforce the existential case for suicide more than the joys of watching football;

                It’s like heaven, son.

                It’s a place you go to leave all your troubles behind. Your shitty job, your empty bank account, the arguments with your other half.

                None of them matter anymore. Every ounce of frustration you have in your life, every bit of anger, every little bit of shit that’s built up over the months, can all be washed away in a glorious 90 minutes.

                Take it all out on them.
                I mean, it is true and who hasn't speculated that the reddest faced, most vitriolic chap bellowing away two rows down possibly doesn't have the most satisfying outside life, but I'd always assumed that some sort of obliviousness to the underlying bleakness was part of the package.

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                  #33
                  Originally posted by Sean of the Shed View Post
                  Fucking "You'll Never Walk Alone". Tedious mawkish wank from start to finish.
                  Apropos the ongoing discussions - it's the Stephen Sondheim fans like Sean here that are the genuinely weird ones.

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                    #34
                    YNWA does eliminate those heated discussions about whether to lead in with excerpts from Einstein On The Beach or Satyagraha.

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                      #35
                      Originally posted by Sash View Post
                      (glances through the thread, whistles)
                      And it's the Liverpool fans who are weird.

                      Here's a bit of Rory Smith to cheer you all up.
                      https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/s...eague.amp.html
                      Brave war reportage. I hope he's ok.

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                        #36
                        This thread is just a lame excuse to shit in Cilla's exhumed skull on their day of glory.

                        They were bombed by the Luftwaffe so it's fitting that a German should lead them to triumph.

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                          #37
                          No other English fans do it quite like this, because no other English fans have our European heritage. From our days as a port, welcoming people from distant lands, revelling in their mystery and adopting the best of their cultures, to the days when we started on our own quests, heading to far foreign lands and returning victorious.
                          Like how Liverpool became the European capital of the slave trade in the 18th century?

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                            #38
                            And then they built the Ship Canal.

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                              #39
                              Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View Post
                              They were bombed by the Luftwaffe so it's fitting that a German should lead them to triumph.
                              Stan Boardman's head is just about ready to spontaneously combust.

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                                #40
                                Let’s hope he’s standing next to Jimmy Tarbuck if it happens.

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                                  #41
                                  Fucking hell, just googled Boardman's age: 80, born same year as Bobby Charlton, who is just two months older than him. Tarbuck born same year as John Lennon (insert Bill Hicks joke about Mark Chapman here).

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                                    #42
                                    Are they both still alive? There is no god.

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                                      #43
                                      The Grim Reaper fucked up big time, went to the wrong houses.

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                                        #44
                                        The Germans to blame, no doubt.

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                                          #45
                                          (glances through the rest thread, whistles)
                                          Blimey!

                                          Anyway, here's a bit more Rory on the return leg:
                                          https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/s...ns-league.html
                                          "(City) fans, though, are a little cooler toward it (CL): Their focus remains, it feels, on the relative novelty of local and domestic superiority."
                                          #village

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                                            #46
                                            Who is Rory Smith and why do you keep referring to his turgid, stilted Kevin McCarraesque prose as if it were sermons from the mount?

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                                              #47
                                              Oh, hang on, is it you?

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                                                #48
                                                Originally posted by Lang Spoon View Post
                                                The Germans to blame, no doubt.
                                                Possibly true. Boardman's 6-year-old brother was killed in a bombing raid.

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                                                  #49
                                                  He's the Elvis and Johnny Cash of comedy, channeling fraternal survivor guilt into his art.

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                                                    #50
                                                    I can assure everyone that the New York Times' Rory Smith and "our" Sash are very different people.

                                                    That's also a really unfair characterisation of Smith's oeuvre as a whole.

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