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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3


Pilks said:
Wigan now, having moved from Prescot. Though what that has to do with loathing that lot I'm not entirely sure...
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I've got no problem with loathing them I'll take the Pepsi challenge with you. You're from Knowsley then, Knowsley is one of the most impoverished places in the Uk. How can you possibly dislike an anti-establishment protest from people from your own city/region? Regardless of their footy team. If you drive from Prescot down Prescot road through Dovecot you see a mural of a lad and a girl side by side. One red one Blue. I hate them with a venom when it comes to football, but when it comes to this city and all that stuff... I don't care if you're blue, red or a cricket fan. They hate us, and I hate them. We've got Eurovision here next week (not my bag at all it's a load of cheese) but it's great for the city. Lies vile right now. Let's not applaud the people who've made it vile. Good on them shower for turning up and booing tonight.
 
Shevin Keedy said:
I'll hazard a guess that it's because it venerates some weird mythical notion that Jesus Christ decided to pop over to ancient Britain for what must've passed for some sort of stag weekend circa 2000 years ago.

I'm actually a big fan of William Blake-(his work Jerusalem is actually something else, the poem with the lyrics for Parry's music is indeed called 'and did those feet in ancient time') - but the adoption of this work for nationalistic hubris is fairly despicable.

Great song though.
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As an American of German Irish extraction that grew up in England and now returned to the states as of 1987 I am able to say with complete and total honesty that this hymn makes me tear up even though it is a celebration of the oppressor. We are not simple beings, or if we are that is us at our worst.
 

Booing the National Anthem - oh so brave and such a socialist stand...... Oh and the new Home top is out only £74.

Utter Sheep and Tory Banner Shaggers
 
DavidH said:
I've got no problem with loathing them I'll take the Pepsi challenge with you. You're from Knowsley then, Knowsley is one of the most impoverished places in the Uk. How can you possibly dislike an anti-establishment protest from people from your own city/region? Regardless of their footy team. If you drive from Prescot down Prescot road through Dovecot you see a mural of a lad and a girl side by side. One red one Blue. I hate them with a venom when it comes to football, but when it comes to this city and all that stuff... I don't care if you're blue, red or a cricket fan. They hate us, and I hate them. We've got Eurovision here next week (not my bag at all it's a load of cheese) but it's great for the city. Lies vile right now. Let's not applaud the people who've made it vile. Good on them shower for turning up and booing tonight.
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I never said anything about being pro-monarchy. I simply can't bring myself to applaud them for doing something. It is what it is, you can, so more power to you.

I do suspect the genuine 'loathing' for the anthem from the majority of the bandwagon-jumpers, and I also find booing it as simply pointless and boorish. I would simply keep quiet and let those who want to sing do so, but that's just me.

We're all different. I respect your decision to openly applaud them. Hopefully you will respect mine to cynically assume the worst from them after decades of experience, and not to do so, and to express my own politico-social opinions in my own way.

It's all good. Or it should be.
 

peteblue said:
The Monarchy are not the government. The Queen did nothing against Liverpool. Liverpools courts are named after the Queen. This shower of crap calling themselves Liverpool are not Liverpool, they are a bunch of sheep fromNorway, London and around the country who think it’s smart to have a go. Meanwhile real people in Liverpool will have watched the death of Diana, Prince Philip and the Queen and felt a degree of sympathy and then today see an event that last happened 70 years ago. Do not judge my city or it’s people by the cretins inside of the Pit…..
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Bootlicker
 

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