Why do you support Liverpool......?.....

[tomasjj]

cameras werent invented

Did an artist paint the two of you then?

[alunevans]

Born in Wavertree, family all reds, presto! I was brought up good!

same answer for me word for word

[Helios Creed]

My Mum was taking the Anfield Tour and went into labour in the Kop end goal.

I was born in the Kop goal.

She was in labour for 18 hours and by the time you popped out, a match had started. Fortunately it was the first half, we were 3-0 up and they hadn't had a shot on goal.

OK, sounds reasonable.

[carheex]

Would definitely have been Everton,spent my early years in Garston living next door to the Everton goalkeeper Albert Dunlop.Gives you some idea off the wage structure at the time,it was a tiny terrace house with outside toilet and gas lighting and him and his wife were living there with his mum and dad.
He did everything to get me to Goodison,thank god I had no interest in football till after I had left there at eleven.

I know what you mean - some of the top everton players now have indoor toilets.

[fah-q]

My Mum's family was from Scottie Road whilst my Dad's family are all Gooners as thats where they settled when they came to England from Italy.

I was taken to Arsenal vs Liverpool as a 6 year old and decided to follow the Reds instead of Arsenal as they were my Mum's families team. Besides, c'mon...Arsenal????

[chrispy]

As a born and bred Welshman I should really support a Welsh team but my dad and brother were fanatical Liverpool supporters and it only took one visit to Anfield (playing against Spurs) to get me hooked. The atmosphere on the (standing) Kop got me hooked in seconds. I've worked for some of the biggest bands in the world (U2, Bon Jovi, Van Halen, ACDC etc) and no venue or no-one compares to the atmosphere created at Anfield and especially the mighty KOP

If I didn't support the Reds i'd probably support Cardiff City but I do enjoy watching Arsenal. Ok lads you can stone me when ready

[TartanTerror]

I am American, but my grandmother is from Liverpool. She always wanted me to play proper football, not the troglodyte infested form normally held in high regard here in the states. My father played in a men’s league and that spurred my interest in the sport, and I started playing when I was 7. As soon as my aunts in Liverpool found out I was playing my first kit arrived in 77 – 78. It was hard to follow English teams here in the states but my aunts would send me the year-end football reviews and any magazines they could. One of my aunts was a nurse, and she took a poster to the hospital when King Kenny was visiting some children. He was kind enough to sign it and that poster still hangs on my wall to this day. My friends here had no idea who this Dalgish fella was who was all over my walls.

If I did not support Liverpool then I may have gravitated towards a team from the Bundesliga because those were the only games I could watch on a regular basis (It was in the form of a program called Soccer Made in Germany), aside from the defunct NASL.

[Lee]

The real reason? I'm sure many will disaprove but **** it, it's my reason

Basically I won a Liverpool scarf when I was about 4. Kept it, got into footy about 10 years old, and decided that Liverpool would be me team. Used to go to Anfield regulary between 95-98

My other team would be Southampton as a mate of mine had a season ticket, so I went down most weeks between 98-01.

Erm, local team would be Woking or Aldershot

[redlancer]

Born Fazakerley 70's
1st proper memory I have is a poster on the wall with Kenny in his usual salute and the spurs players looking dejected.
Supose it could of been either red or blue but then as my mate always said i always come out smelling of roses.

IF Liverpool weren't around defo would of been a bluenose then tranmere. Still would of hated united so wouldn't of been too bad.

[redlancer]

As a born and bred Welshman I should really support a Welsh team but my dad and brother were fanatical Liverpool supporters and it only took one visit to Anfield (playing against Spurs) to get me hooked. The atmosphere on the (standing) Kop got me hooked in seconds. I've worked for some of the biggest bands in the world (U2, Bon Jovi, Van Halen, ACDC etc) and no venue or no-one compares to the atmosphere created at Anfield and especially the mighty KOP

If I didn't support the Reds i'd probably support Cardiff City but I do enjoy watching Arsenal. Ok lads you can stone me when ready

you still working in the buissness

[Dhav]

Basically it's down to my cousin. I was about 4-5 years old, my cousin a couple of years older than me. I was round his house and we were watching the sports news on tv and they were talking about Liverpool. My cousin asked me what team I supported. I knew nothing about football but figured for them to be talking about Liverpool they had to be either the best team in the world or the worst. So I took a punt and said "Liverpool". He said he was a Liverpool fan too and from that day we grew up together as Liverpool fans, went to games together, supported the club together.

I reckon I'd be a Spurs fan if I wasn't a Liverpool supporter - or worst case scenario, Arsenal

[mersey86]

The real reason? I'm sure many will disaprove but **** it, it's my reason

What would your made-up reason have been?

[Lee]

What would your made-up reason have been?

Grandparents from Liverpool? Erm, born there and moved away at the tender age of 3?

[Biff]

I support Liverpool because I'm a man of taste and distinction, someone men want to be and someone women want...........

[garymac]

Two words.

King. Kenny.



I lived next door to (tenuous this) the brother of the Boro manager, Willie Maddren, so I got to a few Boro games but was lucky enough to see KK play against them and that was that, although.....

...I supported Scotland in the 78 World Cup cos of him!!

Been a fan ever since....had a spate of going to games over 4 or 5 seasons but haven't made it in a couple of years.
I'm bringing my daughter up a Red....teaching her the songs and the players. She's too young to absorb the history yet but she knows we're the best in the world!!!