Pancake wrote:Curls wrote:Liverpool fans I talk to seem to not be too bothered by Everton. Everton fans I talk to seem to be obsessed with hating Liverpool. All seems silly to me, they're just football teams.
Although saying that, we all hate Chelsea.
Not meaning to sound snarky but have you ever lived in Liverpool? Local rivalries are built on proximity, if you're one of the many Liverpool fans from outside of the city (e.g. the massive following in Ireland) then you probably won't get it.
I live in Liverpool and as someone not invested in that rivalry but immersed in it due to where I live I see it as very friendly. I think because of the longstanding gulf in quality there's less "professional" spice to the rivalry - the NLD is certainly a bigger deal now the teams are vying for similar prizes, and when Arsenal and United were playing title deciders it was electric. Outside of bragging rights there's little at stake other than the league points, and because Liverpool have bigger fish to fry, so to speak, it'll be a bigger game for Everton relatively speaking. Everton fans are also quite good at the whole self-deprecation thing and on the whole they're a good bunch.
Liverpool and United, on the other hand! My mate went to a training day in Manchester a while ago and was in the pub with some other delegates. He mentioned he was a Liverpool fan when they were talking about who would win the league this year and one of the blokes just flat out refused to talk to him after that