Scousers Are Gay (For Football)

In gen­er­al I dis­like gen­er­al­i­sa­tions*, but af­ter watch­ing this video it is im­pos­si­ble to de­ny that all scousers ac­tu­al­ly are ag­gres­sive, sanc­ti­mo­nious, an­gry, xeno­pho­bic, ill-tem­pered, foul-mouthed, sim­ple­tons who take their foot­ball far too se­ri­ous­ly.

These guys re­al­ly need to calm down, calm down. If you have no idea what all this fuss is about, this com­pi­la­tion of YouTube fury was un­leashed as a protest against Liv­er­pool F.C.’s now for­mer own­ers, Tom Hicks and George Gillette, who since ar­riv­ing in 2007 have left a string of bro­ken promis­es and mas­sive debts in the wake.

But what’s the big deal there? ‘Foot­ball club does less well than pre­vi­ous­ly ex­pect­ed’ isn’t re­al­ly an at­ten­tion grab­bing head­line. Well you must re­mem­ber that this is Liv­er­pool, a city where the peo­ple take their foot­ball pret­ty se­ri­ous­ly. For ex­am­ple, when Ian Mc­cul­loch - the ex-front man of Echo And The Bun­ny­men - was asked for his mea­sured re­sponse to the sit­u­a­tion he said, “imag­ine if your fam­i­ly - which is what Liv­er­pool foot­ball club is to the re­al fans who go - it’s like you’re rap­ing all of ‘em… at once… over a long pe­ri­od of time and get­ting away with it”.

He said this sin­cere­ly with­out a hint of irony as Jeff from Peep Show stood silent­ly by his side, an in­vol­un­tary smile break­ing out on his scouse face. This is the men­tal­i­ty we’re deal­ing with here.

*This is joke. If you’ve not no­ticed this web­site is quite tongue in cheek.