ldoherty

Can someone please inform me about why Londoners & Mancoonians do not get on w/ Scousers.. Is this just a sterotype or is there some facts to this .. If so why?

odaat

scousers are alien, cannot speak english and smell so that the blind can hate them as well.

ldoherty

So, you are saying this is fact?

odaat

ps , they have all got girly haircuts and mustaches ( including the women)

iaink

Maybe the answer lies here....

http://stats.football.co.uk/hist/overall/attable.html

Or alternatively
Liverpool FC 18 league championships, 4 european cups
That other team in Liverpool 9 league championships
MUFC 14 League championships (plus City won it twice!!!), 2 european cups
Arsenal, Chelsea & Spurs together 15 league championships, No european cup


Yeah, I realise its ancient history, and for the sake of argument league championship means premiership and old Div 1, and european cup means the premier european trophy on offer at the time (now the Champions league)

ldoherty

Why is there the dislike of Scousers? I am sure it deeper than football. I fell in love w/ Liverpool while I was there. What am I missing?

Manc

I am from Manchester, yet lived in Liverpool. The word hate is a bit strong.

friendly banter is more like how I would describe it.

Most of it stems from the fact that it's only 35 miles apart between the two places, yet each city and surrounding area are home to approximately 14 million people.

Also you have 4 big time professional football teams to add into the mix.

It's like the New York Jets fans and Miami Dolphins fans living 35 miles apart.

ldoherty

So its not as serious as some people make it out?

iaink

Media portrayal is probably the biggest issue. Not many people used to dislike scousers when they were best known for the 4 famous ones in that band back in the 60s???

Maybe its Cilla Black and Jimmy Tarbucks fault, if its true at all.

Manc

Also in the 1800's the cotton mills in Manchester had to get their cotton via the ports in Liverpool which apparently (a bit before my time) charged a lot of money. This lead to Manchester being a tad depressed and Liverpool quite salubrious.

Queen Victoria summed it up by saying once "the men of Manchester and the Gentlemen of Liverpool."
So us mancs thought, ***** this, and built a canal to their own docks 40 miles inland to bypass the Liverpool docks and a major source of income to Liverpool was lost.

This lead to the decline (along with the loss of shipbuilding as a major industry)
of Liverpool from which it has struggled to emerge from.


and the fact that they're thieving junkies.

Manc

and both mancunians and scousers think that Londoners are shandy drinking southern queers.

ldoherty

I found that out as well..

Thanks for the info.

megs

Not just mancunians and scousers; tykes and every other northerner knows that to be fact. Southern jessies, the lot of 'em

Manc

Hey Megs. sent you a PM.

johnbuoy

But it's true!!!