12 Oct 2018 06:40:30
On a random note. Joe Gomez! What a player he is becoming for us! Everything we like in a defender including pace! And still only 21! Right now he is first pick for England as well. He even has the exotic surname that Liverpool fans crave.


1.) 12 Oct 2018
12 Oct 2018 09:10:04
"Exotic" surname? Look around, and smell the roses. There are more Liverpool fans with "exotic" surnames than there are with "normal" surnames (whatever "normal" means) .


2.) 12 Oct 2018
12 Oct 2018 11:32:06
I think you’ve completely misread his meaning there mate. There’s no malice there.

He’s talking about the old argument that English players get less hype from English fans than foreign ones do. That’s all.


3.) 12 Oct 2018
12 Oct 2018 13:27:50
It’s a weird dichotomy where English players are underrated but also incredibly overrated by fans and commentators alike. Personally I find the latter to be true more then the former. Though I think the former does apply to a lot of young talented English managers, which is unfair.

Regardless Gomez is a great talent. Is it me or does he just seem faster this year? Great to see.


4.) 12 Oct 2018
12 Oct 2018 14:51:57
I wasn't really try to stir up anything with my response. I just got the sense that it was harking back to the old days where basically only fans in the UK were fans of Liverpool, and anything else was extra or "exotic". It's a global game now and all clubs aspire to a global following. Bceause that's where the money is and where survival/ success is. Just going by TV viewership, there are more PL watching fans in Europe than there are in the UK. And for the Rest of the World, there are more PL watching fans than there are for the UK and Europe combined. So everything has changed. The same can safely said for Liverpool. So why should anyone who is not from Liverpool or the UK, whether it is a manager, a player or a fan be labelled as exotic? Just look at ManU! Their years "on the perch" didn't happen by luck or coincidence. It was a corporate strategy to expand their following throughout the World, which in turn provided considerable financial gains, which in turn allowed them to buy pretty much anyone they wanted to buy at whatever price. Which in turn resulted in all those titles. I never open the ManU page, but the rest of you will have to tell me if any of their fans call their managers, players or fans as "exotic".


5.) 12 Oct 2018
12 Oct 2018 18:58:15
Again ArAy, you’ve misread the whole situation, trust me.


6.) 12 Oct 2018
12 Oct 2018 20:21:01
Spot on 87red!


7.) 12 Oct 2018
12 Oct 2018 21:04:16
Okay, in that case, my apologies. 🙏.


8.) 13 Oct 2018
13 Oct 2018 08:27:24
No worries ArAy. Keep well.