05 Jul 2025 16:21:14
To my fellow US Reds. Maybe it is just the town I'm in, but I wonder if people around me really know what it means to be a Liverpool supporter. There is a difference between being a fan and a supporter especially living across the pond. To me, being a Liverpool supporter is like being a part of a community. We are a very unique fan base. I make it a point to say something to everyone I see wearing a Liverpool kit and I always get the same look back that says "leave me alone". Rarely do I get a YNWA response back. Today, really bothered me. I wore my kit out and saw a couple of people in liverpool shirts and said "You'll Never Walk Alone". Each time I was given a blank look and they just walked away. Maybe I'm wrong, but I never ignore a Liverpool supporter in my area because there aren't that many of us. There was one person who told me they just liked the shirt. I guess that's okay, but to me, it means more than that. We all on here have our disagreements from time to time, but at the end of the day, we are Liverpool supporters and that's all that matters. In my town, they don't get it and it makes me sad especially on a day like today. So, to my fellow Reds around the globe, i don't live in Liverpool or England for that matter, but YNWA. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know.
05 Jul 2025 16:50:37
YNWA Stone, no matter where you are in the world. You will always have a family in Liverpool.
I've still not got my head around, too hard to process. Had to step away from the site for a few days because of it.
05 Jul 2025 16:51:32
I think saying you’ll never walk alone to them is a bit odd, and slightly cringey to be honest.
05 Jul 2025 17:07:44
Stone I feel you. I live in Colorado and wherever I go if I see and LFC supporter its YNWA, up the reds, etc. Some get it and you instantly start yapping about transfers, predictions, etc. some are just like. eh, and they either just don't get the ethos or they are the classic unsocial diprubbishs. Anyway, if we ever cross paths (that goes for anyone on this site that I have been on for 10+) first brewski on me! R. i. p #20.
05 Jul 2025 17:10:36
Ynwa stone. I got your back on that.
05 Jul 2025 17:19:24
Being a football fan is a superficial thing for a lot of people, especially for the bigger clubs. I genuinely don't mean that as a criticism; it's just the way it is. There's no code of conduct written anywhere that says by owning a shirt, you must suscribe to these values. At the end of the day, they all help with the shirt sales which helps helps the club so it doesn't really bother me.
05 Jul 2025 17:47:56
Cringy to say you'll never walk alone to a liverpool supporter? Really?
05 Jul 2025 18:44:22
I think it’s the way supporters support in the states Stone. They go to a Baseball game or an American Football match as an event. A day out if you like.
They have the team they follow but if they lose it’s ok because they had a day out and had fun.
I’m speaking for myself here but I know when I go to Anfield it’s way more than that. Anfield, to me is a sacred place where I go to pay homage to the players and the club, past and present. Liverpool FC is literally part of me, it’s in my DNA.
It’s not a day out, or an event that I’m going to. I’m going to do a job and be part of the team, part of the club and part of the family that has been there for me since I was born. We are one.
So, don’t feel embarrassed to say you’ll never walk alone to another red Stone. If they don’t say it back it’s fine, they just don’t understand what it is to be part of this great club. They might support us when we play but they don’t feel it like we do.
And that’s ok.
05 Jul 2025 18:44:40
Judging by their responses, they're not LFC supporters. You just said one of them just 'likes the shirt'. There are many of people like this - I used to have a Sorrento Calcio 1945 shirt (lower league Italian team, because I went to Sorrento; it looks like and AC Milan shirt and we'd beaten Milan in 2005, so just to fox people back here on Merseyside) Just do what we would do over here, and give an upward, single movement of your head as an acknowledgment. It's all that's needed really mate. Then there's no embarrassment from you or them.
Not posted since Diogo's death. A sad day for us all and obviously beyond comment for their family.
In all likelihood, he would've been sold this summer, but he would still have been one of us, as nearly all our players are after leaving.
05 Jul 2025 19:08:09
It certainly means more to be a Liverpool supporter, it certainly does to me but I do fear that it is getting a little bit “lost” in the younger generation. You’ll Never Walk Alone isn’t just four words, it actually means something. You only need to look at the history of the club, the trials and tribulations it has had to endure, even in the past few days with the passing of Jota. If his parents or wife were to read these pages over the last few days I hope they would see that they aren’t on their own, that Jota will always be remembered, his song will always be sung for generations to come.
The only tattoo I will ever have, YNWA . Four letters, four words but it’s so much more than that.
05 Jul 2025 19:14:53
Thank you AOE and Robbo, I needed to read that.
05 Jul 2025 19:24:13
Stone, YNWA mate!
05 Jul 2025 21:04:20
I'm a 50 odd year old lifelong Red, born and bred in Toxteth, but some of the most passionate fans I have met have been from overseas, they live and breathe the YNWA ethos, specifically for me Bucharest and Sarajevo, top boys and girls, very welcoming to a scouse brother. Yes there are those who like the glory of association or as said the "shirt" and that's OK they walk amongst us, but for those that understand deeper it is a brotherhood.
05 Jul 2025 21:12:33
Cheers Kaiser.
05 Jul 2025 22:42:38
ps Stone, see where the closest LFC Supporters Group is to you. Maybe you can visit and watch a match with them where they meet if it's not too far away.
06 Jul 2025 01:25:14
Each to their own but for me ‘you’ll never walk alone’ is the ethos of the club and something that makes us feel part of a larger family of like-minded supporters pulling in the same direction. It feels a bit masonic to verbalise it to another supporter.
I usually just say ‘i love your shirt’ mate.