How much has or does the club impact your life?
Are you as passionate now as you were in say the 70's or 80's?
What exactly does this club mean to you? I ask these questions because I'm curious to know the level of passion and commitment a fellow red would give toward supporting their team. Having lived in the south my entire life, it's difficult to see just how passionate red fans are about their team when it's not a match day.
Interested to hear your views.
The club ie the insitution is massively important to me.
The "brand" or the "sports venture" frankly sickens me.
For many, football is a type of addiction. And with many addictions, that skews people's reality of a situation.
I love the club, but I can step back and be objective about it all. If today's thing was what we were being offered in the 70s and 80s, I'd never have been seduced by it. I'd have spent more time on other hobbies, as a kid and into adulthood.
I think there are many different types who watch LFC. For some, its just the local club. For others, its an excuse not to go shopping with the Mrs on Saturday. For others, its the only thing they have in common with the kids. Others intensely identify with the old values we used to have, or the terrace culture. Or the fact its another thing to do with your mates other than getting pissed. Some people, it was about particular players, or even crap like that "Being Liverpool" programme.
To me, it was about the culture, values and pride of a club that went to greatness when I was a kid in the late 70s and early 80s.
To be honest, I think for a lot, Liverpool Football Club isn't that important. They could just as easily watch Tranmere, Norwich or Man Utd with their mates, get pissed, have a laugh and go home. Or as Rafa said, like American sports fans, sit there with a fat hotdog and passively watch whatever happens on the pitch.
If I wasn't a Liverpool supporter, I've no doubt I'd watch football in the same way I watch a tennis match
ie devoid of any real underlying interest or passion.