Quote Originally Posted by IainR View Post
No they didn't.. rose tinted glasses.. Look at the recent article about teams people love to hate... Man U and Liverpool were included...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...s-Arsenal.html

"Personally I have always said that before Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona was born, this Liverpool side was the best I’d ever seen. But they were hated"

Can you make it harder to piss on your arguments.. I'm getting bored..
Iain lad, you needn't have gone to the trouble of digging up a poorly researched, half baked article that has one paragraph saying Liverpool were hated, you should have just asked someone who watched football in that era. Despite 20 years of dominance Liverpool were never hated like United are today.

A couple of other points from the article, I've talked to a lot of people about football over the years and I've never heard anyone say 'I hate those MK Dons'. As for Souness's Rangers being hated, it was Souness that was hated, not Rangers. He achieved the feat of being hated by both Rangers and Celtic fans because he signed Maurice Johnston for Rangers who was a Catholic