cisses_gona_get_ya wrote:Now I dont have a problem with this as its good income for the club with shirt sales, memoribilia etc etc. I also dont have a problem with over seas support, but what I do have a problem with is if we dont win nothing big for another 15-20 years the majority of these new fans will be supporting who ever is doing well. What are known as gloryhunters IMO, not like us who have supportered them all our lives and been through the good and bad days and the ups and downs of the club, all that emotion you dont get by saying, Oh hang on a minute Liverpools just won the CL think Ill support them
Leonmc0708 wrote:adamnbarrett wrote:Maybe its not that they are glory hunters its probably like they prefer to support liverpool as their team in england.
e.g. Barcelona are my favourite team in spain
Do you know what I mean?
No I do not know what you mean.
How can you have "another" team that you support ?
azriahmad wrote:their former colonial masters
cptrios wrote:It wasn't until the 2002 World Cup that I realized how much I loved soccer (sorry about that word!), and Liverpool was the club with which I immediately identified. I started following them at the height of that massive run of bad results that year, and have been hooked ever since. I even bought the e-Season ticket, which wasn't chump change for a college student. I believe the first game I watched was us getting knocked out of the FA cup by Palace . But the end of that season, with the Worthy cup and the final, if failed push for the CL was so great...I knew this was the club for me.
Now, I do support my local team, the New England Revolution...but there's absolutely no chance that either of the two will ever play one another, aside from some freak friendly that'll likely never happen (Though the owner of the Revolution, who's an absolute football - both kinds - fanatic and genius, has made motions as to buying Liverpool). And, I'm going to be over in Troyes, France teaching English, and I'll probably go to their games and cheer them on...but I won't love them. So yeah, I think it's possible to at least enjoy other teams, especially considering that the Revolution might as well be a basketball team, they're so far away from the Reds. And yes, Liverpool takes precedence over all of the others when it comes down to it.
I did, however, manage to give a few of my friends the LFC bug when the CL games started showing up on ESPN2. Sure, you might consider them bandwagon fans...but I guarantee, even if they stop following football with any regularity, they'll be rooting for Liverpool whenever they happen to see them play
EURO CHAMPS ARE BRITAIN'S BEST SUPPORTED CLUB
Mark Platt 19 July 2005
Liverpool are now considered to be the best supported British club across the world, according to a leading sports consultants company.
A report published today by German-based Sport+Markt AG has revealed that following the recent Champion League success our worldwide fan base has increased by 10 million.
It goes on to say that we can now boast 18 million supporters across the world, a figure bettered only by Real Madrid (32 million) and Barcelona (23 million) in Europe.
Spokesman Oliver Butler says: "The huge increase in the number of Liverpool fans showed how influential success can be in the size of support. The size of the increase would also point to a high level of latent support which had gone underground due to a recent lack of success."
Sport+Markt AG's top nine best supported European clubs
1. Real Madrid
2. Barcelona
3. LIVERPOOL
4. Juventus
5. Milan
6. Manchester United
7. Arsenal
8. Bayern Munich
9. Chelsea
cisses_gona_get_ya wrote:Look some of you have missinterpreted my post, I have nothing against OOTERS or Oversea fans, what I do have a problem with is, will these new fans still be supporting us if we dont win anything? I will put my house on it, they wont be.
And I am not having a go at any one on here either.
OOters and overseaers also have a say on this matter not just scousers you know it is your club also.
cisses_gona_get_ya wrote:Now I dont have a problem with this as its good income for the club with shirt sales, memoribilia etc etc. I also dont have a problem with over seas support, but what I do have a problem with is if we dont win nothing big for another 15-20 years the majority of these new fans will be supporting who ever is doing well. What are known as gloryhunters IMO, not like us who have supportered them all our lives and been through the good and bad days and the ups and downs of the club, all that emotion you dont get by saying, Oh hang on a minute Liverpools just won the CL think Ill support them
You cant do that. But if this figure is right we will be loaded this year anyway
Liverpool's dramatic victory over AC Milan in the Champions League final last May has more than doubled the fan base across the world according to a report by sports consultant Sport+Markt AG.
The club's fifth European title helped attract an additional 10 million new supporters across the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain giving the Reds 18 million fans. Only Real Madrid with 32 million and Barcelona with 23 million have more followers.
"The huge increase in the number of Liverpool fans showed how influential success can be in the size of support" said Sport+Markt spokesman Oliver Butler. "The size of the increase would also point to a high level of latent support which had gone underground due to a recent lack of success."
By comparison Chelsea's first league title for 50 years raised their fan base to around the 10 million mark which puts them ninth in Europe behind Bayern Munich, Arsenal and (McDonalds Buccaneers) in sixth. Milan and Juventus were fifth and fourth respectively.
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