A Common Fan’s Sports Diary

This article on goal.com is a real eye opener. I always thought that young Asians in Britain would be totally obsessed with Man Utd and Arsenal. After all these two clubs have had the most success in the modern day premiership and have played a most wonderful brand of attacking football for most part (except for the George Graham years at Highbury).

The young Asian has spent most of his growing up years watching the glory of the Red Devils and the Gunners– and the mediocrity of Liverpool – without a title in the last 18 years. There should be absolutely no reason to root for Liverpool – it was a club their fathers cheered for back in the glory days of the 70’s and 80’s. Surely these kids who have grown up in Britain (unlike their parents who were born in Asia and then came over) have a mind of their own and can make their own decisions when it comes to club loyalties.

The crest which rules the heart of the British Asian

It seems they don’t and for good reason too. It seems there was more to the Liverpool sides of the 70’s and 80’s than just football success. It had something which the British Asian identified with back then – and as a result they forged a bond with the club which went beyond success on the pitch. A relationship so deep that even the next generation could not break away from it. Utd and Arsenal might have the dazzle and the trophies but they do not have what Liverpool had in the 70’s – and hence cannot woo the young British Asian. Read the article to know more about what Liverpool had back then.