How do you decide? It's even more perplexing given that Liverpool might be the most sh*t town I've been to in Europe yet so many seem to support these teams which are in essentially the staten island of Europe.
What I can tell you is that as a Devils fan who goes to Newark and a Yankees fan who goes to the South Bronx to watch his games, sexiness of the locale was automatically NOT a factor in me choosing a team, nor do I think we're in a position to go there considering the blasted post-apocalyptic stretches of Jersey we all know we traverse to get to the Rock. When I went to Anfield for the first time back in May, the area actually reminded me a lot of some urban parts of Jersey. It wasn't all that pretty, but definitely vibrant and the people are great, and that is punctuated by the fact that Liverpool as a city has a history of economic hardship [See: Manchester Ship Canal] which overcoming is a serious point of community pride, and that is evident abound on Merseyside. Oh, and the stadium itself is f***ing immaculate, in addition to being one of the cathedrals of world football due to all those famous European nights in the 1970s and 80s when that side from a downtrodden port city would knock off giants from the continent over, and over... and over.
Liverpool is a proud working class city with a people madly in love with their football teams. That was one of the factors in how I became a fan. Football without fans is nothing, and Liverpool have some of the most dedicated and vocal support you will find in Europe and the world, whereas in London you get plastic flags when you enter the ground.
Also, people probably aren't Real Madrid or Barcelona fans in America because "they like those cities"
, although now I can probably say I genuinely love the city of Liverpool. Can't wait to go back.
