RAWK Goes into Meltdown 2014/2015 - The "We go again" Edition

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They are like the North Korea of football forums...
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To be fair to North Korea they probably have some sort of warning before they ban you for life for saying Kim Jong Il might have scored in the FA Cup final but he's lost his touch in midfield recently.
 

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OK, which one of you feckers wrote this.. :lol:

The 5 types of Liverpool fan…
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The Scouser-than-Scouse

Liverpool, as with most of the world's biggest clubs, have a proud tradition of foreign fans supporting the team through thick and (often) thin - and most are as passionate and informed as any Anfield native.

But the Scouser-than-Scouse takes things that one step too far.
They express their obsession by attempting to out-Scouse Scousers at every turn. This involves overusing the Merseyside lingo, being ferociously partisan, and taking any criticism of their beloved 'Redmen' as a personal slight, la.
To say they are touchy is to refer to Micky Quinn as a tad chubby. Funnily enough, they don't mind being called 'Wools' as they love how Scouse that sounds.

The Shankly Gates Shakespeare
This Liverpool fan is an unappreciated genius. Picasso had his canvas, Rodin his clay, while the Shankly Gates Shakespeare turns to the internet forum to share his art.

They're not fans of Twitter because it doesn't allow them to fully express their oh-so-worthy opinions in the most verbose and flowery prose possible. So they revert to blogs and message boards - explaining mid-essay that they're 'actually welling up' and 'literally shaking'.

The worst possible scenario is when one of these bedroom bards masters the basics of Photoshop. We then have Lord of the Rings and Gladiator-style mock-ups of their heroes in glorious sepia effect.

The Kopite Gobsh*te
The Kopite Gobsh*te is the very antithesis to the two types above. It sounds like an insult but it isn't - their existence is vital to the natural balance. Otherwise everyone would be ugly-crying constantly and there'd be a special #YAWN button on your keyboard to save time.

They love nothing more than pricking bubbles of pretension and outing blaggers, bloggers and bullsh*tters. What gives their crass and often merciless rage virtue is they'll go after anyone, including (and especially) fellow Liverpool fans.

As likely to reference Rose West and Jimmy Savile as they are Steven Gerrard or Rafa Benitez, they keep the more sentiment Scousers in check...usually by calling them a 'f*cking nonce'.

The Old Romantic
The Old Romantic is something of a misnomer - there's no age-barrier to this wistful history buff of the Scouse fraternity. Just as long as they have a selective memory.

Although the most common variety love to bore fellow supporters in the corner of the pub with tales of how good Liverpool were in the 70s and 80s, it's never too soon to turn recent events into bitter-sweet nostalgia.

And so everything is referred in melancholy comparison to the past. Liverpool are a pale shadow of Rafa's European Cup-winning team, or the Suarez-Sturridge side of 12 months ago, or the glory weeks between Christmas and March of last season. You know, the good old days.

The Purely Academical
This type of Liverpool supporter isn't into football for the indescribable buzz before kick-off or the visceral thrill of celebrating a goal. For the Purely Academical, following Liverpool is like A-Level homework.

They love nothing more than creating convoluted algorithms that prove without a shadow of a doubt that Liverpool are actually 2nd in the table (not 6th) based on weighted form, English goalscorers or some other
meaningless statistic.

They have about 12 spreadsheets open on their desktop at any one time, charting all sorts of interlinked variables.
It's a bit like Good Will Hunting...in that you wish that you'll wake up one day and they won't be there.
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http://www.joe.co.uk/sport/the-5-types-of-liverpool-fan/6639
 

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:lol: Fantastic. The pictures on the article are really well chosen too.
 

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Maybe United are struggling to get players in because they don't want to play for Mr. V. Gaal.
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Cantona said:
Maybe.
Maybe they don't want to play for United, Live in Manchester or play for a team who wear red.
Or maybe signing top class players is harder than free transfers and rejects and takes a bit more time?
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:D
 

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Latest from RAWK on the Sterling situation:

 

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What's the reaction to us signing darmian? Expecting 'he s the Johnson of Italy' for sure
 

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Its funny seeing them talk about Schweiny being a desperate signing because he's 30 when they just signed 29yo James fecking Milner who they act like they have signed Iniesta or something.
Every player we buy is either a 'desperation move' by us, or its a player that 'i think will strggle in this league' lol.
 

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Its funny seeing them talk about Schweiny being a desperate signing because he's 30 when they just signed 29yo James fecking Milner who they act like they have signed Iniesta or something.
Every player we buy is either a 'desperation move' by us, or its a player that 'i think will strggle in this league' lol.
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Are they really? :lol:
 

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Raptori said:
Are they really? :lol:
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We could sign clones of 22 year old Messi, Ronaldo, Keane, Scholes, Zidane, Van Nistelrooy, Pele, VDS, Thuram, Cafu, Xavi and the ghost of George best, but in the eye of your average brain dead scouse wankstain they would be either desperation, knee jerk signings, massively over rated, not as good as Hendo, Flanno, Firimino, Millnero etc

Or just plain shit.

And they would all be too expensive (even if they were free).
 

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Stussy@RAWK said:
"Welcome to the biggest club in the world that needs to keep telling people its the biggest club in the world, Bastian. Do you have anything to say about your new club being the biggest club in the world?"
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We loaning our interviewers to United?
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RetroStu said:
Its funny seeing them talk about Schweiny being a desperate signing because he's 30 when they just signed 29yo James fecking Milner who they act like they have signed Iniesta or something.
Every player we buy is either a 'desperation move' by us, or its a player that 'i think will strggle in this league' lol.
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They are just bitter and can't stand the fact that we can buy high profile players and they can't . Liverpool couldn't sign a player like Di Maria for example, because the players simply wouldn't go. They have done a lot of business early this window and fair play to them but there delusional. Making there new signings like Milneymar and Danny Ingiesta, they think they are genuine contenders. The truth is that Liverpool had there chance and blew it in 2014. They will not have a better chance of winning a league for a long time now. They are now a Europa league team that will finish outside the top 4 again next year. They look a broken team from the one that had Suarez, Sterling and Daniel Subway scoring for fun. The media would like to convince you otherwise though. Stories like selling Sterling and replacing him with Marco Reus:houllier: There only comfort is voting for Jordan Henderson to be on the FIFA 16 cover with Messi/ Jamie Carragher saying Bastian is past his best. I find it funny how they have been laughing at us in this window so far. There won't be much laughing if we get Morgan Schneiderlin and Otanmendi/Ramos in this window.
 

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Morpheus 7 said:
They are just bitter and can't stand the fact that we can buy high profile players and they can't . Liverpool couldn't sign a player like Di Maria for example, because the players simply wouldn't go. They have done a lot of business early this window and fair play to them but there delusional. Making there new signings like Milneymar and Danny Ingiesta, they think they are genuine contenders. The truth is that Liverpool had there chance and blew it in 2014. They will not have a better chance of winning a league for a long time now. They are now a Europa league team that will finish outside the top 4 again next year. They look a broken team from the one that had Suarez, Sterling and Daniel Subway scoring for fun. The media would like to convince you otherwise though. Stories like selling Sterling and replacing him with Marco Reus:houllier: There only comfort is voting for Jordan Henderson to be on the FIFA 16 cover with Messi/ Jamie Carragher saying Bastian is past his best. I find it funny how they have been laughing at us in this window so far. There won't be much laughing if we get Morgan Schneiderlin and Otanmendi/Ramos in this window.
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They have already been doing the "Schweinsteiger is old and past it, i would of been more worried if they signed Schneiderlin", "Utd got the wrong player, they should of got Schneiderlin" style posts but just you watch, as soon as we sign Schneiderlin they will be like "he's overrated, he wouldn't be at Southampton if he was any good" etc, etc, etc lol.
 

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RetroStu said:
They have already been doing the "Schweinsteiger is old and past it, i would of been more worried if they signed Schneiderlin", "Utd got the wrong player, they should of got Schneiderlin" style posts but just you watch, as soon as we sign Schneiderlin they will be like "he's overrated, he wouldn't be at Southampton if he was any good" etc, etc, etc lol.
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Most of them in their United thread recognised Schweini could be a great signing for us as long as he isn't injured.
 

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But he'll be 31 the first month of the season. He comes to a faster paced league, ask Emre Can who has a lot more pace than Bastain. It's a more physical league, again ask Emre.
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Rightly called out, to give them their dues:

I dunno if you're wumming here but there's about 8 galaxies of difference in quality between Emre and Schweinsteiger. It's like telling Aguero to go ask Antonio Nunez if the switch to England is piss easy.
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Couldn't have put it better myself.
 

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They are absolutely insane. In complete denial...comparing Can and Schweinsteigher :houllier:
 

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I like how we have no chance of finishing above Arsenal despite only finishing 5 points behind them last season.
 
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