THE VIEW FROM CHELSEA: The cult-like Liverpool love-in makes us sick... they're jealous of our success



Ahead of Chelsea's trip to Anfield on Sunday, die-hard Blues fan and host of the award-winning ChelseaFanCast David Chidgey explains why the Stamford Bridge faithful dislike Liverpool.

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Why do so many Chelsea fans 'hate' Liverpool? It's an odd rivalry and certainly not as clear cut as our rivalry with Spurs.

But if you grew up in the 1970's you became sick of Liverpool winning at home and in Europe whilst we languished in mediocrity.

In those days a visit to Anfield was a grim experience, often met with bricks and other 'unsavoury' objects being hurled at you and a return journey hampered by a car now devoid of wheels.



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Apparently it's an example of the 'famous' Scouse wit, humour and banter. As we'd usually been on the end of a sound defeat it only served to darken our mood further.

With Chelsea's recent success, the enmity on both sides has increased massively.



Liverpool fans constant whining about history and plastic fans in particular is what gets our goat - they seem to forget we won a European trophy before they did!

Every club has a rich history and Liverpool certainly do not have a monopoly on that - they also have more than their fair share of plastic fans and flags I might add!!

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When you have supported Chelsea for as long as I have you appreciate the bad times as much as the good - it defines you more than success in many ways.



Unlike us, Liverpool fans have an overwhelming sense of entitlement that grates. Worse, this is supported by an unhealthy influence in the media (44 ex-Liverpool players as pundits at the last count!) bordering on religious fervour at best, brainwashing at worst. They are like a cult.

And like every religion they have their own hymn, everyone's favourite football song (cough) - You'll Never Walk Alone. Well, it's not our favourite song and we delight in drowning it out when we visit Anfield, dispelling the myth of the 'spine-tingling' atmosphere.

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Much of the venom aimed at us by Liverpool fans is derived from their sense of entitlement and a jealousy at our perceived undeserved success over the last 15 or so years, while they have under-performed.

There's an old Chelsea song that goes: 'we're the best behaved supporters in the land - when we win, but we're a right bunch of b******* when we lose!'



The reverse is true of Liverpool fans. Expect unseemly triumphalism and gloating from Anfield to Fleet Street should they win the title, not to mention the flagrant use of the word 'history'!