Liverpool Fc - The nation's most hated?

In football, like life, racism isn’t tolerated, it’s an obscene way of manipulating and abusing a genetic characteristic, and to be frank, it’s a cowardly, spineless thing to do.

This week, Luis Suarez, Liverpool’s flamboyant Uruguayan striker has been charged with using racist language at Manchester United’s Patrice Evra. Suarez, who has scored 5 goals this term, and lit the Premier League up with his trickery and flair, now finds himself banned for 8 games.

The incident itself has become quite clear, Suarez used a term, which is widely regarded in Uruguay as run-of-the-mill, and not a racial slur. Here however, it’s racist. Whatever the word or phrase maybe, it’s been accepted by the F.A and by Evra, that Suarez was probably the victim of a different culture.

However it’s not Suarez who’s become the villain in all this. His club, Liverpool have displayed an ignorance and reluctance to combat racism, and have instead, gone above and beyond to try and single Suarez out as the victim.

Wearing T-Shirts with the striker’s face on, and trying to create a “us against the world” vibe, whilst promoting Suarez as some sort of wronged “Nelson Mandela” figure.

Manager Kenny Dalglish, who this season has thrusted himself into the conversation as “most vile man in football”, with his ludicrous outbursts and viscous verbal assaults on officials lead the way with the T-Shirts.

Followed by the squad, even Glen Johnson, Liverpool’s solitary black player, donned a shirt.  As a club, Liverpool have clearly advocated a siege mentality, whereas Manchester United, the victims’ (something not said often) are staying silent, and letting the football law take it’s course.

Liverpool supporters have acted no better, Talksport presenter Stan Collymore grouped together some tweets he’d been sent by some Liverpool supporters. The messages are vile. The messages are explicit. The messages are racist. The BNP would shiver at some of the illiterate drivel some fans have had to say about Evra, the innocent party in all this.

Speaking to one Liverpool fan, who claimed “Suarez wasn’t a racist”, and defended the Liverpool fans with reasons like “I bet other clubs have fans like that” and that “it’s not all Liverpool fans”. Aside from the primary school type reasoning, it’s not all the fans, just the 5,000 who went to the DW on Wednesday, the thousands who post racial hatred on Twitter every day.

Manchester United are the most despised team in this country, mainly because of their winning. Also because they have a manager who manipulates officials and argues and moans like a petulant kid until he gets his way.

Liverpool now have the manager, and as a club have condoned racism.

Should they become the nations hated? I know one person who’s started to think so.