'I have to say': Former PL chairman tears into Liverpool fans for what they did when he took his team to Anfield
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Liverpool have been one of the most dominant teams in the Premier League over the last few years.
Indeed, their Champions League performance last term was far from ideal, but now they’ve spent over £400million on improving their first-team squad, things should be about to improve.
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However, that hasn’t stopped Simon Jordan from slamming the Reds’ fanbase after what he’s seen happen with his own eyes.
If you ask any fanbase after they’ve lost a game whether they’re upset, the answer would normally be yes.
However, more often than not, fans are upset with the way their team has performed or even just the way that their players have played.
However, while live on talkSPORT, Jordan gave his thoughts on Liverpool’s fans and said that they’re particularly sore losers and that he didn’t like the way he was treated when he took Crystal Palace to play against them.
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“I have to say, having taken teams there and scored goals against Liverpool, they [their fans] are terrible losers,” Jordan said.
“They don’t like it, most fans don’t like it [but] they think they’re entitled to say exactly what they want to you if you score a goal.
“I remember when we played them in the FA Cup, I think Danny Murphy was playing in the game, and we scored a goal, rightly so, not so much me but the board of directors, I had got up and celebrated.
“[They] were instantaneously set up on by Liverpool fans and instantaneously set upon by the stewards.”
More often than not, you’ll see Liverpool fans complaining that Jordan holds something against them.
Although he has been full of praise for their transfer business this summer, it does feel like the former Crystal Palace chairman is rather critical of what the Anfield outfit do.
However, that wasn’t always the case with Jordan, adding later in the talkSPORT show that he used to be a supporter of Liverpool.
“I grew up watching Liverpool, supporting Liverpool, admiring Kevin Keegan, Emlyn Hughes, the ‘77 team that won the European Cup and collecting the cards, thinking it was a wonderful football club,” he said.
“So when I took Palace up there and played them, I didn’t like it, I didn’t warm to them at all, I think they’re wonderful supporters, no doubt about it, I think they’re a wonderful football club.
“But there is that attitude, that if you score against them, they don’t like it.”
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It’s clear that Jordan has been hurt by Liverpool’s fans after the experiences he’s had, but to be honest, that doesn’t excuse him from being as critical as he has been about the club in the past.
That is, especially since they’ve won all four of their Premier League games and even bagged a last-minute winner against Atletico Madrid in the Champions League.