By Jordan Gardner, Liverpool fan
BOOING our own player? Who’s just won the league? Of course we did. And anyone who criticises that doesn’t understand he’s made all Liverpool fans look right dicks.
Yes, Trent has been with us for 20 years. Yes, with him we’ve enjoyed our most protracted period of success since the 1980s. And yes, he has the right to leave an employer and go to another who’s not even a rival.
All those things would be true of other clubs. But this is Liverpool. This means more, like it says on the stadium. The bond between players and fans is unique, except this twat’s making it look like it isn’t.
By pissing off to Real Madrid, who’ve won almost three times as many European cups as we have and don’t even bring up the f**king league titles, he’s blatantly asserting that success isn’t intrinsically more special when it happens on Merseyside.
Alexander-Arnold has disregarded every quasi-spiritual belief we smugly hold about our side. It was bad enough when Jurgen left and did those adverts, contradicting our belief he was basically a new Lenin. Now this?
Why didn’t he sign a new deal like Salah and van Dijk did? It’s not they’re in their 30s and he’s 27 and can do better. It’s because he’s a gutless mercenary who only cares about money, not because all this about our club being better is marketing guff.
Trent deserved those boos. He deserves them for shattering our illusions about our innate moral superiority to all other teams, not that we’re admitting that.
He’s made us look dicks, by booing him we’ve confirmed to other fans that we’re dicks, and soon we’ll hold a big dickish open-top bus parade. And if he dares be there we’ll boo again.
