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Oh, and a mate of mine was left for dead in Stanley Park after a midweek game against Burnley.

They even took his jeans.

He was found unconscious by a dog-walker the following morning.

He survived after days in the ICU.

Didn't see you lot laying any flowers or having outpourings of very public grief over that.

Can we just can this stupid tribalism and get on with the spoofing?

Sincerely

Skoob.

Difference is though mate, and I know it's only a small defense, the people who sing about Munich (and to be fair; it's only the young lads and they do get severely slapped down by the old schoolers like me) do so because that tragedy - and it was a tragedy - involved players and the deaths of players are thus seen by them to be more 'open season' than the deaths of fans.

That doesn't make it right but there is clearly a difference between talking about the deaths of 20 people well over 50 years ago and those who call Scousers murderers for Heysel (and I was there) and / or those people who sing songs about Hillsborough while the families of those people murdered by South Yorkshire police are sitting in the stadium.

We don't blame the Manks for any of that but we fucking hate The Sun newspaper. Equally, we hate all them little scrotes from Crocky for killing that Rees kid and giving the likes of The Sun an excuse for giving Liverpool a kicking again. Rooney - and other scumbags who give Liverpool a bad name like Joey Barton and his murdering family are equally hated on Merseyside. I see Rooney out all the time and both him and especially his brother are horrible dirty little fuckers, it'd make your skin crawl if you knew what they were really like.

Maybe the 96 bit was unneccessary in the above but that was a dig at The Sun and Manure in general, not about you kidder.

Not a problem JP

Sitting here right now, thinking about what we've both just said, it's all highly emotive - and I get the Reese thing and the Crocky thing entirely. The others I won't go into, simply because I don't believe anybody else really wants to hear about it.

The same as Munich.

These are local rivalries that are perhaps better aired privately, and not on a forum.

Most people just wouldn't comprehend the depth of feeling anyway. Unless you're in it - you just wouldn't get it.

As I said, no malice intended towards yourself at all - if anything, I quite enjoy the crack, and it's always fun to try your hand with the sharpest knife on the block. Which you are.

But if we wanna ruck over deeper issues, maybe we should do it privately, because otherwise, people are gonna think that we're all out to kill each other.

They just don't get it.

As I believe I said, if you turn up at a writer's meet, it'd be an honour to buy you a drink. Who knows, maybe we'll have one in Liverpool. Haven't been in years but I heard it's changed a lot.

Just not on a match day.

Take care mate,

Skoob.

Love to mate and fuck all people would touch you in Liverpool if you're my guest.

I just PM'd you JP

If anyone here thinks this has been getting out of hand, I can assure you it hasn't.

It's just perfectly normal Manc/Scouse rivalry.

Me and JP are fine. (Obviously not in a gay way)

I think I'll ask CJ if he fancies a day trip to Liverpool so we can take advantage of JP's hospitality.

That'll do for me.

Sorry if we caused any offence with our Manc/Scouse thing.

It's just the way it is.

Regards

Skoob.

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Jeremy,

In answer to this, Skoob is right. Greatest priase is that from your peers. Some of my best written stories that I am most proud of never got more than 300 views, but did receive praise from the other writers.

If you want to pander for points (a.k.a. whoring for eyeballs), you can spend your time writing stories with boobs/tits/vaginas/penis in the headline, along with a sexual act and the name of the celebrity that performed it. Now, we all write some of those (for many of us it is just to poke fun at that celebrity or their lifestyle), but most of us don't make a living with that trash.

If you are proud of something you write and receive praise from your fellow writers, pat yourself on the back, smile, and consider it a success.

I have some stories with over 70,000 views. These are all sex themed. The highest point getting story of mine that isn't about sex has 50,000 and is called "The M&M's Diet." It still draws about ten to twenty views daily even after five years (and goes way up every year during New Year's Resolutions time).

As far at the "motherfucking mouthbreathing shitcunt" rant, I won't comment.

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TT/J-Man

Wayne Rooney - Manchester United and England footballer, originally from Liverpool, where he played for Everton.

Skoob.

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Skoob,

Thanks for the info. Looks like this guy is just the latest Tiger Woods/John Terry (did I get that name right?)/Tiki Barber.

In my own humble opinion, any man who would cheat on his pregnant wife deserves painful and immediate castration with a rusty, serrated knife (and no anesthetic).

Our version of that in the American West is to "nail his dick to a fence post, set the post on fire, and give him a rusty knife to cut himself off." Frontier justice is sometimes best.

Made me laugh that TT/J-Man

Because I suspect that's just about what his wife will set in motion.

With a handsome settlement.

He plays for my team but he's from JP's city.

That's all a local rivalry thing. Nothing to worry about.

(Except on match days when it's like World War 3)

Regards mate

Skoob.