#also side note: liverpool yaoi was my first dip into rpf. rip the gerlonso lj community 😔

[daeluin]

can i ask how you got into british football/liverpool in particular? just curious

ohhhh that's one of my favorite stories!

it all starts with one of the most traumatic moments of the last thirty years for Argentina: the match against England during the 2002 world cup. like i don't know how to properly describe what that loss meant. the country had just gone up in flames six months ago, the only good thing we had was the National Team who had qualified to the world cup without losing a single match. which is insane bc we were against the last prime Brasil NT with Ronaldo and Ronaldinho. so everyone was excited for the WC. moreso because we had an 'easy' group stage. and then we got absolutely humiliated. like downright piss poor nothing football. the worst Bielsa ball the world has ever seen.

so we get to the England game, we needed a win to qualify for next stage. the match is so important my school actually suspended the clases and pulled a CTR on the school yard so everyone could see the match. I was 9 years old and I sat on the school yard in the middle of winter with all the other kids from my primary school and we watched the NT lose and be eliminated for the World Cup.

and that was the day I swear off the Argentina NT. like I had already gotten my dreams crushed during the '98 WC & now this??? nah I wasn't getting my hopes up ever again.

anyways, after we were out I kept watching other teams and found two passions in my life: my love for Oliver Kahn (and the reason I followed Bayern Munich until he retired) and my love for hatewatching England. and it must've been around '03/'04 idk which game were I saw Steven Gerrard play and idk man I just felt in love.

there was something about watching Stevie G play ball that was so unique. he's truly my favorite player ever. the last true N° 10 the world saw.

around that time we got cable & they started putting premier league matches and I knew I wasn't going to support fucking Manchester United because that's were that rat Veron was in. so I was like 'where does that kid Gerrard plays? i wanna watch him' and that's how I got into Liverpool. I remember telling my dad about my choice of team and he went on to tell me that was good because I should always support working class clubs lol.

so I started watching english football and Liverpool because I felt in love with Stevie and I wanted to see him play and through him I felt in love with the club. and the rest is history.