Barrage of socks baffles most of the country
The eighties phenomenon of throwing things on the pitch has experienced a huge revival this season, and last night’s Merseyside Derby fell victim to this idiotic fad. Coins and plastic bottles were directed at the pitch, but the most bizarre missiles of the season turned up in the second half, when Liverpool fans started hurling socks onto the pitch.
Was it a safer version of the George Bush shoe throwing protest? Was it a surreal attempt to further destabilise Rafa Benitez’s diminishing sanity?
Alas, no. After searching some Liverpool message boards, The Spoiler discovered it was a taunt intended at Everton “sock robbers”. These are Kirkby residents who steal socks from clothes lines to keep their fingerprints off of the cars they steal. Kirkby, of course, is the proposed location of Everton’s new stadium.
Apparently, the concept of gloves and the idea that stealing is bad has yet to reach Kirkby.
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2 responses so far
1 Tegs // Feb 5, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Im here to tell you that the concept of stealing being bad has reached kirby.
But the concept dignity has not reached the rat liverpool fans who almost blinded a steward with the screws and coins they were throwing.
This kind of shameful thuggery has no place in football.
Liverpool fans are famous for and have a long history of disgracing themselves their club, their city and their country.
2 Eddie // Feb 6, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Come’ed Tegs… “almost blinded a steward”?..pull the other one. You sock-robbers are all lily white. Start dragging up stuff from the 80s now, why don’t you?
No-one has ever been hurt by a sock, lad…except maybe bitter blue pride.
oh, and chuck a sock in it…
Congrats on winning your cup final!