Liverpool hero Aldridge accuses Everton fans of being 'bitter and resentful' | OneFootball

Liverpool hero John Aldridge has accused Everton fans of becoming increasingly bitter.

Aldridge wrote for the Sunday World: "Everton fans have become very bitter in recent years and I can understand why.

"Back in the days when I started going to football with my Dad and uncles, they would watch Liverpool one weekend, Everton the following Saturday and might catch Tranmere in action on a Friday night.

"That was the way it was back then. A kind of Merseyside united attitude, but those days are long gone.

"Roll the clock forward to 2022 and Everton fans are struggling to come to terms with their new position in the English game.

"They had a fantastic team in the mid-1980s and would have had a real chance of winning the European Cup if it were not for the bans imposed on English clubs following the Heysel Stadium disaster.

"That was when the tide in this once-friendly local rivalry turned nasty. Everton fans blamed Liverpool for the chaos at Heysel, even though the stadium was unfit to host a match of that magnitude and there was some disastrous organisation by UEFA at the time.

"They were probably the best teams in Europe at a the time.

"But Everton fans resented Liverpool's role in the ban on English clubs and, to add to their woes, they have spent all of the years since living in Liverpool's shadow."