Reason Liverpool fans are booing national anthem before the Carabao Cup final
Liverpool fans have booed the national anthem at Wembley ahead of the Carabao Cup final against Chelsea.
The Reds supporters have long had a fractured relationship with national instituitions. They have been known to jeer the national anthem of God Save The King or God Save The Queen since the 1980s. The 'managed decline' of the city of Liverpool by successive Conservative governments created a feeling of hatred between its people and the country's leaders. The covering up of the Hillsborough disaster also did irrevesible damage to that relationship.
Ever since, that anger has been loudly expressed through the booing of the anthem at cup finals. It has happened on multiple occasions in recent years, while they also jeered the anthem during last year's coronation as they played Brentford. Reds fans use their booing of the anthem as a way to show their frustration at the establishment. Ahead of facing Chelsea in Sunday's final, the 32,000 Liverpool fans who travelled down again jeered.
They will then be fully backing their team to regain a cup they last won in 2022, when coincidentally they beat Chelsea. And boss Jurgen Klopp has insisted his team have what it takes to win. "I have no doubt about it," he replied when asked if his team deserved to be in the final. "Really tough opponents and really great performances. We changed a lot, changed the teams a lot.
"For us the competition was a benefit as well, if you want, because at that time we had pretty much 95 per cent of the squad available and we could play them all and we did. So it’s great.
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“It’s the Caoimh Kelleher competition as well, so he has the chance to win the second trophy of his career, which is absolutely great. He won already a lot, but standing in the goal I know that maybe feels for the boys slightly different. So far, only positives about the competition.”
The Reds are unbeaten against Chelsea since March 2021 and hammered the Blues at Anfield last month. But Klopp is paying no attention to past results, insisting Sunday's game would be tough. “The result we had here doesn’t help, of course we have to play the game again and it’s like firing the opponent up slightly. The final is a completely different game, there’s no home ground obviously," he said.
"We played them now a couple of times in a final and we know one part is blue and one is red. We know what our people are able to do, but the Chelsea people will be looking forward to it as well. But everybody knows, a final, there is no favourite, it starts at nil and for each little advantage you want to have, you have to work incredibly hard."
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