Leeds United’s Twitter mocks Liverpool’s ‘Merseyside Reds’ as ESL divide grows

Ollie Irish

19th, April 2021

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It’s a joke that has been doing the rounds for several hours before kick-off, but it’s very ballsy from Leeds United’s social media person nonetheless. We approve 100%.

Joke context: Liverpool are one of the six English clubs who have signed up for the doomed and despised European Super League. Merseyside Reds refers to the football video game Pro Evolution Soccer, which for a long time didn’t have the licences to use the real names of English clubs; until 2016, Liverpool were known in iterations of the game as ‘Merseyside Red’.

Leeds players also wore ‘Earn It/Football is for the fans’ T-shirts before kick-off, which really did not appear to impress Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp: