Our son is 48 years old and for some reason he chose Liverpool as his team when he was a young nipper and still does to this day, he was brought up in the Liverpool golden years under Shanks & Paisley and when he got older he would take the piss out of me supporting United but I just laughed it off.
Fergie came along and changed all that with United and Liverpool started the slide and I would take the piss out of his Liverpool and tell him the shoe was on the other foot now with United winning the lot.
It was all banter with me and our son and even today we will sit around having a good drink and talk football, the same here in Scotland, he supports Hearts of Midlothian and I support Glasgow Rangers, the 2 teams met at Hampden Sunday gone in the Scottish Cup Semi-Final and our son went there with his son to cheer them on.
I sent the normal text messages that we were going to thump you Jambo lot and I got the normal reply by him and our Grandson to fuck off, we are going to thump you, Rangers won 2-0 anyway so we are still taking the piss out of each other.
So, this hatred bit with clubs either being United, City or even Liverpool I have never trod that path and I raised our son to do the same which he does to Alexander our grandson, football is a sport which should be enjoyed either win, lose or draw and the hatred should be centred on fucking hooligans who run riot in their teams colours.