We Love You Liverpool: Meet Official LFC Supporters Club… Philadelphia

The Reds’ fanbase is legendary for its ardour and loyalty, cheering on each the lads’s and girls’s squads whether or not on Merseyside or watching from afar.

Our We Love You Liverpool function goals to convey supporters nearer collectively to be taught extra about one another wherever they’re based mostly across the globe.

Whether or not within the UK and Republic of Eire, on Merseyside itself, in North or South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia or elsewhere, followers present the very foundations that the membership is constructed on.

Right here, we meet OLSC Philadelphia…

Inform us in regards to the OLSC…

OLSC Philadelphia got here into existence via a small group coming collectively informally on the Victoria Freehouse in Outdated Metropolis, Philadelphia. After some time, there was a need to make the casual group “official” and with the help of the membership, OLSC Philadelphia got here into being. Since these early days, the OLSC has grown to incorporate six companion bars all through the Delaware Valley (Philadelphia’s metropolitan area) and counts over 800 members.

How particular is it to have the supporters membership the place you’re?

Greater than something, soccer is a sport that’s meant to be loved communally and with others. With the ability to watch with likeminded supporters – whether or not or not it’s a 7.30am (our model of a 12.30pm early kick-off) match in opposition to a relegation aspect, midweek home or European Cup match, or key fixture in a title run-in in opposition to a rival – it makes the soccer expertise all of the extra significant. It additionally permits us to function a welcoming put up for Reds travelling in from throughout the globe. Now we have been lucky to host Reds from throughout each continent (besides Antarctica – no penguins have made it out but!).

It should offer you a way of neighborhood and connection to Liverpool and the membership itself?

Completely. We’re all a part of the world’s best soccer membership and footballing neighborhood – Liverpool FC – and the OLSC offers essentially the most native connection potential for our members to the membership. All of us hear in regards to the Liverpool household and doing issues the ‘Liverpool Method’, by being a part of the material of this LFC neighborhood (regardless of how small a person half every of us play) via our OLSC we’re in a position to have an actual connection to the membership.

What’s so particular about supporting Liverpool to your members?

Past the soccer, Liverpool and Philadelphia are kindred spirits. Exhausting-nosed, passionate and working-class cities, we now have unrivalled devotion to our groups and embrace (actually thrive on) an us-against-the-world mentality. For a lot of in Philadelphia, LFC and the town of Liverpool remind us of ourselves (in all the very best methods).