Why hate evra

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It really touched me and now I will respect Liverpool as a football club because, when this happened, I was really disappointed with the club. I received an email from the chairman of Liverpool apologising for what happened nine years ago. He said I was welcome to come to Liverpool if I need anything. But I was surprised that Liverpool supported that kind of attitude. When you have those kind of problems, people around you just think you are crying. I could evaluate Suarez on the pitch and know the person he was.

It was a tough, tough, tough time. Even when we played in the Champions League final, when I was playing for Juventus, I shook his hand in the corridor and spoke to him. W e do some fun stuff; the photos, a video of quick-fire questions which reveals that it mattered far more to Patrice Evra for him to defeat Liverpool than Manchester City, not least because Sir Alex Ferguson, his manager, would not speak to the players for two weeks if they lost to the Merseyside club.

There is a pause, the sort of reflective, intense pause that you do not normally experience when interviewing one of the ebullient greats of the game, because Evra, 40, is being asked how he feels about the man who sexually abused him. Evra was 13 years old and living in the house. Subscription Notification. Were it not for a rare moment of Suarez pacifism, a brawl may well have broken out. Instead, he would soak up the hatred from Liverpool and see a corresponding increase in adoration from his own fans.

Can you name every French player to appear for Man Utd in the Prem? Those dishing out the vitriol were Liverpool fans. The reasons why are well-known.

That abuse may well sting, especially knowing the root causes of the taunts. Success on that scale has as much of an effect on your detractors as your admirers.

Learning from a master In his second match in England, Evra played the full 90 minutes in a dramatic win over Liverpool, setting the tone for the rest of his United career — in more ways than one.

Because on top of the clean sheet, Evra also learned something important during the game. This was a moment to savour.