Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has reluctantly confirmed that he used to support Liverpool prior to becoming a club legend at the Reds’ bitter rivals, Manchester United.
The Norwegian was sacked as Red Devils manager last season, just weeks after suffering an embarrassing 5-0 defeat at the hands of Jurgen Klopp’s side at Old Trafford. But while his managerial stint with United was not a success, he remains a club legend having scored the goal that won them the Champions League in 1999, while also lifting six Premier League titles and two FA Cups across 11 years with the club.
Due to such strong allegiances, in the past the 49-year-old has refused to confirm that he used to support Liverpool. However, the former striker has now admitted that he was indeed a boyhood Reds fan.
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"I must have been environmentally damaged because when you follow football, we had Match of the Day on every Saturday in Norway and of course, Liverpool were the better team in the eighties," Solskjaer told James Richardson’s Kings of Europe podcast.
"They had Kenny Dalglish, Ian Rush and all of those, so yes I followed Liverpool. I was one of the supporters who followed because they won everything. Hard enough to say as a Man United player but they were the better team in the eighties."
Such an admission comes seven years after Solskjaer gave a rather different answer in a Q&A with FourFourTwo.
“You learn as long as you live, that’s the only answer I can give you,” he insisted back in 2016. “I never confirm that one! I’m a Manchester United fan through and through. I bleed red.”
To the chagrin of Manchester United supporters, he evidently bled a very different red when growing up in his native Norway following on from his reluctant U-turn.
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