Denver, CO - Troy Williams, a Liverpool fan from Denver, stated that most of his conversations about Liverpool over the past week centered around him telling everyone that he was a fan way before 2018 as he tried to calm the suspicion that he is just a typical glory hunting American fan.

“Yes, they’ve been doing great, but I must tell you that I was a fan before 2018 and it hasn’t always been this easy,” stated Williams for the 32nd time this week to a stranger he met at a watch party for the recent Liverpool v Wolverhampton game. “Trust me when I tell you it hasn’t always been winning points and collecting trophies, oh no.”

Williams reportedly spent the entirety of his Christmas visit to his in-laws house telling his brother-in-law how difficult it was just 5 years ago as he nauseatingly recounted the 2014-15 season with intense details.

“And then we barely qualified for the Europa league that year, it wasn’t all blood and thunder and glory like it looks like now. Bear in mind that no true Liverpool fan will feel comfortable with this lead in the league until the day after the season ends and the defeat in London to Aston Villa in April in the FA cup was truly an awful cherry on top of a supremely difficult year way back then,” stated Williams as the eyes of his brother-in-law Robbie glazed over after innocently asking, “how’s that soccer thing going for ya?”

As Williams pointed out to our reporter he steadfastly remained a fan of Liverpool since randomly picking them as his team on FIFA 2012 as he pointed out, “we weren’t favorites THAT year, oh no. We weren’t running out Mo Salah and Sadio Mane, oh no. If you look at my old game saves you will see the difficulty we had with the squad depth that year after we only finished in 7th.”

The Nutmeg News will have more on this as Williams asks for an editorial on our publication in order to really let everyone know that he was a fan before 2018 and that he isn’t another glory hunting fan.