where you from then and why do you support Scouserpool??
I'm not far from Liverpool and the closest team are Wigan. When I was young they were non league so almost everyone had another team; usually United (also very close). The first game I ever went to was Liverpool v WBA. A customer of my dads took me and that was it.
A few years later, another customer of my dads started giving me a lift to home games and local aways (and Wembley, of course) so I never grew out of it. Most of my mates dropped their boyhood teams as Wigan became more successful. I couldn't do that and I was going to games anyway so didn't need another team.
Saying that, I went to a lot of Wigan games if Liverpool were away and had some good times.
As a teenager we'd spent a lot of time at Wigan's old ground, playing on their training pitch. We used to have a kick about with the reserves after training. Funnily enough, a lot of them were Scousers who'd gone there after being released by Liverpool (and Everton, to a lesser extent).