Fans aren’t happy about Steve McManaman’s ‘sour’ behaviour after Villarreal beat Liverpool

Steve McManaman is a pundit who wears his heart very much on his sleeve.

The BT Sport pundit doesn't pretend to hide his allegiances to the red half of Merseyside, and his Liverpool affiliations are always apparent when he is providing his opinions to matches affecting the Red Men. But his reaction to Villarreal's injury time winner in a 1-0 victory in the first leg of the Europa League semi-final hasn't gone down very well amongst viewers of BT Sport's coverage of the game. McManaman wasn't in magnanimous mood as he bemoaned the result, arguing that Liverpool were far superior to their Iberian counterparts, and shouldn't have lost to the supposedly lesser La Liga side. "I don't think they're very good," McManaman told BT Sport. "I think if Liverpool showed any positivity and the game flows like it did today, and with the magnificent crowd at Anfield, Liverpool should run all over them."

Is McManaman gonna cry? ?? pic.twitter.com/ZBBGvF8ROL

— Walter Smith (@mancitysmith) April 28, 2016

Although fellow Scousers may have agreed with his partisan opinion of the match, other fans didn't appreciate what they saw as unnecessary 'sourness' and an unprofessional show of 'bias'. Here are just a few of the peeved responses to the former Liverpool winger's slightly skewed views after the attritional first leg at the Estadio El Madrigal... https://twitter.com/Lewis93_/status/725797571189456896 https://twitter.com/J___Hardy/status/725797560225533952 https://twitter.com/AfroooMat/status/725798012086267905 https://twitter.com/ChrisWorthing/status/725797746427453440 https://twitter.com/GLeeder1/status/725797984840093696 https://twitter.com/StickyoConnell/status/725798411182682113 https://twitter.com/FCB1mrankhan/status/725800501263093760 https://twitter.com/usmanb161/status/725799885832867840 https://twitter.com/Muqueldinho/status/725799251268243456 https://twitter.com/jim_hig17/status/725799171375173633