There are millions of Liverpool FC fans in the world but not all are as intriguing as this one.
Most people will know Pete Boc from his 'Darwin, Darwin Nunez' chant that went viral last year, and since then the die-hard Liverpool FC fan has been a constant presence on social media for his chants and videos related to the club, but not many know that Pete, who grew up near Belvidere Field in Wallasey, began life as a fan of Premier League rivals Manchester United.
Speaking to the ECHO this week, Pete spoke about how his father's, and his grandfather's before him, love of United meant he "followed in his their footsteps" until he was old enough to know better. He said: "It was the surrounding of being on Merseyside with every person I went to school with supporting Liverpool or Everton.
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"I can't remember exactly how old, but when I was in primary school I remember getting to a point where I was like why do we support United, this makes no sense at all. I've never been to Old Trafford. I just liked the team because my dad liked the team.
"I fell in love with players like Jamie Redknapp and John Barnes. The first game I ever went to at Anfield it was Steven Gerrard's full debut and he scored. But that's always a nice thing to be able to say I was there for.
"All through the late 90s, early 2000s it was so amazing [being a Liverpool fan]. I'd go into the games constantly, I even worked at Anfield for a few weeks, at one of the bars."
It's a little known fact Pete, who moved to Bristol about a decade ago, first created his TikTok account solely for the enjoyment of his work colleagues during the first lockdown. He said: "A lot of people were doing online quizzes with their work colleagues. We, for whatever reason, decided that we should do funny video challenges, things like 'recreate your favourite TV advert'. That was our little thing that we did.
"Then, when lockdown three came it didn't happen. That's where the whole TikTok idea came from and soon I got addicted because I got a little bit of success because I went viral."
Pete enjoyed some success on the social media platform in those early days, but it was the club's signing of Darwin Nunez in June 2022 that would launch him into a much bigger spotlight. Pete said "for the first few days" it did just the same as any of his the other chants he had done in the nine months prior.
The realisation this was something else came via a kid at the school he was working at. Pete said: "The tipping point was a kid that I trusted came up to me in the playground and he said sir you know that Darwin, Darwin song.
"He said do you know it's all over Twitter and Instagram.
"I was like ah s***. I didn't have Twitter or Instagram, and thought that's not going to be a good situation for me, you know how vile Twitter can be.
"It kept going and going. With all the negativity that came my way for the video, I went into my shell. I took all my things down and didn't post for a while. I didn't know where I even stood with my own club's fan base.
"It obviously made me feel a bit embarrassed, because I was getting all this negative attention. But it made me feel worried too because I have a son, I don't want that for my kid. I didn't want my son to grow up in a world where his dad's an embarrassment.
"But I remember having a chat about bullying with a kid and I was saying that just because people are giving you a hard time you don't have to stop.
"I wasn't listening to my own voice and later on in the day I realised I'd stopped because other people were giving me a hard time and I realised I'm actually doing okay. I was on over 100,000 followers at that point. This wasn't just a flash in the pan.
"I enjoyed it, other people enjoyed it and I decided to go full gun."
Pete – who said he finds it "impossible to believe" Nunez hasn't seen or heard the chant, even at a glance – is now working full time as a content creator and said he has been "extraordinarily lucky" despite the often negative attention. He said he is also recognised in the street regularly when he goes into Bristol City Centre.
He said: "It's been an amazing ride over the last nine months. There have been a lot of pinch me moments and moments that really motivate you. I love doing the charity games.
"I have this enjoy life motto. It's my thing. I want that upbeat feeling to be felt by other people. I want to bring happiness I suppose."