You're way, way, out of date. The cachet that came with being an ex-red has long faded. Hansen's gone, Lawrenson's been limited to LFCTV, and aside from the veteran Graeme 'I'm a Bournmouth season ticket holder and Spurs fan' Souness, the media has long moved on.
As for bias, it doesn't bother me except on a few occasions, but the laziest and least empirically compelling argument is to claim 'it's about the same for all clubs'.
In general I'd say, at this moment, Gooners, much as I hate them, probably have the greatest claim to feel there's a bias against them. Aside from that loon Adrian Durham on TalkSport, who attacks them for fun on a minute-by-minute basis, there's a fairly constant flow of gratuitous and mischievous media criticism of them, and the fact that the London hacks (in terms of disposition) are more inclined towards Chelski, West Ham or Spurs only adds to their perception of bias.
As for the rest, yes, there's obvious bias against LFC, and the mancs, not because of some David Icke-like conspiracy but simply because these are two illustrious clubs and it's the line of least resistance to exaggerate every setback and under-value every success. It sells papers, it sparks phone-ins, it keeps Jim White shouting for hours on Sky Sports News. Do you think some cup game featuring us or the mancs against some minnow side is televised because we're respected? They're televised because it would please loads if we got embarrassed. It goes with the territory. And so does the bias. It's not something to get wound up about, but neither is it something to pretend isn't there in an effort to seem fair-minded and grown-up. That's just cynical or naive.
