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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 2

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pedro1976 said:
Yep..... and that's why we are moving to our 3rd brand new stadium. We aren't tramps forcing people from their homes or using someone else's ground.

Liverpool haven't had one of their own yet.... we just make stadiums around the City.... it's what we do. Pioneers, first club in Liverpool, quite fitting that our stadium will welcome all the visiting ships on the equally prestigious waterfront.
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Great post.
 
pedro1976 said:
Yep..... and that's why we are moving to our 3rd brand new stadium. We aren't tramps forcing people from their homes or using someone else's ground.

Liverpool haven't had one of their own yet.... we just make stadiums around the City.... it's what we do. Pioneers, first club in Liverpool, quite fitting that our stadium will welcome all the visiting ships on the equally prestigious waterfront.
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It’s one of them for me; you’ve got to like what they’ve done with the old place if that’s your thing. Playing on the ground that saw the first league championship arrive in this city, before they even existed, must be a source of inspiration. The photo of the other Yanks who owned them - was it Gillette & Hicks? - putting a space into Stanley Park that saw them deceive the EU of a few million in grants for a project they had neither the means or ability to ever see through. A few metal fences around a patch of muddied grass represented the furthest they’ve come to developing a new stadium of their own.

Like hermit crabs, they occupy space vacated by others when the occupier moves on. Thoroughly welcomed by the local community through a deliberate policy of tinning up available houses over many years that saw property prices collapse in the area as they acquired property to support their expansion plans yet failed to engage the local community and blighted local residents lives. Perhaps we as a club and fanbase lack their cynical ambition and take a more considered and conciliatory approach to the disruption caused to the community and of future potential our third stadium build will bring. But there again, I’m local and understand, like the Club do, what a responsibility we have to our local roots despite the extravagance and vulgar riches of Premiership Football. It’s a global game these days and an L postcode and identity probably matters less and less. But for me, Everton are my local team, the nearest side to where I live and it was for that reason, like many in my family before them, is the reason I support them. Football has changed in my lifetime but I’m glad that our club never forgets what it’s local roots in a totally different age. It’s hard for the local young ones to follow a team that has lacked success for a generation; but for those that do, they will always understand!.
 
Badge1878 said:
It’s one of them for me; you’ve got to like what they’ve done with the old place if that’s your thing. Playing on the ground that saw the first league championship arrive in this city, before they even existed, must be a source of inspiration. The photo of the other Yanks who owned them - was it Gillette & Hicks? - putting a space into Stanley Park that saw them deceive the EU of a few million in grants for a project they had neither the means or ability to ever see through. A few metal fences around a patch of muddied grass represented the furthest they’ve come to developing a new stadium of their own.

Like hermit crabs, they occupy space vacated by others when the occupier moves on. Thoroughly welcomed by the local community through a deliberate policy of tinning up available houses over many years that saw property prices collapse in the area as they acquired property to support their expansion plans yet failed to engage the local community and blighted local residents lives. Perhaps we as a club and fanbase lack their cynical ambition and take a more considered and conciliatory approach to the disruption caused to the community and of future potential our third stadium build will bring. But there again, I’m local and understand, like the Club do, what a responsibility we have to our local roots despite the extravagance and vulgar riches of Premiership Football. It’s a global game these days and an L postcode and identity probably matters less and less. But for me, Everton are my local team, the nearest side to where I live and it was for that reason, like many in my family before them, is the reason I support them. Football has changed in my lifetime but I’m glad that our club never forgets what it’s local roots in a totally different age. It’s hard for the local young ones to follow a team that has lacked success for a generation; but for those that do, they will always understand!.
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Great Post mate
 

Armaghtoffee said:
Keef would be ashamed of you attaching his work to this pathetic wind up attempt.
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Er, what do you mean by that? Not trying to wind anyone up. Bell.

Oh and by the way, Liam wrote the whole of the Experience album (and pretty much every other album) so it wasn't 'Keith's work'. And who are you to speak for a dead person? Beaut.
 
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maccavennie said:
Great Post mate
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More of a rant than anything I reckon, to be honest Macca; it does my head in when nobodies in the media throw superlatives about our neighbours and talk of them as though they are representing the views of those in our City. I take my hat off to the current side they have on the pitch, they are an impressive unit. But don’t say to me that’s forged from an alliance and affinity with those in our City,

Liverpool are a global brand, spearheaded by a second set of American profiteers, exploiting a commercial opportunity arising from years of over spending and indulgence from what, yep another easy alliance of other Americans who saw their Club as a means to engineer personal profit. Brought on was bought in to essentially prostitute them around the globe to any speculative investor who would quickly repay outstanding RBS loans. A few of my mates who are (honestly...and I can vouch for them) Anfield season ticket holders have seen their STK prices on The Kop changed based on criteria such as ‘sight lines’ so a multiple pricing policy for the same stand, seen an explosion of tourists paying a dollar the club gleefully accept, no attempts to clean up their STK membership whilst charging hundreds of thousands an annual fee for the most unlikely chance to be a season ticket holder. Is it 15,000 “names” hold 25,000 tickets between them? What happens to these....they bang them out to tourists galore who happily pay up to £300 a ticket to sit on a seat that retails at £45.

Throw in what they did to locals for the stand expansion, buying houses to shell them forcing loads to accept CPOs.....but hey, it’s them and it’s a special club/family whatever obnoxious marketing they throw out and gets lapped up. To be fair to many of my mates, I was in some ways alright with What happened this week, just for them as lads I’ve known since school - cue nonsense from some on here - it’s their club and I can’t deny fellow match going normal lads the experience they had. But, For all the armchairs, shirt wearing pub going beauts that follow them, the lads I know hate them following their club more than many of us probably appreciate. I can’t abide Liverpool FC for the circus that surrounds them and the creation of a self created myth that they have an elevated status. They are consumers of an American baseball franchise who acquired them because the Yanks knew they could make money. Doing well on that front....support them or finance them, matters little to Henry and Co. That’s their choice. But do I respect them? I reckon you know.
 
Armaghtoffee said:
Just enjoy it mate.

Prodigy would have been nothing without Keef x
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The Prodigy had already conquered the rave scene and then released the best dance album of all time (Jilted Generation) before Keith even started doing lyrics.

While everyone who knows anything about the band knows Keith made a massive contribution to the Prodigy, it's Liam whose always been the brains behind it.

Not really the thread for a conversation between Prodigy fans, by the way!
 

maccavennie said:
Can you imagine spending 142m on that. What a waste of cash that was. They'd be lucky to get even close to half of that back.
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Loads of reds seemingly coming on here..... giving it the "Net spend" under klopp nonsense.

Absolute joke.... Liverpool were hoarding players
Badge1878 said:
It’s one of them for me; you’ve got to like what they’ve done with the old place if that’s your thing. Playing on the ground that saw the first league championship arrive in this city, before they even existed, must be a source of inspiration. The photo of the other Yanks who owned them - was it Gillette & Hicks? - putting a space into Stanley Park that saw them deceive the EU of a few million in grants for a project they had neither the means or ability to ever see through. A few metal fences around a patch of muddied grass represented the furthest they’ve come to developing a new stadium of their own.

Like hermit crabs, they occupy space vacated by others when the occupier moves on. Thoroughly welcomed by the local community through a deliberate policy of tinning up available houses over many years that saw property prices collapse in the area as they acquired property to support their expansion plans yet failed to engage the local community and blighted local residents lives. Perhaps we as a club and fanbase lack their cynical ambition and take a more considered and conciliatory approach to the disruption caused to the community and of future potential our third stadium build will bring. But there again, I’m local and understand, like the Club do, what a responsibility we have to our local roots despite the extravagance and vulgar riches of Premiership Football. It’s a global game these days and an L postcode and identity probably matters less and less. But for me, Everton are my local team, the nearest side to where I live and it was for that reason, like many in my family before them, is the reason I support them. Football has changed in my lifetime but I’m glad that our club never forgets what it’s local roots in a totally different age. It’s hard for the local young ones to follow a team that has lacked success for a generation; but for those that do, they will always understand!.
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