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

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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.
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Same here mate I'm not happy with them getting the final like and I'll still hate them as a club and I'm over the moon they didn't win the league. However I don't have any beef with their proper fans who go home and away they're generally a decent bunch, with the exception of a few idiots. I know lads who have gone to places like Udinese, St Petersburg, Braga, Brighton, Plymouth and Exeter midweek, I have no problem with them. The morons who have only got close to Anfield, when they visit Tuebrook market I can't stand. The divvies wandering round town with thick London accents in Liverpool shirts, pretending to be proper supporters. Look at the prat David Vujanic from, an ethnic Serb from Croatia, raised in London who naturally supports them. Their ground is full of tourists, you have people selling tickets for like £200 to £300 every game, it's ridiculous.
They have become a soulless brand, a ground full of fake fans taking selfies and pictures, the contrived flag waving with flags the club give them it's ridiculous. Most Liverpool fans don't know anything about football and can't answer any basic questions about them. A Liverpool fan once said to me intending it as an insult, that Everton fans know more about Liverpool than Liverpool fans do, He was right, however that tells you more about them than it does about us. Also it's quite amusing how fans of clubs like Man United, Chelsea, Arsenal, West Ham, Spurs, Leicester, and supporters of teams like Celtic are so behind Man City, With the exception of Newcastle fans nobody likes them and even the Geordies were well up for their game last weekend.
 
The Champions League June 1st......


To paraphrase Captain Willard


'When I was here, I wanted to be there; when I was there, all I could think of was getting back onto the pitch. I'm waiting three weeks now...waiting for the mission...getting softer. Every minute I stay on this training ground, I get weaker, and every minute Spurs are in the treatment room healing and getting stronger."
 


davek said:
The Champions League June 1st......


To paraphrase Captain Willard


'When I was here, I wanted to be there; when I was there, all I could think of was getting back onto the pitch. I'm waiting three weeks now...waiting for the mission...getting softer. Every minute I stay on this training ground, I get weaker, and every minute Spurs are in the treatment room healing and getting stronger."
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What you think Dave? lol I know it’s a few weeks away
 

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