All joking aside, I hope the mutants are OK. It must be difficult to keep telling yourself that you are the best because of some weird misplaced belief that the 'cult of also rans' that they have attached themselves to are going to win the premier league - the 'this is our year' psychosis.
Hats off to City though! They have showed what it takes to be winners, and not through the lottery of some cup but in the true test of the league. Shankly's position on this, when he stated that "second place is nowhere" is the truth.
Speaking of Shankly, if you consider what the mutants did to this most important man in their history, well most important after the Everton board that created Liverpool FC, you can sort of understand their deep rooted self loathing.
This is not anything new to blues but it is worth considering again that following his retirement as Liverpool manager in 1974, Bill Shankly was banned from the the mutant training ground, Melwood, by his successors because he kept showing up in search of a bit of camaraderie. He was also snubbed by the board of directors, who refused to admit him to their ranks. This is especially bad form given that when he became manager of Liverpool in 1959, they were a second-rate, middle of the road outfit.
Poor old Shankly tried to keep an attachment to the game and he played five-a-side every Friday with former Everton player Johnny Morrissey and a few others. After the Liverpool management instituted the 'No Shankly' policy at Melwood, he began turning up at Everton's training ground Bellefield, Everton had an open door policy for ex players/managers, and so he trained with the players and staff and sometimes helped Everton's club captain, Mick Lyons, coach the junior teams.
To quote their supposed hero, "
Over the last few seasons I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have been Liverpool.”
The kopite mutants have well known traits of bitterness, contempt, and a consistent lack of class and dignity - it is a part of their DNA and history. As football fans across the land know, everything from them is a PR exercise. Thinking of poor Shankly, they could have and should have done a lot more for that lonely old man. Even the token gesture of the Shankly gates might have seemed more considered if they had been erected in his life and not as some afterthought beyond his death - another PR exercise. That said, Shankly may have seen those gates as a statement piece, a philosophical barrier and message to his banishment from the place he gave his all too.
Imagine we blues doing such things to the likes of Kendall or any other blue!
It is when you understand things like this that you get some insight into the the self loathing that has historically driven the troubles that are inherent in the customers and follow that club - an unspoken truth.
So when you come across the tears and fume, and you will, remind them that there really is no need to be afraid of the dark and pat them on their confused heads.
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