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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3


And so it begins....the long march back from "dee oil clubs are unfair lad".....


Can’t wait for their gymnastics as to why private corporations in Qatar or Saudi Arabia closely aligned to the ruling state regime are actually morally better than any other ownership model in the history of the game.

I can’t quite imagine the Saudi PIF allowing their flagship team Newcastle in the premier league to be bested by a private competition from their own country if push came to shove in a title decider. Same with PSG and the Qataris in the CL. Can imagine the type of conversations and pressure being exerted behind closed doors there.
 
Joe Cole on ITV doing the studio rubbish

His banner appears as “Joe Cole Liverpool & England”

Mmmmm let’s check

West Ham - 126 appearances
Chelsea - 183 appearances
Liverpool - 26 appearances
Weird that as well. He was clearly finished by the time he joined them. You'd laud his time at Chelsea surely?

Oh, yeah, idiots in the media.
 
Can’t wait for their gymnastics as to why private corporations in Qatar or Saudi Arabia closely aligned to the ruling state regime are actually morally better than any other ownership model in the history of the game.

I can’t quite imagine the Saudi PIF allowing their flagship team Newcastle in the premier league to be bested by a private competition from their own country if push came to shove in a title decider. Same with PSG and the Qataris in the CL. Can imagine the type of conversations and pressure being exerted behind closed doors there.
Look what they did after Hicks and Gillett were ousted - the 'Yanks, no thanks' calls bit the dust as they embraced FSG and all the talk of resisting commercialisation - the price of their tickets have rocketted - and they were silent abpout the Euro scab league until Gary Neville and Chelsea fans started to revolt over it.

They'll take cash off any source - oil money included - and merely blame it on a PL arms race that they couldn't stay outside of if libpoolfc were to keep its place at or near the top table.

The BS that comes out of them is laughable.
 
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Look what they did after Hicks and Gillett were ousted - the 'Yanks, no thanks' calls bit the dust as they embraced FSG and all the talk of resisting commercialisation - the price of their tickets have rocketted - and they were silent abpout the Euro scab league until Gary Neville and Chelsea fans started to revolt over it.

They'll take cash off any source and - oil money included - and merely blame it on a PL arms race that they culdn;t stay outside of if libpoolfc were to keep its place at or near the top table.

The BS that comes out of them is laughable.

You watch, the term ‘sportswashing’ ‘oil clubs/money’ ‘state owners’ will comeptlely disappear from pundits and journalists vocabulary if the establishment club gets an owner from Saudi Arabia or Qatar. The likes of Conn Delaney Holt Winter Rudd Bascombe are going to have to delete half the articles they’ve written in the last 5 years.
 
You watch, the term ‘sportswashing’ ‘oil clubs/money’ ‘state owners’ will comeptlely disappear from pundits and journalists vocabulary if the establishment club gets an owner from Saudi Arabia or Qatar. The likes of Conn Delaney Holt Winter Rudd Bascombe are going to have to delete half the articles they’ve written in the last 5 years.
The fellow travellers are just waiting for the word from the usual BS artists like Spirit of Shankly to volte face.

The truth of the matter is that Liverpool have always been the creature of big business. Right from their creation they were owned by brewers and pools millionaires (they got way more cash from that source than Everton, who merely got advances of cash from Moores) well before the big foreign cash came in.

They never like to delve into history for a variety of reasons.
 

Heighway was born in Dublin to English parents who were studying / working there.

Ronnie Whelan in the early 80s would have ben the first Irish Catholic to have played for them I'd imagine.


There's a strange silence over Liverpool FCs anti-Irish history.
Ireland is full of kopites that claim granddad etc played for them.
Absolutely love calling them out on it.
 
Ireland is full of kopites that claim granddad etc played for them.
Absolutely love calling them out on it.
Their grandad's would never have been allowed into that club. That's the truth of the matter.

A city with a massive historical and cultural link to Ireland and one of the football clubs of that city never signs an Irish player until the 1980s - when Everton had them in from the 1890s and most other English clubs had them as players prior to the Second World War and certainly by the 1970s.

That was a policy. It was no accident. And the Irish who follow Liverpool now hand them their cash, the 'kin mugs.
 
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Sign on the bar wall: 'Help Wanted: No Irish Need Apply'


They'll be familiar with that as it was their club's transfer policy up intil the 1980s.
I'm guessing that is tongue in cheek in an Irish bar?

Loads of Jameson and Tullamore Dew whiskey on the shelves - agree on the rs policy though.
 
That's true, apart from Heighway who was born in Dublin but I think he spent most of his childhood in Sheffield.

Elisha Scott was from Belfast.

Other than that I can't think of any.

Heighway:
“I was born in Dublin in 1947 and spent a decade there, but it never fully felt like home because I think we were always going to move back to England where all the rest of my family originally came from. I think that was always on the cards.

“They’d come across to Ireland when my dad got a job as a consulting engineer at Busaras in Dublin. I was born around then and that’s why I was eligible for the green shirt.”

 

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