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

[Pat's Van]

A good post on RAWK.....

I see nothing as changed on RAWK since I last posted on here: some decent posters who are prepared to contragulate City but a large percentage who come out with the old bollocks about buying trophies. Of course Liverpool have never bought trophies - every decent player has come through the ranks - I remember John Barnes, Peter Beardlsey, Ian Rush, Graham Souness etc. when they were playing in your youth team. How many times have Liverpool broken the transfer record? Fact is that football teams have been buying the league for many years - we won't be the first and we certaintly won't be the last. Strange that Liverpool use this as an excuse for why they haven't won the title for so many years yet they have no explanantion for why Man United are the most successful premier league club - they have had no petro-millions or sugar daddy.

Problem with many Liverpool fans this season (and I'm not saying all) is that they started celebrating the title weeks ago. T shirts being printed (all over the internet), adverts for jobs for stewards on the open top bus tour and singing "were going to win the league" - no wonder the team was under pressure in the final games. This was coupled with a media frenzy - all the ex-Liverpool pundits saying how Liverpool deserved to win it, Stevie G deserved the title for his loyalty ..ad nauseum. But for me using the death of 96 innocent people as a motivational factor for winning the title was in very bad taste and I can't believe the club went down that route. I think most neutrals originally rooted for Liverpool but I think by the end of the season the behaviour of the fans/club coupled with the media love in swung opinion in the opposite direction. I don't blame any fans for being excited but there is a difference between excitement and arrogance - I would have associated this behaviour with Rags not Liverpool fan. Your team were on top and playing great football but surely some humility and quiet confidence wouldn't have gone amiss.

that just about sums it up

 

[LeeRab]

It's great, the the more the papers mention it the longer it will remind him, that he is to blame.

He knows this himself too, without a shadow of doubt. He is livid that he was 50% at fault for the failure. It explains his reaction in his post game interview. That interview was his attempt to buy some time with the fans and to try and shake the monkey off his back already. The little worm knows he can hide behind a reputation. All that interview did yesterday was give hope and promise to the deluded reds.

That monkey isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

He will be reminded of this for the rest of his career and even after that.

 

[Bungle]

A good post on RAWK.....

I see nothing as changed on RAWK since I last posted on here: some decent posters who are prepared to contragulate City but a large percentage who come out with the old bollocks about buying trophies. Of course Liverpool have never bought trophies - every decent player has come through the ranks - I remember John Barnes, Peter Beardlsey, Ian Rush, Graham Souness etc. when they were playing in your youth team. How many times have Liverpool broken the transfer record? Fact is that football teams have been buying the league for many years - we won't be the first and we certaintly won't be the last. Strange that Liverpool use this as an excuse for why they haven't won the title for so many years yet they have no explanantion for why Man United are the most successful premier league club - they have had no petro-millions or sugar daddy.

Problem with many Liverpool fans this season (and I'm not saying all) is that they started celebrating the title weeks ago. T shirts being printed (all over the internet), adverts for jobs for stewards on the open top bus tour and singing "were going to win the league" - no wonder the team was under pressure in the final games. This was coupled with a media frenzy - all the ex-Liverpool pundits saying how Liverpool deserved to win it, Stevie G deserved the title for his loyalty ..ad nauseum. But for me using the death of 96 innocent people as a motivational factor for winning the title was in very bad taste and I can't believe the club went down that route. I think most neutrals originally rooted for Liverpool but I think by the end of the season the behaviour of the fans/club coupled with the media love in swung opinion in the opposite direction. I don't blame any fans for being excited but there is a difference between excitement and arrogance - I would have associated this behaviour with Rags not Liverpool fan. Your team were on top and playing great football but surely some humility and quiet confidence wouldn't have gone amiss.

Spot on really, I suspect he is soon to be banned for rational thinking like that.

 

[LeeRab]

that just about sums it up

That post started off ' we this and we that ' and ended with ' your team '....

hmmmmmmmmmm Good post though

 

[IllinoisBlue]

Be interesting to see if it makes it's way to Brazil

 

[peteblue]

That post started off ' we this and we that ' and ended with ' your team '....

hmmmmmmmmmm Good post though

It was a city fan on RAWK.....

 

[Pat's Van]

That post started off ' we this and we that ' and ended with ' your team '....

hmmmmmmmmmm Good post though

no I think he's a city fan mate, when he says "WE" he's referring to city won't be the first to buy the league

 

[peteblue]

Be interesting to see if it makes it's way to Brazil

Hahahahahaha.....if anyone is going please make this happen......On second thoughts he's playing for England now.....

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Spot on really, I suspect he is soon to be banned for rational thinking like that.

That lad's a hero

 

[LeeRab]

no I think he's a city fan mate, when he says "WE" he's referring to city won't be the first to buy the league

It was a city fan on RAWK.....

Aghhh ok makes sense now, thanks

 

[davek]

Not only has he not apologise, but he's joked about it at their awards bash haha

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...oo-down-when-a-trophy-slips-away-9342914.html

I bet they were made up with that like, having had one hand on the title...some divvy covering his own arse with a lame joke about ballsing it all up.

I suppose his punishment is that he now becomes THAT slip. That's his career defined now for all time....now that IS funny.

 

[Eggs]

Has he mentioned that slip yet or apologized publicly for it?

I cant remember him referring to it.

It's a bit weird no one's confronted him over it in the media. He bolloxed it all up...I'd have thought a question in his direction wold have been in order given the mountain of coverage this league gets.

.....don't you know that the slip never actually happened. The reds are selective when it comes to memory.

 

[Bungle]

I bet they were made up with that like, having had one hand on the title...some divvy covering his own arse with a lame joke about ballsing it all up.

I suppose his punishment is that he now becomes THAT slip. That's his career defined now for all time....now that IS funny.

Yep, that's the beautiful thing about it, gone are the days of his almost single handedly dragging them back into the Champions League final, he'll forever be remembered by everyone (except the mutants at Anfield) as destroying their title hopes with that slip.

Let's be honest, if we could have written the script for the last 2-3 weeks, I don't think we'd have done half as good a job as what actually unfolded, although in my script Suarez would've been snapped in half.

 

[barneygumble]

Well you'll all be dead happy to know, that, they managed to close off Hanover St. last night about 3am, marching down the street singing their poetry in motion [Poor language removed] in their droves

Seriously, marching down a street at 3am

 

[Bungle]

Well you'll all be dead happy to know, that, they managed to close off Hanover St. last night about 3am, marching down the street singing their poetry in motion [Poor language removed] in their droves lol

Seriously, marching down a street at 3am lol

They had to do it when everyone else was in bed otherwise the streets would have been lined with people pissing themselves laughing as they marched by.