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

[Howards tipple]

 

[1966efc]

And according to The Echo, Brenda wants Liverpool "To recruit players who are hungry."

 

[Pabbers]

Barton has a point on the leg break thing.

 

[Pabbers]

Has Souness said anything yet?

Last time he bite Ivanovic Souness was on the Sky panel and went mental calling for all sorts of action to happen, love to hear what he's got to say over this.

How can a player, that went out to end people's career, take the moral highground on this !!!!

 

[bluemangroup]

Re: Group D - 1st Costa Rica, 2nd Uruguay, 3rd Italy, 4th England
« Reply #1955 on: Today at 11:07:58 AM »

95% of all italian newspapers and sports papers main story coverage is based on prandelli and italy going out of the world cup. About 100% of back pages in the UK who were not even involved in the match and own national team sunk out with 1 shitty point on the same day are all about Suarez, what does that tell you?

However I think fifa's hatred of the uk media may work in his favour as they will purposely not buckle to any of the ridiculous 2 year ban suggestions.

Oh and by the way if, like me, you are disgusted with the clear vilification and demonisation of a player that has gone on for ages now, among hundreds of other things, do what I do and stop buying these [Poor language removed] rags each day and cease being such hypocrites.

 

[bluemangroup]

Bloody RAWK.

 

[Dithering Dougie]

How can a player, that went out to end people's career, take the moral highground on this !!!!

He was spot on about it all last time unlike most RS media whores.

To be fair every team had at least one Souness type player back, and saying he went out to end people's careers seems harsh. But whatever his playing style he's a good pundit and it would be interesting to hear his view again.

 

[Jacko93]

Barton has a point on the leg break thing.

A leg break from a challenge can happen as part of a miscalculation, a mistime of a challenge. There was no mis-calculation or mistimeing from Suarez.

 

[bluelife]

RAWK:

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What a truly awful forum haha. Are all the other ones crap too or something? Why is that so popular when they don't let people talk about big incidents?

 

[bluemangroup]

A leg break from a challenge can happen as part of a miscalculation, a mistime of a challenge. There was no mis-calculation or mistimeing from Suarez.

No mate he's clearly done it instinctively and has deep psychological issues and in no way is this his fault. The British media should be ashamed at themselves for pushing a man to do this.

 

[ste d' indica]

Yes, so would I be ashamed, but I don't think it should reflect badly on LFC. A lot of its supporters, certainly, but not the club.

Unless it comes out defending him, of course.

It'll reflect badly on the club regardless of what they do to some extent simply by association as a Liverpool player, that's to be expected of any individual representing a corporate body (disgraced MP or executive for example, individual action always has repercussions for the organisation). Uruguay have already blundered by leaping to his defence, LFC haven't made an acknowledgement yet. That is somewhat understandable, he's away from the club and they'll need to draft a corporate line on this which will probably mean legal and PR advice as to how to address the incident.

It may be unfair on the club to but that's the rules of engagement. And look at the history here:

Suarez cheats in a World Cup, then bites a player in the Dutch league, he is respectively sent off and banned for 7 games.
Liverpool (class and dignity FC) buy him. He is found guilty of racially abusing a player, they leap to his defence with a ridiculous PR stunt, he is banned again.
He refuses to shake the offered hand of the player he abused, and is defended by his then manager for that action.
Then he bites someone in the premier league in a high profile game and is banned again.
The club stick by him and he responds by trying to force a move, is then told he should apologise by his manager or he won't be played, he doesn't but is played anyway.
He is venerated by the English press and made player of the year, then goes to a world cup and goes on an offensive against the same press after knocking England out, all the while insinuations are rife that he is leaving Liverpool.
Then he bites someone again during the biggest game on the planet at that point while still a Liverpool player.

There is no way this isn't going to be bad press for LFC.

 

[Khalekan]

He did not press charges, the Scottish Police pushed it.

That's what I thought

In fact IIRC John McStay asked the Procurator Fiscal not to proceed with the case.

 

[Pabbers]

That's what I thought

In fact IIRC John McStay asked the Procurator Fiscal not to proceed with the case.

Scottish system is very strict.

 

[Khalekan]

Scottish system is very strict.

And I think the SFA were insistent on prosecution as well.

Hence Big Dunc refused to play for Scotland again.

 

[JDL]

All this press coverage of Suarez had an upside for the rat, Woy and the England boys should see him right for a good drink for deflecting attention from our worst World Cup performance ever.