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

[Groucho]

I've never heard a socialist (or a capitalist for that matter) come out with the absolute guff that LFC fans spout.

Something else, eh!

 

[Baines' left foot]

RAWK again.

Oh come on. That has to be a blue or Manc messing about?

Also, I love how they drag Shankly's name in to everything. I bet the bloke has spun in his coffin so many times that he's excavated his own grave so deep that he's now right next to the earth's core.

 

[roydo]

Oh come on. That has to be a blue or Manc messing about?

Also, I love how they drag Shankly's name in to everything. I bet the bloke has spun in his coffin so many times that he's excavated his own grave so deep that he's now right next to the earth's core.

I reckon so too. But it is pertinent that we are not sure it is!

 

[Baines' left foot]

I reckon so too. But it is pertinent that we are not sure it is!

It's like the Brent v Brendan quotes. You just can't tell who said what!

They are superb entertainment. Absolutely superb.

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

If fcbarca descends on RAWK it will be the icing on the cake.

 

[davek]

Honestly, some of the quotes they come out with (LFC fans generally, not just RAWK) make them sound like some sort of socialist organisation.

"Shankly was a socialist so I must be one too...." . I firmly believe that's where the 'cult' (sic, perhaps) behaviour comes from.

Like an anti-NHS. LFC - the national conspiracy service.

What a load of bollocks that was: 'Shankly the socialist.' How did that manifest itself like?

He was a weird old autocratic crank who treated players like something he stepped in.

Lovely feller.

 

[Walken]

What a load of bollocks that was: 'Shankly the socialist.' How did that manifest itself like?

He was a weird old autocratic crank who treated players like something he stepped in.

Lovely feller.

the mourinho of his time, a narcissist who loves a sound bite, top manager no doubt, the way they hate jose and can't see the similarity does amuse me

 

[davek]

the mourinho of his time, a narcissist who loves a sound bite, top manager no doubt, the way they hate jose and can't see the similarity does amuse me

Oh ate, there's no doubting his managerial talents.

 

[Blueblooded]

Apparently the commemorative DVD is being rush released as we speak:

 

[yelyah]

Kopites give this review one star. Kudos to the reviewer...

"Football? Bloody hell!", as Bill Shankly once said.

By the final chapter of this book I was kneeling on the floor of my living room, floods of tears pattering onto my replica kit, wailing like a hysterical gibbon. My dogs, Rushie and Aldo, wailed in solidarity with me. They understood; my wife didn't. I felled her with a right hook.

Imagine if all you ever wanted was a carrot cake, and then, after 25 years without one, you see your most loyal friend walking towards your house smiling, carrying a carrot cake with your name on it. As he reaches your drive, he tumbles calamitously into a ditch. You rush out to find him writhing in agony amongst a cakey-muddy mess, a hungry raven pecking at his flesh. That is how we Liverpool fans feel about the 13/14 season (the raven is Tony Pulis, by the way).

This book is not just some cynical cash-in to make money out of Irish people. Paul Tomkins has truly encapsulated the modern-day Liverpool Football Club experience in literary form: the misty-eyed sentimentality, the endless self-mythologizing and, above all, the abject, humiliating failure. YNWA.

So done. Fantastic.

 

[NewRadical]

"Football? Bloody hell!", as Bill Shankly once said.

By the final chapter of this book I was kneeling on the floor of my living room, floods of tears pattering onto my replica kit, wailing like a hysterical gibbon. My dogs, Rushie and Aldo, wailed in solidarity with me. They understood; my wife didn't. I felled her with a right hook.

Imagine if all you ever wanted was a carrot cake, and then, after 25 years without one, you see your most loyal friend walking towards your house smiling, carrying a carrot cake with your name on it. As he reaches your drive, he tumbles calamitously into a ditch. You rush out to find him writhing in agony amongst a cakey-muddy mess, a hungry raven pecking at his flesh. That is how we Liverpool fans feel about the 13/14 season (the raven is Tony Pulis, by the way).

This book is not just some cynical cash-in to make money out of Irish people. Paul Tomkins has truly encapsulated the modern-day Liverpool Football Club experience in literary form: the misty-eyed sentimentality, the endless self-mythologizing and, above all, the abject, humiliating failure. YNWA.

So done. Fantastic.

Oh, I LOVE that!

 

[BoysInBlue]

 

[MikeH72]

How long before the kopites start linking him with a return? It only took a year with Alonso, Owen and Mascherano, I think this one might be even shorter. I think you'll hear murmurs in January

LEWY AZNT SETTLED IN SPAIN E WANTZ 2 CUM BAK 2 DER MIGHTY REDMEN WERE GUNNA SIGN IM FOR 25P AND WIN DER LEEEEEEEEG YWNA JFT96 EW GO AGIAN

 

[Blues Harp]

No matter what Shankly thought after leaving the RS he was the one who started the Cult ...worship - he encouraged it and i hated him with a passion ..."travesty of Justice " after we'd beaten them... and that dreadful song ..he loved the adulation as a so called " Man of the people" It was very clever I admit and a lot of us have been taken in by his later comments after leaving the RS ..No wonder Paisley didn't want him at Melwood

 

[tsubaki]

What a load of bollocks that was: 'Shankly the socialist.' How did that manifest itself like?

He was a weird old autocratic crank who treated players like something he stepped in.

Lovely feller.

True, but the maddest thing for me is how quickly they switch from the sub-communist stylings of the Kop to complaining that their hedge fund owners havent spent enough money on them, all the while lapping up the efficiency of their marketing department for making millions by selling crap to kopites worldwide.