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

[catcherintherye]

That City game has been ridiculously revised. They were battered that game. Liverpool caught them cold straight away then scored from a set piece. City then turned the screw and even at Anfield Liverpool had no response. Could have been 5-2 to City but the usual combination of teams finishing poorly and good luck kept it level. One brainfart from Kompany gifted them the win and they've been going on about how they demolished City ever since. Arsenal was a very good win (but then Arsenal's B team beat them in the cup, and both Chelsea and ourselves also routed Arsenal away from home). They also like to forget in the reverse fixture Arsenal schooled them and it could have been any score. They were poor at home v United but good at Old Trafford. They were woeful at Goodison but good against a team of crocks at Anfield. They like to do the usual kopite trick of just forgetting half a season each year (same again this time) but the reality is they didn't just smash everyone for the whole season. They smashed some teams on a decent run in the back end of the campaign. If they had they would have won it but as everyone knows they didn't.

Didn't take a point off Chelsea shouldn't have beaten City, let in loads of goals = didn't deserve to win the league. Jog on moronic kopites.

This basically sums it up perfectly. They were extremely lucky against City. Their run last season as I've said before was the equivalent of a spotty 16 year old with a fake ID playing roulette at the casino and hitting his lucky numbers.

Eventually they were going to get found out and they did. Lived by the sword and died by the sword. I am not knocking them for winning the games they did. They did so by playing gung ho kick and rush to an in form striker. But the flip of that coin is, by playing the same way they also came unstuck.

 

[davek]

The kind guy of sums them up really. There is a seething anger underneath them all. It's the same sort of anger your racist geriatric UKIP voter has. The world has changed around them (for the better) and they are a sad relic of the past that very few people remember. They are angry at everyone else for forgetting how brilliant they are.

It seethes through Aldridge. They haven't won the league in 26 years. That is a longer wait than at any time in the 20th or 19th century for Everton. yet they have the cheek to carry on like they are a huge club and we are no marks.

Unfortunately when somebody points out these facts to them, in a calm manner, you are accused of being a "bitter blue" or "delusional". It's the same sort of conspiracy Ukip supporters have when it is explained they are wrong, they start lashing out.

Last night on talk sport was a joke. Caller after caller debating the brilliance of Rodgers. They live in a parallel world.

He comes across as a bitter red, but also one playing their mug fans off and giving them what they want to hear. He's in it for a few quid off LFCtv and the Echo and he knows all the dog whistles that get the cult drooling: dem south yorkshire bizzies lad, dat United lad, doze oil clubs lad, dat FA and Uefa lad.

He just tells the daft ****s what they want to hear and he's sorted for his ale money. Basically all there is to know about that situation.

 

[orly]

His Mignotosh revisionism is incredible.

And he talks of himself as a "manager"... an ill-fated spell at Tranmere the high point

bum goblin

 

[davek]

Aldo claiming Liverpool at the 2nd biggest club in the country despite having not won the title in nearly 30 years

The guy's an absolute sphincter goblin

That's the way people in the 1930s must have spoken about Preston North End for winning the title often in the 19th Century. The Invincibles. Proud Preston etc.

That's how Liverpool now retain their distinction. Massive club. 25 years since they won the title, but they used to be good before the Iron Curtain came down. Still, they flog loads of keyrings and mouse mats in Singapore and Thailand...so they retain their 'global' status.

 

[Saint Domingo]

That's the way people in the 1930s must have spoken about Preston North End for winning the title often in the 19th Century. The Invincibles. Proud Preston etc.

That's how Liverpool now retain their distinction. Massive club. 25 years since they won the title, but they used to be good before the Iron Curtain came down. Still, they flog loads of keyrings and mouse mats in Singapore and Thailand...so they retain their 'global' status.

This makes me laugh, its the differing expectations. Wenger is a title winner, plays brilliant football, won the FA cup more than any manager (including last season), qualifies every season for ECL and has made the final all within a good, but not exorbitant budget. Yet the media rip into him and Arsenal for everything else, the trophy drought, not winning at certain grounds, not progressing to the champions league, not challenging for the title.

Rodgers meanwhile has won the sum of nothing. Apart from Moyes' Old Trafford has not won at any of the top grounds (even the 4-0 derby has covered up 1 win in 6 attempts none at Goodison). He has bombed out of Europe 3 times at the first hurdle and usually does the same in domestic cups. His aspiration seems to be fourth place every season despite huge amounts of money spent. Despite this though Liverpool fans and the media are on the one hand hailing him as a genius, and on the other banging on about what a big club they are. The two dont match. If they were a big club they'd have fired Rodgers for doing far worse than what Rafael, Houllier and Kenny got fired for. They haven't though because their expectations have lowered. They are not top tier and i think even they know it now which is why they adore media coverage praying it keeps them relevant and why they worship an average manager.

 

[Carlito]

I honestly thought Aldridge was finished in the media after he tried to suggest that Howard Webb shouldn't be refereeing Liverpool games due to his connections with South Yorkshire Police.

But no.

 

[davek]

This makes me laugh, its the differing expectations. Wenger is a title winner, plays brilliant football, won the FA cup more than any manager (including last season), qualifies every season for ECL and has made the final all within a good, but not exorbitant budget. Yet the media rip into him and Arsenal for everything else, the trophy drought, not winning at certain grounds, not progressing to the champions league, not challenging for the title.

Rodgers meanwhile has won the sum of nothing. Apart from Moyes' Old Trafford has not won at any of the top grounds (even the 4-0 derby has covered up 1 win in 6 attempts none at Goodison). He has bombed out of Europe 3 times at the first hurdle and usually does the same in domestic cups. His aspiration seems to be fourth place every season despite huge amounts of money spent. Despite this though Liverpool fans and the media are on the one hand hailing him as a genius, and on the other banging on about what a big club they are. The two dont match. If they were a big club they'd have fired Rodgers for doing far worse than what Rafael, Houllier and Kenny got fired for. They haven't though because their expectations have lowered. They are not top tier and i think even they know it now which is why they adore media coverage praying it keeps them relevant and why they worship an average manager.

If they fail to get CL this season, he's basically on the same page as Martinez going into next season: make sure you hit the ground running or you could be gone by Christmas.

He'll spend another (minimum) £70/£80M this summer and that'll see him having spent about £320/£330M since arriving from Swansea. FSG will want Liverpool top two or three going into Christmas in the same way they were last season - looking like champions - for the sort of failure already tolerated to be allowed to continue.

This feller can talk all he wants about how he's assembled a team full of 'technicians' and how he's successfully 'tweaking shape and tactics at HT'...if they dont get CL footy this season he's going to be served notice.

 

[bluemangroup]

bum goblin

Stealing this

 

[Prevenger17]

bum goblin

Stealing this

Yup. Very good work there, Orly.

 

[composter]

If they fail to get CL this season, he's basically on the same page as Martinez going into next season: make sure you hit the ground running or you could be gone by Christmas.

He'll spend another (minimum) £70/£80M this summer and that'll see him having spent about £320/£330M since arriving from Swansea. FSG will want Liverpool top two or three going into Christmas in the same way they were last season - looking like champions - for the sort of failure already tolerated to be allowed to continue.

But how on earth will they do this since, according to Aldo, only City, Utd & Chelsea have backers

 

[roydo]

But how on earth will they do this since, according to Aldo, only City, Utd & Chelsea have backers

Pretty certain Aldo posts on here.


http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/

 

[ScouseBlueBoy]

They can bang on all they like about how magnificent they are, but Sterling and Henderson weren't even born when they were last champions. They are far from sold on the perfection and majesty of their current surroundings. They have no physical, emotional, or even vaguely sentimental reminiscences of their childhood. They will be off like a shot as soon as a better offer comes along.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Couple of pearlers from Aldo today,

"I was made up with the way the winning goal went in at Swansea thinking about what the reaction of the Man United fans would have been.(Not bitter though eh Aldo?lollollol)

We’ve won the game with a spawny goal for a change – lovely – happy days.(Oh the ironylol)

It’s a pity it didn’t go in off his backside, it would have been even better."

And,

Simon Mignolet has been exceptional of late.

I’ve always been a Mignolet fan.(Have I missed something here?,he was calling Mignolet fit to burn a couple of months agolollollol)

 

[MikeH72]

I'm made up Aldo took the time out of his day to block me on Twitter, the absolute test tube

 

[Jacob]

I'm made up Aldo took the time out of his day to block me on Twitter, the absolute test tube

Extract from Alright Aldo, his book (taken from an RS blog A Golden Sky)

LIVERPOOL NIGHTS OUT
Liverpool would always let us have nights out, with the highlight being the fancy dress Christmas party. Not many managers would go out with their players but Kenny did. One year he turned up dressed as a judge. This was just after Jan Molby had made a few appearances in court and been locked up. John Barnes memorably wore a Ku Klux Klan costume too, nothing was really off limits and the media never picked up that story. I wasn’t quite so controversial when I went as Cooperman, a Russ Abbot character based on Superman. By the end of the night I was in a right state and went in search of a taxi home. It was the usual situation where you can’t get a cab at Christmas because everyone is out celebrating. Finally I managed to flag one down and said: “Woolton please.” The driver looked me up and down and said: “I’m not going anywhere. If you’re Cooperman you can fly home.” And off he drove. I’m sure he was an Evertonian. I had to ring my missus for a lift instead.