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

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What does it actually mean to them. EL instead of CL. ???
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Jacob said:
And in stark contrast......

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...e-Liverpool-fans-not-showed-love-respect.html
Steven Gerrard will regret not signing for Chelsea for the rest of his life... Liverpool fans burned his shirt and never showed him the respect he deserved
Steven Gerrard will regret not signing for Jose Mourinho.
Maybe not now, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of his life he will regret it.
He may love Liverpool and the fans but the love has not been reciprocated in kind.
But let's start with Gerrard's love for Liverpool. Is it all that? He wore a Manchester United shirt as a kid. His dad told him off for it.
I don't doubt he has a special feeling for Liverpool Football Club but while some fans at Anfield might have a grudging, secret admiration for a United player, no true Liverpool fan would ever openly admit it. Gerrard did, when he called Bryan Robson a 'legend' in his book, talked about his 'admiration' for him, and said it felt 'fantastic' to wear Robson's shirt.
How could he after he sat at home and watched Liverpool fans gather around the Shankly gates and burn a shirt with 'Gerrard' on the back after his transfer request in 2005? Gerrard's response in his autobiography: 'F*** off. Show some respect.'
This all happened just a month after Istanbul, when Gerrard dragged the club to Champions League glory, giving the fans one of the best nights of their life. He was upset that his shirt was being burned but he was also upset that the club hadn't stopped those fans playing with fire.
It was also just a few months after another incident which sunk Gerrard's Liverpool heart. His own goal in the League Cup final against Chelsea led to fierce hatred from some Liverpool fans. 'That pr*ck done it on purpose, he wants to play for Chelsea. He's going for the money.
'Gerrard's a traitor. Your missus is a slut Gerrard! She's a [Poor language removed]!'
I haven't made all that up – Gerrard's mother was in Cardiff watching that game, she witnessed the abuse, and Gerrard then put it all in detail in his book.
His mum was so upset she couldn't talk to Gerrard straight after the game. It went 'way over the top' said Gerrard, and although he said it was a minority, he also vowed never to forgive them.
All a long time ago but that kind of abuse leaves its mark when it affects your family.
And what about the club? Has Liverpool Football Club loved Gerrard enough?
The infamous shirt-burning happened in the middle of a stand-off between the club and player over a new contract. Hard to believe that weeks after Istanbul Liverpool were hanging around, dithering over a new contract for the main man. He eventually signed a contract that he had originally rejected because he felt it 'took him for granted.' Gerrard even demanded an escape clause was removed.
He wasn't always treated with the respect he deserved by Liverpool fans or by the club. But there is nothing more he could have done for Liverpool.
Gerrard still believes Mourinho is the best manager in the world – better than Rafael Benitez, better than anyone else. And yet he still turned down the chance to play for him at Chelsea, Inter Milan and at Real Madrid.
Gerrard will always have Istanbul but if he had followed Mourinho – the manager he thinks is the No 1 – when he had the chance to go to Chelsea in 2005, he would have had two Premier League titles, two Serie A titles, a La Liga crown and another Champions League success.
It's up there with Alan Shearer turning down Sir Alex Ferguson twice. Ridiculous.
Shearer wanted to go home to Newcastle. Gerrard talked about his family being settled on Merseyside, which is a good enough reason. But I can't help thinking the fevered passion from Liverpool fans for their club made Gerrard scared to leave: the kind of emotions that make fans burn shirts outside Anfield, weeks after half a million of those fans lined the streets of the city just to get a glimpse of a bus carrying the European champions on a victory parade.
It's admirable that Gerrard stayed at Anfield – what a man, what a player. But it's questionable whether that was the right decision.
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really should have included the fact he was pictured with an everton shirt on as a kid as well.

think it's a bit harsh not admiring shearer's loyalty tbh. not sure the same can be said of gerrard, but the point still stands. if i actually believed he stayed at liverpool because he loved playing for the club more than success then fair enough ... i just don't believe him.
 

LouReedwalkonthewildside said:
They really are bunch of melodramatic reds***e beauts! This on Gerrard.



"Can you imagine the weight on this man's shoulders? The sheer burden on this Atlas, lugging around the hopes and dreams of millions of Liverpool supporters worldwide for all this time? The critical mass of his own dreams and hopes of glory for his own club? It's not measurable. It's not comparable to things you and I have experienced or ever will. His rewards have been great - the luxury and comfort of a great life, the acclaim - but the weight on his shoulders? The screaming catcalls of his inferiors mocking his every mistake at every turn, thousands of horrible cretins giving him two fingers, emptying the reservoirs of their abuse in his face, plastics eponymously laminating signs to commemorate an error that had almost nothing to do with them. He's a human being and all these barbs left their marks, surely."

"But he's so much more than a man, isn't he? He is an avatar of our potential greatness manifest. People will argue that he was born great, but this discounts the countless hours he spent breaking himself down and building himself up again, getting himself fit for club and country year after year after year. Never failing to answer the call when it rang out across the commons."

"I am a soft [Poor language removed], sitting here with wet eyes trying to find words worthy of a man who has meant so much to me. That goal against West Ham, the violence of that strike, a howitzer like I've never seen before, in a moment when mere mortals would have [Poor language removed] themselves to death. And coming hot on the heels of number 5 a year earlier. It felt like we had turned a corner and would never stop winning things again. It didn't work out that way."

BUT ...

"You say the word "Istanbul" in this context enough times, it becomes nearly a cliche. Our enemies and naysayers far and wide remind us that it was 10 years ago and ask what we have done for them lately. We know better, don't we? Miracles never devolve into the mundane - they are, by their nature, eternal, immortal. We had no business winning that title. We could have folded at any point and no one would have blamed us. We were undermanned, overmatched, at just about every stage of that tournament."

"But we had Steven Gerrard, and that made all the difference. That always made all the difference. He always made all the difference. His imperfections and mistakes kept him close to us, because he was and is one of us. He's only human."

"But he's so much more than that."
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There's Martin Tyler's pre-match report written.
 

Watch him have an unbelievably crap game against Palace and then the RS get awarded a dubious penalty in the last minute and then get the MOTM.
 

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