Blimey...I hope Cammell Lairds have been put back in business to build that reinforced stage platform. What will Ruddock be eulogising on I wonder...lighting his own farts?
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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"
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Would never ever condone what Roma fans did outside The Pit. A step too far.
But, there's no sense of what the RS fans have been doing to opposing team buses on route to the ground, having an influence on ultra fans mindsets approaching the fixture. Heads filled with making pre-emptive strikes and/or reactionary strikes.
Nonsense needs to stop or be stopped.
No it's o.k Stu Merseyside police have praised them for their behaviour and totally ignored the few thousand at both games either lighting flares, throwing bottles, jumping on police vans.
Even Barrett said not one Liverpool fan has been arrested so Roma were wrong to worry as everything we've seen with our own eyes doesn't count if your not caught. Even Prentice has leapt to the defence of them as well when a reporter had the audacity to try and question their behaviour
It's all harmless fun, just supporting the team and a little bit of banter in the process
Happy Slip Day you scum
With Creasehead on his bum
Happy Slip Day to the bellends
Happy Slip Day my friends.
bol-uk
Player Valuation: £50m
wHAT DID THEY DO? It was just a bit of a scrap want it? The RS got ran.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Let's have it right: there is a culture of fear around British journalists that has them either remaining silent about Liverpool fan violence or commenting about it but quickly folding and retracting if what they've said is highlighted for faux outraged criticism. And the Echo's reporters are part of the cult's advanced guard in rooting out that media criticism and bringing it to the attention of the cult.
It's a putrid mix that ends in people's lives being taken eventually. The only way to stop this spiralling out of control is to stamp all over it and offer it no hiding place to it, and certainly hand it no credibility. That's not going to happen though and the next casualty is just a matter of time in being registered. The complicity between the local media and that lot is a cause for great concern, as is LFC and UEFA's continuing lack of action against the ever greater levels of violence from Liverpool fans.
Its inciteful. Opposing fans get fired up. They get protective of their players/heroes being subjected to such stuff.
Its exacerbated by the amount of former Echo correspondents on guard duty for them in the Nationals...the likes of Bascombe, King, Joyce, Hunter. Tony Barrett, ex Echo LFC correspondent now on the payroll at Anfield via the same position at The Times, obviously has golden links to all of the papers to spread the party line. Furthermore, you then have their top heavy phalanx of ex players on the payroll of Sky and BT applying uncritical and over generous observations to stay in the clique (perhaps Souness apart). Their sinister stranglehold will soon be the media equivalent of Japanese Knotweed.... if it isn't already.
Seathestars
Player Valuation: £60m
This really, they are now like a Mafia and no one dare speak out against them.
They are on the verge of causing another disaster similar to Heysel, maybe not this season, but it’s is just around the corner relatively. The closer they get to a trophy the more dangerous they become.
You can almost sense them about to explode into violence, heaven help the opposing supporters who cop for it.
After the two disasters they’ve been through logic would tell you that Anfield should be the safest football ground in the world to visit, but it’s nothing but a cocoon of hate.
The rs B in L has booked his room in Kiev too
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Organisations that can and should call them to account are turning a blind eye to the gathering storm. In that sense they are hand in glove with the hundreds of committed fans at that club who are intent on harming people. There are literally thousands who follow them willing to indulge in the intimidation of opposing players/fans, but there are a hard core of a couple of hundred or so who follow that club who have only one thing in mind: injuring people as severely as they can. And that is the nub of the matter. Because when the Echo or LFC propagate the 'more passionate and committed than any other supporters' line they not only allow into that definition the thousands who create the intimidatory atmosphere, they also give license to the hundreds who target life and limb.
It's an incredible abdication of responsibility from those at that club and the local media who know better than anyone where this has led to in the past. I find it staggering that they offer next to no criticism of the events that have unfolded of late. What's worse is that when an outside organisation DOES take that issue seriously they are rounded on by LFC and the local media.
Something terrible is brewing and when it explodes that club (again) and the Echo will be up to their elbows in it.
Happy Slippy Day
And the anniversary of Crystabul must be coming up very shortly as well.
And it is the glorious memory of those two occasions which keeps me believing that there might well be a delightful sting in the tail when they go to Rome
They wont ....because they cant !!!
toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
Seeing as the bitters always use this tag line, I'm going to too.
"it was only a couple of idiots, only a small minority, can't base the whole fanbase on that... Blah blah blah" hs
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