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

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Just going through some of the older posts in this thread and came across this

The city of Liverpool has always correctly welcomed a righteous siege, and the last stand of the Suarez citadel feels like a fort worthy of defending.
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http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=284571.msg9668755#msg9668755

That reads like something an Evertonian would write as a parody FFS! But no, an ACTUAL Liverpool Supporter wrote that and thought it was fit for public consumption

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MoutsGoat said:
Not sure if this has been posted, but I read it last night and it actually made me laugh for a good few hours after reading it.

Mind blowing stuff.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34310400
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Christ almighty....talk about clutching at straws...
"They did not score until after the break, but managed 12 touches inside the Norwich area inside the first 45 minutes, and crucially those 12 touches came from five different players - Benteke, Sturridge, Coutinho, Milner and Moreno - who had seven shots between them......and - in particular - James Milner attacked the penalty area from midfield too......."

Touches ? How does that constitute anything positive...they were at home ffs.
Milner was a show too by all accounts.....even Pearce in The Echo criticised him....
"In the wake of the crushing blow of losing Jordan Henderson for two months with a broken foot, Liverpool needed stand-in captain James Milner to take on greater responsibility.It didn't happen as Milner endured the kind of afternoon which made a mockery of all the back-slapping that went on when the Reds won the race to secure his signature."

Lawrenson was past his sell by date about five years ago and in his MOTD comfort zone well before that too. The others are hardly the brains trust but this smug imbecile takes the biscuit.
 
Carragher hit the nail on the head for them last week when talking about this summer's transfers. He is living off of the one season where they finished second with Sturridge, Suarez, and Sterling offering them the ability to play incredible counter-attacking football. They have not come anywhere close to replacing those three players who were key to the way they were playing and winning games.

A front three of Benteke, Ings, and Firmino doesn't offer anywhere near the threat of the previous three. None of them really have the pace required or even particularly want to play wide. When everyone is fit, Firmino doesn't get a look in because you can really only play with one attacking mid in the hole before you start to clutter up the space they have to work with. Coutinho will play in the hole, which means you have to put Firmino out wide if you want him to play as well and he is nowhere near effective enough to play there. They've spent 30 million pounds on a player who won't be in the starting 11 given everyone is fit.

They have given him loads of money, but every player he has bought is nothing like the players he was setting out to replace. He keeps changing the formations to suit the players he and his committee have brought in, but nothing ever sticks and the players never look comfortable. He is always putting round pegs in square holes.
 

Mikey_Fitzgerald said:
Just going through some of the older posts in this thread and came across this



http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=284571.msg9668755#msg9668755

That reads like something an Evertonian would write as a parody FFS! But no, an ACTUAL Liverpool Supporter wrote that and thought it was fit for public consumption

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Seriously, this is a wind up right?

What Des and the mainstream press are misunderstanding with a consistency across the swathe that defies belief is not that the Liverpool family believe Suarez should ‘get off with it, because ya know, the word he used, you’re kinda allowed to say it, and be a bit racist where he comes from’.
The LFC perspective is that he has fundamentally not used language that can be construed as racist , at all. Full stop.

The media confuse the fact that they can find a literal google translation for ‘negrito’ that if applied in English would seem to clearly reference skin colour with such trivial niceties as the actual applicable definition of the word.

The French use endearments such as ‘ma puce’ or ‘mon petit chou’, which literally translate to the English as ‘my flea’ and ‘my little cabbage’. Had Evra mockingly used these terms at Suarez would the FA or boneheads like Des Kelly have claimed that he was accusing the Uruguayan of being a disease spreading insect or being disrespectful to those of impaired brain function with the vegetable assertion?

Any language student who has attained a level of competence knows that translation is not the art of applying the literal from one culture to another but is attempting to carry over the substance and spirit of what is being communicated.

Crucially in the Suarez case, the problem Brits have with getting this is that our language doesn’t have an equivalent of ‘negrito’. We don’t have words that reference skin colour affectionately.

We do have tame words for people’s places of origin such as ‘jock’, ‘taff’ or ‘Geordie’ and we have benign colloquialisms for hair colour – ginge, blondie – but with skin we draw a line.

We do this because we have history with the pigmentation of flesh. We sent men to far foreign lands where they rounded up men of darker toned skin than their own because they saw them as vulnerable and inferior. The rest, tragically, is history.

We use references to skin tone derogatorily. It’s part of our heritage to do so. It’s our shame and the FA knows this.

It’s not Uruguay’s shame though, and it’s not Luis Suarez’s burden either.
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thirdmantackle said:
Kevin Kilbane sticking the knife into Rodgers on Today FM over here in Ireland
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He was on MOTD extra over here yesterday and tried to dodge the question when asked his opinion if Rodgers.

He tried to stay neutral and sit on the fence but his facial expressions and body language told a different story.

The whole of footballs turning on him, even the nice guys.
 

mellowblue said:
was priveleged to be in the kop for Sharp's goal we battered them
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Dario Terracotta said:
Me too mate:)
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Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian said:
I was in main stand.

Had a run in with Johnny Ball and I think a young Zoe. As he walked away after having a go at me and some other blues I shouted "think of a number Johnny"... "seven".... "wrong... TWO" and flicked him a V, Zoe giggled.
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Anny road terrace in the corner on line with 6 yard box more or less. Saw the trajectory of the ball from the side as it began to dip!!!m took about ten minutes to find the newly married Madame Allezlesbleus in the bedlam afterwards!!!
 

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