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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3

RomanReigns said:
800 people dying everyday and they have the audacity to even contemplate resuming football
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That is because it is all about their success: everything else is irrelevant; the mere discussion about voiding the season is some great conspiracy against them.

Some of the points I've heard raised from different people: why can't there be a shorter season next year? Why can't they cancel the FA Cup or the League Cup?

Well, the FA and EFL should lose invaluable sponsorship (Emirates and Caribou) and deprive at least 72 other club (no-PL) important revenue and opportunities.

The entire league pyramid is going to be in financial disarray after this and taking this extra revenue could be detrimental when you consider some survive off it.

They're also happy for mass fixture congestion, either to finish this season or in a compacted 20/21, to impact on the upcoming Euro 21 and World Cup 22.

The PL really shouldn't (can't) be finishing late next term either because of the Euro 21 dates so you'll be creating periods of real congestion to get it finished.

The 21/22 season has to start early too (plan is July I've been told) because we have the World Cup right in the middle of November and into December.

All these conditions have nothing to do with other fans and bias for or against them; the decision is purely logical and will be made by the PL, FA, UEFA etc.

In reality, there'll be a date set in the minds of the league and if they can achieve finishing the league before then it will be done; if they can't, it won't.
 

Toast said:
Danny Murphy is on bbc1 doing his 'matches of his day' soon.
No doubt we get a mention.

I'm sure all his games he played for utter gash teams also figure prominently also..
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Can't see why 90% of football pundits and journos couldn't be furloughed on £850 a week (would imagine they're on a lot more at the license payers expense) likes of murphy , Jennas and the multitude of reporters still trying to look relevant in a world without sport.
 
The government is coming under increasing pressure from businesses and Tory MPs to lift the lockdown. This whilst we are still having over 800 deaths a day in hospitals in the UK. This DOESN'T include care homes and the comminity.

My brother works in a care home in Wallasey and they've probably had about 20 people alone die in the last week or so! Most of them offloaded by the NHS. This has also killed off a number of existing residents. The real death rate is far higher than is being reported in the media.

Coronavirus is rampant in some sections of the population. If the lockdown is eased, it could lead to further mass slaughter and with the NHS and social services unable to cope. Two of my colleagues have already died from COVID. Few if any won't have lost someone they know when this is all over.

Against this backdrop, the season should be voided immediately. If football restarts around September, it will have to be behind closed doors. Even that date looks wildly optimistic at the moment.

People talk about big money winning out. The PL, SKY, BT and all the other big businesses involved in football will no doubt be pressuring the government as we speak to allow football to restart. But the potential backlash of people losing loved on such a scale could cause this government to fall and public anger not seen since the 1920s. Public anger is already turning against scumbags like Branson and Ashley.

We are entering totally unprecedented times. If the RS are in the vanguard to get football restarted whatever, then they may be about to experience a backlash that even they can't brush under the carpet.
 
daza_1973 said:
Can't see why 90% of football pundits and journos couldn't be furloughed on £850 a week (would imagine they're on a lot more at the license payers expense) likes of murphy , Jennas and the multitude of reporters still trying to look relevant in a world without sport.
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They're probably not even directly employed by the BBC. Most likely through some tax avoidance scam vehicle these characters seem to love.

It's only your PAYE numpties of the great unwashed that have to pay proper tax.
 
Shevin Keedy said:
They are beginning to sound like their usual sinister selves, this from RAWK;

If I had anything to do with making decisions in football I'd be acutely aware that if there is one club and one fanbase you stitch up at your peril ... it's Liverpool.

Even if I didn't like Liverpool and secretly wished I could piss on their chips, I'd still make sure I made the right overall decision on this.

Deprive LFC of a title loads in the game said was over after Christmas, and when LFC are 25 points clear with around 8 games to go, and you bring a [Poor language removed] storm down on yourself you could really do without. Liverpool FC are the biggest jewel in the crown in this country these days, and screwing them over would be very foolish indeed.

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Self entitled much
 

Khalekan said:
As a person of Irish extraction with family in Belfast, Donegal and Wexford it galls me no end encountering RS cultists when I visit the ould sod.

As our good friend @davek has pointed out on numerous occasions, this shower would not entertain an Irish Catholic about the place for most of its existence.
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To be honest, the type of person over here that follows the cult are generally unsavory characters. It's fitting to be honest.

davek said:
In Dave Hill's book 'Out of his Skin' (about John Barnes), he mentions another form of racism: graffiti written over turnstiles at Anfield in the 1980s declaring "No Fenains here".
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My mother lived and worked in Liverpool during the late 70's and early 80's. When it came to supporting a team she said I should support Everton. All her friends from Liverpool supported Everton.
 
NiallDoobs said:
To be honest, the type of person over here that follows the cult are generally unsavory characters. It's fitting to be honest.



My mother lived and worked in Liverpool during the late 70's and early 80's. When it came to supporting a team she said I should support Everton. All her friends from Liverpool supported Everton.
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I remember going past Anfield in the late 70s early 80s on match day and the NF selling 'The Bulldog' magazine....and doing a roaring trade, btw.


...Chelsea, obviously.
 

Tin-Tin said:
Yes because nothing screams integrity like running algorithms to decide remaining fixture results or work out points per game to determine finishes.

How many times have we said football, in particular the PL is unpredictable. We have seen teams who look doomed go on a run (remember Wigan beating Arsenal, Liverpool etc), teams who look safe have a patch of bad form. Teams escaping or dropping on the final day?

It all comes down to form/injuries/home advantage/opposition teams with other priorities/good or bad decisions on the pitch. Every single bit of that is unpredictable yet they want to put it on a frigging calculator to arrive at a decision.

Everything about that thought or process is lacking integrity.
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We all mostly admit that they were on target to win it, but actually hadn't.
Would they turn up for their last half a dozen games, 1 Vs Villa

Relegation however with 9 games to go are anybodies guess.
 
daza_1973 said:
Can't see why 90% of football pundits and journos couldn't be furloughed on £850 a week (would imagine they're on a lot more at the license payers expense) likes of murphy , Jennas and the multitude of reporters still trying to look relevant in a world without sport.
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That would be over the furlough maximum of £2500 per month.
 

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