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


Both clubs were asked to play both fixtures behind closed doors klopp was not having any of it, he said the experts know what they are doing, the day after they went out he did a complete u turn the game should never of gone ahead, anyone who watched the news at the time knew what was coming he just didn't care.

But there were thousands of Spanish travelling over for the game? Which would have created chaos in the City Centre, pubs were open. Please link were both clubs were offered to play behind closed doors. I’ll get accused of being a Kopite, but I’m not sure peddling lies is the right way to go about this. We all know the game shouldn’t have gone ahead, nor should Cheltenham, but to put it down solely the RS? Boris & his cronies are to blame for this one, acting far too late & letting them travel from a virus ‘hotspot’ into our country was asking for trouble. All I remembered was Klopp being critical of the match going ahead, he even had a right go at a fan for wanting to shake his hand. I think Cheltenham went ahead 1 or 2 days later too. It was a Government decision. Spain was in lockdown, all sporting events cancelled yet 1000s of Madrid fans were allowed to travel over here, is that the RS fault too? They’re to blame for lots of things but c’mon? You can’t go throwing lies around, @Magus now believes you too. Would be interested to see if what you said was true though. Please provide link.


 
But there were thousands of Spanish travelling over for the game? Which would have created chaos in the City Centre, pubs were open. Please link were both clubs were offered to play behind closed doors. I’ll get accused of being a Kopite, but I’m not sure peddling lies is the right way to go about this. We all know the game shouldn’t have gone ahead, nor should Cheltenham, but to put it down solely the RS? Boris & his cronies are to blame for this one, acting far too late & letting them travel from a virus ‘hotspot’ into our country was asking for trouble. All I remembered was Klopp being critical of the match going ahead, he even had a right go at a fan for wanting to shake his hand. I think Cheltenham went ahead 1 or 2 days later too. It was a Government decision. Spain was in lockdown, all sporting events cancelled yet 1000s of Madrid fans were allowed to travel over here, is that the RS fault too? They’re to blame for lots of things but c’mon? You can’t go throwing lies around, @Magus now believes you too. Would be interested to see if what you said was true though. Please provide link.


I'm a bit conflicted now, so any clarification would be welcome. I fully agree that the Government is primarily responsible though.
 

I cant believe they went ahead with this after all their massive opposition to any proposals by other clubs concerning this sort of rail seating...they're calling it';rail seating' and avoiding the term safe standing - as if there's a difference. And their own supporters have stayed very quiet on the subject.

They are such 'kin hypocrties. The club want to exploit the ground for more revenue and the safety concerns are suddenly non-existent.


Would Spirit of Shankly care to comment?

 

lol lol lol

Behold the hypocrisy here:


The very first sports-wash club - sports-washing Houlding his booze cash and his gang of Tory bigot cronies - berating the latest manifestattion of the trick.

...oh, and "morality"....their barbarism blackened the name of football on the continent and dragged every English club into the abyss with them.

These people have no shame.
 
But there were thousands of Spanish travelling over for the game? Which would have created chaos in the City Centre, pubs were open. Please link were both clubs were offered to play behind closed doors. I’ll get accused of being a Kopite, but I’m not sure peddling lies is the right way to go about this. We all know the game shouldn’t have gone ahead, nor should Cheltenham, but to put it down solely the RS? Boris & his cronies are to blame for this one, acting far too late & letting them travel from a virus ‘hotspot’ into our country was asking for trouble. All I remembered was Klopp being critical of the match going ahead, he even had a right go at a fan for wanting to shake his hand. I think Cheltenham went ahead 1 or 2 days later too. It was a Government decision. Spain was in lockdown, all sporting events cancelled yet 1000s of Madrid fans were allowed to travel over here, is that the RS fault too? They’re to blame for lots of things but c’mon? You can’t go throwing lies around, @Magus now believes you too. Would be interested to see if what you said was true though. Please provide link.



But there were thousands of Spanish travelling over for the game? Which would have created chaos in the City Centre, pubs were open. Please link were both clubs were offered to play behind closed doors. I’ll get accused of being a Kopite, but I’m not sure peddling lies is the right way to go about this. We all know the game shouldn’t have gone ahead, nor should Cheltenham, but to put it down solely the RS? Boris & his cronies are to blame for this one, acting far too late & letting them travel from a virus ‘hotspot’ into our country was asking for trouble. All I remembered was Klopp being critical of the match going ahead, he even had a right go at a fan for wanting to shake his hand. I think Cheltenham went ahead 1 or 2 days later too. It was a Government decision. Spain was in lockdown, all sporting events cancelled yet 1000s of Madrid fans were allowed to travel over here, is that the RS fault too? They’re to blame for lots of things but c’mon? You can’t go throwing lies around, @Magus now believes you too. Would be interested to see if what you said was true though. Please provide link.


This is what PSG did the same night they did their bit to protect lives , operation white wash is well underway, it's all UEFA fault has turned into it's the governments fault, in andy Robertson words " I cant wait to get athletico to Anfield in front of our fans' , disgraceful comment.
 

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This is what PSG did the same night they did their bit to protect lives , operation white wash is well underway, it's all UEFA fault has turned into it's the governments fault, in andy Robertson words " I cant wait to get athletico to Anfield in front of our fans' , disgraceful comment.

You do know that most of Europe, the main countries anyway, had Covid restrictions in place before us? Including France! We were one of the last. Do you really think a club can go against government advice or the government change their stance to suit the club (Why didn’t they stop Cheltenham 1 or 2 days later). You still didn’t provide the link. It was a disgrace that match went ahead, and that’s not hindsight, it was a disgrace 3000 Madrid fans flew into our City when they weren’t even allowed to attend a home game. It was a disgrace Cheltenham went ahead also. That’s our government for you, Boris has a lot to answer for, especially at the start of the pandemic. There were flights coming into the uk from virus hotspots like Italy right upto the lockdown, no test, no quarantine. That man & his cronies have a lot to answer for. You seem to be desperate to blame the RS when we have one of the most incompetent idiots ever to run our country.
This is from the Guardian….


The preliminary report on the handling of the Covid-19 crisis by the government and Boris Johnson was published on Tuesday. It praises some elements, notably the response of NHS workers to a national emergency. It describes a series of delayed responses and muddled procedures. On page 34 it states, with a startling clarity, that 37 people died unnecessarily because of the decision to stage the Champions League match between Liverpool and Atlético Madrid at Anfield on 11 March, just as the shutters were going down all over Europe.
This conclusion is reached during a summary of the tactics in those early days. There was an understandable state of ignorance of where this was heading. Still, there was also a certainty – exactly why is still not clear – that taking too many measures at once would be wrong. The day before Anfield, Johnson had talked on national TV about “taking it on the chin” and “allowing the disease, as it were, to move through the population”. And so, chin raised and fingers crossed, the herd headed off to Anfield.
The report concludes: “This approach meant that events that may have spread the virus proceeded, such as the football match between Liverpool FC and Atlético Madrid – the day the coronavirus was categorised as a pandemic by the WHO – and the Cheltenham Festival of Racing … Subsequent analysis suggest that there were an additional 37 and 41 deaths respectively at local hospitals after these events.
The report suggests this was an avoidable consequence, sport’s allocation of what would, in any other iteration of the national mood, be treated as a genuine scandal. Will anyone be held to account for these deaths? They deserve, at the very least, some space.
I was at Anfield that night. It was not an event staged in a state of ignorance. Italy had shut down its football. The rugby had been postponed. There were questions to Jürgen Klopp the day before. Should this be going ahead? Klopp seemed torn between his private misgivings (basically: no, it shouldn’t) and the obligation to do his job and manage the people around him.
Three thousand Spanish fans had travelled to Liverpool, despite the fact schools had shut down in Madrid.
 

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