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

[the golden visionary]

The entitlement just pours off them. In a group chat with some old work colleagues, including one other blue and one red. The red spits his dummy all the time at any loss or dropped points, the amount of times he's claimed he's no longer into football is in three digits at least. Only to come back from under the (wet) bed sheets when they get a big win, chatting utter wham.

The one who watches alone and has clearly never watched football prior to the last CL triumph has a very punchable face

 

[Pilks]

This is a great interview with the footballer who has turned out to be the Guardians 'The Secret Footballer' - but I only post this section here (34:50) as he is talking about creating the column and the Guardian boss says 'You can write whatever you want, but there is only ONE rule... do not upset the Liverpool fans'.

Yeah, like the Sun readership really 'migrated' to The Guardian! Natural stepping stone. Like when I stopped reading the Beano as a kid and immediately moved on to the Financial Times...

 

[twoblue]

Yeah, like the Sun readership really 'migrated' to The Guardian! Natural stepping stone. Like when I stopped reading the Beano as a kid and immediately moved on to the Financial Times...

Think the point was prob it’s not worth the hassle of upsetting the Liverpool fans… regardless of where and why they read the guardian.
Ultimately since the internet, some reads something unsympathetic about RS and “then jump on” from any Liverpool fan is huge to the point of not worth it.

 

[hkb6970]

yeah , with 5 champs league places they should make it easy. I think they’ll finish above Chelsea

Or as we expect, they will finish 6th then win CL final on pens to qualify.

 

[Tommy Chong]

Whatever the case is, we can always have a laugh at the RS’s expense :

 

[leslad]

This is a great interview with the footballer who has turned out to be the Guardians 'The Secret Footballer' - but I only post this section here (34:50) as he is talking about creating the column and the Guardian boss says 'You can write whatever you want, but there is only ONE rule... do not upset the Liverpool fans'.

ironically enough, I think this actually tracks more for other print media companies - especially Sky - than the Guardian. Though the Guardian is still guilty (imo) of its own biases, of course

 

[PrekisCrossBarlow!]

Think the point was prob it’s not worth the hassle of upsetting the Liverpool fans… regardless of where and why they read the guardian.
Ultimately since the internet, some reads something unsympathetic about RS and “then jump on” from any Liverpool fan is huge to the point of not worth it.

Exactly. I took the subtext of Kitsons words to be about the absolute tornado you get from the entire RS fanbase if they are criticised.
I mean, the Guardian are literally treating them differently to any other club just to avoid that.

 

[PrekisCrossBarlow!]

Some of these don't seem to celebrate that much when they score, and when they concede it's a sort of delayed reaction - almost as if it was all being done for hits...

You know it's real when the reaction to conceding is literally not even a tiny flinch, just stare at the screen for about a minute while their souls implode. That's what I used to be like when I was a kid and Everton conceded.

 

[pejic]

From McNulty's Arsenal match report on BBC website

The Gunners would, in all likelihood, end up as unpopular, unloved champions as their hard-nosed approach comes under increasingly unflattering scrutiny.

Not unpopular with me mate

 

[Kurt.]

Everyone going on about these conceding in injury time , nobody mentioning the fact they were benefiting from injury time goals at the start of the season

 

[twoblue]

This is a great interview with the footballer who has turned out to be the Guardians 'The Secret Footballer' - but I only post this section here (34:50) as he is talking about creating the column and the Guardian boss says 'You can write whatever you want, but there is only ONE rule... do not upset the Liverpool fans'.

Post in thread 'ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3'
https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/...pool-fc-part-3.107670/page-5825#post-11891459

Not the first time he said this either. This goes back to 2018.

It’s pretty scary to think that bias is now open

 

[canuckblue]

Post in thread 'ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3'
https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/...pool-fc-part-3.107670/page-5825#post-11891459

Not the first time he said this either. This goes back to 2018.

It’s pretty scary to think that bias is now open

Might be a big reason why Heysel seems to have been swept under the carpet.

 

[Tommy Chong]

 

[nick_waters]

Everyone going on about these conceding in injury time , nobody mentioning the fact they were benefiting from injury time goals at the start of the season

Yes, and very recently against Forest.

 

[davek]

They shouldn't even be in existence.

Liverpool's history should read 1892-1985.