• Participation within this 'World Football' is only available to members who have had 5+ posts approved elsewhere.

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


Dan Tanner said:
His wife and son have just been on the radio bemoaning his loss and the lack of a proper planned funeral to say goodbye to him. His son, who went the game with him, is now a 'Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice' member, obviously an intellegent lad, but not so savy as to say, "You know what dad, lets give this a game a miss, Madrid is right bang center in the middle of this epidemic. Its not worth taking the risk. Its been all over the news for the last week its not like nobody knows about the danger this game poses, lets just sit in and watch it on the telly."
As is Joel Rookwood, a massive genius and Liverpoo' fan and a senior lecturer in sport business, management and devlopment at the University of Central Lancashire, another clue merchant who also caught Covid at the same match and became seriously ill. He later said, "The decision to have the match and to allow fans to be present should have been taken out of peoples hands."

But then he also said, "The mistake a lot of us made was having 'one more match/night out/trip etc... before a lockdown. We knew what was coming, but a lot of us took the risk." (A Univesity lecturer remember)


The local and national media at the time of the game and weeks before was absolutely full off widespread coverage of the deteriorating situation in Madrid. The Echo, Radio Merseyside, City and even Talksport had raised major questions about the playing of the game and the travelling fans potentially spreading Covid in the locale.
For anybody to say they went to that game not understanding the risks is worthy of a Darwin award, but no doubt 'Deflection FC' will have us all believe nobody knew the risks and will attempt to rewrite history yet again.
Click to expand...
they were just on the BBC now talking about 'with Hindsight, its shouldn't have gone ahead', no hindsight needed mate, all the evidence was there and as you mention, people took a gamble and a risk in going for one of dem magicul nights. If you look in the vaults here there were probably many posts saying it shouldn't have gone ahead.

The people to feel sorry for are the ones who caught C19 off the big red matchgoers.
 
Last edited:

ste d' indica said:
Its not a decision on a global pandemic, its a decision on the safety of their fans, players and city. IIRC Everton did just that a few days later.
Click to expand...
`Exactly this, When Everton took the step of calling the game off, there were a few dissenting voices initially of gamesmanship etc, they were soon piped down and it turned out once again Everton made the correct decision, Big Red thought of itself.
 

The RS controlled media went into overdrive today bigging up their victory last night,"Outstanding","World Class" the words being used to describe them,Phillips and Fabinho in particular being built up, don't know who they are playing at the weekend but the general narrative appears to be,"Watch out,der mighty redmen are back." lol lol lol
 

Welcome

Join Grand Old Team to get involved in the Everton discussion. Signing up is quick, easy, and completely free.

Register

Shop

Back
Top