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

[brigadier]

Really hope they get kicked out , I know they wont they always behave disgraceful and get away with it.

 

[Yarrgh]

They liked asterisks so much they decided to put one against all their other trophies too.

 

[toffee matt]

Get your violins out for piscan Tony ....

 

[davek]

Get your violins out for piscan Tony ....

Poor old Tony.

He's going to have a hell of a job explaining away the latest atrocity from that club he's made a career out of spinning as a force for good.

 

[davek]

This is a stain on their history but they’ve genuinely never cared for a single second since their inception about being a ‘proper’ club. Forcing us out of Anfield, Heysel, the airbrushing of Heysel, going all in with Hicks and Gillet, 100 year lease on Stanley park, residential properties in Anfield systematically devalued, supporting Suarez’s racism, supporting their own fan’s hooligans behaviour, trying to commercialise Hillsborough, not doing a single beneficial thing for the community they reside in, furloughing their staff.

The list goes on and on, they’ve never hesitated to do anything, no matter how abhorrent, if they thought it would benefit themselves for a single second. That is the fundamental difference between Everton and Liverpool and always has been.

They are an utter cesspit of an organisation not fit for this city.

The moment it was confirmed for me about that club was reading the Chairman of LFC John Smith's notes to the board and shareholders going into the 1985/86 season: one oblique reference to what had gone on in Heysel, something like "after a trying period for the club" (I posted it here a few years back verbatim). Of course, John Smith was the originator of the Chelsea / NF cover up for Heysel.

THAT underlined to me what an utter charlatan of a club that is. An organisation that can skate over the deaths of so many people like that is beyond civil society.

 

[blueconverse]

Kopite Civil War Incoming!!!

Loads of plastic fans are in favour and locals aren't happy. What a time to be alive

 

[dublinbluenose]

If they get banned it'll be the first time they haven't gotten us banned as well

 

[degsy]

That Ian Doyle fella is a snide. Surly , disingenuous toss pot. Wouldn’t surprise me if the mob of those “journalists” signed NDAs ages ago about all this. It’s too big just to be a shock.

Said it in another thread, something well off about it all and I’d be surprised if it all went ahead and there wasn’t something else going on yet to be revealed publicly. As for punishment, I can’t see them being thrown out, I’m a cynic admittedly

Both 'offers'...the twitish (but with a different vowel) twelve and new 36 team CL. Have points they will drop if they have to. They will accept and all combinations of both, plus any new additions, that lets them come out with what they basically want.

MORE !

 

[brieverton]

I'm enjoying the kopite verbal gymnastics on this, they make The Tories look positively amateurish in that regard, in terms of spin and denial.

It's the one redeeming feature of this whole thing.

 

[Kaiser Soysauce]

Different world now isn’t it? I’m pretty sure it’s not a better one too.

Agreed. It's nuts mate. My eldest son recently asked what I watched on the internet when I was young. Blew his mind that the internet hadn't been invented when I was a kid. Blew his mind when I told him games consoles weren't around when I was a kid. Blew his mind when I told him PC's weren't around when I was a kid. Blew his mind when I told him that I had to walk a few miles just to see if my mate wanted to play out as we didn't have phones. Moral of the story.........his mind was blown!

 

[LostLegend]

Kopite Civil War Incoming!!!

Loads of plastic fans are in favour and locals aren't happy. What a time to be alive

That’s the vibe I’m getting with most clubs and I suspect that’ll be part of the reasoning behind all of this.

My kopite mates are furious with this and I follow a couple of local to Manchester Man City fan accounts on Twitter and they are also up in arms about this.

The ones who seem to be ok with it all are the non domestic fans. The glory hunters so to speak (“I support Chelsea and Real Madrid” in their profiles etc.)

The yanks know, that these days, those people make up the majority and are prepared to sacrifice their hometown support in favour of the more lucrative global market.

It is in a very literal sense, an attempt to tear out the very soul of the sport.

They’ll sell out stadiums in New York, Dubai, Beijing & Delhi and you won’t get any fans protesting there either...

 

[bilyaletdinov_]

disgracing english and european football again, true to form

 

[Toffe3m4n]

That’s the vibe I’m getting with most clubs and I suspect that’ll be part of the reasoning behind all of this.

My kopite mates are furious with this and I follow a couple of local to Manchester Man City fan accounts on Twitter and they are also up in arms about this.

The ones who seem to be ok with it all are the non domestic fans. The glory hunters so to speak (“I support Chelsea and Real Madrid” in their profiles etc.)

The yanks know, that these days, those people make up the majority and are prepared to sacrifice their hometown support in favour of the more lucrative global market.

It is in a very literal sense, an attempt to tear out the very soul of the sport.

They’ll sell out stadiums in New York, Dubai, Beijing & Delhi and you won’t get any fans protesting there either...

Local fans are now 'legacy' fans, it seems.

We've finally reached the point where the wealthy overseas 'fans' are where the money is and these big clubs have finally decided to break off from the 'peasants' to follow it.

It's no longer the 'working man's game.

 

[Bullens Rd]

Some outrage by their fans. One single banner outside Anfield with about five people stood around it. Compare that to the several thousand who were throwing bricks at the Real Madrid coach last week.

 

[Yarrgh]

I actually feel sorry for the genuine Liverpool fans who are now no more than legacy fans and as relevant to their clubs only as a token nod to some historied past used to sell them as a super club.

There'll be no more need for this thread soon. They won't exist in a lot of people's eyes once they go off. A souless club in a souless league for a passionless audience.

This means nothing. YMCA.