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

[toffee-fellaini]

Liverpool FC's new away kit.

****in hell.

 

[bluelife]

Carragher part of Sky sports punditry now.
3 Liverpudlians and 1 Manc make up the team...

 

[Eric Djemba-Djemba]

I am crying and shaking right now.

On Sunday my 8 year-old niece from Newton-Le-Willows came round with her mum, my wife’s sister. They were always sending us little snaps on Facebook of her in her little Man Utd top. I thought I would make a stand like only a man steeped in the Shankly tradition could. Only those who know, know how I would feel. And do feel. And will always feel.

I wasn’t going to let that little get bully and intimidate me in my own home. I am stronger than that. We are all stronger. The fireballs of fury that have blasted our souls for almost 30 years have seared a hardness in us that the strongest of the Spartans would envy. Gerard Butler would say “This Is Anfieldl” and kick himself in the face.

Sure enough, little Mary arrived with her mum for Sunday dinner. As she entered the room a huge poster of Luis Suarez hung over the table from the ceiling and rested before her face – his majestic glare caressing her features as she would feast on the food of the guilty. My food. Kopite food.

Her hand raised to point but she changed her mind. Too damned right. She understood. Keep it shut and suck it up.

I said ‘Do you want some EVRA?’ and offered her a slice of black pudding. She looked at my face for a trace of humour. She may as well have looked for the soul in a Bitter. I was not joking. I am not John Bishop. She said ‘No thanks’. She understood.

When it was time for the main course, the pig carcass was wheeled in.

“Hello Fergie” I said. To the pig. I got a dirty big fork and stabbed it hard – all the while glaring at Mary. It was all she could do to make eye contact. She understood. She knew and said nothing. Damned right. Couldn’t even look me in the eye when I was stabbing the Manc swine.

The meal was consumed in silence. Mary didn’t eat much. Hard to swallow when racked with guilt isn’t it!

Time for the jelly. Red jelly. Kopite jelly. The real deal. I wanted to grab her by the neck and shove her face in it, but one of us has to show class and dignity and it wouldn’t be that spiteful madam.

I grabbed hold of the remains of the pig, threw it on the sofa and humped it. All the while glaring at Mary - like Richard Gere in that film ‘Internal Affairs’ where he does that to Andy Garcia (I think). I mean bonks Andy Garcia’s missus and looks at him and smirks. Think it was him – or some other bloke. Anyway, that’s what it was like. Just like that.

We all decided it was time for them to leave. I had made my point. There was nothing she could say. I had proven beyond all reasonable doubt that Luis Suarez is an innocent man and SAF and Evra are scum. She left in silence with her mum.

I think that tells you all you need to know.

I think Mary will consider supporting the Anfield Red Men from now on.

You see, that’s what being an ambassador of our fabulous Football Club is all about.

Class and dignity.

I am reading back what I have just written for you.

I am crying and shaking.

Hahahahaha, rep was made for these kind of posts.

 

[Steve0]

Haha

Can't believe no one at Sky has sussed Redknapp as the utter bellend he is yet.

Yeah, hes awful isn't he?

I hate the faux certitude he imparts, as though it makes his fatuous opinions more valid. Utter knob.

 

[Steve0]

" I was not joking. I am not John Bishop"

My favourite bit.

 

[Del]

RAWK.

The bar was not crowded as expected on a Wednesday afternoon - perhaps 10-15 folks tops hanging about as I recall - so I bellied up. Anyhow, a "soccer" match came on TV w/ the sound. I'd never played the sport, nor had any interest in it whatsoever (made fun of it, to be frank) and had never watched a match in my life. But I had beer and it was on TV.

The title of "Champions League Final" or something to this effect indicated this was important, but I had no context of what this was. I sort of quietly rooted for the Liverpool team as a) the folks around me appeared to be, and b) I knew that's where The Beatles are/were from.

The game was absolutely exciting (great match, in case you don't recall it) - and the sport itself was enticing certainly way beyond what i was expecting. Watching the 2nd half was some experience -- by the 60th minute I was ecstatic and totally behind the Liverpool team, and loved the ending. You could say the match was tailor-made to convert skeptical Yanks.

So that's how I became a fan, a supporter. A bit too obsessed w/ LFC, perhaps, these days (e.g., dressing my pup in an LFC shirt for Dachshund Day last weekend). I am a more than a tad envious of those of you that have grown up with the club (and the sport).

It has been a ton of fun learning about football, history, names, teams, etc and especially all things LFC. Some excellent LFC fans to help me out along the way, including trip to Anfield last fall. Thanks to the long-standing supporters and locals for tolerating Johnny-come-lately fans such as me.

 

[toffee-fellaini]

RAWK.

If we ever got investment like City have, we would get 'fans' like that. *Shudders*

 

[sheeds]

RAWK.

I view people like this with the same contempt I have for those adults who pull stupid faces & wave at a camera in the ground when their team are 3-0 down .

I genuinely don't think they have any understanding of football and the passion it creates .

 

[riddick]

ehmm... that's a bit similar to how I got into footy.(hides)

Saw the Everton/ Southampton match in Thailand from about a decade ago with Radzinski scoring two at the end, was hooked completely. then again, i'd played football my entire life.

 

[sheeds]

ehmm... that's a bit similar to how I got into footy.(hides)

Saw the Everton/ Southampton match in Thailand from about a decade ago with Radzinski scoring two at the end, was hooked completely. then again, i'd played football my entire life.

Read that post and read your own mate and tell me you can't see a difference , because I certainly can . Anyway did you dress your dog up in a shirt for Dachshund Day ?

 

[riddick]

Read that post and read your own mate and tell me you can't see a difference , because I certainly can . Anyway did you dress your dog up in a shirt for Dachshund Day ?

haha no, that's just awful. they do seem to do that a bit too often over this side the pond.

 

[peteblue]

I am crying and shaking right now.

On Sunday my 8 year-old niece from Newton-Le-Willows came round with her mum, my wife’s sister. They were always sending us little snaps on Facebook of her in her little Man Utd top. I thought I would make a stand like only a man steeped in the Shankly tradition could. Only those who know, know how I would feel. And do feel. And will always feel.

I wasn’t going to let that little get bully and intimidate me in my own home. I am stronger than that. We are all stronger. The fireballs of fury that have blasted our souls for almost 30 years have seared a hardness in us that the strongest of the Spartans would envy. Gerard Butler would say “This Is Anfieldl” and kick himself in the face.

Sure enough, little Mary arrived with her mum for Sunday dinner. As she entered the room a huge poster of Luis Suarez hung over the table from the ceiling and rested before her face – his majestic glare caressing her features as she would feast on the food of the guilty. My food. Kopite food.

Her hand raised to point but she changed her mind. Too damned right. She understood. Keep it shut and suck it up.

I said ‘Do you want some EVRA?’ and offered her a slice of black pudding. She looked at my face for a trace of humour. She may as well have looked for the soul in a Bitter. I was not joking. I am not John Bishop. She said ‘No thanks’. She understood.

When it was time for the main course, the pig carcass was wheeled in.

“Hello Fergie” I said. To the pig. I got a dirty big fork and stabbed it hard – all the while glaring at Mary. It was all she could do to make eye contact. She understood. She knew and said nothing. Damned right. Couldn’t even look me in the eye when I was stabbing the Manc swine.

The meal was consumed in silence. Mary didn’t eat much. Hard to swallow when racked with guilt isn’t it!

Time for the jelly. Red jelly. Kopite jelly. The real deal. I wanted to grab her by the neck and shove her face in it, but one of us has to show class and dignity and it wouldn’t be that spiteful madam.

I grabbed hold of the remains of the pig, threw it on the sofa and humped it. All the while glaring at Mary - like Richard Gere in that film ‘Internal Affairs’ where he does that to Andy Garcia (I think). I mean bonks Andy Garcia’s missus and looks at him and smirks. Think it was him – or some other bloke. Anyway, that’s what it was like. Just like that.

We all decided it was time for them to leave. I had made my point. There was nothing she could say. I had proven beyond all reasonable doubt that Luis Suarez is an innocent man and SAF and Evra are scum. She left in silence with her mum.

I think that tells you all you need to know.

I think Mary will consider supporting the Anfield Red Men from now on.

You see, that’s what being an ambassador of our fabulous Football Club is all about.

Class and dignity.

I am reading back what I have just written for you.

I am crying and shaking.

That has to be the most funny thing I have read on here after Chico's match threads......Bravo, Bravo........you should have added YNWA.......

 

[Neiler]

Bahaha sbb!

Ill be watching football next season with the sound off carragher - they can do one!

 

[EFC Si]

That has to be the most funny thing I have read on here after Chico's match threads......Bravo, Bravo........you should have added YNWA.......

The use of short sentences is very effective in his RAWK pieces.

 

[Titus Bramble]

http://metro.co.uk/2013/04/30/john-...ved-pfa-award-over-cheat-gareth-bale-3708107/

John Aldridge: Luis Suarez deserved PFA award over ‘cheat’ Gareth Bale

Former Liverpool player John Aldridge says Luis Suarez deserved to win the PFA Player of the Year award because Gareth Bale is one of the Premier League’s ‘biggest cheats’.

The Spurs man cleaned up at Sunday’s awards ceremony, winning both the PFA Player and Young Player accolades, with the likes of Suarez, Robin van Persie and Juan Mata all missing out.

But Aldridge believes the league’s second top scorer, Saurez, would have been a more deserving winner, despite having been slapped with a 10-game ban for biting Branislav Ivanovic.

‘It was no surprise that Suarez didn’t win the PFA award after what’s gone on but he would have been my pick ahead of Gareth Bale,’ Aldridge wrote in a column in the Liverpool Echo.

‘Some will say I’m biased, but over the course of the season I believe Suarez has been the best player.

‘Bale is a brilliant talent and I’d love to have him at Liverpool but he’s also one of the biggest cheats. Suarez stopped diving and now the PFA Player of the Year needs to do the same and clean up his act.’

Aldridge also expressed his views on the lengthy suspension the FA handed the Uruguayan following the incident last Sunday and insisted their reaction was over the top.

‘Winning Player of the Year and the Golden Boot next season would be the perfect response to those people in authority who seem intent on forcing him out of English football,’ he added.

‘What Suarez did was wrong but to ban him for 10 games was a disgrace. There is just no consistency from the FA and the disciplinary process is a mess.’