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

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Also, the lad who said about the fans being "on the rob" in the towns etc was spot on.

I was too young to travel abroad at the time, but me da would come home with new trainees from a european trip after getting them free, shall we say.
 
Lets face it. Anyone under 35-40 has not got the slightest idea about how footie was thought of back then. Nor how awful the "matchday experience" as they now call it could actually be. Nor how lucky we, (the fans), were that there were not more serious events that we all know about. It was awful at times.
 
From todays Fiver,

Thursday 24 October 2013 11.29 EDT
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Brendan catches a player on his mobile during training. Possibly. Photograph: John Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images
YAY! ANOTHER REASON TO HAUL OUT THE OLD 'ONLY WAY IS ETHICS' HEADLINE

Brendan Rodgers, who – given by charity or not – has a portrait of himself in all his glory in his own house, spent last summer busying himself by lecturing Arsenal on class. Buoyed by the success of that particular episode, Liverpool's head guru has decided to branch out and launch a new teaching aid that he's called Ethics with Brainy. If anyone needs convincing about parting with their hard-earned, do be aware that Brainy is a qualified motivational speaker, as seen in his hit coaching video, Being:Cleverer Than You – "My biggest mentor is myself because I've had to study, so that's been my biggest influence" – and that he has a friend who once went to Harvard University, so what are you waiting for? Remember, the first 100 people to sign up for this unmissable life-changing experience get a free packet of signed envelopes – fun for all the dressing room!

The inspiration for this new course is the release of Lord Ferg's autobiography, which has got Brainy – so intelligent and precocious that he performed his own birth – all hot and bothered, mainly because it reveals stories that he feels should have remained behind closed doors. Like in Being:Cleverer Than You. "Anyone who's been in football knows that whatever is said behind closed doors and in the changing room is something you wouldn't want to hear again," intoned Brainy. "It's something that's vitally important. You want to know as a human being that you can speak openly and communication is honest, and hopefully wouldn't get repeated." As a human being, that is vitally important. Unless, of course, the cameras are rolling and you're assigning more importance to three envelopes than the slab of stone Moses found up that mountain.

"You would like to think you would still have some old-school values and ethics that whatever is said you take it on the chin and keep it behind closed doors and move on," Brainy babbled, warming to his theme, accusing a man with 31 years oh him – and 49 trophies as a manager – of having no old-school values. A ballsy move on anyone's part, although Brainy did tell Ferg "well done" after their historic handshake before Manchester United's match at Liverpool last season. But that was before Ferg took aim at $tevie Mbe in his book and questioned whether he really is a "top, top player". And now Brainy's mad. "This is a guy, at 33 years of age, who is a top, top player," he Redknapped of a player who hasn't played in Big Cup or finished in the top four since 2009. "He's a wonderful talent and I don't think anyone could argue," he continued. The Fiver was about to argue but just as it was ready to get going, a Hollywood pass hit Brainy on the head and knocked him out.
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Does Brent get paid everytime he says '' Bitterly disappointed'' or something..?

I dont think he's ever given a interview without saying it
 
Did the fish faced beaut say something about keeping everything behind closed doors ffs

He had a T.V crew following his every move last season the prick
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-full-before-retaliating-to-news-stories.html

With the modern news tornado, you can be talking to Sir Alex Ferguson at his home one winter’s afternoon and a discussion about Michael Carrick can end in uproar at Liverpool. Well, a discussion about Steven Gerrard, via Michael Carrick, because it was Ferguson’s loyalty to Carrick that prompted him to say Gerrard is “not a top, top player”.
The discussion was about England, and how Gerrard and Frank Lampard have overshadowed Carrick in central midfield. Carrick, he felt, lacked the profile or “bravado” of the other two. Ferguson did offer that remark about Gerrard, but not with the intention of launching a rocket at Anfield, or writing half a dozen back-page headlines. He was merely thinking aloud, on his sofa, as he had been when praising Liverpool for their “great tradition” and “fanatical home support”.
No one cares about nuances on the day of a book’s publication. Few have time for counter-balancing evidence. No ghost-writing journalist could possibly moan of course about the strong focus on news stories at the expense of context or background, because he is part of that process. The news and social media industries heat-seek the most explosive lines in a famous person’s memoirs. Only later will people shuffle through the embers and the smoke to see what remains.
The only responsibility, you would think, for people in positions of influence is to read a book before pronouncing on it. Unless he can prove otherwise, it is fair to assume that Brendan Rodgers only scanned Wednesday’s news coverage before suggesting Ferguson lacked “old school values and ethics,” and launching into an indignant defence not only of Gerrard but also Jordan Henderson, who, Ferguson said, had been passed over by United because he “runs from his knees” rather than his hips, which is more in keeping with the modern footballer.
We inhabit a weird world when a manager is accused of some kind of personal cruelty for explaining why he declined to buy a player. If Rodgers had read the whole text, meanwhile, before assuming Ferguson had decided one morning to eliminate Gerrard in a random attack, he might have noticed a contributory factor on page 213.

“We made a show for him [Gerrard] in the transfer market, as did Chelsea, because the vibe was that he wanted to move from Anfield, but there seemed to be some restraining influence from people outside the club and it reached a dead end,” Ferguson wrote.
So what Rodgers might have said when asked about the Gerrard line, rather than sermonizing about old school values, was: “Sir Alex tried to buy Steven a few years back but didn’t manage to sign him. He’s perhaps a bit peeved that Steven established himself as one of the all-time great Liverpool players and a constant menace to United.”
You know - something clever, or funny: qualities much needed when Rodgers was obliged to participate in the fly on the wall series, Being Liverpool, in which many of the secret rituals he thinks should be closed to the general public were aired on television, including his own team talks and dealings with individual players.
How Rodgers squares this with his claim that Ferguson should have kept it all “behind closed doors” is hard to imagine. You can make a TV reality show but not write a book?
Despite appearances, Ferguson can claim cordial relations with most Liverpool managers, bar Rafael Benitez, of course, who he accuses of becoming “personal”. Ferguson always valued the post-match drink with his closest rivals. With Kenny Dalglish there was antagonism but also respect. For the book, Ferguson made a point of saying how wonderfully he thought Dalglish handled the fall-out from the Hillsborough disaster. More generally he never discounted Liverpool as a threat, despite their slide in the league table: “I could always feel their breath on my neck from 25 miles away.”
Rodgers will have considered none of this before jumping to the defence of his players, and ignoring the Being Liverpool contradiction. You could look it at two ways. One: Rodgers seized a useful opportunity to stand by Gerrard and boost the confidence of Henderson. Or two: Ferguson, from beyond the managerial grave, has found a new way to provoke a Liverpool manager into an over-emotional response.
If Ferguson is baffled by some of the responses to the book’s more newsworthy aspects, it may be because some journalists who loathe blandness and evasion also appear to hate strong opinions.
No matter how successful or wily you are, nothing prepares you for seeing an opinion delivered on a quiet winter’s afternoon mutating into a major diplomatic incident. I include myself on the guilty-list when saying that our culture is too warped for us to examine the forthright thoughts of others without turning them into an apocalypse.
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