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

[ToffeeDan]

Out - Suarez
In - La La Lo Can and some kid from Belgium - and someone from Portugal

Net Spend - already, yep, already out of pocket.

 

[bizzaro]

This 'They Dared To Dream' and the reviews that accompany it on Amazon have to be some elaborate piece of satire? Surely to god nobody would A). Write it B). Buy it C) Enjoy and fawn over it.

Sorry if this is duped but....lol

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4.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful rip roaring yarn of how Liverpool FC were denied ... 7 July 2014
By Dave
A wonderful rip roaring yarn of how Liverpool FC were denied their first title since 1989 by a combination of refereeing incompetence, corruption, and most painfully of all, a slip by our captain Steven at the home of football.

I'm not ashamed that this book brought back the tears, again. It's one for all our fans but neutrals will also be desperate to relive how the whole country united in the quest of reclaiming the title for everyone's second favourite team. Sometimes it's about winning hearts not points, and I think we did that in 2014.

That bit in bold is the best bit by far.

Dave gotta be Dave

 

[Del]

I bought this and invited round the auld fella, his auld fella and a few of my bezzie mates. We've all got seasies and we never miss a match, home or away. I read this book aloud for them and within 10 minutes they were all wellin' up, I had to compose myself on numerous occasions as I was also on the verge of wellin' up. We ran the full gamut of emotions, from tears of joy after beating City, seething at Mourinho's antics at Anfield to tears of rage at Palace. When I had finished the book there was total silence for ten mins, grown men with tears running down their cheeks, the only sound was tears dripping into pint pots of Carling. Finally the silence was broken by my auld fella addressing his auld fella, 'Brendan made us dream didn't he dad?' his auld fella, face reddened by tears, replied 'he did son, he did... but then they broke our hearts'. That was it, within seconds every one of us had welled up again, tears poured down our faces and we couldn't stop. There we were wiping away each others tears with no embarrassment, we knew what this meant. These were not tears of rage nor tears of joy, no, these were tears for our club, our family. No football club does emotion like Liverpool Football Club, no writer gets into the emotion of our club quite like Paul Tomkins.

 

[bizzaro]

Darth Vader colour scheme there

USE THE FORCE LUKE ... GARBUTT

 

[bizzaro]

Seems the Echo's Kristian Walsh has designed a new game,

He's better than Suarez at,

He's better than Suarez at... shot accuracy. Tevez enjoyed 58 shots on target last season with a 59 per cent accuracy, better than Suarez's 53 per cent.

He's better than Suarez at... keeping the ball. Griezmann was only dispossessed 22 times last season; Suarez, while also having more success in taking players on, gave the ball away 60 times.

He's better than Suarez at... creating chances. Hard to believe given Suarez's magic on the ball, but Reus averaged three key passes per game last season – more than the Uruguayan (2.6).

He's better than Suarez at... keeping the ball. Although Shaqiri is an explosive forward, he's also careful in possession, with a success rate of 84 per cent – nearly 10 per cent more than Suarez.

He's better than Suarez at... dribbling. Both Muniain and Suarez averaged 2.8 dribbles per game last season – but it was the Basque star who forced defenders to upend him more times.

Whoever than Suarez is, he's so crap he wouldn't get into my local's pub team.

James Pearce says its all a LUDICROUS CONSPIRACY CHARADE WITCHHUNT AGAINST Liverpool FC.


His favourite words.

 

[ToffeeDan]

Other selected highlights:

I didn't make it to the end as I rushed outside and pushed a wall over on my kindle, dug it up and ropped a paving slab on it. Absolutely livid I was. JFT96

 

[davek]

Does the 'Dave' in questions surname begin with K?

Top stuff, though. They truly are a joy.

lol

Nah, not guilty.

A few more reviews up there now:

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Andy (Reading, Berkshire) - See all my reviews

This review is from: They Dared To Dream: How Rodgers' Liverpool Went So Close (Kindle Edition)
Only when you have swayed to the rhythm of the kop on one of those famous European nights can you understand what Liverpool Football Club means. Quite simply the best fans in the world, creating the best atmosphere, singing the best and wittiest songs. Having spent a pittance compared to the rest of the clubs around us we challenged billionaires right to the last. Brendan "Dared to dream" and took us with him on a rollercoaster ride of wonderful attacking football. This book is a must read for all real football fans as they will understand the emotions that our club brings to the football world. Luis Suarez should just read this and he'd want to stay because he'll know what he means to us and our family.

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Switchers "Yoxall the Stephen" (Manchester, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: They Dared To Dream: How Rodgers' Liverpool Went So Close (Kindle Edition)
This is the story of the season when United, Chelsea and City didn't seem interested in winning the title, leaving the field clear for Brendan Rodgers' remarkable Liverpool side to mount a title challenge, their first since before David De Gea was born (he's since grown up and won the title himself).

Brendan's remarkable young team, with an average age of just 25 years old, fought long and hard. Brendan proved he had an eye for a bargain during his first two years. Unlike bigger clubs, Liverpool just cannot compete financially, and the Irishman was faced with the unenviable task of spending just £100,000,000 on players. Managerial genius that he is (as seen on Being Colon Liverpool, also available on Amazon), he spent it shrewdly. Joe "the Welsh Xavi" Allen, the 7 foot 6 inches collosus, was brought in for just £15,000,000, though Rodgers admitted that he would have paid "many millions more". Fabio Borini, the former Chelsea legend, cost a mere £10,000,000, although he was loaned to relegation candidates Sunderland at the beginning of the season. And who could forget defensive lynchpin Mamadou Sakho, just 15,000,000 of your English pounds. Brodge, as he is affectionately known at Anfield, also managed to pull off a huge coup, signing two time Premier League winner Kolo Toure on a free transfer, and convincing him to give of his best for just £100,000 every 7 (SEVEN) days.

Having convinced some of Europe's brightest young talents to join his Anfield revolution, Brodge was off to a flier, despite talisman and moral compass Luis Suarez missing the first part of the season through suspension. This would be the fourth consecutive season where Suarez had served such a ban, but Brodge's spirit would not be dampened. With Studge in the form of his young life, Liverpool shot to the top of the table following a difficult start with Stoke Citry, Aston Villa, Swansea City, Southampton, Sunderland, Crystal Palace, Newcastle United and West Bromwich Albion as 8 of their first 9 games.

The difficult times were to come. Shocking decisions went against Liverpool over Christmas, particularly in games against Manchester City and Chelsea, and whilst Liverpool also benefited from bad decisions, everybody knows that you ignore these when bemoaning your bad luck. Brodge is made of stern stuff though. Liverpool bounced back, thrashing Arsenal 5-1 in February. It was Arsenal's worst defeat since Manchester City put 6 past them in, erm, December the previous year. But whatever.

Liverpool topped the table, going into the big one. Chelsea came to town, and it all went to pot.

The night before the game, Sir Alex Ferguson and Jim Smith concocted a wicked spell, hypnotising Liverpool fans into causing a ruckus outside the Chelsea team hotel to disturb the Chelsea players. The following morning, Alan Davies forced Liverpool supporters to serenade their team coach with chants of "We're gonna win the league" as it approached Anfield. These two heinous acts would tempt the fates, and it wasn't in Liverpool Football Club's favour.

In front of a quiet Anfield crowd, Steven "We go again" Gerrard slipped on his ****, and gave it to Demba Ba, and Liverpool's title challenge was going up in smoke. Some blamed Jose Mourinho for his spoiling tactics. In a match where Liverpool only needed a draw, against one of the most tactically astute managers of modern times, Brodge decided to play 3 up front. Not sure why. Only joking. Because he's a managerial genius, THAT'S WHY. Chelsea picked them off at will, winning 2-0 at Anfield. Shameful behaviour from Jose Mourinho, to be sure.

The following Monday, Liverpool needed to win to give themselves half a chance. 3-0 up at Palace with 15 minutes to go, victory looked assured. But....wait.....what comes next is a spoiler.

If you want to know, you'll have to read the book.
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Kahuna (Manchester) - See all my reviews

This review is from: They Dared To Dream: How Rodgers' Liverpool Went So Close (Kindle Edition)
Perhaps the funniest book of all time. Relive Liverpool Football Club's greatest season in a quarter of a century...where they won absolutely nothing!

Reminisce over David Brent's 'filosofee' changing from 'tikka takka' and 'false nines' to 'leathering the ball as hard as you can to Suarez and Sturridge'.

Buy it to remind yourself what a laughing stock Liverpool Football Club YNWA have become. Can anyone imagine Manchester United, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Juventus etc finishing second in the league and winning nothing and one of their fans deciding it needed to be commemorated in print?

Like I said, utterly hilarious.

lollol

 

[bizzaro]

Ste Gerrard Gerrard. He slipped on his [Poor language removed] arse

He passed it to Demba Ba

Ste Gerrard Gerrard

 

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[Poor language removed] seasies?

 

[TheFinnFan]

so suarez went berzerk cause he heared that liverpool want to keep him. barca and pool had already decided last november that the deal would happend ffs LOL

- Tabarez

 

[ijjysmith]

 

[TheFinnFan]

"after he heard RS wanted to keep him he barely could train and was miserable.."

 

[Toffe3m4n]

The guy has either lost the plot or it's the most random Twitter troll ever lol
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[bizzaro]

[Poor language removed] seasies?

Its surely some made up language

The guy has either lost the plot or it's the most random Twitter troll ever lol
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Even their ex players are trolling them on twitter. They're held in such high esteem

 

[Del]

I bought this last night in preparaton for our forthcoming march up the hill. Like my fellow Redmen, I was wellin up within minutes of reading. I could barely see my kindle through the floods of tears at what could have been as I read through page after page. Unfortunately as I progressed the tears dried and turned to seething unspeakable rage. I was literally paralysed with anger. I didn't make it to the end as I rushed outside and pushed a wall over on my kindle, dug it up and ropped a paving slab on it. Absolutely livid I was. JFT96.