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

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This is a beautiful end to a sh*te weekend. They're about to get paranoid as [Poor language removed] over FA sanctions and entertain as only they can.

They're dump without Suarez. If Moyes cant engineer an away derby win in a couple of weeks then he never will.
 
chicoazul said:
This is a beautiful end to a sh*te weekend. They're about to get paranoid as [Poor language removed] over FA sanctions and entertain as only they can.

They're dump without Suarez. If Moyes cant engineer an away derby win in a couple of weeks then he never will.
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Gerrards on 98 league goals

He will get one next week and score the 100th against us

Nap
 
chicoazul said:
This is a beautiful end to a sh*te weekend. They're about to get paranoid as [Poor language removed] over FA sanctions and entertain as only they can.

They're dump without Suarez. If Moyes cant engineer an away derby win in a couple of weeks then he never will.
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you shouldnt have said it mate.

*knocks on wood
 
Don't let Rab C cloud the issue. All focus should be on Suarez, Rodgers and that disgusting Club.....let them wallow and drown in their own ****ty mess.
 
I find it amazing that Liverpool fans are saying this is too far from him, now he's damaging the club's image. Racism is fine though lads?
 
FTY said:
Is that true?
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It's more conjecture to be honest

Apparently, from what I've been told, Shankley was banned from Liverpool's training ground so he used to come by Everton's instead where he was let in and supposedly treated rather well by the staff and players.

This is what I've heard from talking to some of the older fans in the Park End anyway. It might be more of an urban ledgend than honest truth. I think a lot of Evertonians have adopted it just to wind Kopites up
 
I went to the training ground at Melwood for a while. It is only down the road from where I live. But then I got the impression that it would perhaps be better if I stopped going. I felt there was some resentment – “What the hell is he doing here?” So I changed my life. I still do a bit of training to keep myself in reasonable shape and to have something to do which resembles what I used to do, and there are plenty of other places to train where I am welcomed.

I packed up going to Melwood and I also stopped going into the directors’ box at Anfield. I still go to matches, of course. I sit in the stand. I would have loved to have been invited to away matches, but I waited and waited until I became tired of waiting.

Finally, after twenty months and after Liverpool had won the League championship again, I was invited to travel with the club to Bruges for the second leg of the UEFA Cup final. I accepted, because I didn’t want anybody to think I was petty, but it came too late for my peace of mind.
I couldn’t help wondering why it had taken them so long. And I was not impressed with the arrangements they made for me in Bruges, where I was put into a different hotel to the one used by the official party. I found that quite insulting.

The invitation to Bruges could not make up for the previous twenty months, when it would have been the greatest thing in the world for me if Liverpool had been playing at Middlesbrough or Tottenham, and they had said, “Would you like to go?” I would have said, “Oh, yes, certainly I would like to.” Some of the directors invite their friends to the games. I wouldn’t have been in the way. I wouldn’t have done any harm. But I would have been associated in some way, and amongst them, and I would have been just as anxious as the manager of the team for them to win, because they were all my players.

I soon realised that Liverpool preferred me to make my own arrangements, so that’s what I started to do. I asked other clubs for tickets, sometimes when Liverpool were the visiting team and sometimes to see other teams play. And I have not been short of invitations from other clubs, either. Derby County invited me to a match, and West Ham asked me to be their guest when they played Liverpool in the FA Cup. Ron Greenwood, West Ham’s general manager, couldn’t have been nicer. We even had a meal together.

Tommy Docherty invited me to Old Trafford when Manchester United played Liverpool in a night match. Tommy invited me to have a meal with him in the restaurant at Old Trafford and we enjoyed a wonderful hour of banter before the match. Sidney Reakes, the Liverpool director, said to Tommy, “I see Bill Shankly’s here.” “Aye,” said Tommy. “He’s welcome here.”

I might add that I count Everton amongst the clubs who have welcomed me over the last few seasons. I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have been by Liverpool.

It is scandalous and outrageous that I should have to write these things about the club I helped to build into what it is today, because if the situation had been reversed I would have invited people to games. It would have been a wonderful honour to have been made a director of Liverpool Football Club, but I don’t go round saying, “I would like to be this and that.” That’s begging – and I’m not a beggar! No, no – anything I have done and everything I have got, I have worked for.

It was never my intention to have a complete break with Liverpool, but at the same time I wasn’t going to put my nose in where it wasn’t wanted. Maybe I was an embarrassment to some people. Maybe they thought I should have asked them if I wanted to go to away matches.
Maybe they didn’t even think about it. That’s their business, nothing to do with me.
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http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opi...fter-retiring-from-Anfield-article719996.html
 
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Mikey_Fitzgerald said:
It's more conjecture to be honest

Apparently, from what I've been told, Shankley was banned from Liverpool's training ground so he used to come by Everton's instead where he was let in and supposedly treated rather well by the staff and players.

This is what I've heard from talking to some of the older fans in the Park End anyway. It might be more of an urban ledgend than honest truth. I think a lot of Evertonians have adopted it just to wind Kopites up
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year after retiring, Shankly sat down and wrote his autobiography with Roberts. Perhaps the most candid passages dealt with Shankly's retirement. On his treatment by Liverpool, he wrote it was scandalous and outrageous that he should have to issue complaints about a club he had helped to build. But while Shankly's fury burned from the page, there was no sadness about him, says Roberts. Indeed Shankly remained an ebullient man. "But he did feel that he had been let down by Liverpool; by the directors, mainly."

Shankly also revealed his shock that he had found solace at once-hated rivals Everton. "I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have been by Liverpool," he wrote. Indeed, on being exiled from Melwood, he began turning up at Everton's training ground, Bellefield, where he trained and sometimes helped Everton's club captain, Mick Lyons, coach the junior teams.
 
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