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

[Brennan]

This bit in particular:

'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.'

Is ****ing horrible.

 

[Del]

This bit in particular:

'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.'

Is ****ing horrible.

Awful and sad

I have read the book it from and you can tell it killed him, The club he helped build shunned him ffs

I love to educate Kopites on this because most havent got a clue

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Cheers lads!

Nice to know I wasn't spouting gibberish

Seemed like an honest and decent man Shankley. Such a shame the club treated him that way. He deserved better

 

[Brennan]

Awful and sad

I have read the book it from and you can tell it killed him, The club he helped build shunned him ffs

I love to educate Kopites on this because most havent got a clue

They can talk all they want about the spirit of Shankly and the gates and how boss he was but at the end of the day that club left a man who made them what they are by the wayside. Bunch of truly classless bel ends.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

They can talk all they want about the spirit of Shankly and the gates and how boss he was but at the end of the day that club left a man who made them what they are by the wayside. Bunch of truly classless bel ends.

It's one thing to pull him to one side and say "You're welcome to come here anytime Bill, but we think it might be a good idea if you're not always at training, just because it will be hard for the new manager to walk his own path if you're around. We'd be proud to have you at our games both home and away"

But to just do it that way is completely uncalled for

 

[toffee-fellaini]

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

That joke would work if it said "Vinnie Jones" and not "Martin Skrtel"

 

[noharmdone]

Must have been bitten by a Banana spider..

 

[Baines' left foot]

Awful and sad

I have read the book it from and you can tell it killed him, The club he helped build shunned him ffs

I love to educate Kopites on this because most havent got a clue

I think I'll be doing this to my deluded RS mate this week. As I will be about Suarez.

I'll post the results as they're sure to be entertaining. He's a f**king fruit ball.

 

[Del]

Wonder if Suarez done this on purpose to force a move away from England

 

[peteblue]

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

It's true lad. Everton showed class, the RS pushed him out.......

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Wonder if Suarez done this on purpose to force a move away from England

I don't know if most of the countries that still have cannibalism also have football leagues, so he's probs made a error with this one

 

[Neiler]

I see a Rafael didn't condemn the incident after the game - once a rat..... !

 

[Del]

I think I'll be doing this to my deluded RS mate this week. As I will be about Suarez.

I'll post the results as they're sure to be entertaining. He's a f**king fruit ball.

Tell them About him being more welcome at Old trafford and Goodison than at Anfield

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.

 

[Julian Carax]

Wonder if Suarez done this on purpose to force a move away from England

Don't think he's got a clue what's going on mate. I think he might actually need help.