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

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Oh my sides. @DrEFC and @IRO1977 thank you both for sharing such wonderful, colourful (mainly red), prose. I am thoroughly delighted! This is the day that just keeps on giving. If Utd and Spurs stay the same, and we can batter Palace, I think I may just windmill myself to death through sheer delight.
 

IRO1977 said:
Haha

'We knew it was going to be special. 'Prince' Rodgers - there'll only ever be one 'King' - had spent the summer dreaming, imagining, pontificating, thinkulating, dream-re-imaging and hope resurfacing. No longer for 'Daniel San' Brendan, would football be the same. he'd clearly spent the summer of 2013, waxing on, and waxing off his chalk board. Preparing himself to wax lyrical about his new style in front of the adoring Kop. Like Bielsa before him, and Van Gall before him and Cruyff before him and Michels before him and Marquis of Queensbury before him and Ian Botham before him and Plato before him he had found a way to reinvent his sport. To create tactical nuances so fresh, that if you touched them against a newly zested lemon, the lemon itself would hang its head in shame.

At the end, he had a vision. He saw a 'new way'. Like the great French Philosopher Michel Foucaul, he had re-formatted the reality of football as in life. Or Soccer. Or of Football. Per Se. 'Winning' would be a fluid concept. One tested in the minds of the elite. True greatness would instead be in the winning of the hearts and minds. The placement of Liverpool and all of its greatest traditions back at the centre of the footballing family. Point accumulation, and strength in penultimate games would be the measure of the victors only in the minds of the weak. For us, we few, we disparate few. we Kopiaspora, now covering the lands both near and far we KNEW that success, that winning, that ultimate victory would come to us, through the power of our dreams. Literally...In our dreams. Via the mind motorway of dares

This wonderful tome tracks the genesis of Rodgers' revolution. His change in emphasis from a ruddy workmanlike team into pass masters. His development of a totally new technique called 'attacking'. Forged in the mire of Brazillian, Northern Irish, Uruguayan, somewhere in Manchester judging by his accent, and Scouse Steel.

It highlights the return of our weary Warrior Lxxs Sxxxxz - back from his ban for being misunderstood, persecuted and hungry. The ultimate Gladiator for this total, imaginary conquest of the footballing world; he unleashed hell, and some more spittle. It illustrates with poignant poignosity all of the wonderful nights that we again were able to enjoy under those fabled Anfield floodlights. Once more we were to experience the giddiest highs of the 'Famous European Night Experience TM' - whilst not technically a European game, these games were taking place in the European Common Market area and is it not possible to squint the eyes, let them go a bit watery and mistake 'Manchester City' for 'Moenchengladbach'? It is possible...all we had to do was Dare to Dream. With the emphasis on Dream, alongside the twin sisters of fate and purposeful poor vision.

We lucky few who saw these matches thought the world would pass us by without noticing the coming of the age of Brendaquarius, that the media would simply ignore the low spending, plucky underdogs from Anfield who by and large, in a sense became champions of football in an overarching sense, in a sense.

But instead we rallied together, typically not relying on the outside world to fight our battles, we wrote our own account, first hand, from those who care, those who dare and those who bear...ed witness to the events of the season that shook the world. Like Rodgers, we eschewed the formal narratives of the mundane real world and forego'd 'narrative', 'reason' 'quality' or 'punctuation' in our account, but they are ours, and with the good grace and spending power of our foreign brothers in arms, this book, this magical re-telling of the year of the change, will sell by the shedload.

But if it doesn't, we, with tears in our eyes, can look each other in our teary eyes, with our eyes raised up to the heavens, press our hand against the badge, pirched firmly on our proud breasts, and say... We Dared to Dream'
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If you didn't know better you would swear it was for real.
 
Jacob said:
Slippy, as featured in today's rags this being The Mirror. Obviously infected with the Rodgers Effect.... headlining an article about someone else and turning it into a self promotion.
Steven Gerrard is backing Jordan Henderson to become the next leader of the Liverpool pack.
“Jordan never gives up. He is very professional and I think he epitomises everything a captain should be. I am sure Jordan is going to go on and captain this club. And what a story that will be.........“I think I see a lot of similarities to myself, the way I go about it day-to-day and the way Jordan does as well.....
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He's always been an arrogant twot. Just got an easy ride cos of the RS mafia.
 
Let us not allow today's result to take away from the trainwreck that has been Liverpool Football Club over the last six months.

lol
 

From RAWK:

(May 2014) This nonsense about Liverpool not being able to challenge again next season.....

Before I start, I just want to say how chuffed I am to hear our manager say the same things in a post match interview, the same things that I am about to echo again here. For you. For us. For the competition.

He speaks a lot of sense a lot of the time Brendan in this football world of utter nonsense.

Now to the thread title....

I keep hearing and seeing this all over, mainly from rival supporters....but I've also picked up on it in the media. Its started.

It all seemed to start immediately after the Chelsea game. (How convenient)

You know, you've probably heard it yourselves by now:

"This was our best chance, next season will be different, more games for Liverpool with the Champions League, other teams will improve" etc etc etc

What people fail to mention (because it suits them not to right about now) is that, of course Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United etc etc will all add to their squads. Of course they will......

BUT. SO. WILL. WE.

(Thats the FIRST point Rodgers made.)

What people also fail to mention at this moment in time, is the same thing applies to all those teams around us. How could Arsenal be 1st this season for so long with all those extra games? How could Man City win the league with all those extra games in Europe? Why aren't Chelsea sitting in 7th right now because they got to the Champions League semi-finals?

Its absolute rubbish to target us with. Rubbish.

Look at the last 18 months or so we have had in this league. Look at it!

With what we have.

Did any of us seriously think before this season started we'd be up there challenging till the last-[Poor language removed]-day?

No, most of our expectations were top 4. We were made to believe and dream big once again because of THIS team. We didn't go into this season believing that - THIS team MADE us believe it, they forced us to believe and dream, in a world that told us otherwise. THEY made it seem possible. It was possible because of THEM.

We've exceeded those original expectations and done INCREDIBLE with what we have. With what we HAVE and what we have in comparison to Man City's overall team is not a lot. Yet we pushed them (beat them once, hard done by at the Etihad) all the way and if it wasn't for us slipping up, we would of won the whole thing with what we HAVE....and that what we HAVE can STILL be improved on.

Don't forget this.

(Thats the SECOND point Rodgers made after the game.)

There is still plenty of room for improvement and the key thing is our manager knows where it is, but most importantly he knows very well and understands there is room for that improvement. Improvement on THIS team......a team just 3 points from winning the league.

Our defence can be improved. But with THAT defence, yes.....THAT defence......we nearly won the league!?! THAT defence can be improved on. The squad can be improved on.

We will improve it.

What then? What if we concede less goals and still score the same amount of goals? What if our squad is improved on and it is deep enough and good enough to handle the extra games?

If anything, all this nonsense coming from rival supporters right about now, confirms one thing to me and one thing only.....and its the most important thing and all I need to know.

They are worried.

We are Liverpool.

They. ARE. Worried.
 
hahahaha I needed a visit to this thread after today. I will buzz off the end of last season for ever more. I still love the 'dare to dream' saying as much as 'we go again'. 5th biggest spenders in the PL ever, 200 million spent by Brent, no European football, countless penalties given by dodgy refs, ultra kopites meeting the team coach for home games....... all made them 'dare to dream'. And still they blew it. Haha.
 

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