ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"
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davek
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Either that or he was trying to tell a black man that he'd swung down from the trees and was barely more than an ape.
Never stop being classy Liverpool.
bizzaro
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/opinion/football-opinion/liverpool-fans-should-kop-flak-3361843
Why Liverpool fans should Kop the flak for their tasteless Bucharest banner
10:00, 12 February 2010
There was a banner on Liverpool’s Kop last Saturday that carried an illustration of the European Cup and read ‘Steaua Bucuresti 1986’.
It was there to goad Everton fans who, to this day, still believe that the team that lifted the championship in 1985 would have gone on to win the greatest club competition of them all had tragedy not intervened in a corner of a Belgian field.
Howard Kendall’s side were prevented from become our standard bearers because of a ban imposed on English clubs in the aftermath of a disaster that saw 39 supporters killed before Liverpool’s European Cup final against Juventus in the Heysel Stadium.
So on May 7, 1986, Steaua Bucharest became European champions by beating Terry Venables’ Barcelona on penalties in Seville after a mind-numbing goalless draw.
And Everton’s golden generation – they won the title again two years later – were denied the opportunity for real greatness.
Now football fans of all clubs have this uncanny knack of pinpointing the weakness of the opposition and ramming home any advantage.
That’s why Hull supporters who gave John Terry grief one evening last week saw Wayne Bridge as fair game three days later.
It’s why some Manchester City fans called Manchester United supporters ‘Munichs’ and United once sang about City ‘going down like a Russian submarine.’
And it has to be said that Everton’s followers are not above reproach.
Some of the things they spout about Steven Gerrard are as reprehensible as the ‘Murders’ chants they sang from the sanctuary of the Anfield Road Stand last weekend.
But Liverpool’s supporters were the last people I expected to make capital out of a tragedy that cost 39 fans their lives.
Hillsborough permeates everything at Anfield. From the Living Flame memorial outside the stadium to the continuing fight for justice for the 96 supporters who went to an FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield in 1989 and never came home.
The grief will never go away.
I am sure the Kop banner carrying the name of the 1986 European Cup winners was intended to jar the nerves of Evertonians rather than be an insult to Juventus.
But to any Liverpool fan who thinks all’s fair in love and war, just answer one question.
How do you think someone sitting in Turin watching the Merseyside derby on television last weekend would have felt had they realised the significance of ‘Steaua Bucuresti 1986’?
Why Liverpool fans should Kop the flak for their tasteless Bucharest banner
10:00, 12 February 2010
There was a banner on Liverpool’s Kop last Saturday that carried an illustration of the European Cup and read ‘Steaua Bucuresti 1986’.
It was there to goad Everton fans who, to this day, still believe that the team that lifted the championship in 1985 would have gone on to win the greatest club competition of them all had tragedy not intervened in a corner of a Belgian field.
Howard Kendall’s side were prevented from become our standard bearers because of a ban imposed on English clubs in the aftermath of a disaster that saw 39 supporters killed before Liverpool’s European Cup final against Juventus in the Heysel Stadium.
So on May 7, 1986, Steaua Bucharest became European champions by beating Terry Venables’ Barcelona on penalties in Seville after a mind-numbing goalless draw.
And Everton’s golden generation – they won the title again two years later – were denied the opportunity for real greatness.
Now football fans of all clubs have this uncanny knack of pinpointing the weakness of the opposition and ramming home any advantage.
That’s why Hull supporters who gave John Terry grief one evening last week saw Wayne Bridge as fair game three days later.
It’s why some Manchester City fans called Manchester United supporters ‘Munichs’ and United once sang about City ‘going down like a Russian submarine.’
And it has to be said that Everton’s followers are not above reproach.
Some of the things they spout about Steven Gerrard are as reprehensible as the ‘Murders’ chants they sang from the sanctuary of the Anfield Road Stand last weekend.
But Liverpool’s supporters were the last people I expected to make capital out of a tragedy that cost 39 fans their lives.
Hillsborough permeates everything at Anfield. From the Living Flame memorial outside the stadium to the continuing fight for justice for the 96 supporters who went to an FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield in 1989 and never came home.
The grief will never go away.
I am sure the Kop banner carrying the name of the 1986 European Cup winners was intended to jar the nerves of Evertonians rather than be an insult to Juventus.
But to any Liverpool fan who thinks all’s fair in love and war, just answer one question.
How do you think someone sitting in Turin watching the Merseyside derby on television last weekend would have felt had they realised the significance of ‘Steaua Bucuresti 1986’?
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I've wonderered why they consider Chelsea a rival.
davek
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The only thing I can think of is the rivalry over the obscene amount of cash they spend on players.
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zirc
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Well they need to replace slippy, he sounds perfect.
Whistlin' Dixie
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That's a bit more like it from the mirror - but I remember an 'opinion' write-up from the very same rag where the 'reporter' said:
Blues fans feigned mock outrage before kick-off when Kopites opted to display a banner proclaiming, ‘Steaua Bucuresti 1986’ alongside a European Cup – a tongue-in-cheek response to the relentless chants of ‘murderers’ their visitors have subjected them to over the previous decade.
bizzaro
LOVE GOT JUST THE WAY IT IS #ALWNV
Typical kopite-media bias.
Any excuse as its not their fault. Ever. For anything.
Its this kind of mentality that they really need to address.
Whistlin' Dixie
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It's NEVER their fault. "Heysel woz da' andee nikkels, lad"
http://heysel--they-call-us-murderers.blogspot.co.uk/2006/11/part-one-2.html
jaycee
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They are the no marks hanging round the V.I.P area trying to get in the spotlight
Gobsh1tes every single one of them
Liverpool's guard of honour for Chelsea will be 'humbling experience' admits Brendan Rodgers
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/liverpools-guard-honour-chelsea-humbling-5664892
Brendan Rodgers has admitted being forced to deliver a guard of honour to the side that cruelly denied Liverpool the title last season will be a “humbling experience”.
But he insisted Liverpool will acknowledge Chelsea's Premier League triumph with dignity at Stamford Bridge on Sunday... and use the experience to spur them on to take the final step to the top themselves.
Many Reds fans are choking on the idea of having to applaud this season’s champions on to the pitch, especially given the way they played anti-football at Anfield last season to deny their team the title on the day Steven Gerrard’s slip proved so costly.
“It’s not something the players would like to do, but we are a team and a club that has class, so we will do it and go straight into the game....
How the hell they turn the attention of this from Chelsea to themselves is beyond parody. The exaggerated OTT language as though this is an outrage - when it happens every bloody season...and some club does it. Being forced to do it takes any respect out of it....and this fella still thinks that's something the club retains. They humbled themselves and made themselves inferior last season - not Chelsea and not just one game and this glib tongued git confuses humility with being humbled because he doesn't know the difference. One things for sure, no one will have to return the favour for them in the foreseeable future.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/liverpools-guard-honour-chelsea-humbling-5664892
Brendan Rodgers has admitted being forced to deliver a guard of honour to the side that cruelly denied Liverpool the title last season will be a “humbling experience”.
But he insisted Liverpool will acknowledge Chelsea's Premier League triumph with dignity at Stamford Bridge on Sunday... and use the experience to spur them on to take the final step to the top themselves.
Many Reds fans are choking on the idea of having to applaud this season’s champions on to the pitch, especially given the way they played anti-football at Anfield last season to deny their team the title on the day Steven Gerrard’s slip proved so costly.
“It’s not something the players would like to do, but we are a team and a club that has class, so we will do it and go straight into the game....
How the hell they turn the attention of this from Chelsea to themselves is beyond parody. The exaggerated OTT language as though this is an outrage - when it happens every bloody season...and some club does it. Being forced to do it takes any respect out of it....and this fella still thinks that's something the club retains. They humbled themselves and made themselves inferior last season - not Chelsea and not just one game and this glib tongued git confuses humility with being humbled because he doesn't know the difference. One things for sure, no one will have to return the favour for them in the foreseeable future.
Professor Toffee
On and on, over the hill and the craic is good
Every team should give the RS a guard of honour before every game
To remember Stevie
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