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I was reluctant to discuss these matters as my account is always on the line when there is any shed of critcism to do with liverpool. As special treatment also extends towards how you can talk towards certain Liverpool supporters here. However due to numerous amounts of individuals flodding my pm box asking me to reveal what I have to say regarding Liverpool football club, I have decided to share my opinions, questions and stat some facts regarding regarding my views on a few situations which have arisen.
Now, I know there has been some very interesting news coming out of Liverpool.
I am not referring to Sheikh Maktoum, he of DIC, the Dubai
Investment Behemoth child slaver, having showed an interest in buying the club, who now seeming to have changed his mind; I choose to stay away from that otherwise it gets too political and stems away from footballing matters. No, I refer to something else.
There has been a new FIFA/UEFA directive sent down from up high, and this has some serious ramifications for all of us, which I feel needs addressing.
One player may not play for two clubs in one period, and then sign for another one within a certain time period. The rules are there to prevent moves like the Javier Mascherano one taking place. However for some strange reason the rules are bent to accommodate Liverpool. We are not told that there are extenuating circumstances or any reason why the rules should be broken, other than they have been broken so that Liverpool could get their player.
But who are we to argue? Had any other club such as Chelsea, Arsenal or United tried to get the undoubtedly talented young
Argentine hardman, we would have been told where to go by UEFA, We can only applaud UEFA`s flexibility. It really does speak volumes about an organisation so willing to listen to and accommodate its favourite son.
In the not-too distant past, Liverpool did not qualify for the
Champions League as they had not finished in a qualifying position in the League the previous season. Had it had been any other team they would not have played in
the Champions League that season. But they let Liverpool in at the expense of some other team who had qualified, but that team obviously didn`t have the class or history that Liverpool had. Most of the masses rapturously applauded UEFA for their grace and foresight to include Liverpool, the titles holders of the competition. For a club that size it shouldn`t matter if they
qualified or not. However the rules over who gets to play in the Champions League or not have been around for years, and have been set in stone. Strangly enough Liverpool have not been inconvenienced by them before. It wasn`t all
plain sailing across the Mersey however. As many people in Liverpool pointed out, it does beggar belief that they should have had to play through the preliminary stages. Against the cacophony of nasal whining from the Liverpool fans, we were amazed, and frankly very disappointed that they were not put straight in the knockout stages. It was, we were told by a steaming multitude of Scousers, a disgrace that a club of
Liverpool`s stature should have to play in the preliminaries even though they didnt play make the required 4th place to enter the champions league the previous season.
Can we expect a weighting system for next season`s Barclay`s
Premiership? Where all of a sudden having a team that wins the league because it has the most points will become clearly absurd. It does not take into account history, class,dignity or fanbase. This means that any old team can just come along and win the title instead of the teams that should rightfully be winning it. This is of course totally unacceptable. A weighting system will mean that Liverpool can finally have their trophy back as they never look like they are going to get it back having the most points.
Then there was the Michael Essien issue. The player made a poor
tackle that could have injured Dietmar Hamman badly. He was booked, and was lucky to stay on the pitch. FIFA rules state that once a player has
been booked, then that`s that. He cannot be punished further. Unless of course Liverpool are involved in which case the rules do not apply and special punishment takes place where the player should be given a lengthy ban for his audacity to hurt a Liverpool player. Because we all know Gerrard has never gone into a two footed challenge almost ending a players career escaping punishment.
Nothing like it had occurred before the Essien incident. We all expected it to be introduced as the new rules and be the done thing from then on. Apparently not. The old rules still apply, but not when Liverpool come into the picture.
Some may argue that this is against the spirit of the game, but as we all know from scouse fans, Liverpool invented the spirit of the game, hence they are at liberty to do with it as they wish and when they see fit to whine, rules are bent to accomadate them.
Mind you, getting key rules "bent", byes into the Champions League, and players signed in complete contravention of the rules about signing players because someone thinks the rules should nto apply to a club like Liverpool, could also be construed as against the spirit of the game. So indeed, could the riots at Heysel where all those Juventus fans died, it is alleged, as a result of the actions of the Liverpool fans.
Not really in keeping with the spirit of the beautiful game. English clubs kicked out of Europe for a few seasons as a result. Doesn`t leavea pleasant taste does it, but this is never mentioned by those vibrate Liverpudlians ever so keen to bring up the past.
Liverpool fans robbing their own dead at Hillsborough,according to the red-tops of the time I would contend is probably not what UEFA has in mind when promoting the internationaluniversal language. Demanding bowing and scraping, countless minute`s silences and reverential deference from every other team in the league for the aforementioned tragedies, and then scrawling disgusting graffiti referring to the equally tragic Munich Air Disaster all over Old Trafford - hardly the stuff of boyhood football dreams, smells of hypocrisy. Hurling human excrement at opposition fans, and attacking the ambulance carrying the broken-legged Alan Smith in a recent game against Manchester United at Anfield . Having players celebrate mimicking snorting cocaine lines on the ground.
Not exactly a holy than thou club is it? And as usaul all this stuff gets brushed under the carpet all the while the media will harp on and have you believe Liverpool have the best supporters on the planet because they sing for the cameras a few times.
I can hear the howls and whimpers of derision from here as I write. No doubt there will be posts denying all these things ever happened. The replies will read that Essien
deservedly got a longer ban and they were doing the footballing
world a favour. Chelsea and Millwall fans were responsible for the Heysel riot, while the Liverpool fans were minding their own business. Alan Smith was clapped off by the Kop and all was rosy. Everything else is just a Murdoch-media crusade, tissue of lies, to undermine and blacken the Liverpool name.
The laughable misnomer that Liverpool Football Club is somehow
better than everyone else, that they are the best and every other club is in their shadow, while boasting having the most knowledgeable football fans in the world is nauseating. What has this club done to be given such special treatment by the footballing powers-that-be?
Could it be boys and girls the fact that the club and its fans love to be victims, and are footballing Drama Queens without compare? Any other club certainly would not be given the same breaks - of that there is no question. Why do they deserve to be
treated that way, and us not? Are they better than us? For all their arrogant bluster and "amusing" banners, no. For their qualities and grace on the pitch, no. They are no better than the rest of us and most certainly do not deserve their preferential treatment by UEFA and all other governing bodies.
Nobody, other than the average irrational usual spec blinkered, rabid dribbling, cretinous obsessives we get on here would argue that.
It raises the most important question of all- To what extent will UEFA or FIFA move the goalposts to accommodate Liverpool? What further "bending" of the rules are we going to see in the future so that the Scousers may benefit? Arbitrary points awards for having 'the best player in the world ever, ever` or winning the league based on having the most sucessful period in history? How far are the authorities willing to go to ensure Liverpool`s success?
You can discuss amongst yourselves now.
Now, I know there has been some very interesting news coming out of Liverpool.
I am not referring to Sheikh Maktoum, he of DIC, the Dubai
Investment Behemoth child slaver, having showed an interest in buying the club, who now seeming to have changed his mind; I choose to stay away from that otherwise it gets too political and stems away from footballing matters. No, I refer to something else.
There has been a new FIFA/UEFA directive sent down from up high, and this has some serious ramifications for all of us, which I feel needs addressing.
One player may not play for two clubs in one period, and then sign for another one within a certain time period. The rules are there to prevent moves like the Javier Mascherano one taking place. However for some strange reason the rules are bent to accommodate Liverpool. We are not told that there are extenuating circumstances or any reason why the rules should be broken, other than they have been broken so that Liverpool could get their player.
But who are we to argue? Had any other club such as Chelsea, Arsenal or United tried to get the undoubtedly talented young
Argentine hardman, we would have been told where to go by UEFA, We can only applaud UEFA`s flexibility. It really does speak volumes about an organisation so willing to listen to and accommodate its favourite son.
In the not-too distant past, Liverpool did not qualify for the
Champions League as they had not finished in a qualifying position in the League the previous season. Had it had been any other team they would not have played in
the Champions League that season. But they let Liverpool in at the expense of some other team who had qualified, but that team obviously didn`t have the class or history that Liverpool had. Most of the masses rapturously applauded UEFA for their grace and foresight to include Liverpool, the titles holders of the competition. For a club that size it shouldn`t matter if they
qualified or not. However the rules over who gets to play in the Champions League or not have been around for years, and have been set in stone. Strangly enough Liverpool have not been inconvenienced by them before. It wasn`t all
plain sailing across the Mersey however. As many people in Liverpool pointed out, it does beggar belief that they should have had to play through the preliminary stages. Against the cacophony of nasal whining from the Liverpool fans, we were amazed, and frankly very disappointed that they were not put straight in the knockout stages. It was, we were told by a steaming multitude of Scousers, a disgrace that a club of
Liverpool`s stature should have to play in the preliminaries even though they didnt play make the required 4th place to enter the champions league the previous season.
Can we expect a weighting system for next season`s Barclay`s
Premiership? Where all of a sudden having a team that wins the league because it has the most points will become clearly absurd. It does not take into account history, class,dignity or fanbase. This means that any old team can just come along and win the title instead of the teams that should rightfully be winning it. This is of course totally unacceptable. A weighting system will mean that Liverpool can finally have their trophy back as they never look like they are going to get it back having the most points.
Then there was the Michael Essien issue. The player made a poor
tackle that could have injured Dietmar Hamman badly. He was booked, and was lucky to stay on the pitch. FIFA rules state that once a player has
been booked, then that`s that. He cannot be punished further. Unless of course Liverpool are involved in which case the rules do not apply and special punishment takes place where the player should be given a lengthy ban for his audacity to hurt a Liverpool player. Because we all know Gerrard has never gone into a two footed challenge almost ending a players career escaping punishment.
Nothing like it had occurred before the Essien incident. We all expected it to be introduced as the new rules and be the done thing from then on. Apparently not. The old rules still apply, but not when Liverpool come into the picture.
Some may argue that this is against the spirit of the game, but as we all know from scouse fans, Liverpool invented the spirit of the game, hence they are at liberty to do with it as they wish and when they see fit to whine, rules are bent to accomadate them.
Mind you, getting key rules "bent", byes into the Champions League, and players signed in complete contravention of the rules about signing players because someone thinks the rules should nto apply to a club like Liverpool, could also be construed as against the spirit of the game. So indeed, could the riots at Heysel where all those Juventus fans died, it is alleged, as a result of the actions of the Liverpool fans.
Not really in keeping with the spirit of the beautiful game. English clubs kicked out of Europe for a few seasons as a result. Doesn`t leavea pleasant taste does it, but this is never mentioned by those vibrate Liverpudlians ever so keen to bring up the past.
Liverpool fans robbing their own dead at Hillsborough,according to the red-tops of the time I would contend is probably not what UEFA has in mind when promoting the internationaluniversal language. Demanding bowing and scraping, countless minute`s silences and reverential deference from every other team in the league for the aforementioned tragedies, and then scrawling disgusting graffiti referring to the equally tragic Munich Air Disaster all over Old Trafford - hardly the stuff of boyhood football dreams, smells of hypocrisy. Hurling human excrement at opposition fans, and attacking the ambulance carrying the broken-legged Alan Smith in a recent game against Manchester United at Anfield . Having players celebrate mimicking snorting cocaine lines on the ground.
Not exactly a holy than thou club is it? And as usaul all this stuff gets brushed under the carpet all the while the media will harp on and have you believe Liverpool have the best supporters on the planet because they sing for the cameras a few times.
I can hear the howls and whimpers of derision from here as I write. No doubt there will be posts denying all these things ever happened. The replies will read that Essien
deservedly got a longer ban and they were doing the footballing
world a favour. Chelsea and Millwall fans were responsible for the Heysel riot, while the Liverpool fans were minding their own business. Alan Smith was clapped off by the Kop and all was rosy. Everything else is just a Murdoch-media crusade, tissue of lies, to undermine and blacken the Liverpool name.
The laughable misnomer that Liverpool Football Club is somehow
better than everyone else, that they are the best and every other club is in their shadow, while boasting having the most knowledgeable football fans in the world is nauseating. What has this club done to be given such special treatment by the footballing powers-that-be?
Could it be boys and girls the fact that the club and its fans love to be victims, and are footballing Drama Queens without compare? Any other club certainly would not be given the same breaks - of that there is no question. Why do they deserve to be
treated that way, and us not? Are they better than us? For all their arrogant bluster and "amusing" banners, no. For their qualities and grace on the pitch, no. They are no better than the rest of us and most certainly do not deserve their preferential treatment by UEFA and all other governing bodies.
Nobody, other than the average irrational usual spec blinkered, rabid dribbling, cretinous obsessives we get on here would argue that.
It raises the most important question of all- To what extent will UEFA or FIFA move the goalposts to accommodate Liverpool? What further "bending" of the rules are we going to see in the future so that the Scousers may benefit? Arbitrary points awards for having 'the best player in the world ever, ever` or winning the league based on having the most sucessful period in history? How far are the authorities willing to go to ensure Liverpool`s success?
You can discuss amongst yourselves now.
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