Good morning.
If Premiership clubs were horses, you’d expect the owners of Liverpool Football Club to be paying a few unexpected visits to their yard to see how things were and perhaps ask, ‘just what the hell was going on?’
Liverpool are having a resurgence on the pitch, but at what cost? It’s unreasonable that Mr Dalglish be culpable for each and every indiscretion by his players. But the manner he backed the buck toothed twit Mr Suarez only served to undo a reputation he spent a lifetime earning.
I don’t want to get bogged down in the barrack room minutia that some Liverpool cranks have immersed themselves in about specifically was said, with what intonation etc etc . In this country we don’t tolerate racism, racist words, racist intonation, be it, ‘nigger’, ‘negrito’, or plain old, ‘blackie’. All of those terms suck and you just don’t do it. If you have any self respect, you don’t debate doing it either.
Mr Dalglish and the other Liverpool cranks who have pinned their colours to this particularly grubby little mast have not just embarrassed themselves, they’ve damaged their brand forever. How? By allowing the inherent frailty of being a Scouser contaminate a whole football club.
There is a dreadful and widespread victim culture on Merseyside. I’ve never encountered a part of the country where people are constantly feeling hard done by or looking for reasons why they ought to be.
Yes, Hillsborough and Heysel were both undoubtedly appalling, but that City was also major hub for the slave trade. It’s estimated that over 3 million Africans were shipped in by enterprising Liverpool traders. Three million people.
All I see going on in Liverpool is a few tourists scuttling about in a rather depressing little museum.
That City and that club need to urgently take a look at themselves. In 2010, Forbes Magazine placed them 6th most valuable football team in the world. That value trickles away like sand in an hourglass.
@HH
I’ve been wary about saying this in case I might be misunderstood, but here goes anyway.
I want to congratulate you on not being “wishy washy” and not using “the ‘n’ word” as a substitute in your blog. It’s not that I have any great love for the word you actually used. To me, whenever I hear it, it is usually being spouted by an oaf, who comes from a long line of oafs and does nothing for his credibility amongst thinking people.
My praise is because we all seem to be terrified of the Thought Police, that even when there is no malice intended, we still have to refer to it in code. The real problem is not the word itself, but those who defend the users of the word as being “harmless”.
Patti Smith says it all.
Agreed.
I meant to post this for Patti Smith.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GC4ByJCbh8
Outstanding.
I don’t suppose that would get airtime on the BBC nowadays.
Appreciated. Defenders of Suarez have bent over backwards to cloud what is a very simple issue.
The PR disaster LFC managed to salvage and nurture from what was a dull on pitch incident is quite possibly unparalleled.
To top this fiasco, next we will have John Terry telling the CPS that he was only talking to Ferdinand like he saw on a Bodycount music video.
I only hear the n word in rap songs……..
…….where it isn’t used as a term of endearment, but as a negative ‘piss-take’ term of abuse- in some instances as a rallying cry…….. the same way we use the term ‘Yid Army’.
who is pete organ?
I too thought the letter m was superfluous!
I think he has an Irish cuz Peter O’Toole
I think they are members of the same club.
The comments that needed to go have gone.
May I add that such remarks always get binned
Whilst I can appreciate upset might be caused, beyond a swear filter which can be really fcuking easy to beat, the other alternative is the blog being manned 24hrs which isn’t going to happen.
I have even received emails on the comments today. Can I assure you all of two absolute certainties?
1. I will always remove nasty comments once I have actually had the opportunity to view them and
2. Emailing me on a comment is your business – it doesn’t speed up the process at all, whatsoever, not in the slightest – but if it makes you feel better, don’t let me stop you.
But don’t email me two, three times. You’re not shouting at a partially deaf person, you’re clogging up an inbox to no good purpose.
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Don’t worry, HH.
All we can ask is that inappropriate comments are dealt with as soon as you can.
In the meantime there is a sufficient level of decency on here to put down any inappropriate posts.
Thanks for the post!
I still think you were in the pub.
I thought there was an extraordinary amount of booze kicking about for it to be a public library :whistle:
does your inbox run on the same cheese as your blog ?
It’s less cheesey.
I’ve got a labrador or two who know the difference between a library and a pub.
I never ever come home well-read.
Pub………lic library.
So. The individuals whose nasty comments are no longer with us. But they were not posted in vain.
No. They have been passed onto the companies that provide their Internet connection.
I take no delight in this as it is time consuming and above all, a tedious process.
Perhaps a moment for hard hitting Internet warrior lords to ponder the wisdom of being, well… so thoughtless.
When you sign up to ‘whoever’ you sign a Terms & Conditions. There is stuff in really small print you agree not to do.
To the two imbeciles posting as ialwaysbelieved and kevtheyid… lets hope you get put on blacklist somewhere. I am pretty sure that there are lots of ’em.
Oh yes. Enjoy your weekend.
Small point.. I think it was kevtheyid, not kevtherev. I think kevterev is alright.
Pretty sure KevtheRev is coolio.
You are spot on. Kev the Rev is indeed a decent guy.
At the risk of whining like a Scouse ponce (and not at Spurstacus, of course), perhaps this is a good example of letting the blog run at its own speed so considered action might be taken.
My apologies and I’ll adjust my previous comment. Well pointed out Spurstacus. Cheers mate.
kevtherev :angel:
Peace and love. :daumen:
best way to get away with being an sick, evil odious troll is to use a public computer at the library or something…..er, or so I’m told…