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.
Oh bollocks what did I miss?
You missed the KevtheRev love in…. Thanks guys love you all too!
………get a room!!!! :wub:
And you’re definitely not Kevtheyid who no one seems to love?!
Just thinking about the way that Liverpool handled the Suarez case, and more recently, the way City handled the Ballotelli stamping incident, I am having trouble recalling any recent incidents where players were punished by the club (rather than being excused by the club) prior to the authorities stepping in if the incident was not an internal matter.
Yes, the club has acted when it’s been a case of a training ground punch-up, but when it’s been an external matter such Ballotelli stamping on PNB, there is no condemnation, but rather, a rush to point the blame elsewhere (Webb). I can only think of one case where the club acted first, and that was in the case of Cantona who was bound to be taken to task by the FA.
I said earlier when alluding to HH’s use of the word “nigger”, “The real problem is not the word itself, but those who defend the users of the word as being “harmless”. Right on cue, comes none other than Joey Barton, suggesting that Terryble is the victim of a clampdown on free speech. Birds of a feather and all that.
I saw the tackle by BAE in the Wigan game, and my impression was that it was both clumsy and dangerous, and he was lucky not to get sent off. The next time I read this blog, and the best anyone has to say about it, is that he was lucky to get away with that. Compare that to the Mancs who came on here to laugh about Ballotelli. There was of course one bloke who did apologise, but the majority thought it was something to laugh about.
It’s not a pleasant thing to think about, but I remember a time when footballers were rather heroic figures and apart from curfew breaking, most of them were exemplary people to look up to and admire. Now if you just take the England squad, most of them are people that I would not want living next door to me. I remember when Tony Parks was sacked for drink driving and Pleat for Kerb crawling. I do not want to portray us as being strict as an Ayatollah, because I believe in both cases, it wasn’t their first offence.
We are seeing a new and even more undesirable trend of clubs suggesting that players are victims when the are quite rightly punished, and worse still, are those fans who applaud these players and seem to regard them as martyrs. As I suggested, it is the people who support them, whether they be fan or club who are the real problem.
The saddest thing about this, is that I cannot see it getting any better.
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Sorry if this has already been linked, just cracks me up; http://www.offthepost.info/blog/2012/02/sandro-shows-off-his-karate-moves/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+offthepost%2FTLAa+%28Off+The+Post%29
You should be sorry, it was posted (what seems) yonks ago, on this very blog :winke:
I agree with your sentiments (paragraphs 3-5) unanimously, H-H, but the reference to slavery, even though factual, isn’t really relevant given that the Thames was a popular conduit for the import/export of slaves during the same period.
On a political level i sympathise with the amount of animosity Mersesiders have towards the ‘Establishmnet’ and one particular indivdual durint the 1980’s, but was Merseyside the only region of the country to be decimated by Thatcherite-Corporatist economic policies during that time?
As far as Hillsborough is concerned, the events of that day and the subsequent cover-up are nothing short of a national disgrace. To this day, i and other member’s of my famlily have never bought or read a particular rag, that some may assume to be a ‘national instition’, to this day, and one that i will not even demean your blog by mentioning.
I had two older cousins who were at Hillsborough during the semi-final versus Wolves in 1981………1989 could have been us in 1981.
In short i think the scousers have a lot to bitch about, but they are not the only one’s. They seem to have taken the ‘woe is me’ argument, at times , to ridiculous levels.
The Suarez incident being a case in point.
Woctha,
I mentioned slavery to throw some perspective into the equation. The deaths at the two football disasters were truly horrible, but having lived up there for about 2 years far too many Scousers will tell you it’s still a city in mourning.
Too many of them are emotionally over needy and wanting something to cling on to, as if this validates this for them.
Liverpool outdid virtually every other city in the country when it came to trading human beings. Yet if you go down to the quay it’s all nice bars and restaurants all doing a brisk trade. Where’s the equivalent of the Sun being sold with the pile of papers upside down?
I was on a bus up there, two men who had been to school together who had clearly not seen each other for an age were catching up.
‘Your brother told me you was working for – insert name of company’
‘They let me go last year’
‘Redundant like?’
‘Fired me’
‘Oh, sorry’
‘Same thing mate at the end of the day, nobody gives you a job for life anymore.’
These men were in their forties! And yet talking like the Likely Lads.