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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.

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  • Michael says:

    What a joke of an article and like you manager who has covered himself in glory over the last few weeks! Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Firstly your arguments are poor and based purely on bias so you portray an unjust argument. Like we are all racists as we had the biggest port in Europe and theirfore most of the slaves came to the U.K this was also due to our links with the triangle of trade going through the area. Secondly bringing up Hillsborough and Hesel just shows what a moron you are. Hope you get hammered at Anfield and I also hope your corrupt manager goes to jail.

    • Next bus to woolwich says:

      Oh Michael,feeling hard done by again are you,and feeling victimised?? I think you kind of emphasise many of the points on here don’t you?? What else do you hope for,a nice shirt for Christmas,maybe some socks?Bless ya:)

    • SpurredoninDublin says:

      @Michael

      Actually it was your mob that brought up Hillsborough first to remind us that you are all victims. I brought up Heysel to remind you that you can also be victimisers too.

      Regarding the appalling behaviour of some players, I am even more dismayed at the apologists and excuse makers for them. As long as people fail to condemn such behaviour, they are part of the problem and will never be part of the solution. I was half expecting someone to say, “Yes, but what you need to understand is that Suarez comes from Argentina and they have always had a fondness for Nazis there”.

  • onedavemackay says:

    Always had a soft spot for Liverpool but I think the Suarez thing was badly managed.

    I have no idea whether he intended to abuse Evra but enough people of reasonable intelligence seem to think that was the net result. So then Suarez needed to apologise as no offence was meant . Shut up do his bird and we’d all have forgotten about it very quickly.

    As for the football side of things I think they are still a couple of players short of where they need to be and with Commolli in charge of transfers things may not improve in the near future.

    They have a tremendous defensive record at home but have struggled to score so any result will be a good one there. At full strength and on top form I’d expect us to win but anything less than our best and they’ll push us.

  • grittyspur says:

    Being a Yank, I find it amazing that ‘Arry could end up in jail for failing to pay roughly 30 thousand quid in taxes! I mean how much did HMRS pay for the court case and investigation into ‘Arry’s finances? Can you really go to jail for not paying income taxes in the UK? Finally- why do the scousers who come on this forum think that it’s ones moral duty to pay taxes???? It’s not like they pay taxes, is it? I thought most of them were on the dole? COYS!!!!!

    • melcyid says:

      the type of mentality of the people in tax offices is the same as years ago if you were caught stealing a loaf of bread for your starving family you were thrown in jail immediately before trial and then if found guilty shipped off to Australia.

    • SpurredoninDublin says:

      @gritty

      1. You’ve not heard of Al Capone then/

      2. Loved your comment about the scousers and moral duty.

    • cyril says:

      you can in the states as well, ask wesley snipe, rather more in his case of course

  • Conor says:

    Tiny museum the museum in Liverpool is three times the size of yours. You may have seen better results in the last 2 years but you still have a long long way before you catch up with us.YNWA

    • Spurstacus says:

      What you need to know is that Spurs was the first club to do a league and FA cup double, and the first British team to win a European competition. You may have won more, but we were the first. In a very real sense we paved the way for your much later success. And now we are better than you again. Shound eh?

      • pete morgan says:

        You ought to be careful about quoting history of your club as that is what people like you are always whinging about Liverpool doing. Mind you if you want to go that way Spurs will come a very poor second to Liverpool.

    • melcyid says:

      Liverpool is a city.Tottenham is an area in north east London.If you are talking museums in London I think you would find numerous that cover all subjects and are mostly larger than football pitches.

  • Bruxie says:

    HH – please delete this post!

    This should not be representative of any Spurs supporters’ view.

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