I’m still fucking gutted. “There’s no way they’ll score three goals now, we just need to score”, how wrong I was. So easy to dwell on the might have been’s with such a small margin. It’s torture. Saturday can some soon enough.
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Good look with that one.
Nobody at our club has the spine or inclination to fight our corner. I think Klopp would but as you say it would put him in a very awkward situation.
Same with the Manchester cartel of referees. We’ve just been shafted out of another PL title by fucking cheats but you wont hear a peep from the club. It’s sad really.
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Have you experienced the banter-tastic world of football outside our fanbase?
I had a brief spat with a city fan the other day on a thread that popped up on Facebook. He was claiming that city were cleared of all wrongdoing by CAS. I, very politely, pointed out that they were found guilty of obstructing the investigation, and got off with the ban on a technicality - that their crimes fell outside the five year statute in the FFP regs, a result of them obstructing the process. So they were in effect found guilty of obstructing the process but cleared of the rest because they obstructed the process, which as far as judgements go is quite mad.
His response was to say I was triggered, and post a picture of Klopp on a quad bike with a punctured wheel. But the really sad thing was how fans of other clubs piled in with shouts of bad loser and sour grapes.
I think you know as well me how complaints from us would land in the footy-sphere. It would totally blow up in our faces and we’d be left at the centre of a PR shitstorm.
The failure lies with the Premier League, and we should do what we can in whatever forums we have access to, to push for action. However we can’t be going off on one in public. That won’t go well for us.
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I disagree. As in life, when people get away with not having things come out to be public knowledge they tend to continue or succeed because of it. None of these people give a shit about us anyway so why care. More good can come of a constant, driven message by us that they’re the Ben Johnson of football than idiots rambling about us online. What are they gonna do? Pitch up at Anfield to protest?
Once it’s being outed then somebody has to take notice of it and address it in public as well.
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Keeping quiet hasn’t served us well. 2014 it was the serial offender Webb who cost us the title (and possibly the FA Cup), 2019 Taylor and Atkinson (2 more who are always at the scene) and this season it’s been Kavanagh and Tierney with Attwell doing his bit on VAR.
We get shit from all angles anyway despite keeping our mouths shut. I fully expect the whole pattern to be repeated next season.
The only way to compete with cheaters is to expose them, or at least insist on their exposure.
I would prefer that the club spent £50 million on an expert team of lawyers than any summer transfer. I would rather we lost the league to Leicester than that dirty money machine.
If one national side pulled out of Qatar then others would follow, and the brutality of this farce World Cup would be sorted.
If one club takes on the corruption in the PL others will follow.
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Not so sure about that. Money appears to be more powerful than ethics in most areas of life, not least football.
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Yeah, the fans of most other clubs are just wishing it was them. You simply have to see how Chelsea, City and Newcastle fans embraced their newfound and I’ll gotten riches and I will be big enough to say that in the depths that we managed to descend to over that time, I did also at one point wish it were us too.
Unless a counter point can be put out there continuously, comprehensively and credibly your average PL fan is always going to be apathetic about it when it comes to doing anything about it while also burning a secret flame that someday his/her club will also strike the jackpot. All they see his the media waxing lyrical about City’s achievements and wonderful team and manager. If they can actually see a credible opposition to it they might come around. Until then, the vast majority don’t care and don’t want to care.
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Unfortunately we seem to suffer biggest impact due to the way the oil money Cheaters have assembled their team.
No other club will be remotely interested tackling this issue until it affects them also. The way Leeds and Burnley have railed about the Blueshite in recent weeks is a prime example. Although, if Real Madrid had been knocked out by Fraudiola in the CL semi-final, we might have had a club stinging with enough resentment and muscle to challenge the hypocrisy of the FFP law that is presently being applied, or not, in this case. Then and only then, will EUFA be forced to act in some sort of way apart from tip-toeing around the subject… So for this reason alone, it might have been beneficial to be playing and beating the Cheaters this coming Saturday, and let RM challenge the law upholding big wigs of the footballing world.
I was only discussing this yesterday with a mate. How understated the media coverage of their title win has been and he is a United fan living in Manchester so extra sensitive. Mind you I don’t buy newspapers, don’t listen to Talk Sport and suchlike and generally get my sports news from the BBC. Even on the BBC NW news I was surprised how fleeting the references to their win were…
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Because everyone knows its tainted?
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I feel apart from their fans, the majority of footballing watching public are starting to get a little tired and bored of the way the Cheaters suffocate the excitement from their matches, and the game in general. Everyone knows how artificial the whole plastic Lego of a club it is. Ian Wright said as much recently in an article he gave. Hands remain tied from many others in the sports and media world due to the threat of incoming lawsuits.
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I think again it goes back to the whole point that when you spend billions, winning becomes expected, and anything less is a failure. In that context, it’s absolutely embarrassing that they can’t win anything outside of England. Maybe if they drop down to the Europa League they might have a chance…
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