I think it was probably done with anyway. He made the announcement, fans made there feelings known at the next opportunity and I’m thinking(hoping) that tomorrow we be a celebration for all.
Liverpool fans might actually have murdered Mario Gotze if they were in Dortmund’s shoes and Klopp sticks up for him all the time, so his opinion on Trent is no surprise.
But it goes straight in the bin along with the opinions of all the other former football players and pundits who don’t have any perspective on what it is to be a football fan.
Love the man, but don’t know what he thinks he achieves by coming back to the city at the point of our biggest ever celebration and souring the tone with a load of old patronising shite.
Just for the record, I’m not particularly into the booing, and I don’t really get it.
However, I’m not a fan of trying to police other peoples reactions. It’s an emotional response in an extremely emotional game. If you want the kind of emotional response that winning generates, then there is obviously a flip side to that - you can’t switch emotion on or off. We’re an emotional fan base or we aren’t.
On ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’, I can’t help but feel that it speaks to togetherness and communality. There is a socialism to the sentiment of that song, and it goes both ways.
I understand that you feel that Trent has been left to ‘Walk Alone’. However, don’t you think there that’s a two way street? Trent has given twenty years and lots of memories to Liverpool FC, but at the same time Liverpool have invested 20 years in developing him, giving him chances, giving him a platform for personal success, indulging the less paletable aspects of his football, and a fuck tonne of money. In return Trent has colluded with a rival to run down his contract and move so LFC don’t get a fee. Is he expressing a YNWA sentiment to the club that made him?
Mac Allister had no links to Brighton but still acted with enough decency to get them a fee when he moved.
I am already over the booing or not. If there was ever something despicable that came out of this is some section of fans talking down by telling us again that we are not them who are ‘from around here’, so we should know better then to tell them not to boo.
For me it’s never a locals/non locals conversation. The crazy thing ive found with this thread is people choosing to support a club with famously passionate fan base then making fun of those same supporters for being emotionally invested.
Different people have different attitude to risk. “A player extending his contract to enable the club to get a fee” – one possible interpretation could be it is insurance for the player (if he gets a leg breaking challenge, goes off form, clubs that were interested get into financial difficulty so pull out, etc).
Let’s start booing the next time the team is having a stinker. It’s an emotional reaction, no? Fuck it, let’s go full Everton because grown people can’t control themselves in public. Or is it ok for them to behave however they want because they were part of a larger group? I have the feeling that very few of them would boo TAA if they came face to face with him on the street.
So, we’ve come to the conclusion that TAA is a cunt after spending 20 years at the club. The evil bastard colluded with those pricks in order to screw us out of a transfer fee.
Much easier to do so when there’s no concrete interest from a bigger club.