LFC fans Compared to Khmer Rouge

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spor...ews/leaked-list-compared-liverpool-fc-4025956

A leaked dossier allegedly drawn up by Everton FC’s director of communications during his former role at Liverpool compared prominent Reds fans to Cambodia’s notorious Khmer Rouge.

The document is claimed to have been drawn up by Paul Tyrrell at the height of antagonism between LFC supporters and the unpopular Anfield regime run by Tom Hicks and George Gillett in 2010.

It was leaked by the evertonarentwe.com fan website although it is not clear how the highly sensitive, internal report came into their hands.

The documents states that some Reds fans groups are “like the sporting version” of Cambodia’s 1970s revolutionaries, wanting to “get to Year Zero to start all over again and see the opportunity of furthering their general political beliefs through LFC”.

Journalists are also targeted and their allegiances and views identified, including former ECHO reporters Tony Barrett and Dom King.

Mr Tyrrell issued a firm “no comment” about the dossier today.

It is signed off PT and makes reference to how fans “regard the owners as evil pals of (George) Bush ... and the chairman (Martin Broughton) as Tory toffs and people such as me (with my family political background) as traitors.”

Mr Tyrrell’s dad was once a Labour mayor of Halton.

The Farm frontman and outspoken Reds fan Peter Hooton – who is referred to on the four-page list – said he was considering taking legal action over some of the claims about him in the dossier. Mr Hooton told other fans on web forums that he would be “getting his lawyers onto this”.

And Spirit of Shankly said it was disgusted to be compared to a “murderous genocidal regime” just for taking a different stand to the club’s management.

The SOS’s James McKenna told the ECHO: “To see this sort of confirms what we suspected, that there were briefings and dossiers and blacklists.

“You would think we were some kind of sinister political front. How can we be compared to a murderous regime committing genocide, and what is a ‘sporting version’ of a murderous dictatorship?

“If you look at what was happening in the summer of 2010, undermining the club didn’t come down to us.”

The fans are also accused of being happy to see the club plummet down the divisions, “effectively go bust and then reform in a pure Socialist form – run by a Supporters Trust”.

The dossier adds: “They failed in the past to take on the establishment in the form of the Conservative government in the 1980s ... and form a Trotskyist Independent People’s Republic.”

LFC sources said the club had been under a very different regime in the run up to the crisis of 2010 which saw Hicks and Gillett take the club to court during the ownership wrangle.

A spokesman added: “No-one from the club’s current management was involved with or had any knowledge of this document.”

 

Who ****ing cares?

SoS are gang of bad teds.

 

I read this before and I found it quite disturbing really. The club should be engaging with these people, not fighting them.

It shows how poisonous the boardroom had become during H+G.

 

It was 3 years ago mate, under different ownership it's totally irrelevant to your club in 2013.

This is just professional 'outrage' from SoS, who are melts

 

Gotta laugh at this line though....

 

the real question is what are everton doing employing ex lfc workers?



I mean i don't really give a toss cos these guys were the same ilk as purslow in thinking they knew how to run a modern football club so if everton picked up the like of this guy i look forward to seeing what he'll do there... it aint like our first communications director in FSG era did great either!

anyway judging the "standard" of opinion they were drafting up you can see why G&H lived in fantasy land cos the descriptions of the people who were exercised enough to run highly efficient web based campaigns are wildly simplistic.

If the guy had actually done a proper job finding out what people actually wanted or were like then the dossiers would be much more detailed

 

haha, it's been picked up by the equally bitter Blue Union / keioc, who appear to championing whatever this cause is, for their own ends (to have a pop at Tyrell)

Tragic twats the lot of 'em, if you want to run a football club so badly go & find a way to earn / raise a few hundred £M & then come back & implement your 'vision', until that point, why don't you just pipe down.

 

Ra's al Ghul?

We need ****ing batman.

 

Ian Ayre was around at the time this was written...

 

I read all the "named" reactions on twitter the other night in amusement.


I don't know what was worse: the melodramatic & paranoid (although is paranoid right: they WERE out to get H&G lol) nature of the dossier or the equally drama queen reaction from the "accused"

It's all very silly.

Hoping the new regime (should I use "regime" in case it suggests a link with any historical or current dictatorship?) is just concentrating on football; you know that round thing we want kicked and preferably kicked well.......

 

The Khmer Rouge would never be able to run a football club. All the play would be on the left wing or underground.Also with Pol Pot as the manager anyone who showed any skill would be immediately executed " for the good of the many".

 

"The fans are also accused of being happy to see the club plummet down the divisions, “effectively go bust and then reform in a pure Socialist form – run by a Supporters Trust”."

This dude's been reading my thoughts!

 

Dammit, my twitch is back.