I see that the BBC Footy website is running yet another 'Pool headline. Is this what I get chased to pay my unpaid licence fee for?
Must be a seriously slow news day for that to be the main headline. Is he really fielding anymore youngsters than others? I can understand Gerrard saying something to praise his manager but I fail to see how anyone who's not a Liverpool fan would give a ****. BBC love United and 'Pool.
And they are only playing due to injuries to Johnson and Coutinho etc. I don't think they are keeping any older players out who are ready to play.
Indeed, YV. The bias expressed for those two teams - not just by the BBC, but by all the media - is simply unreal.
Could it be that Liverpool and United are the most supported teams in the country and therefore the BBC are just delivering to the masses. I dont think it is fair to say the BBC love Liverpool, did you not read any of the Suarez articles throughout the summer? Im sure that you are just a little upset that no one is talking about your summer transfers anymore. The Liverpool fielding youngsters is part of a much greater issue involving The progress (or lack of) in our international team, the percentage English players playing top level football and how the FA plan to deal with this.
I agree - and equally the printed media have always resented London teams believeing that the north of engalnd is the hot bed of football and clubs from anywhere else are just pretenders. In 1991 Arsenal won the league only losing 1 match - they didn't get one player in the PFA writers team of the year. If a company which ran the country's biggest football based lottery type game at the time had owned a London club in the 60s, 70s 80s and early 90s, whilst that club swept all before them funded off the backs of the ordinary working classes, the shouts of foul play from Fleet street's finest would have been deafening. As it was Liverpool it was the silence which was deafening.
I think most neutrals' intense dislike of 'Pool and Mousers sprang up from LFC's arrogance of the 70s and the expectation that it would always win. All of that seems rather silly now, but the BBC still seem to pander to the myth. I, and many others, want that crushed out of our media, and for a realistic picture to be painted. The other reason why so many neutrals have a dislike of Mousers is because of Bread, that fly-on-the-wall socio-documentary about a Liverpudlian family who used loopholes in our social security laws of the time to scrounge £millions off the British tax-payer. I know I will never forgive them for that.
The BBC seem to think it's still the 70s, judging by their coverage of the World Cup: Germany are the team that grinds down opponents (whilst their team is playing most opponents off the pitch), Brazil are the purists of football (whilst their players dive left and right), Holland play great football (as their players clog, hack and square up to opponents left and right) - yet they think England will win, despite the fact England failed to qualify for two of the three World Cups in the 70s...
Or maybe his years as a Liverpool player, player/manager, manager, academy director and youth player mentor along with his Hillsborough and local cancer charity work swung the decision to invite him onto the board. But yeah the club probably copied Utd.
I must admit, that I find it strange, the fascination that Mousers have with "king" Kenny-boy. Let's face it, he made a complete and utter hash of his time as manager of 'Pool, using outdated coaching techniques. and being humiliated on almost every level; not to mention his complete mis-handling of Klan-Gate. Is he vilified by the club? No, he's rewarded with a directorship. Unbelievable, on so many levels.
PMK - It wasn't a long line of text, but you still managed to get confused by what I said. How did you manage that? I didn't say Liverpool were copying utd. I said the tactic of having an over bearing previously successful manager loitering around behind the scenes does not appear to be working for Utd.
Bayern Munich deliberately place ex-players into management positions to foster unity and club identity... works ok for them.
I can see Liverpool giving Palace a real trouncing, unfortunately. Wouldn't be the first time. Don't be surprised to see Suarez lift up his shirt to reveal a For Sale sign if he scores, though. Some of his international teammates are blabbing.
To make up for the inevitable Mouser fanfare and deluded optimism of a top four finish after they trounce an awful Palace side today, I considered lumping on Liverpool for a home win. But at odds of 1/5, placing £50 on to win £60 back doesnt really seem worth it sadly.
I would love it if, having scored a hat-trick, Goofy runs to the Kop, lifts his shirt to kiss the badge before the deluded and adoring masses before him, having forgot that he's wearing a "Real - please come a rescue me from this living hell" tee-shirt beneath.
We have always got to remember, of course, that this is the same 'Pool side that got spanked at Klanfield by the mighty Brentford Town. So, a full-scale collapse and bottle-job is only a game or two away. Watch this space.
