Oh dear, seems only the scousers could write a book for coming second http://www.amazon.co.uk/They-Dared-To-Dream-Liverpool-ebook/dp/B00LEG66SE/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top Read the reviews too, some are hilarious
The first review i read. "Football? Bloody hell!", as Bill Shankly once said. By the final chapter of this book I was kneeling on the floor of my living room, floods of tears pattering onto my replica kit, wailing like a hysterical gibbon. My dogs, Rushie and Aldo, wailed in solidarity with me. They understood; my wife didn't. I felled her with a right hook. Imagine if all you ever wanted was a carrot cake, and then, after 25 years without one, you see your most loyal friend walking towards your house smiling, carrying a carrot cake with your name on it. As he reaches your drive, he tumbles calamitously into a ditch. You rush out to find him writhing in agony amongst a cakey-muddy mess, a hungry raven pecking at his flesh. That is how we Liverpool fans feel about the 13/14 season (the raven is Tony Pulis, by the way). This book is not just some cynical cash-in to make money out of Irish people. Paul Tomkins has truly encapsulated the modern-day Liverpool Football Club experience in literary form: the misty-eyed sentimentality, the endless self-mythologizing and, above all, the abject, humiliating failure. YNWA. f**kinghell this guy needs help.
I love the sense of humour failure by the Liverpool fans in the reviews. My fav review so far: - Brendan Rodgers treated me to the biggest emotional rollercoaster on the planet, not even Alton Towers could reach its peaks, lows and loop de loops.This book brings it all back. I remember the Chelsea game like it was yesterday. Me, me auld fella, titch and spanners all donned our full warrior kits, tied our 5 times flags around our necks like makeshift capes and marched for the Shankly gates. We bought our CHAMPIONS 13/14 t-shirts outside, made our way onto the kop and laughed as the Chelsea team was read out. During our mirth, I turned to my brethren and told them there was no way Chelsea were going to score today, the only way they will is if Gerrard falls flat on his face and gives them the ball, right in front of all of us. And he would not let it slip. We all shed tears of laughter. That evening, after much arguing, binning of champions shirts, seething, mild violence and tears, I went for a walk. Cape still flapping behind me like a kingly robe, kit still held snug to my flesh, looking like a Sports Direct Superman..I still held hope. Crystal Palace would be blitzed. Sure, it was dark. Sure, I was walking down the hard shoulder of the M57 getting beeped. But not as sure as I was about our destiny. Suarez had been persecuted for nothing, now it was time for vengeance. As our third went in at Selhurst Park I turned to Spanners and held him. "You were right!" he cried, "Its going to be a massacre!" I put my arm around my auld fella and we laughed, "all our defenders would have to switch off now for Palace to get a chance and they'll be lucky to get one, never mind three!" I bellowed. That evening, I walked back to the train station alone. Legs tired from running. Cape tattered and torn from where Titch and Spanners had pulled at it. Friendships lost forever. Even me auld fella had gone home with them. But this book reminded me of what I once had, our season might have been a failure in some eyes. But not mine. We go again. YNWA.
It's a rival fan taking the piss, brilliant stuff. I've already taken the piss out of bonnet for missing this on the Manc board.
Live with it Gonzo, the books for real, its listed on Amazon What is taking the proverbial is all the reviews posted by other fans.
I know it's real, I keep repeating that to you and no I wont buy a book about us finishing 2nd but you only realised that the reviews were by rival fans when it was pointed out to you, you thought they were real reviews by Liverpool fans and that's there in black and white on the thread on your board. Anyway we've already done this and you looked silly enough the first time around.
Seems there is no sense of humour on the Arsenal board, its been removed. Or maybe one of the mods is married to a scouser
After viewing the RAWK meltdown twitter account i can genuinely see a Liverpool fan coming up with something like this. Fair play to the writer of the review, outstanding!
You never know BITKOSP, this could be the 3rd book, to make it a trilogy They always say be careful of old players coming back to haunt you, imagine this. Its the last game of the "league" European games, and its Liverpool v Barcelona. 2 minutes to go, and its 1-0 to Liverpool. So long as Liverpool win they are through, but a draw is not enough. A high ball is headed back by Gerrard, but quick as a flash, Suarez is though, and with just the goalkeeper to beat, drags his shot wide. The Liverpool kop goes wild, the knock out stage is tangible. Chants of Suartez Suarez Suarez are heard all around the ground But wait, in the last seconds of injury time, a though ball by Macherano feeds Suarez who goes round the keeper and calmly slides the ball into net. Liverpool are out. Headlines in the Sun the next day "NEVER BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU" Within 24 hours, a book is out saying how close Liverpool were to European glory
"I tried to buy this in Waterstones but it was raining outside and I slipped. Whilst I was recovering Demba Ba nipped in and got the last copy." Literally had me crying at work
I do find it funny that Liverpool's status has slipped to the point they're celebrating coming second but I can't be too hard on this book as one of the articles in it was written by a friend of mine.
