I well remember Brookside. Like Liverpool FC, it was always second best to its Manchester equivalent, but it was always good for a laugh, always good for ridiculous drama. Watching Scousers and Scallies tear each other apart had a certain amusement value.
Brookside was buried beneath the TV concrete patio some years ago now, but Liverpool FC have stepped into the breach and become our twice weekly whiney voiced soap. We thought they had plumbed the depths when they crashed to defeat at home to Blackpool, but now we have the glorious spectacle of the American owners trying to snatch Administration from out of the jaws of a sale.
Now I don't understand, personally, how the club can be sold without the approval of the owners; it seems a bit like a lodger selling a house without the landlady's consent. Nor do I understand how Administration would suit Gillet and Hicks better than a sale. But what I do know is, it is bloody funny watching it all go off from the outside.
I hope the Yanks win this legal battle and Liverpool are deducted the 9 points for Administration. Who knows, they might then become live relegation candidates if Torres flounces off in January and Gerrard picks up a few injuries. How the mighty have fallen?
The question actually is, how much further might they yet fall?
"Now I don't understand, personally, how the club can be sold without the approval of the owners; it seems a bit like a lodger selling a house without the landlady's consent"
ReplyDeleteDo a bit of research then. I do not know how anyone can write about something that they have no understanding of. How can anybody take this dribble serious?
Fair enough mate. As a Season Ticket holder at Anfield for over 20 years, I'm boycotting going to the game, along with 18 of my closest friends. I too am disgusted at the state of the game and the way in which it is being destroyed. It may well be that I may never go again. We've been fighting this fight for 3 years now, with no support from the press or other fans and as far as I'm concerned now, when Liverpool FC go bust and vanish from history, there will be a long list of other clubs who will also vanish. The game is ruined and dead. Perhaps it caving in and vanishing is the best thing that can happen to it.
ReplyDeleteAndy, Liverpool.
How about you explain Michael? The owners don't seem to think it is legally possible!
ReplyDeleteCome on Andy, it's not that bad. Keep the chin up mate. Liverpool had it coming - the club became too arrogant, too full of itself. The real villain is the guy who sold to Hicks and Gillet. He just took his money and ran with no thought for the future and the fans.
Andy
ReplyDeletePutting our FA Cup Final loss to you guys to one side for a moment, I sincerely hope that this is actually a new dawn for you and Liverpool get back to playing exciting freeflowing football.
As fellow fans of football played the right way, it would be a great loss to see West Ham or Liverpool go missing from English football.
Elf
Do me a bloody favour Elf. They aint about to disappear from football, not even Leeds or Pompey managed that! Hicks and Gillet want to keep them because they know that the club will be a gold mine in later years. The brand is huge! Liverpool will come again. It is our duty as rival fans to revel in their discomfort for the time being!
ReplyDeleteI know that HF, but the comment was in reply to Andy: "when Liverpool FC go bust and vanish from history".
ReplyDeleteI personally wouldn't even want to see Liverpool relegated and I definitely didn't feel that way about Leeds.
Elf
I would love them to go down because of Carragher and the way they cheated their way to that Gerrard equaliser. The Cup was ours, but the Scousers exploited our sportsmanship by closing that throw in. And don't forget how they destroyed our team by poaching Yossi. A stint in the Championship would be fitting punishment in my book!
ReplyDeleteYou could probably add making us pay for Titi Camara to the list of misdemeanors too but that goal was Scaloni's fault.
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the cup, was years ago, get over it. and you can not blame yossi for wanting to come to a more successful club with champions league football, ok we dont have it now but we did at the time. and if you had owners like dumb and dumber you would feel the same way all liverpool fans do. i am sick of hearing bitter comments from other clubs because liverpool are the most successful club in england. destroyed your team by poaching yossi? yossi doesnt make the team, there are 10 other men on the field and yous could have easily bought a replacement with the money. your just a joke mate, dont have a clue what your on about!
ReplyDeleteLuke, Liverpool
Nonsense Elf, Scaloni did the sporting thing: a Liverpool player was down with cramp in our box. Liverpool should have thrown the ball out for a goal kick, instead, Carrgaher ran forward and ordered the thrower to throw it to Scaloni and for Liverpool to close him as he received it. It was cheating, pure and simple. Remember they took Dicks off us too! And remember Ince played for them!
ReplyDeleteWhilst I do regard LFC as a 'proper' football club, with tradition and heritage including playing some of the best football I've ever seen a club side play, I tend to agree that there is some solace to be gained from their current plight.
ReplyDeleteI guess every fan thinks that their club is always maligned by the media and generally badly done to. In the post Tevezgate era (for which the majority have never 'forgiven' us) our club is more sinned against than sinning in this regard. So, it does taste a little sweeter to see the peril of the crestfallen. Fact is, Liverpool have received almost Harry Rednapp-esque press coverage for some 40 years and there is cold comfort in the spectacle of that particular club regaining the status of fallibility.
Do I gope they go down? No. I would choose Wigan, Bolton, Blackburn, Stoke first among my wish list of possibles and would infinitely prefer the Chelseas, Arsenals, Totts and Man Citys to be in Liverpool's current plight. But I'll take it for now!
so what if carragher did that? its not cheating, he was trying to equalise with very minimum time! yous would do the same. It was not cheating at all,just a player determined to help win trophies for his club, and he succeeded in doing so.
ReplyDeleteYep, like scoring that goal against Sunderland when Turner was obviously rolling the ball back for the keeper to take it. Cheating.
ReplyDeleteBut if the ball goes into the net off a beach ball! Well you can here the Scousers whine from Wearside down to Lands End!
like playing a season with tevez ilegally and his goal saved you's from relegation... CHEATING!
ReplyDeleteAnd with Mascherano who you signed "from us" on a dodgy deal too. But that was ok because, well because different rules apply to the big clubs than to the rest. United didn't own Tevez did they? Alright for him to play for them though wasn't it?
ReplyDeletenoo because we loaned and bought him from the 3rd party who actually owned him! so there was nothing dodgy about that at all. And united also LOANED tevez from his 3rd party owner who ACTUALLY owned him where as they had illegal contracts at west ham and tevez's goal saved yous from relegation!
ReplyDeleteTechnicalities, pure technicalities. You didn't own Mascherano and United didn't own Tevez.
ReplyDeletei didnt say they did i said the 3rd party owners (MSI) owned them then we bought mascherano from MSI
ReplyDeleteLike I said, technicalities. And hair splitting,
ReplyDeletetevez didnt finish our top goal scorer that season did he if he did so much why did he wait till 10 games to the end to score his 5 goals of the season what bout zamoras 11 nobles 3 greens saves tevez did not keep us up and we should not be paying sheffield united as tevez was in the team that lost 3-0 to them and 4-0 to charlton tevez is a striker his job is to score goals which he did
ReplyDeleteSo you sir are a tosser
The only tosser here is the attention hungry boy with too much time on his hands who writes the drivel on this blog.
ReplyDeleteHis reply at 01:08 shows he has no idea what he is speaking about.
It's just such a shame he has the nerve to associate himself with WHUFC.
I feel embarrassed that he whores himself around the newsnow pages desperate for attention in the name of West Ham. He is in no way representative of West Ham fans anywhere and I apologise on behalf of us all to any Liverpool fans that were unlucky enough to arrive here.
Rest assured that he is thought very lowly of by West Ham fans. Don't judge us on this tw@t.
Cheers.
Dan - if you think he's that bad, don't post.
ReplyDeleteI think HF posts intelligently and sometimes provocatively and really enjoy coming on here.
I totally agree with Fred on the Tevez thing. The way our club has been castigated by the massed ranks of the media and some of the ignoramuses supporting other clubs is the real disgrace. If you tow the party line on Tevezgate, I would suggest that there is a sizeable lump of Hammers who would wish to be disassociated from your views, not those of HF.
Just imagine things the other way round, Liverpool fans as any other teams fans wouldn't/didn't give a toss when West Ham were on the ropes, so why should we? I can empathise with the fans of Liverpool, just as I empathise with fans of Crawley Town and teams alike who will go bust with ten grand worth of debt. Why pay £18m for a right-back and not campagn about that I do not know.
ReplyDeleteGood point TIS, or £20m on a player you send out on loan a year later! But to many of these Scouse clowns, Rafa is still a god! It's like our fans who refuse to see the incompetence of Zola!
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