I’ve slept on it and I still don’t know how to feel?
As I still don’t know what it means?
Yesterday’s admin-
Title Countdown:
2 wins down/ 25 to go.
9 points down/ 79 to go.
Let’s start with that right there. Just what are we playing for this season? Just what did yesterday’s result mean? Just what is the point for
ANY club currently the longer this drags on? So many unanswered questions with this humongous mess the PL have self-created. That is completely destroying the game.
I’ve kept my own council to a large extent the past 3 weeks since the verdict came down. And the World caught up to what Liverpool have been telling them since City’s despicable ownership took over. Only to be told we were jealous as we didn’t have ambitious owners like City who would do anything to win. (No irony there.). And from many (alleged) L’pool fans too on-line who have now flipped to the opposite.
The range of emotions went from being made up the PL had finally grown a pair to uphold everything. To dismay when that cretin Burnham stuck his oar in at just how political intervention could very likely sway this back in the cheats favour. The single biggest reason why State ownership of football clubs needs to be outlawed. But at the end of the day, however uncertain the future, there was still a football game to play. And a massive one at that in terms of the title. With the first chance to tell them in NO uncertain terms what we’ve always known. So you psych yourself up to, at the very least, play your part in a wild, feral atmosphere …..
And then yesterday comes around and emotions flip 360 again …..
I walked out at 3 down yesterday. The earliest I’ve left Anfield since the Sunderland walk-out on 77 that every other football fan in this Country owes us a huge debt of gratitude over for the way away ticket prices now are. I didn’t walk out at the lost game. Or the L’pool side on the pitch who had been superb and the equal, at worst, to the cheats before yet another man on their widespread payroll, a Mancunian referee who should have been
NOWHERE near this game, stepped forward and completely altered the course of the game and handed them the victory. Whey looked like achieving anything but that. With on-pitch cheating to just encapsulate what you are up against. I walked out, with a good few others, as my head couldn’t rationalise it all. I was, and still am, just totally fed up and lost with it all.
The Premier League are in a real mess if Anfield was the blueprint the longer this drags on. One set of supporters highlighting the absolute sham the game currently is every week. Another glorifying in cheating and celebrating the fact. Their product around the World is getting tarnished to S as the Premier League, and every club associated with it, gets dragged through the mud.
And that’s before the massive elephant in the room of do City’s results even count ultimately?
So what’s the point in ANYONE going to the game under that cloud? What’s the point in ANY team playing out-there fixtures with things as uncertain as they currently are? And will be for 4 more months at least.
A PROPER mess they’ve created for themselves.
And I don’t even know if upholding the verdict will matter as City will just lawyer up, and take this the High Court. And once it goes there, it’s game over. City will drag it out before enough money and political influence weighs too much. That VERY questionable bleep Burnham has already started. The political influence will be immense. Heck, all of London runs on Arab money. The threat of that being pulled from the Country …..
There’s only one winner at that point. And it’s
NOT football!!!!
It was a weird atmosphere yesterday in so much as, as much as you tried to turn it hostile, the uncertainty and sheer farce of it just left most numb. It was fun to call them what they are. To tell them they hadn’t won a trophy since 1976. That Manchester was full of cheats et al. But then you are stood looking at the disgraceful scenes the Road End with City fans mocking every last football fan and club in the Country, as they know what power and unlimited money brings, and you were just left questioning just what is the point of it all? Lads around you having the same conversations. Just deflated and unlike any other L’pool- City crowd I’ve ever experienced. Certainly since Jurgen and Pep’s all-time rivalry took this fixture to another level. Yesterday’s crowd was
NOTHING like those times.
What does this all mean for Liverpool and the community I’ve reaidedd in for 52-years if it all, ultimately, means nothing? I love our worldwide fanbase. I love the sacrifices they make and the passion they show. I love the many millions of visitors who love coming to my City every year and have a brilliant time down to their love of LFC. But lest we NEVER lose sight of who this football club represents first and foremost. The City and community it represents above all others. For all everyone is attracted to Anfield and our unique atmosphere. For all everyone on-line has been telling us to give City everything the past 3 weeks, that doesn’t happen without the passion and unique dentity of the local support. Anyone who doubts the importance of a local heartbeat, the clue is in the name.
LIVERPOOL Football Club. And once that is lost, once that has no hope for the game, this club is completely done for as you know it. I’ve been all over this World following the Reds. And I’ve yet to come across
ANYWHERE that has the same passion for football as this City does. And Manchester come to that. Our little corner of the North West is unparalleled for me when it comes to the beautiful game and the all-encompassing, every-day talk and support for their reapective clubs. Except one part of one of those City’s has, and continues to, drag the game we live for into the absolute depths. And if they come out without the most serious of punishments here, I don’t honestly know what the point of football, and my football club, is any more? And I shudder to think how it will rip apart and destroy my City if future generations have that taken from them.
I mean we’ll still go the games. Most of us don’t know anything else. As down as I currently am with the whole game and it’s VERY unceertain future, I’ll still be on a flight out of Manny to Vienna tomorrow morning. I’ll still be getting the train up to Linz Wednesday to support the mighty Reds. I’ll still come back, do a days work Friday where I’m in until half 9 at night, then turn around and get the rattler to Brentford at the crack of dawn Sat’day. But, ultimately, for just what now?
A mate has been saying for ages that the game is totally gone as it’s that corrupt on all levels. And all football support is now is the social aspect around it of routine and doing what you’ve always done with your mates. Maybe he was right all along as we are watching a S, corrupt sport that is just in the lowest depths it’s EVER been thanks to the most corrupt participants that’s dragged it to these levels?
So I aren’t annoyed at L’pool losing the game to them. That was always going to be a struggle given the number of absent players. Before corrupt officiating nailed that down. I aren’t mad that we are 9 points behind them as I honestly don’t have a clue if yesterdays result means anything or not when this is all said and done?
I’m just utterly lost on the sport I love and have dedicated the majority of my life to. To levels no rationale human being ever should, to watch grown men kick a bag of wind around.
Tell me how to feel? As I honestly still have no answer to that and what this all means.
Let’s go have a good bevvy and a boss time in Austria. At least they can’t take
THAT away from us!
Up the honest, if totally lost, Reds!
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