SkippyjonJones

[depressed]I think that "Don't let the Pigeon drive the bus" would be a more apt book.[\depressed]

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it may not be exactly the same but you can be sure that Hicks is investing more time, energy and money in the best lawyers he can find so that they can drag out the Liverpool cash cow as long as he can. There will be briefs prepared on every rule and loohole that you can imagine and many more that you can't. All of them are designed to keep control of the cash flow and make more money from us. We are his dream club because we are far more loyal than the average rangers/ stars fans and we spend more money. Regardless of what they do to the club people will still keep putting money over the counter. And they may not be involved in the day to day running of the club but thier man Broughton reports to them. and if things don;t work out they'll replace him. He's expendable. If they can't get the money they want up front then it'll be dragged out until they get their money behind the scenes. They don;t care about LFC. Never have, Never will. they just want the money and its us, the fans, who will pay it to them one way or another. Until they go we are screwed.. and that might be a long time until we get rid of them.

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you don;t think that we are going down the same road? Hicks has no qualms about dragging any of his companies down this road, His only interest is in screwing his companies for everything he can get out of them and if that mean hanging Liverpool out to dry while his other companies rape us for interest on the loans then he'll do it. The man has no heart and no soul. We are f***ed. and the only guy who stood up to them has been fired with the backing of the fans who thought we'd get another top class manager in his place.

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we are getting some proper summer threads and flounces now! I'm so proud of you all... never had any doubts that it would happen

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lets have an end to the name calling now please.

goalfest coming up then...

I watched the Argie game on a mexican feed on saturday. they are very excitable on that channel.

this thread - especially Macca's bets - is the best bit about the world cup so far...

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not goingto listen to anything that he has to say. don't give him any publicity at all.

http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer/worldcup/story/american-flag-burning-by-liverpool-fans-should-incense-yanks as a Liverpool fan living in the states I initially thought that burning the flag was a bit out of order. However as I have previous stood outside the directors entrance with my American daughter shouting “yanks out” in a protest I was on slightly shaky ground to do any complaining. However now I’ve seen the above article I’m all in favour of burning more flags until this idiot and any other American journalists actually understand what we are on about. Turning it into a “Brits vs yanks” debate is so far wide of the mark its unbelievable.. or maybe not as its fox……

so if its a soccer blog then 99.999% of the population haven't registered the issue. so lets burn more. at a rangers game.

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/columnists/brian-reade/Why-Rafa-Benitez-leaves-Liverpool-as-a-legend-not-the-failure-his-history-rewriting-critics-insist-The-Brian-Reade-Column-article448527.html Right to the end the professional pundits failed to understand why so many Liverpudlians stayed loyal to Rafa Benitez. As 500 fans marched on Anfield after his departure, chanting the Spaniard’s name, heads shook at a footballing sub-species bracketed ­somewhere between romantic die-hards and mawkish morons. To the “expert” eye, these deluded fools had been conned by Benitez’s cunning and blinded to his failings by the glory of Istanbul and the ­criminal incompetence of the American owners. Liverpool fans they said, once among the most knowledgeable in the world, had clearly lost touch with the modern reality, and were now a sad throwback to the days when sideburned men kicked orange balls. Well, I’d argue one of the saddest aspects of modern ­football is too many pundits, including ex-players, have not paid to watch a game since those orange ball days. And they’ve lost touch with the fan. I’m not saying Benitez had to stay. The results and the football last year were shocking, he’s been a major player in Anfield’s destructive civil war, and the number of fans disillusioned with his style and methods was growing. But to paint his six-year reign as an unmitigated disaster, sustained only by the over-sentimentalising of Istanbul, is analysis at its most skewed and cringeful. By 2004 Liverpool had been relegated to the status of European also-rans. Benitez made the club a genuine world force again. It wasn’t just that 2005 ­Champions League win (which is shamelessly downplayed as a fluke despite beating Fabio Capello’s Juventus, Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea and Carlo Ancelotti’s AC Milan). Or reaching the 2007 Champions League final and the 2008 semi-final. It wasn’t even UEFA elevating Liverpool to Europe’s top-seeded club due to results under Benitez. It was beating Real Madrid and Inter Milan at the Bernabeu and San Siro (which the Reds had never before done) and Barcelona at the Nou Camp. Magical victories at the very top of world football, which restored long-overdue respect to Liverpudlian hearts. Ah say the experts, but he didn’t win the league. True. But he got closer than any Liverpool boss in the past 20 years. A season ago he was a whisker away, taking the highest number of points by a runner-up in a 38-game season and the club’s best points haul since 1988. And he did so despite having the 5th highest wage bill ­in the league, the 5th ­costliest squad, the 5th biggest stadium capacity and a net annual transfer spend of £15million. Which should have made experts ask why Liverpool were ever considered a nailed-on top four side under Benitez, especially when the boardroom was mired in anarchy. Ah, they say, but he’d long lost the players and the board. So why have Steven Gerrard, Fernando Torres, Daniel Agger, Dirk Kuyt and Pepe Reina signed new long-term contracts within the past year? Why last August did managing director Christian Purslow do interviews purring over Benitez and how he was integral to the club’s future? Ah, the experts say, but that was before he let Xabi Alonso go, which everyone could see was a calamity. These would be the same experts who, for the previous couple of seasons, claimed Liverpool were a two-man team. With Alonso (on whom Benitez turned a £20million profit) never being mentioned as one of those two. Ah, they say, but Torres apart, he only signed sub-standard dross and ended up with a shockingly-weak squad. Really? Liverpool are sending 12 players (13 if you count Milan Jovanovic whose Bosman signing is going through) to the World Cup. Or an entire team: Reina, Carragher, Agger, Skrtel, Johnson, Babel, Gerrard, Mascherano, Rodriguez, Kuyt, Torres. Subs: Kyrgiakos, Jovanovic. Eleven Chelsea players flew out to South Africa, the same number as Arsenal, and Manchester United sent eight. Does that look like he’s left Anfield bare of talent? The truth is Benitez leaves a squad worth many times more than the one he inherited, despite spending less in the past three transfer windows than he’s brought in. I don’t seek to rewrite history or airbrush Benitez’s ­failings. I saw last year’s football and it stank. I felt the growing anger among players and fans at his bloody-mindedness and knew something had to give. Which is why it may be best for all concerned that he walks on. But now he has, let’s do him the honour of getting his legacy right. Rafa Benitez was many things at Liverpool but unlike every manager since Kenny Dalglish, he was not a failure. Indeed a majority of ­Liverpudlians will remember him as a legend. Because like Bill Shankly, on more days and nights than those expert pundits ever care to recall, he made the people happy.

its a huge issue? where..? maybe in general but the display at anfield hasn't registered anywhere that I know of. I live int he states and I have utmost respect for the flag of the usa however if burning of one flag didn't register then as far as I'm concerned then lets burn 10. or 100. whatever it takes to get those tossers in charge to take notice...

2 clueless Americans and a Chelsea season ticket holder continue in the destruction of the club. And they are being paid for it. By all Liverpool fans.

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29th may RIP

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