Shadow Moon

My copy arrived today. I have read up to page 182 so far. There portions where Reade speculates somewhat as to why Benitez decided to side with Hicks, makes me want to know Benitez's interpretation of the events.

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Uh, I think Phil Thompson was in favour of Hodgson's appointment?

I was attending a concert. Checked Twitter during the intermission.

I am reading articles via Newsnow and there are quite a few pro-Roy articles. Opinions such as: "Take, in sum, a new non-coalesced Britain that rages and fumes and changes its opinion before half time. The old Liverpool of Bob and Bill was never like that: it wore affection and patience on its sleeve. But today? Wonder and watch and cringe a little. The irresolute rubbishing of Roy is a parable for our times." Roy Hodgson is really a media darling eh.

Guess who said this: "... you as a coach have to choose the right way for your team to get the results your club needs."

I am feeling very down already. Today is a Friday but the past few days have felt like Jacon coming back from the dead in yet another, then yet another Friday the Thirteenth.

And H and G have got a death wish.

I was trying to post a link to the article http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2010/10/06/liverpool-fc-sale-chairman-martin-broughton-says-john-w-henry-and-new-england-sports-ventures-will-be-excellent-owners-100252-27413801/ on Facebook. The application refused to accept my sharing of the link and so I clicked on the option to submit the link and explain why it should be allowed to be shared. As part of the authentication I have to type in some letters I see on the screen. I was asked to typed in the word "TOADIES". I thought of G and H immediately. There must be a Facebook God somewhere.

http://tomkinstimes.com/2010/07/houllier-vs-benitez-who-%E2%80%9Cwon%E2%80%9D/

From BBC Sport - "Rapper Diddy rejected Crystal Palace takeover" http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/c/crystal_palace/8731506.stm Now maybe G and H will really go look for some Snoop Doggy.

Maddock wrote: "In an open letter to Messers Hicks and Gillett last week, I suggested that the time has come for the pair to open their wallet, and actually use some of their own money to restore the health of Liverpool Football Club." Uh, do H and G actually have "their own money"?

I feel even more pained after reading Mr Moores' letter. Wow. Thanks for giving me more details about your blunders. Watching Liverpool FC play this season was even more painful than watching the later years of Houllier's time in charge. Even now I think I am in denial as to how a few, but most significant blunders from Mr Moores' has contributed to the decline of the club. A decline that may become a demise if something substantial is not done to financially drag the club out of this abyss. I feel sorry for Mr Moores' family members who have had to endure unfair harassment. That said it's hard to feel sorry for Mr Moores himself. I don't have to doubt that he thought he was acting in the best interests of the club. But at this moment I don't think reading his version of the events is going to help anyone feel even an iota better. Mr Moores has stated that he did not write the letter to apologize. Well, I probably would not have forgiven him (for what forgiveness is worth) anyway. In the end what is most painful is that if the club meets its financial demise, then the *ethos* of the club that I believe has endeared many a Liverpudlian to identify with Liverpool FC will die along with it. Ethos. Values. Can you imagine an institution without an ethos, without a set of values? Maybe you may not agree with the direction of a particular institution, but without an ethos and set of values, that institution is just an empty shell in every sense of the phrase. So, Mr Moores, thanks for writing. But it just hurts more to face the possibility of Liverpool FC's demise based on the details you have deemed necessary to provide. I will still find it next to impossible to remember your legacy with much fondness.

Bick: Liverpool face battle with interest payments http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=782686&sec=england&cc=4716&cc=5739

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Now a miss by Gerrard. argh

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That is what pains me too. Yes of course I ought to forgive and move on, blah blah. But I think some people need to understand that getting into a Champions League Final is incredibly difficult. Even if you take Rafa and Liverpool's recent track record. 2 finals in 3 years, and 3 semis in 4 years is a very rare period of consistency. Touch wood, but who's to say that the team will be able to enter another CL final in the next five to ten years? There are lots of other good teams in each year's competition. Look at Man U, they next reached another final nine years after their win in 1999. This is why the Riise own goal will piss me off for a long time yet. Because, in spite of all the good things that may happen to the team from now on, we may still not reach another final, and not for want of trying.

And being able to use the weaker foot when the situation calls for it, is not a good skill to work on?

MUNICH, Germany (AFP) - German international defender Philipp Lahm is free to leave Bavarian giants Bayern Munich after the club announced on Tuesday that talks over his contract extension have broken down.

It is official now. Liverpool FC is skint. SKINT.

No, cos all is not hunky dory at Liverpool FC.

You mean, judging from their replies to Paul Tomkins' "Be Careful What You Wish For" editorial?