The match this evening

Andy @ Allerton · May 1, 2007

I feel sorry for Chelsea FC.

All Liverpool have got going for them is over a hundred years of real history, many European and domestic cups, a real fanbase of passionate, intense and respected football fans, a football ground with real history and atmosphere, a Manager that shrewdly plays the transfer market and isn't arrogant, bigheaded or a muppet and a team that doesn't moan, dive, cheat and whine through 90 minutes of every game.

While Chelsea have got a silent, charmless arena filled with ne'erdowell fans who a few seasons ago used to support Manchester United. They've got endless rows of identical plastic flags to wave in silence, they have the same boring, tired songs about Sccaaaaarsars, they have a manager that redefines arrogance, paranoia and dementia, they have an owner that tried and suceeded in buying the league with no real idea about football nor decency, they have the interesting fact that they were bought for a quid not so long ago and are reviled by real football fans around the world as they haven't earned their success with even so much as a decent scouting system - preferring to just play 'Championship Manager' with real money. They also have players happy to spend 90 minutes diving, cheating, moaning and whining about every decision.

If money, arrogance, cheating, gamesmanship, big business and lack of respect is to win this evening then Chelsea will be the proud winners.

If it's love of football, hope, decency and honesty then Liverpool could be representing all those other clubs that would love to experience and travel to the pinnacle of domestic football.

Time will, as always, tell.

YNWA.

Spion kop · May 1, 2007

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