KentBlue
Well-Known Member
It's a job, that's all. An extremely well-paid one, with many perks and an elevated profile that puts you on a par with being a famous actor or rock star, but it's still a job. He played for the dippers, he provided a service of which he was more than handsomely rewarded, but the club doesn't own his soul. And those dipper fans who booed him have inadvertently lifted the somewhat flimsy disguise of them being 'good old scousers, with their cheeky grin, ready wit and heart of gold.'
People who didn't know previously now see them for the thoroughly unpleasant, narrow-minded bigots the rest of us have always known.
Personally I never rated him, I always thought he was a poor defender with an eye for a pass, but that is just my own view. He was a good servant for the club these heathens have pledged their support to, he got stuck in and did the job to his level best for the club. But for all his effort, all his sweat, and his dogged determination to serve his boyhood club, he is painted as a Judas simply because he left to join another club. A club who ply their trade far away from the plastic, over-populated bubble that is the Premier league, a club who will -in reality- seldom play against the team he has left.
People who didn't know previously now see them for the thoroughly unpleasant, narrow-minded bigots the rest of us have always known.
Personally I never rated him, I always thought he was a poor defender with an eye for a pass, but that is just my own view. He was a good servant for the club these heathens have pledged their support to, he got stuck in and did the job to his level best for the club. But for all his effort, all his sweat, and his dogged determination to serve his boyhood club, he is painted as a Judas simply because he left to join another club. A club who ply their trade far away from the plastic, over-populated bubble that is the Premier league, a club who will -in reality- seldom play against the team he has left.

