Four and a half years after the takeover it is noteworthy that we have next to no former players on TV who have any genuine feeling for the club.
Today, Jamie Carragher, a man who is at times unintelligible, has today announced his aspirations to forge a career in media. He follows in a long line of other ex-LFC pundits: Barnes; Lawrenson; Hansen; Thompson; Mcmannaman all of whom are prepared to stretch the bounds of reason, and at times sanity, in order to paint the picture which best suits their former club.
This arrangement isn't just restricted to Liverpool: united have Owen, Schemichel, Yorke and Dublin.; Arsenal have Nicholas, Keown and Merson.
Who is there to speak on our behalf? Mills, Fowler, Quinn and the aforementioned McMannaman and Schmeichel. All of them, with the partial exception of Quinn, spent their best years at other clubs, only came here for the money and have a barely disguised contempt for our club.
Andy Hinchliffe is free to say what he wants, but given how relatively underrepresented we are in the media, especially given our support over the last decade and the fact that we're still (barely) Champions, he demonstrated a greater loyalty to his own ambitions with Sky than to a club he claims to care about.
I'm sure in a few years we'll have a few more people championing our cause, but in the meantime we have to merely hope that as many of those that are currently called upon to talk 'on behalf of our club' to do so in a manner that reflects the fact that they at least care about City enough to think about the consequences of what they are saying.
Unlike Andy Hincliffe.