Liverpool Thread 2014/15

[The_Maverick]

Hmmm.

Perhaps this should go in the Agenda thread.

What a coincidence that within 10 days 2 teams somehow get lucky and the final obstruction for both of them to redevelop the grounds is resolved.

A firm that was the last one stopping Spurs plans burnt down despite being in negotiations for 7 years and now the last house has been sold so the Scouse can can start work on Anfield.

Not sure exactly how long this exapnsion has been planned for but I'm guessing around 5-6 years.

So 2 premier league clubs that have been involved in negotiations to expand the ground over a number of years, yet within 10 days of each other circumstances mean they can go ahead.

If that's not a coincidence then I'm Margot Fonteyn.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Looks like one of our ex-posters has turned up on RAWK:

Look i'm simmering on the edge of a ban, so i'm not much fucked if i go over the line - listen.... you're club is a bag of money bagging shite, a nothing, nobody load of utter garbage that acquired a massive sum of up the arse cash.... and now you adorn our website, without it, you'd not even be here fella.

Just fuck right off fella okay? This is a liverpool football forum, and i'm not interested in your bollocks fella.

 

[petrusha]

By the way did you know Anfield is a former (temporary) home ground of the Rags? Friday 20th August 1971, League Division One... Man United played host to Arsenal.... at ANFIELD!

Apparently the rags were banned from using the swamp due to crowd disturbances and played this and one other 'home' game at Stokes Victoria Ground.

I think we were building the North Stand around this time- is that the reason they didnt use Maine Road?

Nah,

We told the ungrateful c**ts to fuck off.
(I hope)

Haha probably not because believe it or not we had a very close working relationship with them from manager level upwards. Joe Mercer was still in charge of us and Matt Busby had just stepped aside (again) and they were friends from way back, even our chairman and theirs had weekly chats apparently! Seems strange today but thats how it was back then apparently.

United wanted to play at Maine Road but the Football League wouldn't let them - presumably because it would hardly have been much of a punishment had they been forced to move to a ground about 3 miles from their own. I suspect City would have been quite happy to host a couple of United home games - as you say, the two clubs had a pretty good relationship back then, and City would also have made a few quid out of it.

I've read this in a couple of sources, but the only one I can find in a quick scout online is this one from a Liverpool book: <a class="postlink" href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=twE7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT6&lpg=PT6&dq=manchester+united+home+game+anfield+1971&source=bl&ots=9H7Wbdsa0P&sig=RBUTDUjLorUCf7p069INKxQXKFQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QUaBVO2rH4TmOJySgeAF&ved=0CDgQ6AEwBDgU#v=onepage&q=manchester%20united%20home%20game%20anfield%201971&f=false" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=twE7 ... 71&f=false</a>

Personally, I wish we'd told United to f**k off when they shared Maine Road in the 1940s. Probably not realistic because it would hardly have been in keeping with the spirit of the times, but that decision had a huge and lasting effect on Manchester football and the balance of power within it.

Incidentally, that same 1971/2 season, as United were playing a 'home' game at each of Anfield and Stoke, Leeds had to play their first four home matches at neutral grounds. The played two at Huddersfield, one at Hull and one at Hillsborough: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.mightyleeds.co.uk/seasons/197172part1.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.mightyleeds.co.uk/seasons/197172part1.htm</a>. They drew two of those games, when a win in either would in the final analysis have allowed them to claim the title.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Nah,

We told the ungrateful c**ts to fuck off.
(I hope)

Haha probably not because believe it or not we had a very close working relationship with them from manager level upwards. Joe Mercer was still in charge of us and Matt Busby had just stepped aside (again) and they were friends from way back, even our chairman and theirs had weekly chats apparently! Seems strange today but thats how it was back then apparently.

United wanted to play at Maine Road but the Football League wouldn't let them - presumably because it would hardly have been much of a punishment had they been forced to move to a ground about 3 miles from their own. I suspect City would have been quite happy to host a couple of United home games - as you say, the two clubs had a pretty good relationship back then, and City would also have made a few quid out of it.

I've read this in a couple of sources, but the only one I can find in a quick scout online is this one from a Liverpool book: <a class="postlink" href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=twE7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT6&lpg=PT6&dq=manchester+united+home+game+anfield+1971&source=bl&ots=9H7Wbdsa0P&sig=RBUTDUjLorUCf7p069INKxQXKFQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QUaBVO2rH4TmOJySgeAF&ved=0CDgQ6AEwBDgU#v=onepage&q=manchester%20united%20home%20game%20anfield%201971&f=false" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=twE7 ... 71&f=false</a>

Personally, I wish we'd told United to f**k off when they shared Maine Road in the 1940s. Probably not realistic because it would hardly have been in keeping with the spirit of the times, but that decision had a huge and lasting effect on Manchester football and the balance of power within it.

Incidentally, that same 1971/2 season, as United were playing a 'home' game at each of Anfield and Stoke, Leeds had to play their first four home matches at neutral grounds. The played two at Huddersfield, one at Hull and one at Hillsborough: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.mightyleeds.co.uk/seasons/197172part1.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.mightyleeds.co.uk/seasons/197172part1.htm</a>. They drew two of those games, when a win in either would in the final analysis have allowed them to claim the title.

The previous relationship between the clubs and the helping hand we gave united after the war, and previously, brings into to even sharper reflief that spiteful, small-time banner that was endorsed by united for over a decade. The one the club used to take down and put back up again whenever there was a concert at old trafford.

 

[Newman Noggs]

Winning the league is such a wonderful experience in its own right, I feel almost guilty for the extra pleasure I derived from the fact that we snatched it from under their very noses, just when they had convinced themselves it was theirs.

As I watch Liverpool's car crash of a season unfold, it gives me even more of a warm glow to know that they are a broken club and that it was us that broke them. Possibly forever. If I was a Liverpool fan, I'd hate us too. With a passion.

 

[bluevengence]

Much bitterness on rawk about us and our finances. How dare we pitch up with no history and spend blood money!!the fukin arrogant choking bastards think they are a pure football club with a devine eight to be at the top because they "earn" their money. They are englands shame with their heysel disgrace and every football fan knows it. Take your famous sense of humour and shit stadium and keep looking backwards,scouse cunts.

Every City fan has the blood of the migrant slaves in Abu Dhabi on their hands. Same applies to the scum and the oligarch c*nt and what they have done to the Russian people.

The quote above taken from rawk......I suppose the scousers are qualified to talk about slavery
as their shithole was built on the proceeds of it....but I hazard a guess the thick twat is totally ignorant of it.

 

[M18CTID]

Every Liverpool fan has the blood of 39 innocent football fans on their hands.

Edited for accuracy. Shame I couldn't register on RAWK to post that - for some reason registration is currently disabled lol. Oh well, never mind - I've got better things to do than spend the morning telling them a few home truths. By the way, the prick responsible for the original comment is the biggest shithouse going and never engages with any City fan that calls him out on his sanctimonious comments.

 

[BrianW]

http://www.acwrt.org.uk/uk-heritage_The-Confederate-Bazaar-at-Liverpool.asp

The City of Liverpool has a rich history of supporting slavery. How ironic.

 

[George Hannah]

Re: Annual Report (Finances)

a bit of scurrilous scous scolding here

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=274792.10840" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/ind ... 4792.10840</a>


lol

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Winning the league is such a wonderful experience in its own right, I feel almost guilty for the extra pleasure I derived from the fact that we snatched it from under their very noses, just when they had convinced themselves it was theirs.

As I watch Liverpool's car crash of a season unfold, it gives me even more of a warm glow to know that they are a broken club and that it was us that broke them. Possibly forever. If I was a Liverpool fan, I'd hate us too. With a passion.

I can't imagine how much it would hurt for a Liverpool fan to read this, I'd be raging/crying. Brilliant post.