Quiet dignity

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Not to really break up the wankfest with a small dose of reality, but Liverpool actually lost more money than City last financial year.

And we built an entire new stadium, training ground and an academy in that time.

It really is astonishing, or rather it should be, that Brenvelope gets away with such self-righteous cant without being held to account by the press. When Garry Cook made effusive claims about City he was widely mocked in the press and yet now much of what he claimed has become reality. Anyone doubting we get a fair ride from the press should perhaps reflect upon what little credit Cook receives for his prescience and how little derision Taggart receives for his "not in my lifetime" comment.

The notion that Liverpool are a model for fiscal rectitude is comical to the point of utter parody. They were saved from administration by foreign owners with designs to enrich themselves through the vehicle of a Premier League club that had seen better days - and they have continued to invest in the club in the hope and expectation of securing a return on their investment. The game plan of our owners is the same. It remains to be seen who executes it more effectively, but I know where my money rests.

It seems, following years of united fans pontificating (disingenuously) about 'doing things the right way' to the point of utter tedium, the baton has now been passed to their cousins down the East Lancs Road. No wonder those two clubs despise each other so much. At times some of the worst excesses of those associated with each club are virtually indistinguishable from each other.

 

[squirtyflower]

Not to really break up the wankfest with a small dose of reality, but Liverpool actually lost more money than City last financial year.

And we built an entire new stadium, training ground and an academy in that time.

It really is astonishing, or rather it should be, that Brenvelope gets away with such self-righteous cant without being held to account by the press. When Garry Cook made effusive claims about City he was widely mocked in the press and yet now much of what he claimed has become reality. Anyone doubting we get a fair ride from the press should perhaps reflect upon what little credit Cook receives for his prescience and how little derision Taggart receives for his "not in my lifetime" comment.

The notion that Liverpool are a model for fiscal rectitude is comical to the point of utter parody. They were saved from administration by foreign owners with designs to enrich themselves through the vehicle of a Premier League club that had seen better days - and they have continued to invest in the club in the hope and expectation of securing a return on their investment. The game plan of our owners is the same. It remains to be seen who executes it more effectively, but I know where my money rests.

It seems, following years of united fans pontificating (disingenuously) about 'doing things the right way' to the point of utter tedium, the baton has now been passed to their cousins down the East Lancs Road. No wonder those two clubs despise each other so much. At times some of the worst excesses of those associated with each club are virtually indistinguishable from each other.

Picking up on the press angle of the post:
The press don't dissect the thoughts of Chairman Fergie, or Brenda for that matter, because the sporting journalists in this country gave up the idea of reporting the news and discussing objectively the facts long ago, mainly thanks to Murdoch and the Sun.
Now we get opinions about their current flavour of the month dressed as facts by thick people with little idea of football who peddle their latest piece of junk as a Pulitzer Prize winner. You only have to catch a glimpse of the morons on Sunday Supplement to realise the depths the football press in this country have sunk to.

 

[Bill]

what makes me laugh about the money is EVERY other club would take it.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Maybe its true the rags do hate them more than they hate us.

Then again it's like looking in the mirror for them both.

There's only us who can save football it seems, Rags & Dippers enough said, Chelsea with an Russian Mafia. tosser of a Manager and players, Arse who rip off their own fans and never intend to challenge just sit 4th even yesterday Wenger was pushing 4th is more important than winning the cup, Shady Spurs, Fucking Kenwright & Ashley etc. and that's only in this country, Just look at the rule bending in Spain, France, Italy...it just goes on and on.

Yet thorough all this we get abuse from all sides as we have no class and are ruining football.

It's a disgrace.

GRRRRRRRRRRR.

Hurry up Sunday.

 

[Hung]

It must be fucking lovely being a Liverpool fan, sitting up there, looking down on the less fortunate from the top of their pedestal of sanctimonious superiority. Going down to Anfield, the home of football, paying a couple of bob to see eleven homegrown heroes take to the hallowed turf, having first performed the world famous touching of the 'this is Anfield' sign ritual. Watching the boys, no 'our boys', play football the right way, the Liverpool way, 'pass and move, the Liverpool groove', safe in the knowledge that successive managers, King Kenny, Hodgson (who every supporter was right behind and showed true deference to his amazing CV, which is the 'Liverpool way') and now Brendan (a man who needs no surname) have assembled this group of lionhearts at no cost whatsoever. They truly are, fucking amazing, the biggest club in the world, the club of the common man and a shining example of Football Fair Play. I bow down before your greatness. JTF96, YNWA, RAWK, HMV, DVD, M&S, PMSL

Please boys, for all of us, just hammer these Scouse twats tomorrow.

Without question, one of the top 5 posts that I have ever read on this board.

 

[lasereyes]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/10760776/Brendan-Rodgers-Manchester-Citys-policy-is-spend-big-Liverpools-is-player-development-ours-is-bearing-fruit.html

Laughable

Contrasting methods have made Liverpool and Manchester City title contenders but Brendan Rodgers resolutely believes his preferred way of doing things is making the club better for the long term.
Sunday's opponents spent hundreds of millions on transfers and salaries to bring in top-class talent which allowed City to win the Premier League in 2012 and become regular contenders.
Liverpool, under Rodgers, have paid out far less and opted instead for a policy of development which has seen them unexpectedly leap from eighth in May 2012 to top of the table in April 2014.
While he does not decry their rivals' approach, which has been bankrolled by billionaire owner Sheikh Mansour, Rodgers is confident the Liverpool way will succeed just as well.
"Both clubs work on different models, we are on different roads in terms of how we want to achieve success," he said
"We are a club who have an identity and a philosophy of how we want to work and that is built through the club and we will hopefully cultivate and grow it over the years to come.
"However this season finishes it will be a great victory for the model we have employed here of player development.
"I won't disrespect what (City) have done because they had a lot of new money come into the club in order to gain success.
"They have invested that money wisely in a lot of top players and that has won them the league, the FA Cup and the league cup, so I am sure their supporters won't be complaining.
"Liverpool as a club is very much a development club - development for players and for people and it is a model we are happy with and will give us sustainable success over a long period.
"We are looking to build and create something here which gives the young players at the club hope they can pull on the great shirt of Liverpool.
"They have seen local boys come through here, a lot of young players getting an opportunity, and they have also seen a model of football which is exciting.
"We are a club that is looking to the future and to the youth of our club as well as having a defined philosophy of football.
"Hopefully that will provide the vision for years to come."
Sunday's encounter at Anfield is being billed as a title decider but with four games to follow after that - six in City's case - Rodgers has tried to play down the importance of one result.
City have won just once in 16 Premier League visits to the ground and victory would put Liverpool seven points ahead of their opponents and leave Chelsea - who also have to travel to Merseyside later this month - as their main rivals.
"It is a significant game, there is no doubt about that," said the Reds boss.
"It is two teams who have done extremely well this season in their own different ways but there is still a lot of work to do.
"Our focus is on the three points because at the end of the day that is all that comes out of the game - even after this game there are still 12 points to play for.
"But it is what we work for as coaches and managers. I am sleeping very well but I've not dreamt of lifting the title.
"Our objective remains to qualify for the Champions League, only then can we think of other things. Once we've cleared that hurdle we can look at other objectives."
Fans have mobilised themselves again in preparation and will line Anfield Road in their numbers armed with flags and banners to welcome the team coach before kick-off and Rodgers issued what sounded like a rallying cry to those troops.
"We will unleash the supporters this weekend yet again on the opponent," he said.
"Anfield is a special place to play football and a difficult place for teams to come and play.
"I sense a real nostalgia about the place, the feel of the old Liverpool, and we will always respect that and it is important it drives us forward in the future."
Part of that history will be remembered on Sunday when the club begin a week of remembrance around the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster in which 96 fans died.
"It gives us great commitment and motivation but we will get chance to commemorate Hillsborough next week (at the annual memorial service)," added Rodgers.
"We carry it every day of our lives here: manager, players, supporters.
"The victims and the families are with us every day and that is why we work hard to ensure they can have some comfort from seeing their club move forward.
"This weekend will be huge for that."

Erm didn't they fail FFP this year ?

Yes mate, they did. Thanks for reminding us of that. I have respect for how Brenda got Swansea playing and what he's done for the football at Liverpool. But apart from that he is such a wanker, I can't stand the bloke.

Until about 3 weeks ago, most scouser fans couldnt stand him either and wanted his head on a platter. If you saw the series "Being Liverpool", you would have learned a lot about Liverpool's storied history. Actually you wouldn't. It was a 6 hour kiss-arse portfolio of how Brendan Rodgers goes to the bathroom, how he changes his underwear, how he is a greater man than Gandhi and Einstein combined. A 'Pool friend of mine at work said he couldn't watch more than 1 episode, it was so nauseating.

 

[silvaspass]

Don't know about unleashing the crowd but they would be better taking this opportunity to handing around the soap.

 

[JoeMercer'sWay]

Liverpool are just getting their excuses in early because they know they've got too giddy about it all and are trying to back track and get public support and sympathy at the same time.

We've handled ourselves perfectly this week, we deserve to win on that alone and I think beating the noisy Dippers after all this will just make us look so formidable to the rest of the league.

 

[mayo31]

I suggest no one watches the Sunday Supplement tomorrow

Luckily I will be in the pub having a few before making the trip to the match

 

[LoveCity]