Ser ut som RTK også er i ferd med å involverere seg. Skal bli spennede å følge kampen over tv-skjermen på mandag. Og denne skulle jeg egentlig over å se, men måtte avbestille... djiiiz...
http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=206074.0
The events of the past few days have proved what, deep down, we've
known for a long time. These two jerry builders are not fit to be
associated with our club. Whatever we might have thought about their
motives, their personas, their politics, we allowed ourselves to
believe that they had a gut sense of Liverpool's special ness, and a
good sense of what is the minimum acceptable requirement here in terms
of honour and tradition. In short, they gave a good impression of
understanding, and cherishing The Liverpool Way.
They said they would build a stadium fit for the world's most legendary football club.
They said they would never contemplate securitising their loans against the club.
They said they'd back our manager.
They lied.
We know this now
We know it for an absolute fact.
Our
club is in the hands of disreputable men, men who, if they want success
for Liverpool, want it solely in order to fatten up the calf for sale.
The
current situation is unworkable. Rafael Benitez, with his ingrained
sense of honour, dignity and morality, has been publicly humiliated by
Hicks and Gillett (and while Hicks is far and away the baddie of the
piece, let's not underestimate the smiling, twinkling George's
complicity in all this any more than he has underestimated our
intelligence, our nous, and our own ingrained ability to rat out a
wrong 'un when they wheedle their way in.) Rafa would have walked away
by now but for one small thing the Americans will never 'get'. He loves
it here. He loves the club, loves the fans, loves the city, and loves
The Liverpool Way. More than anybody at the club, he is desperate to
deliver for us that which we long for so badly.
They will sack him in the summer. They have left themselves with no other option. If Hicks had come out on Sunday and said:
"Fair
do's Rafa, we were itchy on the trigger, you weren't conforming to the
chart flow on our business plan, we wanted you out... but we realise
now we got it wrong. Go buy Drenthe, Daniel Alves and Sergio Aguero,
and while you're at it, tie up Mascherano long term and here's a new 5
year contract..."
You'd possibly have given them a stay of
execution. But he didn't. He gave the manager (and thus the fans, the
club, the players) a vote of no confidence in front of, and to the
delight of, the world's slavering media. He'll have to sack Rafa in the
summer, just to keep face. Unless...
Unless he's not there.
And he's not too far from doing one, you know. This whole madcap scheme
that George has dragged him into is far, far madder, far more
expensive, and far less fun than he'd thought it'd be. He thought it
was going to be like planting money seeds and picking dollar bills off
the tree in a few years time. He thought Liverpool fans were going to
be like Dallas Cowboys supporters, if a little louder - but nonetheless
grateful for his patronage, and a little bit cowed by his enormous
wealth. What he's found here is that it's difficult, it's cold, it's
expensive - and the fans care a little too much about their team. They
care so much that they answer back to the owners.
That's what
we have to do, comrades - answer back, loud and clear. We know the
arguments, we know we're not Geordies, we know there's something very
un-Liverpool about all this marching and protesting. But there's
something very, very Scouse about the refusal to lie down and toe the
party line, the refusal to swallow corporate shite and the willingness
to strike and fight back if we need to right a wrong.
Our
immediate target needs to be Foster Gillett. In the way that these
flinty oligarchs always send their disappointing offspring away to the
furthest, most hostile outposts of their empire to try and toughen them
up, Foster has drawn the Liverpool straw. He's only pretending to live
here. He spends his time in London, comes up for the Monday meeting,
pads around Melwood then vapourises. He doesn't really want to be here.
A sustained period of invective targeted at Foster on Monday night will
unsettle him further. He'll be straight on the phone to his Dad saying:
"Look what that idiot partner of yours has subjected me to. I'm out of here."
No
matter how rich the magnates or how close their partnership, filial
loyalty and the need for a father to protect his offspring will come
ahead of everything. The splinters we're hearing about in Hicks and
Gillett's relationship will become a chasm, with the effect of
accelerating their exit strategy.
Be under no illusions. If
DIC come in, they'll want to run it as a business, too. Whoever comes
in next - and we could be bracing ourselves for a future where
ownership changes hands every 5 or 10 years - will never have
Liverpool's traditions running through them like we do. But there's a
minimum acceptable standard in ownership too, and Hicks and Gillett
have fallen badly short. It gives us no joy to recommend it, but we
have to drive them out - starting with Foster on Monday night.
These
are critical times for Liverpool F.C. If Hicks stays, Rafa goes - it's
that simple. And if Rafa goes, the empire he's building crumbles -
no-one would even bet against Carra and Stevie Gerrard walking out on
the shell that used to be LFC. All and any other reservations and
complaints we've got about ticket allocations, ground moves, and horrid
purple ties have to be put to one side. Any feeling about Rafa's
rotation and tactics. All to one side. This is Us against Them. The
Liverpool Way against The American Way. We've got run the bastards, end
of story. Monday night, let them know. Yankees, Yankees *** off
home..."
THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT RAFA
THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT FANS
LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB
IS IN THE WRONG HANDS
Please
use this thread for ideas for next Monday night. Catchy ditties that
can be aired by all. Get the message acoss vocally to young Foster in
the stands and his guardians back across the Atlantic. Post anything
you've got below – and we'll sweep through the best of them over the
weekend and get them back up, ready for everyone to air on Monday
night. Tuesday night against Luton was just the start. We need to flush
this cancer out of our club. We can all play our part. Fighting for The
Liverpool Way. We want our club back.
We'll fight for the boys in red,
We'll fight the fight for Liverpool,
The team that Shankly bred….