Liverpool FC Forum

NANNY RED wrote:

bigmick wrote:It is frankly sickening and they fully deserve the hostile reception they will recieve should they dare to set foot inside Anfield again.

The one good thing about the whole situation is that hopefully we are now entering the end-game stage. Step one should be for the team to run up a cricket score against Luton tonight, and after each goal ALL THE PLAYERS SHOULD CONVERGE ON THE BENCH TO EMBRACE THE MANAGER. This struggle now is beyond the future of Rafael Benitez, it is for the future of the club and for the integrity of English football. Two fools from accross the pond simply cannot be allowed to destroy the finest club in the land. Sabre is correct, it makes no difference who is the manager while these two are in charge of the club. Like a cancer, they need to be cut out, and fast.

Mick if you wasnt so far away mate id buy yer a pint for that comment and it would be wonderful if the players done that

NANNY RED wrote:

puroresu wrote:If the Yanks want rafa out there is nothing the players or fans can do to stop it.  Chelsea players loved Jose and at every opportunity made it known that they were fully behind Mourinho. The fans all loves jose and again it didnt matter as owners dont really care about these things.

But were not Chelsea fans Puroresu or Chelsea football club were different they dont even qualify to be mentioned in the same breath as us were loyal mate they wouldnt know loyalty if it shot them on the leg

puroresu wrote:If the Yanks want rafa out there is nothing the players or fans can do to stop it.  Chelsea players loved Jose and at every opportunity made it known that they were fully behind Mourinho. The fans all loves jose and again it didnt matter as owners dont really care about these things.

bigmick wrote:

NANNY RED wrote:Mick if you wasnt so far away mate id buy yer a pint for that comment and it would be wonderful if the players done that

Ta Nanny, I know we don't always agree visa-vis our respective loyalties to rafa and how well we think he's doing the job, but this is totally beyiond the joke the way these two c...s are carrying on. Disgraceful.

I'd actually have 1000% more respect for them if they'd have just sacked him. If they were man enough to pull the trigger and get a new manager in, we could all argue till the cows come home about how ruthless they are, whether they've done the right thing etc etc. This isn't ruthless though, this is snidey, sly, behind your back c...ish behaviour of the very lowest order. Hicks in particular out of the two appeares to be the sort of bloke you'd want to keep in front of you so you could see what he was doing. A right sly, canniving c... if ever there was one.

It probably won't do anything in terms of improving his personality long term, but he's the sort of fecker that if you were going to kick him in the b@lls, you'd want to make sure you took a run up so as to ensure you got maximum power into it.

But thats the thing  its gone far beyond Rafa now theve not only undermined him in this sneaky  buisseness but the fans and the name of the club. Ok im not ashamed to say im 100% a Rafa supporter and i would be gutted if he left. But as people have said if they want him gone why didnt they just sack him. Theres no need to keep this charade there hiding behind up any longer.

We are educated football supporters not some kids of sesame street and as far as im concerned theve treated us like no marks

Emerald Red wrote:

puroresu wrote:If the Yanks want rafa out there is nothing the players or fans can do to stop it.  Chelsea players loved Jose and at every opportunity made it known that they were fully behind Mourinho. The fans all loves jose and again it didnt matter as owners dont really care about these things.

With all due respect, but f*ck Chelsea. Chelsea has nothing to do with what's happening here, and what is happening here is different to their situation. F*ck that club and their plastic fans. We're Liverpool and we don't do things this way.

Theres lies the problem though , this unsavoury piece of buggery has made what has always been the Special club into another Newcastle or Chelsea

Frigging disgrace and dark day for the club

Dalglish wrote:"If you lie down with Dogs at night , don't be surprised if you have fleas in the morning"


I wrote that some 2 and half years ago on hearing of the Glazier takeover at Manchester United.  Little did I know then that it would come back to taunt and haunt me as Liverpool Football Club descends into undignified and unmitigated chaos as the American owners plumb the depths of ethicity and effectivly get caught with their fingers on the trigger. Except in this case they have shot themselves in the foot.


Whatever the politics and personality between Benitez and Co- owners Hicks and Gillet you simply do not act like this in life, in football or in business. To compound the problem by issuing an attempt to justify their actions as some kind of insurance policy is laughable, except it isn't funny. You get insurance for your car or your house not against what "might" happen if and when clubs come calling for your manager. It's well documented that Real Madrid have made that call twice in recent times and Rafa refused on each occasion, Hicks and Gillet should know this as it was reported on the LFC official website at the time !

The question is where do we go from here ? You have to feel sympathy for Rafa whose position has been seriously undermined and I for one wouldn't be surprised if he's gone within a fortnight and that sad in my opinion. Whatever you think the current form or level of performance of the team and the intricate reasons behind that  Rafa Benitez has always conducted himself with the utmost dignity and proffessionalism. To my mind you couldn't possibly get anybody better suited to LFC than Rafa Benitez. His work ethic, his understanding of the club and the almost God like esteem he is held to by the fans is testament to his achievements both as a manger and as a man of the people. If Shankly made the people happy (and he did) then Rafa made us ecstatic with his Istanbul ressurrection. At Half time in Istanbul he is supposed to have said to the players " Give yourselves a chance to be heroes" Rather ironic then to discover the villians are within your own ranks and not outside the city gates. "Et tu Brutus " !


At Liverpool Football Club you have the following main players :

Hicks and Gillet - Promised great things at first about the traditions of the club being kept, a world class stadium, transfer funds made available, unstinting support for the manager etc etc Even if they had honoured the commitmments they have made all that was undone today when I believe we saw the real agenda and not the pyschopantic one thats been portrayed so far !

Rik Parry - Not a man you would want to be around when the Titanic is sinking and the lifebelts are being handed out ! Absolutly mullered by the fans for his handling of the Owen saga and the debacle that was Athens 2007, the mans lost touch with the fanbase and quite honestly doesn't know where to lay his loytalties although if history repeats itself he usually ends up "butter side up" when it comes to nights of the long knives !

Rafa Benitez - Left Valencia for less serious reasons than he has been subjected to over the last few months when you felt  he was teetering on the edge of resignation over his strained realtionship with the American owners. To discover that your successor has been courted before you have even left is akin to the Wife moving the Milkman in before you have had chance to pick your binbags up !


I was hoping above all things that talk of unrest and instability over recent months was just the press hacks having their pound of flesh now that Maureen has left these managerial shores and maybe my greatest disappointment is that this time at least the media were right when they sniffed for blood and discovered a smoking gun with two grinning Cowboys ....................


What a  mess !!!!!!!!!!!!


Walk on ......................

Bamaga man wrote:

NANNY RED wrote:

bigmick wrote:It is frankly sickening and they fully deserve the hostile reception they will recieve should they dare to set foot inside Anfield again.

The one good thing about the whole situation is that hopefully we are now entering the end-game stage. Step one should be for the team to run up a cricket score against Luton tonight, and after each goal ALL THE PLAYERS SHOULD CONVERGE ON THE BENCH TO EMBRACE THE MANAGER. This struggle now is beyond the future of Rafael Benitez, it is for the future of the club and for the integrity of English football. Two fools from accross the pond simply cannot be allowed to destroy the finest club in the land. Sabre is correct, it makes no difference who is the manager while these two are in charge of the club. Like a cancer, they need to be cut out, and fast.

Mick if you wasnt so far away mate id buy yer a pint for that comment and it would be wonderful if the players done that

Would you be me a pint Nanny ?

I suppose ill have to talk to yer now

Nah id buy you a packet of wethers so we could suck them together (teeth or no teeth) 

Dalglish wrote:"If you lie down with Dogs at night , don't be surprised if you have fleas in the morning"


I wrote that some 2 and half years ago on hearing of the Glazier takeover at Manchester United.  Little did I know then that it would come back to taunt and haunt me as Liverpool Football Club descends into undignified and unmitigated chaos as the American owners plumb the depths of ethicity and effectivly get caught with their fingers on the trigger. Except in this case they have shot themselves in the foot.


Whatever the politics and personality between Benitez and Co- owners Hicks and Gillet you simply do not act like this in life, in football or in business. To compound the problem by issuing an attempt to justify their actions as some kind of insurance policy is laughable, except it isn't funny. You get insurance for your car or your house not against what "might" happen if and when clubs come calling for your manager. It's well documented that Real Madrid have made that call twice in recent times and Rafa refused on each occasion, Hicks and Gillet should know this as it was reported on the LFC official website at the time !

The question is where do we go from here ? You have to feel sympathy for Rafa whose position has been seriously undermined and I for one wouldn't be surprised if he's gone within a fortnight and that sad in my opinion. Whatever you think the current form or level of performance of the team and the intricate reasons behind that  Rafa Benitez has always conducted himself with the utmost dignity and proffessionalism. To my mind you couldn't possibly get anybody better suited to LFC than Rafa Benitez. His work ethic, his understanding of the club and the almost God like esteem he is held to by the fans is testament to his achievements both as a manger and as a man of the people. If Shankly made the people happy (and he did) then Rafa made us ecstatic with his Istanbul ressurrection. At Half time in Istanbul he is supposed to have said to the players " Give yourselves a chance to be heroes" Rather ironic then to discover the villians are within your own ranks and not outside the city gates. "Et tu Brutus " !


At Liverpool Football Club you have the following main players :

Hicks and Gillet - Promised great things at first about the traditions of the club being kept, a world class stadium, transfer funds made available, unstinting support for the manager etc etc Even if they had honoured the commitmments they have made all that was undone today when I believe we saw the real agenda and not the pyschopantic one thats been portrayed so far !

Rik Parry - Not a man you would want to be around when the Titanic is sinking and the lifebelts are being handed out ! Absolutly mullered by the fans for his handling of the Owen saga and the debacle that was Athens 2007, the mans lost touch with the fanbase and quite honestly doesn't know where to lay his loytalties although if history repeats itself he usually ends up "butter side up" when it comes to nights of the long knives !

Rafa Benitez - Left Valencia for less serious reasons than he has been subjected to over the last few months when you felt  he was teetering on the edge of resignation over his strained realtionship with the American owners. To discover that your successor has been courted before you have even left is akin to the Wife moving the Milkman in before you have had chance to pick your binbags up !


I was hoping above all things that talk of unrest and instability over recent months was just the press hacks having their pound of flesh now that Maureen has left these managerial shores and maybe my greatest disappointment is that this time at least the media were right when they sniffed for blood and discovered a smoking gun with two grinning Cowboys ....................


What a  mess !!!!!!!!!!!!


Walk on ......................