Tuesday 5 October 2010

"As we all form one dark flame"

Its obvious that Liverpool are in freefall. It's obvious that world class players are underperforming. It's obvious that the manager........you get the message. But should we turn on them? Do we eat ourselves from the inside like a cancer? Why do fans call for one manager to go after seven games, we aren't Newcastle.  
     I think the answer from a small section of the fans is no, evident from the marches and the sit in protests, yet there are many fans who immediately turned on the players and the manager after the Blackpool loss. Twitter and Facebook were alive with the calls for sackings. Let's just pause here for a minute.
     Yes, Roy is not the manager we want, nor is he any good with a team down the bottom of the table, only escaping relegation with Fulham by results going his way. Yet, he is our manager. We need to help him give the players the best possible opportunity to get back in the table. He is the leader of this club and we must give him our support, we should get rid of this manager hate that has rubbed off on us from the media during the Benitez era. Roy, I admit, was not the best choice. But let's face it not many really good managers went for the job, not many managers who could 'walk through the storm'.
     The players deserve a lot of flak, this idea that they need an arm around their shoulders is preposterous. These players are paid professionals, they are doing a job, if I was asking for an arm around my shoulders at my job, I'm sure I would be told where to go. That said, they can only play in the system they have been forced into. Miereles on the right? Cole on the left? Jovanovic on the left? Poulsen?! I think Roy needs to look at his positioning. 
     So we have established that Roy is not the best manager for the job, but we would find a replacement very very difficult to come across. We have established the players are underperforming, yet not being given correct instructions. Let us turn to the board and the owners
     Hicks and Gillette, the double act that has virtually forced Liverpool to their knees. Gillette is willing to walk away, at a loss, from our club. Hicks, however, is busy scouring the globe for the money to refinance his £300 million debt on Liverpool. We cannot let this happen. The board are trying to keep Hicks and Gillette away, but have not found a sufficiently acceptable bid. The board and the owners have failed at every time, every turn and every decision. We must hold them to account! They cannot get away with this. With some more money maybe Hodgson would have found his striker, maybe Benitez would have gotten Barry. Maybe pivotal moments would have been reduced to trivial ones. 
     After the assessment, which I think every fan knows to be true, we are left with five people who we need to protest about! Purslow, Broughton, Ayre, Hicks and Gillette. 
     We need to invade Anfield! We need to fight in the stands! We need to scream war-cries of protest! Wear our black of mourning! Show the world we are having a slow death happening at our club! Get the Standards Corrupted shirt on and believe in better! Better football. Better management! Better owners!
    As we do this we need to be like an army. A mass of protestations! A seething body thinking like one! We need to form one dark flame! The black of our shirts and the black of our moods! The darkness of the times dictate our black actions!
   "As we all form one dark flame"!! 

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