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Laugh at Kopites? Evertonians more like!

By Steve Wolfe :  06/10/2010 :  Comments (92) :
Unless you're an alien, you can't but help being aware of Liverpool Football Club's position of late. It's been in all aspects of the media, be it radio Merseyside/national radio, a la TalkSport etc.. to red-top and so-called reputable papers, both of the weekly and weekend ilk. Stelling and his cohorts constantly debate the merits of the situation, and we are always being reminded via the Sky Sports update bar, of the latest from Anfield.

So in essence we cannot get away from it, so maybe that could be an excuse for "us" blues, as to why we have become OBSESSED with laughing/taking the piss out of our lovable neighbours.

Let me firstly stress that I am an avid match going blue, who most certainly has a healthy dislike for our "rivals" so to speak... but this is bordering on embarrassment from what I am witnessing of late. Am I the only sane one amongst my fellow blues? Be it mates, acquaintances, forums posters,etc.. who can see, just how the fuck can we be taking the piss??

We are level on points with them, 3rd and 4th from bottom respectively, we both have had record-breaking bad starts, and yet Evertonians have the audacity to "have a go" at the loveable kopites!! If we had just won the league, or even a cup, or were riding high as early Premier League leaders, I could understand... but, let's face it, we are just as shite as them.

With regards to their current plight, they are indeed in the financial crapper; however, it's all relative, and if you compare it to our financial situation, ours is worse ? much worse; they may have more debt, but theirs is more sustainable ? they are, after all, a globally well supported team (unlike ourselves) with a multitude of revenue streams to call upon (unlike ourselves). But, more importantly than that, they have a large fan base that actually care about their club's well fare (unlike ours).

Look at the following questions, Blues, and ask yourself what the answer would be:

1) If the "yanks" would have offered to take them to Kirkby in exactly the same deal as ours, what would have been the reaction from their fans?

2) If they had to sell their best protégé arguably in their history, to a rival team on the drip, what would have their reaction been?

3) If they had been lied to by "one of their own", who happened to be the Chairman, on a multitude of occasions, about a variety of reasons (stadium would fail the 2010 safety certificate; Fortress Sports Fund cheque in the post; looking for investment; but at the public enquiry Elstone said no board members would sell their shares; watch this space; no-one wants to buy football clubs, wouldn't sell for less than £50 million, the £30 million is ring-fenced etc .....the list goes on)... what would their reaction be?

4) If their chairman/board changed AGM/EGM rules so that no individual shareholders had a say or the right to question the major shareholders in any way, what would their reaction be?

5) If they had had three failed ground moves in the last 15 years or so, and had wasted millions in doing so, What would their reaction be?

6) If they had won one trophy in the last 20 years or so, what would their reaction be?

Let's face it, our ? or might I say YOUR ambition has sunk that low, that you take the piss out of them! Let's get OUR own house in order first!

Say what you like about them, they care enough to moan, whinge, whine, protest etc to get what's best for their club. But we are just so apathetic, we get walked all over by our own board and have done for decades, and yet we just take it.

Laugh at kopites? ... Laugh at ourselves!!!

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Christine Foster
1 Posted 07/10/2010 at 03:13:38
That the other lot have secured a buyer with the means and ability to clear the decks and take them forward is somethng that leaves, once again, a rather bitter taste in ones mouth.
Our esteemed leader, Mr 24/7 doesn't believe these type of deals are out there. After all he has been looking now for how long? I wonder how long it will be before the "Talking to three parties" comes out again?

BTW, after that comment, nothing.. no update, no word, zilch.. is it any wonder we despair.

We are sitting at the bottom of the table ahead of the RS on goal difference, with a future that is as unclear now as it was 8 years ago. Thats just not acceptable.

Frankly we are not as marketable as the RS, we all know that. But then there is always a deal to be done for he right price. Will it take Everton to go to the wall for it to be sold?

Will it take us to be relegated before we are sold for a pittance?

I don't believe there isn't anyone wanting to buy Everton FC, I believe they don't want to be encumbered by the conditions that may be attached.

One of two things have to happen for Everton to become a major force again.
1. We find a consortium with money prepared to fund a team and a club to get it into the Champions league on a consistent basis.
2. That the Sky funding and structure of the Premier League falls apart and we end up with a more level playing field.

The second point isn't going to happen unless something major in the world happens, and Sky no longer hold the purse strings. But the first is still a possibility that needs to be found.

We will need to be picked up for a bargain price for the first one to happen. Therein lies the problem.
Dick Fearon
2 Posted 07/10/2010 at 04:59:09
I thought the latest shenanigans across the park was an heaven sent opportunity to sink the slipper further into blue Bill.

Or could it be a case of thank god that Bill has the common sense to keep us well out of that kind of tawdry scenario?

It is pitiful to see RS fans jumping for joy and salivating at the prospect of their birth right being sold to another profit orientated franchisee. With each of those deals their club is removed that bit further from its roots. Have they no pride or dignity left?

Vijay Nair
3 Posted 07/10/2010 at 08:10:12
Pride and dignity is a thing of the past in today's footballing world. The sooner we realize this is when we can start getting ourselves out of mid table mediocrity. The lot across the park may whinge and moan about foreign ownership but all will soon be forgotten once they are back winning trophies, Correct me If I'm wrong but this is the reason we are competing in the Premier League is it not? Or are we here to make up the numbers whilst exuding of pride and dignity?
Simon Lloyd
4 Posted 07/10/2010 at 08:09:28
Steve

I thought it was just me who was embarassed by the mickey taking; after all, it is only goal difference that keeps us out of the bottom 3.
Having said that, I do understand why people want to laugh at them. It is after all their sense of superiority that makes their position laughable. We, however, seem to have taken the view that "we're shit and we know we are" and success for us is to be above them.
Which set of fans has got it right? Those that believe their team should be the best or those who will accept mediocrity.
Age might be dimming my memory, but wasn't it HK in the eighties who believed that if we finished above them then we would win the league? If we could get back to those times then I would be making anoise about it.
Tony J Williams
5 Posted 07/10/2010 at 08:57:14
Get off your high horse fella, times likes these don't come very often you know. The last time was 5 years ago.

That's a long time to have abuse hurled at you by the "loveable koppites" (don't make me fecken laugh, by the way that comment could make you sound like one) Audacity? Loveable Koppites....seriously?

The fact is they ARE below us, yes on goal difference but if the league finished tomorrow they would be relegated, we wouldn't.

Yes some of the "abuse" is over the top, I prefer the subtle approach myself but for you to get all indignant in the stead of those absolute bellends across the park is surely a piss take.
Chris Briddon
6 Posted 07/10/2010 at 09:28:58
Interesting comment I heard this morning ? apparently Liverpool have spent £60m so far on their 'new stadium' without so much as a brick being laid!

Comparing Everton to Liverpool has never been very succesful because it implies both clubs are on an equal footing with similar expectations, which has not really been the case for a number of years.
The fact is at the start of the season Liverpool supporters where still expecting to be title contenders (same as last year) whilst no-one really thought Everton could finish much higher than 4th in the league.

Yes, we are both in similar positions at present but they have fallen alot further to get here.
There is also the issue that we have played well in a number of games this season for few points, Liverpool have generally been poor in pretty much all of them and couldn't really argue much of a case for deserving any more points than they have.
Derek Thomas
7 Posted 07/10/2010 at 09:26:12
RED SHITE, what it says on the tin is what you get.

No wonder I / We are bitter.

They got out of jail again.
Mike Gwyer
8 Posted 07/10/2010 at 09:11:21

Steve.

Your comment is so weak:

"Say what you like about them, they care enough to moan, whinge, whine, protest etc to get what's best for their club."

I think you will find that most fan base's can do absolutely fuck all regarding the make up of their club. They can moan all they like but the RS are still 300M in debt, whinge like fuck but hey, you are still 300M in debt and march till you feet ache but you still owe the bank 300M.

Basically Steve don't try and make that lot look grand amongst all the shite they are in. They are financially fucked and they know it - but what can the fan base do - fuckall really, they have to wait for another sugar daddy to come along, pay off all the clubs loans and hopefully buy a decent player or two. Obviously, the current owners are having a jolly securing loans or debt against the club which their fans can do a big fat fuckall about (hey, the current owners could be closet Evertonians).

We don't take the piss Steve they just get pissed off thinking we do, after all everyone else is.

Andrew Ellams
9 Posted 07/10/2010 at 09:31:59
Although born on Merseyside, I did most of my growing up in a town half way between Liverpool and Manchester therefore having a selection of supporters from all of the big 4 North West clubs. Whilst there was a good deal of rivalry between Blues and RS (this was the mid 80s so I had plenty to shout about), we also had some sort of mutual pride about how far our two clubs and therefore our City were ahead of the other two. Compare that to the current situation/position of the clubs now maybe we should start a 'Save Merseyside Football' campaign
Kevin Gillen
10 Posted 07/10/2010 at 09:30:28
Vijay (3) absolutely brilliant mate - exuding pride and dignity is perhaps all we have left.
David S Shaw
11 Posted 07/10/2010 at 09:32:03
Dick Fearon: just to pick up on a point you made earlier that we are not as marketable as Liverpool.

It is the club that makers itself marketable. They started marketing themselves in the 60s, have we started yet?

You have clubs like Newcastle marketing themselves far better than what we do.

We as fans too are too passive and self concious and apathetic too.

We need to shove our clubs name down everyones throat.

When a team plays Everton we may as well not exist as fans, we need to play uor part too, get our name back, no more excuses, let everyone know who we are.
David S Shaw
12 Posted 07/10/2010 at 09:36:31
Another point, you'll notice how other clubs fanzines play an active part in supporting any movements by football fans.

Well what about about When Skies are Grey? It is a regressive fanzine that would rather sit there and poke fun at anything than support any movement.
Dick Fearon
13 Posted 07/10/2010 at 08:34:23
Steve and Christine #1. We may be just as shite as them but their shite including wages cost a hell of a lot more.
Blue Bill may have told a few porkies but his fibs were no worse than 'spade in the ground in 40 days' Hicks and Gillet.
Everton meeting rules were changed because a handful of shareholders were behaving like arseholes. A fact that was generally agreed to on Toffeeweb.
That we are not as marketable as the reds is because of their many years of on field success most of which came when we were under chairmanship other than Bill. Our playing performance would compare very favourably with those those of his predecessors.

I suggest you take note of what their new owner said in his interview, Did he say their total debt would be immediately wiped? No he didn't, his actual words were 'We will draw down the debt over a period of time'! What does that mean? Did he promise to build the new Anfield? No he didn't, he promised to look at all the options. What does he mean by that? Did he promise to provide a transfer kitty? Nope, he did not do that either.
The question must be asked, what in hells name does he mean and what are his intentions?
One thing he is noted for is enlarging the oldest baseball stadium in America Its capacity went from 20,000 to just over 30,000. Big deal eh'.
Also he is noted for hugely increasing entrance fees causing one baseball pundit to say they were beyond the reach of ordinary Joe public.

Vijay # 3. Pride and dignity may not mean much to you mate but to me and I suspect thousands of others those are the things that differentiates us from them. I don't want my club to be hawked around the financial shit holes of the world.
Mark Murphy
14 Posted 07/10/2010 at 09:37:40
"us" blues

Blue my arse!

And if any true Blue needs an excuse to take the piss of them check out the you tube vid:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO55BazkiZ4
Steve Wolfe
15 Posted 07/10/2010 at 09:33:15
@ Tony J Williams - I am not getting on my "high horse" at all, i just find it baffling that we are taking the piss out of their situation, when ours is worse.

Your suggestion that I may just be one of them is laughable (if you knew me you would know why) and the "loveable" tag was ment in a sarcastic way.
David S Shaw
16 Posted 07/10/2010 at 10:08:33
Dick Fearon, you slightly missed the point about the marketing.

Everton have to market themselves, even during a time when United weren't winning things they still marketed themselves better than us, Liverpool in the 90s still marketed themselves better, teams at the top marketed themselves better than we did in the mid 80s.

You have to ram the clubs name down peoples throats, create an interest, sell yourself to fans. Everton are hopeles at that and always have been.
Alan Clarke
17 Posted 07/10/2010 at 10:08:27
You are Steve, and you sound like a condescending school teacher. If you've ever lived or worked in Liverpool and you've spent time amongst Liverpool fans you'd understand why we are loving their situation.

This 'only think about Everton' attitude would make for a shit derby atmosphere and it only seems to be non-local fans like you that spout it. I worked in Liverpool the year we finished 4th but they won the Champions League. It was horrific. Going into work or the pub as an Everton fan and taking stick off Liverpool fans because we've either lost or are below them in the league is crap and has been the norm for many many years. Now we get some delight at their expense and you want to pour cold water on it. Go and spend time in Liverpool and you'll understand why we hate them and why we should enjoy laughing at them at the moment.
Dick Fearon
18 Posted 07/10/2010 at 10:19:51
For the past 20 years I have bet cartons of stubbies with two Liverpudlians. The bet was on which team would finish higher. The bastards have never once asked me to share their spoils.
Ray Robinson
19 Posted 07/10/2010 at 10:20:56
I don't generally like humour that relies on humiliating another party but in this case, I don't see anything wrong in it, even though our own situation may not be built on rock solid foundations. It's not as though we haven't suffered at their hands is it?

Having said that, I would not want our dear rivals to go bust - all I want is the creation of a level playing field on which to genuinely compete. If the only way that that can happen is for teams like Liverpool, Chelsea, City and United to implode financially, then so be it..

Steve, I cannot understand your statement about their debt being more sustainable. It's precisely because it isn't that there in the mire!

Mark Murphy
20 Posted 07/10/2010 at 10:33:21
Alan, amen to the power of ten!

They are horrible in defeat but even worse in victory. They are everything they claim to hate about United fans and more and they dare call US bitter! I find it dificult to comprehend that such a collective bunch of knobs can be from the same city!
Fuckin cardinals, badges and banners and you tube videos with zed list "celebs" making tits of themselves!
pffft!
Matthew Mackey
21 Posted 07/10/2010 at 10:15:15
Dick Fearon #13 ......."Vijay # 3. Pride and dignity may not mean much to you mate but to me and I suspect thousands of others those are the things that differentiates us from them. I don't want my club to be hawked around the financial shit holes of the world. "

I couldn't say it better myself and I think the majority of Evertonians would feel the same.
Kevin Tully
22 Posted 07/10/2010 at 10:47:57
Steve ( O.P)

You clearly haven't got a clue.

Fuck them, they have been prostituted round the world to anyone with a few bob, like a desperate crack head, to save themselves from going broke. All their decent players will be off in January or at the end of this season, they have got Mrs Doubtfire as their manager, they will be singing for the new Yanks to leave when they realise they are a mid-table side or worse. They think they are ENTITLED to regular success, that's what pisses off local blues.

I hope the twats get relegated, and they are left with Woy, then watch all the Berkshire reds, media celebs, ex players and the whole of Norway slink back into the holes they crawled out of when they spawned the Champions league in Istanbul. We are not glory hunters, that's why I always feel superior to the bastards anyway.
Phil Martin
23 Posted 07/10/2010 at 10:41:33
Steve, your article sums up my thoughts exactly.

We all hide behind the fact Billy is a lifelong blue. Yet if some Texan (and not "one of us") had owned for us for the last 10 years. There would've been riots already. Given the list of calamities you quite rightly detail.
But its Blue Bill so we're safe, aren't we?

Our debt is less sustainable than Liverpool's. Our financial strength put us alongside the likes of Wolves and West Brom in terms of transfer budget.

Our stadium plans are still non-existant. We have no new investors.

We do have an aspiring manager and a potentially great squad of players (given some actual money to spend) though.

Actions speak louder than words.
""

"World Class stadium for nothing"
"Goodison will be condemmed in two years"
"There is no Plan B"
"The club has always been for sale"
"Watch this Space"
"Wow"
"searching 24/7"
"Nobody is buying football clubs"
"Nobody wants to buy Everton"
"I speak to 6 parties a year"
"There's transfer money available to spend"

But while City, Chelsea, and now possibly the RS win trophies or at least compete for the major prizes. We can pat each other on the back and thank God we have Billy and co doing things the Everton way. All the way from 9th place in the table. Bursting with pride and dignity!
Jimmy Hacking
24 Posted 07/10/2010 at 11:26:27
Im not sure any Liverpool fans are rejoicing over this potential takeover; I have seen several interviewed on the BBC, Sky Sports etc. and they are understandably cautious and skeptical.

THIS new Yank has £500 million in the bank, right? he's spending £300 million of his own money to pay off the club's debt (BOLLOCKS) and then he's somehow going to pluck out of thin air £400 million of his own money for the new stadium (BOLLOCKS) and pump in £200 million of his own money to enable the club to challenge for champions league places (BOLLOCKS)

The red shite are not out of the woods yet. as a wise man once said, "watch this space!"
Tony J Williams
25 Posted 07/10/2010 at 11:49:39
Steve, I said you comments made you sound like one, not that you may be one. I made sure I worded it carefully, as I don't agree with calling someone a redshite on here.

Maybe you should have put the loveable in inverted commas from the off, it's hard to get sarcasm from the written word.

Feck the lot of them I say, and unlike Ray I want them to go bust and disappear from our lives forever. I hate every last one of the scum sucking plastic glory hunter wannabe twats (apart from my missus, who unfortunately is a red.......and my sister who is also a red.... and fuck, I didn't think this one through)
Roger Trenwith
26 Posted 07/10/2010 at 12:11:20
Re that Youtube vid - If we had been in their shoes and made a similar film, we would all be saying how proud and dignified it was. How anyone can use a decent bit of "plea from the heart" filmmaking as a reason to take the piss out of someone merely shows how emotionally stunted they are.
Roger Trenwith
27 Posted 07/10/2010 at 12:14:05
And before anybody starts I was laughing as much as anyone after the Blackpool game, and the smile lasted a good few days after too...
Tony J Williams
28 Posted 07/10/2010 at 12:33:10
Sorry Roger but if we did something like that I would piss myself laughing at it and expect every redshite that knows me to take the piss out off me relentlessly.
Charles King
29 Posted 07/10/2010 at 12:32:58
Why this derby is so vital.

A relatively quiet news week has made the LFC circus the headline story on most outlets, business analysts and other idiots have been remarking how merseyside deserves its football team to be challenging again.

So inconsequential are Everton that we are damned not by faint praise.....but by ignorance of our very existence.

To ignore our snaggle toothed cousins places your head firmly in the sand, as guilty as dullard board members and unambitious managers we've endured post John Moores.
Every scintilla of growth, every penny spent, every headline written about LFC is at our expense while we accept second best and mediocrity.

Yet Incredibly, despite the prototype Everton start a shot at redemption has emerged.
The desparate plight of the neighbours, with Torres injured, Gerard and Caragher accused of treason over Benitez, a court battle, no Arab sheik nor Russian oligarch but another warm worded american en route this far from impressive outfit gives Moyes and this club a heaven sent opportunity.
For the first time in living memory the fabled good fortune of LFC is in doubt, much good PR is being raised by the new american but the doubts persist, the confidence that has carried them so often is waning, let it fall.

The moment is nearly upon us, we must hear Goodison roar again like a great awakening lion not because we have won, but because we have beat them.


Mark Murphy
30 Posted 07/10/2010 at 12:38:49
Ah come ON Roger - its fucking embarrassingly abysmal!
I'm not proud of our "great escape" DVD but theres no way I'd be happy if that was done by Blues!
But maybe your right, I'm emotionally stunted cos I take the piss out of pompous, self opinionated, up there own arse gobshites!
Your opinion Roger. Mine is, they are a bunch of tits!
Mark Murphy
31 Posted 07/10/2010 at 12:45:37
Ps Roger,

Do YOU think that vid is "proud and dignified"??
Really?
David Thomas
32 Posted 07/10/2010 at 12:48:41
Allan Clarke,

Agree 100%. We have had to put up with that shower across the park laughing at us for years when we have failed (a bunch of kopites in one of the pubs i drink in walked in with a coffin on their shoulders with an everton flag draped over it before the wimbledon game in 94) and know they are having some hard times and have found themselves in the bottom three and we are not supposed to give them anything back according to the original post. I don't think so.
Roger Trenwith
33 Posted 07/10/2010 at 13:35:50
Mind you I did laugh at that bit when some guy goes "I love my club blah blah and I'm from Norway"
Shaun Brennan
34 Posted 07/10/2010 at 13:35:26
Phil (22) you can add that's he's talking to three investors at the moment.

Was is not Kenwright himself who came out and said he was in talks with three parties.

Gone a bit quiet on that front now hasn't it.
Chris White
35 Posted 07/10/2010 at 13:50:02
Just watched some of that embarrassing shite on you tube I thought Id somehow come across a trailer for Crimewatch, some weird lookin fuckers on there.
Trevor Lynes
36 Posted 07/10/2010 at 13:51:13
Liverpool gained the 'Famous' tag due to one man...Shankley, who hauled them from the then 2nd division and created an absolute conveyer belt of championships and cup trophies...they kept the club on keel when Paisley took over and the marketing followede because they were the best in the league by a mile.

We totally missed the boat when after being the Mersey Millionaires under John Moores we never created anything like a conveyer belt of success. Our teams broke up after winning trophies and transfer fees have always been our boards prime factor ever since and that has made us what we have become... the second side in Liverpool !!

Its always been a lack of foresight and ambition that has dogged our progress. Before the Premier League was formed... we had won as many championship trophies as Man Utd and lots more than Man City or Chelsea etc. It's been our board's fault so its no good crowing at Liverpool's demise...it makes us seem so cheap.

Between our two city clubs we have won more trophies than any other city in England and thats something to crow about. Sour grapes always leaves a bad taste so lets get our own house in order first. It seems that no one wants to invest in EFC....?????

Tony McNulty
37 Posted 07/10/2010 at 14:09:33
David Shaw (#12)

When Skies Are Grey is about to cease publication. I guess you can't get more regressive than that.
Dave Lynch
38 Posted 07/10/2010 at 14:01:12
Shaun @33.
Nail on head. The liar knows the spotlight is elsewhere so he's stopped spouting his bullshit in a vain attempt to apease us.

Phil@22.
You missed the imortal. "The cheques in the post."
Nelaj Behajiha
39 Posted 07/10/2010 at 14:23:02
I think that it's fucking stupid to take the piss out of them currently. Yes, when we beat them and produced 3 excellent displays against them, I was over the moon. Like many others I was very happy when they lost against Blackpool.

Singing about Diego Forlan at Stoke when we had lost to them twice that season is just ridiculous. I've learnt to be wary about mocking Liverpool as they often beat us. We've got our own problems which we should be thinking about, rather than spending the whole season building up to 2 games that we usually lose.

The Derby is the only game where my knees are not crammed into the poor person sitting front of me's seat and I can stand up comfortably, which I enjoy. It's the only game where all the pubs are packed and you can have an excuse for getting pissed after it. It's the only game that after we lose I feel extremely angry, and I'm a mild mannered person.

I despise Liverpool but I have lost much of my hatred for them. Now it's become evident that most of their fans don't come from Liverpool, I don't have much to say about them. Hopefully we beat them, but I wouldn't put any money on it.

Larry Boner
40 Posted 07/10/2010 at 13:47:22
I have lived in Liverpool all my life, 60 years, and I have never, ever had a problem with genuine match-going Liverpool born-and-bred Reds. I can talk with them, argue with them, take the piss and have the piss taken, because they are the same as me, their football allegiance is in the blood, passed down through their fathers and grandfathers.

What I take exception to are:

  • The glory hunters, the hangers on, the about to sign for LFC life-long supporters, the so-called celebrities, the shit-kickers who know nothing about football, but will argue with you all day,
  • The thousands who have never been the game but will walk round Anfield Road protesting and carrying banners (usually incorrectly spelt),
  • The ex-players like Phil Neale demanding payment for giving interviews about Hillsborough,
  • The guys who mill round Anfield Road even when there are no games on, taking pictures of themselves wearing the LFC shirt they have just bought,
  • The TV programmes about the City of Liverpool that just ignore Everton,
  • The ESPN channel showing a series called Football Rivalries, Man U v Man City, Celtic v Rangers, Arsenal v Spurs, Inter v AC, etc, but then showing LFCs rivals as not Everton, but Man Utd???
I could go on all day, but I suppose you have your own pet hates and I don't want to sound like Hedley Lamar (that's Hedley) out of Blazing Saddles. The marketability of Man Utd and Liverpool, why people attached themselves to these particular clubs worldwide, is in no little part attributed to the disasters that befell these clubs, one affecting the playing side the other the supporters.

Mr Henry, when he took over the Red Sox, re-modelled Fenway Park, increasing corporate opportunity as well as capacity, but the ticket prices sky rocketed, driving out the working man (but still selling out 400-odd consecutive game), probaly similar to Chelsea and Arsenal costings. The big revenue stream for the Red Sox is they have the rights to televise their own games, but as baseball is really only a one-country sport then the revenues are not any where near what could be generated from televising PL games and keeping all the money. This is the reason foreign investors are prepared to plough millions into buying football clubs.

In the next few years, the Sky contracts will go and all the major teams will televise all their home games, both terrestrial and internet; the money generated will be colossal and make Sky monies look like loose change.

I don't get any pleasure out of the current situation at LFC, because I know that everything will fall into place for them, as it always has.

James Flynn
41 Posted 07/10/2010 at 14:45:25
Seeing the RS being sold to the RS (and yes, the Red Sox sell tons of solid red jerseys), I was disheartened. The Red Sox aren't the Yankees in terms of "brand" identity or popularity in baseball's world. But they're in 2nd place (distant as it is) because of the current ownership which just purchased the RS.

As a born and raised Yankee fan, I have to acknowledge how well-run they are since the current group bought the team. Now that same group bought LFC. Not good for us EFC fans. Not good at all.

After seeing the news of the purchase, I scoured the Boston papers and sports sites here in the States for news. Boston's purchase is already in all the newspapers there. Going onto ESPN soccer, there was a blog that went up immediately by a Yankee fan. Here's the piece that that caught my attention,

"I share the one endearing trait that all Yankees fans have ? a hatred for the Boston Red Sox. This is not the space to rant about Red Sox Nation, about the crude (and stupid) Red Sox T-shirts I see every time I'm in Boston, or that loathsome hick team of 2004. But now comes the news that the Red Sox's owners are about to buy Liverpool. My disklike [sic] of Liverpool, my hatred of the Sox. Throw in a few pints on match day? Suffice to say, this changes everything".

OK. No question LFC has been bought by a first-rate sports organization. So where the silver lining?

Mr Kenwright has to do a simple thing to increase EFC's popularity by millions over here. Americans are "casual" soccer fans, but soccer fans nonetheless. Kenwright has only to cut a minor deal with the Yankees to invest in EFC. The Red Sox have their "Nation" here in the States, but it's dwarfed by the number of Yankee fans; in every country where baseball is popular, the Yankees are King.

I posted in another mailbag article that I was afraid for EFC when hearing of the RS interest in purchasing the RS. But I'm positive good can come from it if EFC contacts the Yankees and pursues a relationship. The Red Sox purchase will naturally be news in New York. The Steinbrenners need just a push to consider investing in our team.

If they do? It's on for real in Liverpool. That's no exaggeration or joke. Jesus, if only Old Man Steinbrenner was still alive? It would be on within weeks. Fortunately, his sons are as crazy as him.

Here's hoping.

Mark Murphy
42 Posted 07/10/2010 at 14:46:14
Larry, nicely put!

At school and in my early drinking years, my mates were a mix of Blue and Red and we quite happilly hammered each other through the season without malice but with wicked glee. In those days, the late 60s, 70s and early 80s, it was quite friendly banter and whilst the derbies were still caustic and often dour brutal affairs, they were never nasty (with the odd exception ? Jimmy Case anyone?).

The coffin at the Wimbledon game makes me smile ? that's the sort of piss take I can accept and grudgingly admire. And I wasnt giggling with glee at their Blackpool result as the word "Brentford" kept popping up in my head...

BUT, today's gobshite is another animal altogether. Maybe it's the fact they are no longer winning and can't take it. Maybe it's the fact that there are so many out-of-towners in their ranks who just dont "get it", or maybe the press and meeja have created a monster with their "best fans in the world" tag, but they are just turning into a bunch of cnuts, in general.
SoS are mainly locals and they are now "surprised" that the club haven't included them in dialogues with the new owners!

Timothy Laynge
43 Posted 07/10/2010 at 14:51:03
"Proud and dignified"...I would say they are cheap and lowly. True scum. Scumbags more likely as one J Lennon sang.

On their cheap sullying of the Beatles name on their plea to the yanks. Proof they are an undignified lot in every way. They dont even realise the Beatles were in every way if not Evertonians closer to Everton.

Besides at the height of the glory days of the Fab 4 they had the cheek to refuse entry to Anfield to George and Ringo. Truely unbecoming.
Tony McNulty
44 Posted 07/10/2010 at 15:10:07
Sorry, just to clarify my earlier post (#37): it's the web version of WSAG which I think is to disappear
Phil Martin
45 Posted 07/10/2010 at 15:04:29
I hate those fuckers as much as anyone. However I want to laugh at them because of our superiority and our achievements. Not because they've fallen as low as us.

I want to take the piss, because we won a trophy and they didnt. Or because we finished higher than them. I don't seek solice in the fact they're just as skint as us, and have a team as equally underperforming.

If we only we had a board with ambition and competency we might stand a chance of actually achieving something ourelves. Surely that would be the biggest stick to beat the with?
Mike Rourke
46 Posted 07/10/2010 at 15:21:17
When talkSport were playing the music from Cheers yesterday morning in a piss-takey kind of a way I must confess that I found it very funny.

I actually laughed out loud.

I apologise for nothing.
Kevin Jones
47 Posted 07/10/2010 at 15:46:09
I don't normally go in for name-calling, generally because I don't think we've got that much to crow about. I'm an Evertonian and to that end I'll worry about us not them or anyone else for that matter. However, I've just watched the video of their fans reading out... sorry, giving their heartfelt feelings to Mr Hicks ? you know, the same Mr Hicks they welcomed with open arms a few years ago. Who do that fucking shower think they are, the cheeky self-indulgent over-inflated bastards?

The very first line before anyone speaks is text saying, "We gave you the Beatles, and this is how you repay us"!!! ? they honestly think that they, that's Liverpool Fucking Football Club, gave the Beatles to the world... WTF!!! I've never been so gobsmacked in all my life, how fucking arrogant can you get. We had the Holy Trinity in our midfield they must of had the "Fab Back Four" in their fucking team.

They honestly think they represent everything about this City, half of them on the video are fucking Irish, Norwegian or Asian FFS. I now honestly hope the bastards go down. We gave you the Beatles My Fucking Arse.

I hope they end up like the Titanic, which that lot think was probably built on the Kop by redneck's only, and fucking sink without a trace.

Kevin Tully
48 Posted 07/10/2010 at 16:52:05
James # 41, How people are equating running a successful baseball team, with returning the shite to past glories is beyond me.

Don't get me wrong, I know nothing about baseball, but it is not as complex as football. N.E.S.V. aren't even rich compared to the Glazers, Abramovich or Kronke, never mind a sheik worth 20 billion F.F.S.!

So unless they have a fantastic new way of playing the game, how are they going to rescue the shite from their current predicament ? Selling shirts or sponsorship stateside isn't going to do it, these people are in it for one thing. They have seen the chance to buy a franchise for half it's market value. They're fucked, and no smart cookie in the U.S. will spend the hundreds of millions it will take to surpass the current top 5 money teams.
Steve Wolfe
49 Posted 07/10/2010 at 17:06:47
@Alan Clarke 17

You sir are being very presumptuous, I was born in Birkenhead, and now live and work in Liverpool, and have done for the last 7 years. My family and friends are split 50/50 both blue & red. So I do know exactly what they are like, more so than you it seems!

@Phil Martin 45

Spot on mate, my thoughts exactly!
Tommy Gibbons
50 Posted 07/10/2010 at 17:33:36
Steve W, why would an Evertonian produce a title like that and a 'tome' in praise of our rivals? I think you miss the point mate, we fucking hate them with a passion so fierce for what they've done to us in the past both on and off the pitch. Do we hate all their supporters? No we don't (just those we don't know! lol) but we do hate the club and everything it stands for... and if I have to explain ANY of this to you, you're not the Toffeeman you think you are.
David Ellis
51 Posted 07/10/2010 at 18:15:31
We, and the BBC website seem to forget that the sale of Liverpool to the Red Sox owners is NOT a done deal.
The board of the holding company of LFC voted to sell the club, it seems that Hicks and Gillett, the owners of the holding company replaced two board members before the vote.

That makes the vote invalid. The Chairman says that this puts Hicks and Gillett in breach of undertakings to RBS. This may be true, but that does not make the removal of the board members invalid. Unless the board was entrenched in the articles of association (and even then Hicks and Gillett may be able to change the articles) the board approval is invalid and the new board will not sanction the deal.

RBS or the Chairman may have a claim in damages against Hicks and Gillett, but no buyer can proceed in the face of this dispute. And this will not be resolved quickly.

What should happen next is the 15th October deadline to repay RBS will pass whereupon they can put the holding company into liquidation and the liquidator can then authorise a sale of LFC. RBS may allow a grace period for the parties to agree to a sale. However if looks like Hicks is willing to press the self destruct button and push things to the wire in order to try and get a bit more money.

For us the longer this uncertainty continues the better. I think this has at least a few weeks to run yet.
David Hallwood
52 Posted 07/10/2010 at 19:01:37
Isn't this and identical thread to on running simultaneously called 'Waited for this moment' that attracted a world record 174 responses or am I missing something-FFS I'm beginning to beleive my RS mates that say Evertonians are more interested in the Shite than Everton
Andy Crooks
53 Posted 07/10/2010 at 19:04:45
Tony J , I have always looked at you as a voice of reason. Therefore your comments validate my own opinion. Fucking brilliant to see them in shit!!!. One thing ,though, I think their predicament is less to do with the owners but more to do with Benitez. In my view, and look at his spending, he is the worst manager to ever pollute the premier league.
Paul Gladwell
54 Posted 07/10/2010 at 19:23:27
It`s funny to see them in shit, but one week from now they will come and kick shit out of us and if Moyes decides to shit himself and go all cautious like he so often does against them, then all those texts flying around lately will come flying back.
Jon Cox
55 Posted 07/10/2010 at 18:45:07
Spot on David Ellis.

I think it was Monday or Tuesday that TalkSport saidRS.

By the time I got my motor running and was on my way to work the 7:00am news was under way on Radio 5 dead. It had now changed. The Red Sox had now A at 6:00am that there was a possibility that the Red Sox were thinking of buying theCTUALLY bought and payed for that shite across the park.

As you can imagine I was in hysterics all the way to work.

WHAT!!! all of a sudley these people had moved in and taken away a football club from Hicks and Co. No-way ? it doesn't work like that.

Anyway I was laughing at the fact that a lot of RS fans would be thinking BRILLIANT, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT EVERTON? Well as Dave (50) will know they obviously all have a book called "Gullibles Travels"

Don't forget the headlines in today's papers were on the lines of humiliation for the yanks. I may be wrong but by the tune of £144 mill.

Yeah right ! You think these guys are going to go down with loses of that magnitude. OI' redshite think again.

The legal side to this could go on for years and if the yanks are going to go down, and after seeing all the RS vitriol banners street marches etc then I'm fairly sure that that they will have the altitude that says "if we go down then so will you".

I hate LFC. I was not born in Liverpool but in Southport so I'm more scouse than some LFC twat who comes from Scandinavia.

I've supported our team from the age of 5. That's 48 years. I hope Liverpool FC becomes known as...

MK Liverpool.

COME ON YOU BLUES
James Flynn
56 Posted 07/10/2010 at 18:48:33
Kevin (48) - Sorry brother. "Don't get me wrong, I know nothing about baseball, but it is not as complex as football".

English football, as a business, is simplicity itself against running a major league franchise in America.

Revenue sharing, luxury taxes, merchandising splits (Red Sox sell around 20% of all baseball merchandise. There are 30 Major League teams, Guess how much of sales from their own team's merchandise the Red Sox get? Yep, 1/30th.) Won't even get into the Draft and Free Agency (a misnomer really).

This last EPL off-season was my first following. To hear that teams could just go after another team's contracted player openly? At first, I thought it was like a joke or something. Just filling in the time between seasons for English soccer fans. To discover that this is routine, normal business in the EPL was shocking. That does NOT happen over here. In fact, teams get in trouble if they do that. Whereas, it's done over there every day routinely.

Look, maybe the sale doesn't go thru, since Hicks and Gillet are saying they'll take it to court to block it. I'll just repeat what I've said already. We do not want the RS group buying the RS. And the idea that EPL business is more complex than baseball's is a non-starter.
Kevin Tully
57 Posted 07/10/2010 at 19:54:05
James, I meant the actual tactics, team selection etc. are not linked in any way to baseball. So creating a successful baseball team does not qualify you run a football club. Off field activities & marketing maybe their bag, but you still have to win trophies.
Eugene Ruane
58 Posted 07/10/2010 at 19:56:06
Steve you say..

"but, let's face it, we are just as shite as them".

I would say that's true enough, however if you were one of them you might be thinking "We're as bad as them, but they only spent £60m to be that bad, we've spent £190m"

http://www.transferleague.co.uk/league-tables/2006-2011.html
Jon Cox
59 Posted 07/10/2010 at 19:59:27
I think it only takes one member of our team to read this website to understand what the next football match means to us. Not only that he, (whomever that is) will spread the word throughout the changing room but will have a chat with Davey himself and will tell him what is expected.

I hope it's Nev 'cause he's the guy who is the conduit between us, the team and the manager.

He and DM need to start NOW in formulating the next quasi-war which will take place at Goodison.

I know our clubs motto, but a slight change for this match should be, NOTHING BUT THREE POINTS WILL DO.

Go for the Jugular guys it's the only way forward.

COYB
David Booth
60 Posted 07/10/2010 at 20:14:19
Amazing. Yet another post, on this Everton website, that does not much more than imply we're pretty useless at everything.

Even more amazingly, it uses the worst Liverpool team and the ridiculous situation they find themselves in right now, as a yardstick.



And would you believe it... it's all Bill Kenwright's fault. Again.

Kopites are gobshites Steve Wolfe and deserve all the derision and disdain we give them. If you admire the Liverpool model so much and all the advantages you feel it offers over our own: go and join them!
Drew O'Neall
61 Posted 07/10/2010 at 20:07:52
"Bottom Red Shites" - not mathematically possible by the time they come round unfortunately.
Drew O'Neall
62 Posted 07/10/2010 at 20:28:00
Actually "Lost; them Red Cocks" works better for Monday morning..
Oliver Molloy
63 Posted 07/10/2010 at 20:26:44
The opportunity is there for us to embarrass them even more on Sunday 17th @ Goodison
-and we better take it.!!
The joy of moving 3 points above them while keeping them in the bottom 3 for another week will be like winning a cup final for me anyway!!
The reds are in a mess,lets get behind our team and make it even messier for them and their followers.
C.O.Y.B.
Chris Jones
64 Posted 07/10/2010 at 21:10:09
#40 Larry Boner - nail on head mate

That video is an embarrassment and in my mind just serves to cement all the things I despise about the 'Liverpool' brand. I'm glad we're not a global brand in the same sense of either reds - we're Everton and we're a club rich with honour and tradition and I can't wait for the derby.
Bill Slater
65 Posted 07/10/2010 at 21:50:53
Sorry lads, i posted this on the other RS article at the end that refers to their fucking stupid video, so in case you missed it....

David Price (171 other article) - This kind of thing will be really good when "Hollywood Comes a Calling". This director guy is whipping them into a frenzy to the point where some Producer says "hey,let's make a movie about the Liverpool story". (I'm getting mad).

So, it all started in 1977 when the RS won the Euro Cup...(blah, blah..etc) to prsesent day. Basically it pans out as a RS promo DVD to re-write history for naive kids across the world. "Mammy, I want one of those red King Kenny tops from the movie" (starting to spit feathers now). Half the fucking cask of Brookside move to LA to further their careers and walk down the red carpet on Oscar night. (At least that would get rid of them from the city). And the City "home of the beatles" is put into the minds of people across the world and that lot get all the credit.

I'm fucking fumin' now.

So here is my open comment to any researchers who happen to come across this forum. If you are going to do a movie about the "plight" of LFC, then you have to start at Everton. Our forefathers stood up to the landlord. We told him to shove Anfield up his arse and we had the balls to move across the park. If any movie is to be made, that should at least be the starting point. Them fuckers across the park have only come to prominence since a bunch of whinging Scotsmen came down to moan, cheat and bully their way into the LFC history books.

And if any movie is done properly - please, please, please keep any actors from Brookside out of the fucking thing. It's just to embarrasing. You know, all the ones who have just been in the stupid YouTube video.

Any football movie about Everton and Liverpool has to get across our point of view and why we have all been gloating on here for the last few days.
Bill Slater
66 Posted 07/10/2010 at 21:52:33
And yes, I had a business in a City that I wanted to sell for £600m and some fucker was taking the piss by offering me half of that, I reckon I would be having the lawyers around for tea n buscuits at my house for many months to come.

Plus, If I had a personal amount of wealth in a bank account in the Caymen islands, I reckon there is a distinct possibility that I may not be as thick or without Billionaire contacts as everyone is making out.

Does anyone have Phil Greene's mobile number for Tom n George?
David Price
67 Posted 07/10/2010 at 22:29:41
Steve, we always knew them lot would get a buyer. To see them squabbling amongst themselves like the arrogant spoilt twats they are, is enjoyable. It does give a Blue a superior feeling that deep down we are a class above them.

A perfect footballing weekend for me and always has been is when we win and they lose. Last week was perfection, add the boardroom stuff was the icing on the cake and there you have it, gloating in spades.

I don't think we are daft enough to ignore our current position. It is a position, not a plight we are in, one which we will progress from.

As for them, they might have to run the club like a business for a change, spend what they can afford, which won't put them miles ahead of us. They say they'll be debt free, well take away the interest from their losses last year and they still would have lost £14m.

Their finances are still in a mess, their squad needs massive investment and that money will come, not from a bottomless arabian sand pit but from another American investor. Jesus, any guy who waits until he's 61 to have his first child is some-one ultra cautious! Here's a statement from his company, a company that took a battering in the share crash in 2009 and wiped out half his assets:

?An investment with JWH is speculative, volatile, involves a high degree of risk, and is designed only for sophisticated investors who are able to bear the loss of more than their entire investment.?

The Red Sucks will be dropped like a hot spud when that happens.

Bob Parrington
68 Posted 07/10/2010 at 23:36:55
Christine #1. To say we are not as marketable as the RS I believe is not accurate. Are we as successful now in our marketing? No, of course not. Never is a long time and I believe we are as marketable or more marketable long term as any other PL. Generally we have good branding and a long term reputation with relatively good positions in recent years.

I believe the issue is we have not been marketing ourselves properly. The marketability starts with performance over seasons, silverware etc. Look at Chelski and Man City. They came from well behind us just in recent years, once they had money to throw at it.

The right business people would see this but and Everton would be i great buy when compared to the likes of RS and many other PL clubs. So, what is it that BK is doing that is preventing money coming in to the club? What is it that he truly wants? Beats me at present. I would say this though........ we need the board to have balls enough to move forward.
Craig Taylor
69 Posted 08/10/2010 at 01:24:27
I have heard a rumour from a chap at work (who has heard it from an ex-Liverpool board member), that the new Liverpool owners plan to demolish Anfield and rebuild it from scratch.

"Where would they play?" I hear you ask... well apparently they have agreed with Everton that they can use Goodison Park until Anfield is rebuilt ? in exchange for the Stanley Park planning permission.

Yes it's a rumour, but any thoughts... do not beat me up ? I am not 100% convinced yet either!

James Flynn
70 Posted 08/10/2010 at 02:07:17
Kevin (57) - I hear you, but I'm not talking about what sport; football, baseball, or another.

I'm talking about how executives run a sports franchise. The RS group here are VERY good at it.

Hopefully, the sale won"t go through.
Liam Reilly
71 Posted 08/10/2010 at 05:36:17
Interesting article on 365:
http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_6433366,00.html

Seems the 9 points penalty is a real possibility. So Cummon' Gillette + Hicks, although I'm sure the FA would find a suitable 'get out of jail free' card for one of their favourite sons.
Christine Foster
72 Posted 08/10/2010 at 06:31:25
Bob, Quite right but success makes it easier to market a club. Given their number of past successes, they are more well known that we are.

However as I alluded to the problem is what EXACTLY does Bill Kenwright want? I am not talking about just the money, but what ARE the strings attached? What will he say yes to?

As far I can see its never been spelt out, we hear several differing slants on a theme, investor / buyer, no dilution of shares, no director will sell,

So Just WHAT will it take?

What are BK's expectations?

Anyone know?
Bill Slater
73 Posted 08/10/2010 at 08:10:56
"Yay" - a quality publication gives us a mention in a point of history http://www.thedrum.co.uk/news/2010/10/07/16013-media-verdict-on-liverpool-fc-s-red-sox-takeover-struggle/ that refers to the whole thing like "It's like a posh version of a Scouse wedding, with its mandatory punch-up." Classic.

Bob (68) Christine (72) - I've often thought this. They can't take the club with them when they go to meet their maker - so absolutely agree "What do they want"?
Steve Edwards
77 Posted 08/10/2010 at 14:40:01
I just hope that the deal with John Thomas (I think thats the pricks name) goes through ASAP. Why? Because this new owner game is all about loads of money. Yes this guy is a very wealthy man but he is not in the same league as the people who own Chelsea and Man City. His wealth puts him in the same league as Aston Villa's owner. Therefore they will be on a level playing field with the likes of Villa. Remember them? The team that Man City go too and take their best players.

Do the sums here. This latest Yanky carpet bagger is worth according to all reports £550m. Now I take it that this includes his ownership of the Red Socks baseball team. He will get LFC for a knockdown £300m. Apparently they have another £100m of debt not included in the loan to purchase the club by the original carpet baggers. They have to invest in new players and build a new stadium. So how are they going to buy LFC? He'll borrow the money! I don't see how he can do it any other way. I suspect he is only buying it at a knock down price in order to flip it to someone else but I'll worry about that when it happens.

The point here is, my big fear has always been that some multi billionaire would buy the club. I think we would all find it very hard to live with that but I can live with this guy. Let's face it, someone was always going to buy them sooner or later. I think this is a very good deal for us Evertonians.
Steve Edwards
78 Posted 08/10/2010 at 15:43:27
One more thing. I couldn't help note that of all the people involved in the sale of LFC, there was not one person who could be described as a life long Liverpool supporter. What a dreadful state of affairs. RBS just want their money back, the two Yanks just want more money and Broughton just wants to come out of it with his reputation intact. I for one would not like to see Everton in this position.

The whole foreign ownership situation is a disgrace and could not happen in other countries. It quite simply facilitates greed and short term gain.
Chris White
79 Posted 08/10/2010 at 19:26:36
A journalist fwom the Guardian was speaking on the wadio this afternoon and he said that because of the court case the wedshite will almost certainly go into administwation when the Woyal Bank of Scotland gwab their loan back on Fwiday. Appawantly the legal arguments could go on for quite a while before the deal's wubber stamped.
Phil Bellis
80 Posted 08/10/2010 at 21:30:47
"One Evertonian is worth twenty Liverpudlians" ? Brian Labone

"The sooner they're back in the 2nd Division, where they belong, the better" ? The Grand Old Ladies of Kemlyn Road

"Liverpool? All fur coat and no knickers"? My Mum

John Lloyd
81 Posted 09/10/2010 at 03:30:00
Clever! Haha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHCI8oQH6RQ&NR=1
Ernie McAllister
82 Posted 09/10/2010 at 06:46:14
This is really funny, and this will be good riddance to the RS.

The buyer is worth £550 million. He has stated he won't be buying out the debt in full, it will take a while. He said he plans to buy a new stadium, yet he clearly doesn't have the funds for it. Then he needs to spend another £100 million.

Ok, to do the rough math on this: he needs £300M + £100M. He needs around £300M again to build a new stadium possibly more. This is without him spending any money whatsoever on their team? That's just laughable.

Then we have Hicks and Co who will hold on to the club for dear life for more money.

So what can RBS do? They can hardly force a sale to a man who simply doesn't have the immediate cash necessary in the first place. The RBS will be happy to wait a bit longer for the immediate debt to be paid back? I can't see that at all.

I hope the RS get the 10-point deduction and hope vehemently they go into liquidation.

Seriously, they'd need to now sell all their players in January... RBS won't wait that long. Do they even own their own training ground / Anfield?

I guess, no matter what happens, they won't get out of this at all. So again, just how will Henry be able to afford the equivalent of almost a billion pounds when he is only personally worth £550 million max?

The Premier League need to look at this situation very carefully and not recommend the sale, so then the shite can be liquidated... why should they be given preferential treatment? If it was us in the mess, the liquidators would be out in force at Goodison.

Good riddance to Project Anlfield and the smell that emanates from that place.

I remember reading something on some blog that the writer was delusional enough to say that the shite won't go down, they are just too big, and it will never happen... then he went on say something about Leeds and Newcastle aside. Those fans are so delusional they deserve to be ripped to shit over what they support.

I hope that lot die a horrible death.
John Vanderwerff
83 Posted 09/10/2010 at 10:00:29
I think it's hilarious what's going on over there and I am enjoying every minute!
Peter Dowling
85 Posted 09/10/2010 at 14:56:21
I've got tickets for the Comedy Club in a couple of weeks time, and I can't make it. Can anybody use them? They are for the Anfield Rd end.
David Moorcroft
86 Posted 10/10/2010 at 01:02:33
Christine, I bumped into our so-called Blue Bill at the services on the M6 tea-time last night... and he looked really ill. He was grey in the face and he also had scabs on his face.

You know who I am Bill. Normally I would always say hello to an EVERTONIAN. But he is a phoney. So I said fuck all but looked him in the eye.

I hope he accepts that he is not wanted at our great club. Kenwright you have put FUCK ALL INTO OUR CLUB. [Offensive material deleted by moderator]

David Moorcroft
87 Posted 10/10/2010 at 01:15:22
Sorry, I forgot to say, I hope they get relegated first, and then they go bust.
Mark McDonald
88 Posted 10/10/2010 at 03:01:41
I saw the short film with the famous and not-so-famous RS re. Gillet/Hicks. I hope we never do a stunt like that! What a load of shite! Why don't they blame the persons/board who sold the club to the Yanks in the first place?

I too am enjoying watching the RS going through a tough time. But it does not take my focus completely away from our present plight and this week's derby has to be the most important for years ? I hope we thrash them!

Roger Trenwith
89 Posted 10/10/2010 at 16:20:13
Ernie #79
"So what can RBS do? they can hardly force a sale to a man who simply doesn't have the immediate cash necessary in the first place"
..............................................................
I think you're confusing the new Yank's personal fortune (rumoured to be about £500m) with the cash offered by his business (£300m), which would pay off all RBS debt & penalties and leave about £60m over.You're right in that their does not seem to be any monies available for a new stadium, but the deal does leave the RS temporarily at least, debt free.

If Waldorf & Statler delay the deal and RBS then put RS into administration, and in effect own RS, RBS can indeed sell to whoever they like. As long as their loans get paid off they're not fussed where the monies come from, be it cash or loans.

The mephistophelean pact seems to be biting RS in the ass at last! Roll on next Sunday. COYB!

Ernie McAllister
90 Posted 10/10/2010 at 17:41:09
The thing is though Roger, Henry stated he wouldn't be paying the debt off in one go, it would take quite a while.

He stated what he wanted to achieve this without having the necessary funds to do so. Which then begs the question: If he isn't prepared to cough up the amount needed to clear it straight away, what then?

If Hicks and Gillete are gonna force the issue in the courts etc, surely the RBS can't do anything at all, can they?

Now if what comes to pass, as you say, and the lawyers delay the deal, surely then RBS would have no real choice but to put them into administration; they then get the 10-point deduction and surely they would get automatic relegation such as what Portsmouth got (despite them being rooted to the bottom as it was). I remember I am sure that somewhere last season that Portsmouth got the 10-point deduction and automatic relegation before they where officially relegated?

This very same thing would surely be given to that lot too, since those are apparently the rules.

Regardless, fingers crossed the Premier League enforce automatic relegation on them after they do go into administration... then they are then liquidated. I can't necessarily see the latter happening tho but who knows... I mean who in their right mind would want to service the debt when they are as far away from winning anything as the likes of Wolves are? lol...
Ernie McAllister
91 Posted 10/10/2010 at 17:53:25
I would also just like to add that the likes of Man City are an anomaly because they had their setup all ready for a take over. New Ground etc.

At Anfield, I am certain it is completely different. They need the £300+ million to be cleared in one go according to RBS. However, they need a new stadium and they also need a new squad, neither of the latter I can see happening easily.

So, if they do go into administration, I really can't see any way back for them unless they sell to their own fans. I can't see someone interested in a team that has been relegated, into administration, and needs to cough up a good £600m+ and that does not include players and no doubt salaries too.

Suddenly we look like a much better prospect despite our own predicament with Bill Kenwright. Maybe we just have to hold out and wait for the shite to get that auto relegation etc for Kenwright to sell... he would be mentally insane not to try it on. Only one side in Liverpool in the Premier League.

Then again, the shite have a deal with satan and his minions and probably bail themselves out with the Premier League so they don't go down or go into administration... I really detest that pretentious lot.
Michael Kenrick
92 Posted 10/10/2010 at 18:25:59
Ernie: Portsmouth had 9 points deducted (not 10 ? that's what applies in the Football League), but I do not recall them being relegated automatically. And with 28 points, they would still have been bottom and gone down anyway.

I don't believe Liverpool are in any risk of "automatic relegation" ? if there is even such a thing for the Premier League.
Bill Slater
93 Posted 10/10/2010 at 19:35:20
Although I hate to say it, I don't reckon they would go down even if they lost 9 points at this stage of the season. But from the last week of opinion on here, if they did go down, I can only dream of the reaction. Oh, on one condition - that we weren't going down with them. Now that would just be our fucking luck!
Jon Cox
94 Posted 11/10/2010 at 18:46:06
I've never heard of auto relegation but I could be wrong.

What I would like is for them not to be relegated and to only have enough money to buy players of a standard, such as that twat on Radio TalkShite you know the one, Quim, so that we hammer them, year-in, year-out.

That's what I call rubbing their redshit noses in it. Innit?

Oh the joy. Can you imagine the chants from the Gwladys Street every game. Pure heaven.

But I suppose if they have to be chucked out of the Premier League then I could live with that.

Tuesday the 12th. Big day in the high court. I think Hicks and the razor are going to see this as payback time.

If you were compared to rapists,..... wouldn't you.
KEITH BAILEY
95 Posted 11/10/2010 at 21:17:59
Kevin #22 Absolutely spot on mate, couldn't have put it better meself!!
Bren Connor
96 Posted 12/10/2010 at 17:21:38
Not sure why anyone is thinking about 9-point penalties and administration. This is Liverpool we're talking about. They'll come out of this smelling of roses. The judges will vote in their favour and RBS (83% public owned) will extend the deadline of Oct 15th. So, no points lost, no debt, and with a timely boost just before the derby. That's the way it is with that lot.

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