Get Stuffed Fergie!
As I said in the last blog, I wasn’t too surprised to see that the mancs had managed to block Heinze from moving to Anfield. In any other walk of life, if you have a signed letter from your employer giving their consent to you seeking employment elsewhere, then there’s no court in the land that would fail to uphold it. However, if your employer happens to be the mancs and your judges happen to be from the Premier League, then you haven’t got a hope in hell.
Rafa was understandably pissed off with the decision and made some angry comments afterwards which suggested that the mancs have enjoyed some favourable treatment by the Premier League in this and other matters. The only thing I found surprising about his statements was that it had taken him over three years to reach this conclusion and all I could think to say was, welcome to English football mate. (click here)
I think most football supporters of all teams would agree that, both on and off the field, the mancs have always enjoyed favourable treatment by both the league and the manc obsessed British media. Throughout the years there have been countless examples of this. Just some examples that spring to my mind are:
Cantona’s receiving a virtual slap on the wrist by the league for his infamous “karate-kick” assault on a Crystal Palace fan. And by the time the press got through with this one, it was the assaulted fan who was painted as the guilty party and branded a racist. Just one example of many favourable disciplinary punishments handed out to their players over the years.
The mancs pulling out of defending the FA Cup in 2000 with the leagues blessing as their price for taking part in the World Club Championship in South America that year. I don’t remember Liverpool receiving any preferential treatment when they were forced to travel to Tokyo in the middle of the season, to take part in the same competition in 2005.
Back in 1993 when trailing 1-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday, the referee somehow allowed over 7 additional minutes to be played which enabled the mancs to score twice and win the game that secured them their first Premiership title. Never had so much additional time been played in a league game before or since, and yet no questions were ever asked.
Those are just three examples of many, and that’s without even mentioning the many penalty decisions that always seem to go their way, as Jose Mourinho discovered last season. Favouritism is something the mancs have always enjoyed, but just in case anyone thinks that I am being a little paranoid, consider this. Liverpool are the most successful team in the history of the game. We have won more league titles and more European cups then the mancs or anybody else in English football, and we have also had the most successful manager of all time in Bob Paisley. Yet despite this, check out how many knighthoods have been handed out to manc players and managers as opposed to Liverpool. I rest my case!
The reason I bring all this stuff up is because I read Alex Fungusfaces latest rant about Liverpool earlier today, with some amusement. He told a press conference: ‘We are looking at Liverpool’s whole role in this. We are not letting them off with it.“ I’m sure Rafa is quaking in his boots, but anyway he continued: “That is what we are investigating. We will see how it comes out. David Gill is working on that at the moment. We will get to the bottom of it. They had no chance of winning the case with Heinze. They obviously haven’t studied the Premier League rules.’
Presumably these Premier League rules include a paragraph which states that Liverpool must not piss off the mancs by attempting to buy a player that is readily available to everybody else. It may be the mancs desire not to sell any of their players to a domestic rival, but that doesn’t make it a rule, or does it?
What struck me most about Fergies latest rant is that he now seems to be giving up any attempt to disguise the fact that the mancs and the Premier League are joined at the hip. Afterall isn’t it meant to be the job of the Premier League and not the mancs, to investigate any supposed wrong-doing on Liverpool’s part in this matter?
Or is it just that the mancs are afraid that any impartial investigation into dodgy transfer dealings would surely reveal that it is the mancs themselves who are by far the biggest offenders. In any case I suspect all of this hot air Fungusface is spouting is purely designed to draw peoples attention away from the piss poor start his expensively assembled team have made to the season and I only hope that Spurs can heap more misery on them on Sunday. So get stuffed Fergie, you are nothing but a wart on the arse of humanity!
More importantly, Rafa’s move for Heinze shows he has recognised an area of weakness in the squad and I think its an area that needs to be addressed. If it was just another left back we needed, then I would favour giving young Insua a chance. I was impressed with him in the couple of games he’s had so far and he looks like he’ll develop into a fine player. But, with Paletta going on loan to Boca Juniors for the season, we need some extra cover at centre back and I think he’s going to need to bring somebody in.
On to tomorrow’s game and some people say that it is bad luck for a Black Cat to cross your path, but I think we’ve had more then our fair share of bad luck over this past week and its time for us to turn the tables at the Stadium of Light. These are the kind of games that we simply must win if we are to stay in touch at the top. Too often in the past we have allowed games such as this to become banana skins by failing to take our chances and kill teams off. Sunderland started the season well by beating Spurs but they have conceded 5 goals in their last two games, 2 against Birmingham and 3 against Wigan, so we have got to fancy our chances of finding the net against them.
It looks likely that we will be with Steven Gerrard for the game and without his driving presence in the centre of our midfield, I think we need to be a little more adventurous in the wide areas and in attack (click here) . If it were up to me, I’d like to see Torres and Voronin in attack and the Killer B’s (Benny Onion and Bubble) on the wings.
But Rafa usually favours players that haven’t been involved in the international games, so he will probably go with Pennent on the right and this will probably also mean that Crouch will play in attack. Don’t get me wrong, Crouch would deserve a place in the side for his ability to cause problems for the Sunderland defence, but he also has the extra advantage of being the only player in the side tall enough to have any chance of getting on the end of one of Peanut’s crosses!
Anyway, if we do our stuff tomorrow, my money’s on us continuing our good start to the season with a 3-0 win.
http://www.kopblog.com/blog/?p=101
As I said in the last blog, I wasn’t too surprised to see that the mancs had managed to block Heinze from moving to Anfield. In any other walk of life, if you have a signed letter from your employer giving their consent to you seeking employment elsewhere, then there’s no court in the land that would fail to uphold it. However, if your employer happens to be the mancs and your judges happen to be from the Premier League, then you haven’t got a hope in hell.
Rafa was understandably pissed off with the decision and made some angry comments afterwards which suggested that the mancs have enjoyed some favourable treatment by the Premier League in this and other matters. The only thing I found surprising about his statements was that it had taken him over three years to reach this conclusion and all I could think to say was, welcome to English football mate. (click here)
I think most football supporters of all teams would agree that, both on and off the field, the mancs have always enjoyed favourable treatment by both the league and the manc obsessed British media. Throughout the years there have been countless examples of this. Just some examples that spring to my mind are:
Cantona’s receiving a virtual slap on the wrist by the league for his infamous “karate-kick” assault on a Crystal Palace fan. And by the time the press got through with this one, it was the assaulted fan who was painted as the guilty party and branded a racist. Just one example of many favourable disciplinary punishments handed out to their players over the years.
The mancs pulling out of defending the FA Cup in 2000 with the leagues blessing as their price for taking part in the World Club Championship in South America that year. I don’t remember Liverpool receiving any preferential treatment when they were forced to travel to Tokyo in the middle of the season, to take part in the same competition in 2005.
Back in 1993 when trailing 1-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday, the referee somehow allowed over 7 additional minutes to be played which enabled the mancs to score twice and win the game that secured them their first Premiership title. Never had so much additional time been played in a league game before or since, and yet no questions were ever asked.
Those are just three examples of many, and that’s without even mentioning the many penalty decisions that always seem to go their way, as Jose Mourinho discovered last season. Favouritism is something the mancs have always enjoyed, but just in case anyone thinks that I am being a little paranoid, consider this. Liverpool are the most successful team in the history of the game. We have won more league titles and more European cups then the mancs or anybody else in English football, and we have also had the most successful manager of all time in Bob Paisley. Yet despite this, check out how many knighthoods have been handed out to manc players and managers as opposed to Liverpool. I rest my case!
The reason I bring all this stuff up is because I read Alex Fungusfaces latest rant about Liverpool earlier today, with some amusement. He told a press conference: ‘We are looking at Liverpool’s whole role in this. We are not letting them off with it.“ I’m sure Rafa is quaking in his boots, but anyway he continued: “That is what we are investigating. We will see how it comes out. David Gill is working on that at the moment. We will get to the bottom of it. They had no chance of winning the case with Heinze. They obviously haven’t studied the Premier League rules.’
Presumably these Premier League rules include a paragraph which states that Liverpool must not piss off the mancs by attempting to buy a player that is readily available to everybody else. It may be the mancs desire not to sell any of their players to a domestic rival, but that doesn’t make it a rule, or does it?
What struck me most about Fergies latest rant is that he now seems to be giving up any attempt to disguise the fact that the mancs and the Premier League are joined at the hip. Afterall isn’t it meant to be the job of the Premier League and not the mancs, to investigate any supposed wrong-doing on Liverpool’s part in this matter?
Or is it just that the mancs are afraid that any impartial investigation into dodgy transfer dealings would surely reveal that it is the mancs themselves who are by far the biggest offenders. In any case I suspect all of this hot air Fungusface is spouting is purely designed to draw peoples attention away from the piss poor start his expensively assembled team have made to the season and I only hope that Spurs can heap more misery on them on Sunday. So get stuffed Fergie, you are nothing but a wart on the arse of humanity!
More importantly, Rafa’s move for Heinze shows he has recognised an area of weakness in the squad and I think its an area that needs to be addressed. If it was just another left back we needed, then I would favour giving young Insua a chance. I was impressed with him in the couple of games he’s had so far and he looks like he’ll develop into a fine player. But, with Paletta going on loan to Boca Juniors for the season, we need some extra cover at centre back and I think he’s going to need to bring somebody in.
On to tomorrow’s game and some people say that it is bad luck for a Black Cat to cross your path, but I think we’ve had more then our fair share of bad luck over this past week and its time for us to turn the tables at the Stadium of Light. These are the kind of games that we simply must win if we are to stay in touch at the top. Too often in the past we have allowed games such as this to become banana skins by failing to take our chances and kill teams off. Sunderland started the season well by beating Spurs but they have conceded 5 goals in their last two games, 2 against Birmingham and 3 against Wigan, so we have got to fancy our chances of finding the net against them.
It looks likely that we will be with Steven Gerrard for the game and without his driving presence in the centre of our midfield, I think we need to be a little more adventurous in the wide areas and in attack (click here) . If it were up to me, I’d like to see Torres and Voronin in attack and the Killer B’s (Benny Onion and Bubble) on the wings.
But Rafa usually favours players that haven’t been involved in the international games, so he will probably go with Pennent on the right and this will probably also mean that Crouch will play in attack. Don’t get me wrong, Crouch would deserve a place in the side for his ability to cause problems for the Sunderland defence, but he also has the extra advantage of being the only player in the side tall enough to have any chance of getting on the end of one of Peanut’s crosses!
Anyway, if we do our stuff tomorrow, my money’s on us continuing our good start to the season with a 3-0 win.
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