We're In Decline

[Rowan]

Watching and enjoying the Olympics over the past few weeks has just hammered home how little I care about football. It's a dead sport run for the benefit of millionaire owners and TV personalities who care little (if at all) for the punters a gazillion miles away from their bases who are fool enough to bankroll this ****. We may be in decline as a club but it's academic in the grand scheme of the soulless, mass marketed, self indulgent behemoth that football has been transformed into. **** this sport. It's only WAYLTATM that is keeping me vaguely interested.

[Tatterdemalion]

The rot started when Liverpool were still winning titles! No move to a new stadium when the club were at the peak, Kenny Dalglish taking his eye off the ball with some very poor transfers in 1989/1990. After that the whole Souness era and rolling from there on.

absolutely. the rot started when Hansen retired.

[Daniel 7]

Watching and enjoying the Olympics over the past few weeks has just hammered home how little I care about football. It's a dead sport run for the benefit of millionaire owners and TV personalities who care little (if at all) for the punters a gazillion miles away from their bases who are fool enough to bankroll this ****. We may be in decline as a club but it's academic in the grand scheme of the soulless, mass marketed, self indulgent behemoth that football has been transformed into. **** this sport. It's only WAYLTATM that is keeping me vaguely interested.

Yeah, a vigorous handshake vibrating it's way to you. We are being milked, the sport is over exposed, finance is king and the game is like a lovely big diplodocus that's being circled by an efficient posse of velociraptors, salivating as they watch the fat green necky beast gorging itself on the plump, luscious leaves at the top of the jurassic money trees.

I don't think I have the energy or interest for it this season, there's little joy in following football in general and Liverpool in particular.

[brightred]

Yeah, a vigorous handshake vibrating it's way to you. We are being milked, the sport is over exposed, finance is king and the game is like a lovely big diplodocus that's being circled by an efficient posse of velociraptors, salivating as they watch the fat green necky beast gorging itself on the plump, luscious leaves at the top of the jurassic money trees.

I don't think I have the energy or interest for it this season, there's little joy in following football in general and Liverpool in particular.

Wow!

Great use of imagery Daniel. Perhaps a little over reliant on the dinosaur analogy but well done anyway.

B-

[Fan65]

Yeah, a vigorous handshake vibrating it's way to you. We are being milked, the sport is over exposed, finance is king and the game is like a lovely big diplodocus that's being circled by an efficient posse of velociraptors, salivating as they watch the fat green necky beast gorging itself on the plump, luscious leaves at the top of the jurassic money trees.

I don't think I have the energy or interest for it this season, there's little joy in following football in general and Liverpool in particular.

And yet you have spent plenty of your time writing your diatribes about our team without any suggestions on how it could be improved.

If you don't like it why not just **** off and do something else, maybe like watching synchronised swimming, horsey dancing or perhaps looking for ancient bones in some old sand pit and stop chuntering on about how you don't like footy anymore. It's a pointless argument anyway because whichever way you look at it money rules ok.

And if you don't like it lump it, It's the capitalist way.

[frank the tank]

I'd still much much prefer to be a Liverpool supporter than any of that new ****in money brigade....

[Daniel 7]

It's the first thread I've started in years and some of a very few rambles that have been posted in the football forum since the turn of the year!

So OK then, how to make better

There is an apocalyptic event that renders all technology useless and we revert back to a simpler time where we rely on primitive invention to supplement our existence. Money is irrelevant and the consumerism and capitalism we worshipped in the old times give way to a societal system where avarice and ambition are things of the past. We develop an entertainment system which is pure and revolves around attendance and joy, football becomes a community game of value and reverence. Liverpool becomes the role model of fair play and the template all clubs strive to match, in fact the rules of the game are re-codified according to the principles laid out by the Grand High Priest of Liverpool, John W Henry. We dominate the early years of this new age, but the spirit of competition dictates we sit out championships following our 10 in a row. We are happy to pass the baton to another club, and excitedly follow their progress as they strive to match our achievements. We come back and dominate again. Everyone is happy, we all rejoice in unison and have great earthy intercourse.

[Vermilion]

[brightred]

It's the first thread I've started in years and some of a very few rambles that have been posted in the football forum since the turn of the year!

So OK then, how to make better

There is an apocalyptic event that renders all technology useless and we revert back to a simpler time where we rely on primitive invention to supplement our existence. Money is irrelevant and the consumerism and capitalism we worshipped in the old times give way to a societal system where avarice and ambition are things of the past. We develop an entertainment system which is pure and revolves around attendance and joy, football becomes a community game of value and reverence. Liverpool becomes the role model of fair play and the template all clubs strive to match, in fact the rules of the game are re-codified according to the principles laid out by the Grand High Priest of Liverpool, John W Henry. We dominate the early years of this new age, but the spirit of competition dictates we sit out championships following our 10 in a row. We are happy to pass the baton to another club, and excitedly follow their progress as they strive to match our achievements. We come back and dominate again. Everyone is happy, we all rejoice in unison and have great earthy intercourse.

That was even worse than the dinosaur essay.

Try to be more concise and less loquacious.

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[Venton]

great earthy intercourse

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Percy Thrower on his holidays. Not a big Liverpool fan though.

[Leyton388]

Yeah, a vigorous handshake vibrating it's way to you. We are being milked, the sport is over exposed, finance is king and the game is like a lovely big diplodocus that's being circled by an efficient posse of velociraptors, salivating as they watch the fat green necky beast gorging itself on the plump, luscious leaves at the top of the jurassic money trees.

I don't think I have the energy or interest for it this season, there's little joy in following football in general and Liverpool in particular.

Someone being watching Jurassic Park?

[gratziani]

The Problem for me is apart from Mane we have bought players who have not improved the first team again.

The centre backs don't appear to be any better than Skertel and Toure,

Our usual short sightedness came when we lost Gerrard who was a massive player at the club and replaced with nobody.

Klopp is now trying to stamp his presence on the team but we revert back to type when we have no pace in the team and become a bunch of plodders.

I Think Lecter said it last season , football is all about pace nowadays and every now and then we smash teams quickly with pressing and attacking wave after wave like last week against Arsenal then go back in our shell.

[Leyton388]

I'm hoping that we still get a LB and midfielder in before the window shuts. We've done fantastically well this summer in player sales but we are in profit this window which effectively translates to not having spent a penny.

I'm hopeful the defence will get better one Mignolet is benched and Matip & Sakho are in the team.

We have money to spend so go out and address the problems.

[Maxiedge]

We've been really slack in the transfer market. What club, bar the rich oil sponsored, buys a player for £25m and £15m (Markovic and balotelli) and loans them out. Also, £32m on a striker who hardly plays (benteke). There should be more emphasis on buying the right players for the club and the system the manager wants to play.

We act like the big boys but don't have the spending power to back it up.

[redmike65]

Rodgers, Rodgers, Rodgers.