Friday, 31 December 2010

We all dream of a team of Carrigans...


This is pint-sized kopite Kieran Carrigan, aged six. This weekend he will take to the Kop with dad Kev to watch the 'mighty' Liverpool take on Bolton.
It will be only his second trip to Mecca of Anfield and he is as excited as excited can be.
Kieren will bring his flag, scalf and shout for his heroes Torres and Gerrard. We've already tried to tell him that the match and the Reds' performance may not be one to remember.
Only one shot on goal on Wednesday so what does the Bolton game have in store for Master Carrigan?
Our pessimism won't disuade Kieran. To him he his going to Anfield to watch the greatest team in the world beat Bolton five nil.
Of course we'll bounce along with him all the way from the pre-match Devonshire Pub up to the Spion Kop. Me and Kev will laugh and sing with him and when we see sight of Anfield and the crowds our hearts, as always, will skip a beat.
The noise, the colour, 'hat, cap, scalf or a badge!" It's our empire, our home, our life.

I hope Kieran didnt hear Mr Hodgson's comments about the Liverpool support on Wednesday night. To hear our manager criticise us, the people who pay hard earned cash to go to games and support the team is a massive show of disrespect.
Ok, the atmosphere hasn't been great but when you are watching dross what do you expect? Give us something to shout about hey Roy? an attack, a run, pass and move, the Liverpool groove? not anymore.
As for it "not being the Liverpool way" to boo players. We feel our left back got off lightly after his shambloic performances this season and don't start me on his mother slagging off the city...
Well, it's not the Liverpool way to be sitting back and accepting shambles after shambles either. (Gareth Roberts - editor of the excellent Well Red Magazine - subscribed to this view on Twitter this week.)
We support, we stand together, but if anyone wants to insult us the fans - well - there's no golden sky after that.
We dont mind defeats. As long as the team has battled, fought, got stuck in, had a go, chased. We saw none of that on Wednesday.
You'd expect being one down to high flying bottom club Wolves we'd be pounding the Kop end with attack after attack after attack? instead we got nothing.
Me and Kev have been watching Liverpool since the early 80s. Back then, like Kieran, we'd excitedly skip up Walton Breck Road to watch the likes of Rushie, Kenny, Molby, sweep past the opposition every week.
Our eyes had seen the glory over the years. Me and Kev have witnessed LFC pick up 16 major trophies. League titles, FA Cups, European Cups.
But right now we sit around 12th in the league table with our lowest points haul in half a century. I say we "sit around 12th" because I can't even bring myself to look at the league table at this moment in time.
I do know that eight league defeats before the turn of the year is a woeful insult to the history and standing of this once proud club.
The papers today talk of two weeks to save Hodgson's job. I was all for backing Roy. He got so much stick before he even started which was unfair. But even if we beat Utd, even if we beat Everton, the damage has been done. If the results and performances weren't bad enough, insulting the fans is the final straw.
Of course the only real person benefiting from the Hodgson pantmomine is a certain Mr David Moyes.
Everton have just four wins this season. Four wins. That's not good enough for the Blues surely? yet as long as Roy takes the flak Moyes escapes into the shadows with not a wimper of criticism.
Anyway, why bring Everton into it?
Because the way things are going it could be a Merseyside derby in the Championship next season.

1 comments:

  1. Very succinct Dickie - just about sums up how we all feel. Like you Roy's abuse of the fans is totally out of order in my book and I have now lost faith in him too. Would sooner see Kenny take over till the summer, If Roy looses the fans he looses everything.

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