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that's they way it should be! don't fck with us!!

Not going to be short of arse wipe paper for a while now.

Yeah Growler. Here was the back page:

scum!!! any more papers who's got anything to say!? just ban 'em all from anfield..

Ban them all! Is that really what we want?
I agree that having headlines like this is extremely frustrating but most of the newspapers spinning the story this way are simply following the pc nonsense that permeates throughout the media.
Next week they’ll be branding Evra as an over sensitive troublemaker. What will you say then?
What worries me is where the whole thing will leave LFC.
I do think Suarez was ill advised to have said what he reportedly admits he did say, and a lot of people beyond the die hard LFC fans will see it this way. It’s not good for the club to be at the forefront of a media confrontation where the subject matter is as minefield ridden as it is in this case. The international image of the club is important and whatever the technical rights and wrongs might be, unfortunately the superficial perception that will be generated by the episode is that LFC tolerates behaviour thought to be beneath that of the FA and its members. This is not an image that will help make LFC great again. Note the word perception, please.
For what it’s worth, I share the view that the whole thing has been blown out of proportion and the 8 match ban is pure posturing. I think the judgement put KD in a very difficult position. A two match ban would have, perhaps, been not unpalatable (why the hell did Suarez say what he said?) and would have made it possible (for KD) to have some discussion in regard to the need for more careful choices in future. As it is, the focus has now become the wholly unreasonable length of the ban as opposed to the behaviour that led to it. It’s altered the dynamic so that KD more or less has to back his player (despite the apparent shortfall in Suarez’s conduct) against the ruling, thereby leaving the club open to accusations in regard to its stance on racism.
The wearing of T shirts in support of Suraez should not have been allowed, in my view. The statement of collective support was fair enough, but the T shirt gesture puts the club squarely at odds with the governing body and could be construed very negatively by distant on lookers. The owners must be wondering who’s in control of the players and what’s the chief concern here, top 4 or an ambition to challenge (the admittedly ridiculous stance so often adopted by) the race relations industry?
If I were the club owner I’d be wanting to pursue the whole matter through the courts, not the newspapers. The judgement against Suarez has some (obviously) serious flaws (in that there is no precedent for it) and it needs to queried in the appropriate way. Helping to write more headlines for a scurrilous and unprincipled media isn’t what we’re paying our players to do and KD should realise this and steer them clear of it. It’s a distraction we could do without. At the moment we’re in danger of looking like a protest movement not a football club.

Liverpool Football Club are playing a very dangerous game taking on the world, because thats what they are doing, the whole world is against racism so lets just hope this appeal is won by Suarez or I fear we will be finished as a Football Club, the stakes are being raised by the day with the losers nowhere to go.

That has to be the most over exagerated post of all time. Finished as a football club ? I guess if we are against the whole world as you say then we would be. Maybe we could pull down the ground grass it over and extend stanley park nice kids play area where to centre circle is. And maybe a bowling green for the pensioners where the kop is oh and a tea room. I would be £800 better off the more I hear the idea the more I like it.

Then what could you post? Your days would be over. Who would listen to you? You would have nobody to play with. You would have to play with yourself.

with a franchise like ours, reputation is everything, did you not listen to John Henry banging on about how much being linked with the great name of Liverpool Football Club was important to him and his company, Standard Charter said exactly the same. Once your reputation is damaged it's quite impossible to repair you only have to look at the likes of Richard Keys and Andy Gray, Ron Atkinson or even Rodney Marsh's careers now to see how words can carry enough weight to damage.

Richard who? Andy who? Ron who? Rodney who? ford.......