It hasn't gone unnoticed on the cynic in me, who witnessed the mother of all media storms latch on to our most influential & most desired player, in Luis Suarez. Now see the same happening to (arguably) our second most influential & desired player, in Pepe Reina. Thankfully, media storm wise, we don't have a 3rd!!
Again, it hasn't gone unnoticed on the cynic in me, that within 48 hours of a positive, momentum building, trophy win; another negative, momentum sapping, media story is printed. The timing of which, is again somewhat questionable, especially when you take into account that the alledged racist video was doing the internet rounds (twitter/forums), over 4 weeks ago. (I myself even created a thread here on KopTalk & posted the video on the 3rd Feb. Proof that the video has been out for a while).
My cynical side questions who/which clubs, would benefit the most from covertly adding to or prolonging these agenda driven/bad publicity media stories. There are alot of clubs that would benefit from hampering our progress, but in my eyes, only 3 with the means to do it (2 in UK & 1 in Europe). All 3 have the means (to greatly influence the media) & all 3 have 'current' desires to do so (in order to directly gain from the benefits the media storms create, ie. poor team form, player disruption, LFC missing out on 4th place finish, etc).
All the above, ofcourse, is the cynical side of me talking. But if there's 2 things I've learnt (mainly through following Dunk for 14 years) is to always keep an open mind & that nothing in the football world is as straight forward as it seems.