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Re: Being Liverpool Episode 3 #272904 05/10/12 12:05 PM
Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 27,628 Not the EU Stanley Park Liverpool Legend
Stanley Park Liverpool Legend Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 27,628 Not the EU	Our history is not a myth KP but unfortunetly all the rest is. We are just a corporate machine these days. IF YOU WANT TO BE HEARD SPEAK SOFTLY - BOB PAISLEY

Re: Being Liverpool Episode 3 Stanley Park #272994 05/10/12 08:33 PM
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TheNumber9 Under 16 Player T Joined: Mar 2012 Posts: 55 Los Angeles, CA	Originally Posted By: Stanley Park Our history is not a myth KP but unfortunetly all the rest is. We are just a corporate machine these days. Just like all other clubs.

Re: Being Liverpool Episode 3 #273040 06/10/12 09:08 AM
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Carheex 1st Team Squad Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 8,163 The World's Cosiest Armchair!	Man alive, you do waffle on!!! All I said was all this talk of 'the liverpool way', ie a certain secretive way of doing things, is a load of old bobbins and we don't operate any differently to any other club. If anything, we're worse and we air our dirty laundry in public far more than other clubs - boardroom wars, racism charges, fly-on-the-wall documentaries..... If you can't see that then it doesn't make you an inferior fan. But because many people 'can' see things for how they are and don't view the club from behind a thick pair of rose tinted 1970's spectacles, it doesnt make them any less of a fan either. You need to get off your high horse sometimes KP.

Re: Being Liverpool Episode 3 Keefe #273185 07/10/12 08:53 AM
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kubrick Under 18 Player K Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 573 Lancashire, UK	What were people expecting? Perhaps we should have kept Bellamy - for the off chance that he goes after one of the players with a golf club. Bet the Americans would love that - a nutter in the ranks!

Re: Being Liverpool Episode 3 #273189 07/10/12 09:36 AM
Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 27,628 Not the EU Stanley Park Liverpool Legend
Stanley Park Liverpool Legend Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 27,628 Not the EU	Originally Posted By: TheKopProphet Don't you just love how some of our senior fans seem to think they're imparting some secret wisdom by being contrary and curmudgeonly all the time. We've always existed to turn a profit... there is nothing philosophically different about the team of the 70s and 80s and what we are now. It's trendy to downplay our aura and outlook as "myth" and "romance" but in truth there is nothing remotely insightful or constructive in doing so. We have certain tomes to our Liverpool existence and it is not a weakness to acknowledge them or indulge in them from time to time. All clubs believe in their history, their legendary status, their mythology, their unique way... and football would be boring if they didn't. A number of our posters seem bent on de-charming LFC and castigating anything that stands for uniqueness about it.... as if they have some shocking truth to pontificate while smashing the mythos. I say - get over it - support your club and enjoy the things that make it unique instead of seeking to undermine everything. You're not impressing anyone! Its definately different to the 70's and 80's in m opinion. Yes the club existed to make a profit back then yes they treated fans with contempt then as now. But people could afford to watch the games then and because almost anyone could go from low paid workers to schoolkids (like me) the legend and the huge crowds, history all the rest of it grew. All I see now is a grossly expensive corporate bubble that will burst one day. I know you live far away from Anfield KP and were you to experience it today you would not recognise it. Last edited by Stanley Park; 07/10/12 09:37 AM. IF YOU WANT TO BE HEARD SPEAK SOFTLY - BOB PAISLEY

Re: Being Liverpool Episode 3 Stanley Park #273361 07/10/12 08:50 PM
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TheNumber9 Under 16 Player T Joined: Mar 2012 Posts: 55 Los Angeles, CA	Originally Posted By: TheKopProphet Its definately different to the 70's and 80's in m opinion. Yes the club existed to make a profit back then yes they treated fans with contempt then as now. But people could afford to watch the games then and because almost anyone could go from low paid workers to schoolkids (like me) the legend and the huge crowds, history all the rest of it grew. All I see now is a grossly expensive corporate bubble that will burst one day. I know you live far away from Anfield KP and were you to experience it today you would not recognise it. The corporate bubble does not just surround Liverpool. Go to the "Etihad" the "Emirates" thats right those are not only stadium names but corporations, and tell me what the cost to attend a game is. Every team has a sponsor on their shirt, in fact liverpool were the first ever top tier team to don sponsors partnering up with hitachi. So come on we have to look at it from a global perspective. Liverpool either becomes a corporation (like the other big clubs) or hold to their traditions of 5 pound tickets and crash and burn under financial turmoil and play in league two. Last edited by TheNumber9; 07/10/12 08:53 PM.

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