Liverpool FC

From Liverpool FC's comments and Kenny Dalglish's comments yesterday it looks like Suarez has been condemned to "walk alone"

I thought this comment from the Daily Mail was worth repeating:

"Week upon week, the humiliation of Liverpool FC increases. And Saturday's events at Old Trafford may trigger a significant reaction from the club owners in Boston. Once again, the usual suspects were responsible for lowering the tone, spirits and reputation of one of our greatest clubs. Luis Suarez, a dim and truculent provocateur, lived down to expectations. Undoubtedly, he has been encouraged in his idiocy by attitudes struck by manager Kenny Dalglish. Throughout this depressing saga, Dalglish has promoted a sense of paranoia, a feeling that the club have been hard done-by, ill-used, savagely put-upon. He has conjured the notion of a vast conspiracy directed at Liverpool, without ever explaining the logic or the motives behind such a movement. At its most crass, it was the T-shirt worn to support Suarez, a gesture so tasteless that a football manager of even modest intelligence might have rejected it out of hand. Dalglish wore his daft little shirt as if it were a badge of martyrdom, utterly unaware of the ridiculous figure he was cutting. His post-match interview with Sky TV yesterday showed the man at his worst. In the face of reasonable, courteous and relevant questions about the handshaking incident, he behaved like a bar-room bully: 'You're bang out of order … bit of banter ... I never saw it.' In refusing to disown, or even criticise, his player's conduct, he allowed Sir Alex Ferguson to make his contemptuous condemnation of the miserable Suarez: 'A disgrace to Liverpool Football Club,' he called him and, of course, he is."

Liverpool’s owners, the Fenway Sports Group, have made it clear that they intervened in the latest Suarez row and ordered the apologies given on Sunday. Now it has emerged that the club’s shirt sponsor also requested action be taken. Standard Chartered is believed to have suggested that Suarez needs to be moved on if Liverpool are to salvage their reputation and that Suarez wearing a shirt with Standard Chartered on is now damaging to Standard Chatered's own reputation.

(13-02-2012 23:01 )aaron Wrote:  Liverpool’s owners, the Fenway Sports Group, have made it clear that they intervened in the latest Suarez row and ordered the apologies given on Sunday. Now it has emerged that the club’s shirt sponsor also requested action be taken. Standard Chartered is believed to have suggested that Suarez needs to be moved on if Liverpool are to salvage their reputation and that Suarez wearing a shirt with Standard Chartered on is now damaging to Standard Chatered's own reputation.

This to me is where football has sold it's soul and has dropped its trousers to receive a giant 18inch cock up it's arse!
When a club like Liverpool, with all it's history and global status has to take orders from Standard Chartered (a firm I haven't and doubt many others had ever heard of until they sponsored LFC) because they're worried about their product, then we may as well ALL follow suit and ALL drop our trousers!

I can understand Kenny Dalglish feeling mugged off, and I should imagine the owners and CEO do feel slightly mugged off, but where the fuck is it going to end?!?! Is the Tea Lady going to come out and say she feels let down and like her reputation has been damaged? Is the kit man going to say he feels he can no longer do his job all the time Saurez shirt is mixed in with the others.
I'd tell the sponsors to fuck off! Tsk. We wouldn't even need sponsors or need to rely on their money if football hadn't become such an over inflated, souless sport!

I can see the sponsors point of view, after all they pay Liverpool £20m a season and the bank apparently does nearly all its business in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. With Liverpool fast becoming a toxic brand I feel they simply had to make their view known. Whether the forced apologies will do enough the stem the tide though and salvage Liverpool's reputation remains to be seen.

(13-02-2012 23:20 )Money_Shot Wrote:  I can understand Kenny Dalglish feeling mugged off, and I should imagine the owners and CEO do feel slightly mugged off, but where the fuck is it going to end?!?! Is the Tea Lady going to come out and say she feels let down and like her reputation has been damaged? Is the kit man going to say he feels he can no longer do his job all the time Saurez shirt is mixed in with the others.
I'd tell the sponsors to fuck off!

I understand how you feel Money_Shot but for £20m a year you simply can't tell the sponsors to fuck off.

I've been following this suarez/evra story from the start and the one part the media seems to be ignoring is what evra said to suarez to start this whole saga of,we hear if only he shaken his hand, if this happened "in the real world" but if someone insulted u for no reason would they not face some form of punishment? My second point is regarding ferguson believing suarez should never play for liverpool again, where were his high morals when roy keane admitted he intensionly went in to a tackle to hurt alf inge haaland? Lastly who remembers the schimiceal/wright incident?

(14-02-2012 00:14 )Roger Patterson Wrote:  I understand how you feel Money_Shot but for £20m a year you simply can't tell the sponsors to fuck off.

There's a nice comment on this in the Daily Telegraph:

"When the banks start weighing in with moral cudgels you know you have a problem. Yesterday Liverpool’s sponsors, Standard and Chartered, let it be known that they had “concerns” over this latest episode. This is boardroom code for: 'You have embarrassed us. If you do this again you will have Crown Paints back on your shirts.’"

Hats off to Sky reporter Geoff Shreeves in this Suarez story, as when faced with a snarling and condescending Kenny Dalglish he calmly stuck to his guns and wouldn't let Dalglish off the hook. Credit to the man! By taking on the surly Dalglish and refusing to be bullied by him, he seemed to go up in everyone's estimation and was trending on Twitter too!