That banner flying over Anfield yesterday.

[Kevin D]

Cunt helicopter.

[Major Tom]

Cunt poll

[s(k)aturation]

Perhaps we need an anti-aircraft gun at Anfield.

 

Along with land mines around Melwood.

[Anubis]

Cunt poll

 

Bit harsh Considering he's been retired a few years.

[Horus]

Where's the "need more evidence" option for Anubis?

[Anubis]

Where's the 'kneejerk trumps evidence' option for Horus?

 

You always were as insufferable as that condescending shit, Osiris.

[Horus]

The evidence was there already, you just refused to accept it.

[Anubis]

Oh god.....

[s(k)aturation]

Like Egyptian god father.

Like Egyptian god son.

[Paul]

It was obviously a Manc set-up. Either that or, as Danny Murphy said on MOTD, Rafa's just got his pilot's license.

[Kevin D]

It was obviously a Manc set-up. Either that or, as Danny Murphy said on MOTD, Rafa's just got his pilot's license.

John the milkman, more likely.

 

Rafa's too smart for that.

[General Dryness]

This picture just in.

 

[Horus]

It was obviously a Manc set-up. Either that or, as Danny Murphy said on MOTD, Rafa's just got his pilot's license.

 

[JohnnyH]

The Twitter account claiming responsibility had made just 90 tweets as of yesterday morning. Defo the Mancs.

[Stickman]

Pity Andreas Lubitz wasn't the co-pilot

[razor]

And I thought Cath was going to get a Green Jesus banner.

 

Disappointed.

[skend04]

Without context that banner has little meaning.

[Paulie Dangerously]

Can anyone who's a member of the Rodgers Out Club on Twitter go and chew an Aldi disposable razor? Cheers

[JermainePennant]

I haven't seen the game or this banner yet but that's embarrassing to hear that's been done, hopefully it's proven to be a Manc.

[Anubis]

A few points for your predilection:

 

1. The air advertising banner company chosen to fly the banner happens to be the same one chosen to fly the Moyes Out banner at Old Trafford.

 

A cursory Google search shows at least 5 companies in the UK (based on the front page) who provide aerial adverts. However, on both occasions the same company was chosen - www.airads.co.uk.

 

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=air+advertising&oq=air+advertising&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l3j69i60l2.7051j0j4&client=ms-android-h3g-gb&sourceid=chrome-mobile&espvd=1&ie=UTF-8#q=air+advertising+uk&start=0

 

Here is their Twitter account on which they confirm on Thursday they are flying the banner (look at the tweets for the 30th April and keep them in mind as there is another point I'd like to make later):

 

https://twitter.com/AiradsBanners

 

And here is an article showing a tweet linking them to the Moyes Out banner.

 

http://www.espnfc.com/story/1767239/manchester-united-fans-fly-moyes-out-banner-over-old-trafford

 

Curious this company should be chosen on both occasions given they are based in Kent.

 

 

 

 

2. The banner was likely flown from the former Blackpool International Airport as opposed to John Lennon Airport as has been suggested elsewhere.

 

Here is a picture of the banner in the hangar.

 

 

Note the 'tiger' plane in the foreground. That is not the plane that flew the banner, but it has a rather unique ID number. Checking G-RRRZ shows it belongs to a chap in Burnley:

 

 

https://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=detailnosummary&fullregmark=RRRZ

 

Now, if you look at it's recorded flights on Flightradar24 you will note that not only are most of it's flights from an airport situated between Lytham and Blackpool (you can replay them on the map), but the last flight was Friday 1st May when it took off and landed from that airport. That suggests it was still at the airport on Saturday.

 

http://www.flightradar24.com/data/airplanes/g-rrrz#6250f4c

 

Evidence from Flightaware shows that in December the plane made a journey from Bkackpool International to Wharton, which suggests the airport in the flight on the 1st May is Blackpool - no longer an international airport but open to small aircraft.

 

http://uk.flightaware.com/live/flight/GRRRZ

 

Keen observers will also note that in the article about the Moyes Out banner the tweet from Airads states they are setting off to Blackpool.

 

Here's a picture of the Moyes Out Banner:

 

http://images.dailystar-uk.co.uk/dynamic/58/photos/639000/620x/91639.jpg

 

And the Rodger banner:

 

 

Check out the white buildings in the pictures. Same buildings. Same hanger. Same airport. And it ain't JLA.

 

 

 

 

3. None of this is conclusive as to who was behind the banner. But one further thing I did notice when I looked at Airads twitter feed. There has consistently been one party who have delighted in pulling stunts to wind fans of clubs up and drum up business for themselves. And here they are retweeted by Airads - Paddypower (albeit they like to take credit, so maybe not).

 

Finally, while the party/parties behind the banner are still unknown, it is disappointing to see obviously genuine Liverpool fans on Twitter supporting this. They need to have a word with themselves.

[Russ Atmosphere]

Good shout Paddypower, kings of the 'is that supposed to be funny?' stunt.

[Liverpool lad]

Apparently Col off here put the money up

All of it

[Anubis]

I was thinking Johnny H with his connections to the aircraft industry.

[Russ Atmosphere]

It's almost certainly Paddypower behind these banners.

 

http://airads.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/paddy-power-fergie-61.html?m=1

[kalasoma]

The flying of the banner was bad enough, but the support for it's message by so-called Liverpool "fans" is shameful.