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Monday Jun 6: New deal for Milner. He’s taken a pay cut and agreed a one year deal. He says the parade influenced his decision to stay and you know that’s not bullshit either. There’s that clip on Hendo’s insta where Milner says to him “mate, what am I fucking seeing? Wow!”. Just a shame Sadio and Mo weren’t suitably moved. Milner is the last of a dying breed though. Well, maybe Hendo too. He’s like Milner-Lite. On the subject of our Egyptian King though, not great developments this past weekend regarding him. Apparently he played for Egypt despite being injured and having refused LFC’s request for him to have a scan. Now he’s missing their next game because of it. Lots of Reds are unhappy about it and I get that. I’m not particularly arsed because Mo’s international situation isn’t the same as, say, Virgil’s or Fabinho’s. He carries the weight of an entire nation and there’s huge pressure on him to play. If the injury wasn’t that bad and he though he could play through it, whatever. He’s done it enough times for us over the years. This is only really an issue because of the contract. I agree it isn’t a good look and it appears that his relationship with the club is becoming strained, but I don’t think this is a big deal and I’ve got more important things to be mad at him for than this. Meanwhile, Trent is getting ‘slammed’ (© every click bait website in the land) for not singing the National Anthem. This is a bit unfair because when you watch the video his lips are moving a little. He’s not giving it the full chest out Captain Brexit Stuart Pearce routine, but there is movement of the lips. Granted, he’s probably booing or singing YNWA, but they can’t prove that so this criticism seems harsh. Funny thing is, someone on Twitter dug out an old clip from years ago of Gary Neville standing there, lips firmly closed, defiantly not singing. There have been loads of players down the years that haven’t sung, but flag shagging has become a national obsession in recent years (taken to whole new levels this past weekend with the jubilee and people waving at a fucking hologram of the queen). I hope Trent sticks to his guns and doesn’t sing next time too. The highlight of the last few days though was an Everton fan site running a news piece on Sigurdsson being allowed to leave on a free and somehow managing to completely avoid the David Unsworth sized elephant in the room…. I mean that’s some serious North Korean style shit right there. Staying with the Blues though and that despicable piece of shit Richarlison got in a bit of a disagreement with Vinicius Jr in training with Brazil. This shocked me to be honest. The biggest Liverpool hater in football not seeing eye to eye with the lad who just scored the goal to beat us in a European Cup Final? What the hell could have brought that on? Maybe Vinicius Jr didn’t appreciate him trying to suck him off for an instagram post to impress the Blues. Tuesday Jun 7: Somehow missed this yesterday, but Bayern offered £21m for Sadio. I’m sure they knew that wouldn’t be accepted and this is just a bargaining position, but fuck me that’s low. I don’t see us selling for anything less than double that so this could drag on a long time. Keita is said to be close to agreeing a new deal. Not gonna lie, I’m on a downer about this. It’s not so much that I really want him out as I’m fairly indifferent towards him really. It’s more that him being here probably restricts what we will do when it comes to restructuring the midfield. Here’s the thing. We have three midfielders over 30, and Fabinho who isn’t far behind. Then we have the talented kids; Jones, Elliott and Carvalho. You can include Tyler Morton too if you like, he looked promising. The problem is the ones in between. Ox and Keita. We need them to be really pushing the first choice three and giving Klopp a tough decision to make, but they aren’t. We all know who the three starters are when all things are equal. Klopp has occasionally chosen Keita over Henderson but he has NEVER delivered a “wow” performance that makes you think ‘this lad needs to play all the time’. I want someone that will do that, but we won’t buy that player if we have Keita here on his 120k a week salary or whatever it is. Ox will leave, but Keita should too. That way we can go out and sign one absolute fucking star who will give Klopp a headache as to who he leaves out. We got that up front with Diaz, we now need it midfield. But if Keita signs a new deal then that becomes less likely. I felt the same way about Origi last summer actually. I didn’t want him to stay because while he was here I knew we wouldn’t sign the top drawer forward we needed to shake things up and give us real competition for places. I love Div and I’m glad he stayed, but I wasn’t wrong about that. We signed Diaz only because our hand was forced by Spurs. Origi’s presence (and salary) meant that we wouldn’t go out and sign another forward, and Keita staying is the same thing. We might still get someone because Ox will go, but ideally we let them both leave and one boss player in. Wednesday Jun 8: Just having a read back of what I said about Darwin Nunez after the Benfica games. Not overly flattering like. After the first leg I wrote: He’s really highly rated but I wasn’t overly impressed. He took the goal well but I think my judgement of him is clouded by the constant diving and the dreadful fucking haircut. His record is impressive and we’ve apparently been scouting him, so watch this space I suppose. I do love a good Uruguayan striker so if he sorts the hair out then maybe I could get on board with it, but as of now it’s a hard pass from me. I’d softened my stance a little after the return leg, but not by much. “Benfica had another goal disallowed late on when Nunez finished well again but was clearly offside. Good player him, despite the appalling haircut.” He was annoying as fuck over those two legs but he was a constant threat and his finishing was great, even if most of them were offside. As for the haircut, that’s only a minor issue that could easily be fixed. His hair game is actually really impressive on the whole, but the look he was sporting against us was appalling as it looked like he was wearing a hairnet. A pony tail or - preferably - an Alice band sorts that problem out in a heartbeat. He’ll be great for us because every forward we’ve signed under Klopp has been. To be spending this much on Nunez tells me that Klopp and the scouting team must be absolutely convinced he’s what we need and that’s good enough for me. I see nothing to suggest that he won’t be amazing for us, because other than Keita who hasn’t been great? Ox I suppose, but he looked like he would be until he was derailed by one of the worst injuries a player could get. Even Keita hasn’t been terrible, just a massive let down based on the hype prior to his arrival. We just get signings right these days though, it’s almost a 100% hit rate. I saw a headline today about how the England U21 coach wants Jones to not play within himself and be the best player in every game and every training session. He’s been listening to me and Paul on the TLW pod, I thought. Then I realised the U21 coach is Lee Carsley so that’s pretty unlikely. He’s spot on about Curtis though. ''It's important to me that Curtis doesn't play within himself. He's got to be the best player every day, every game. I think he can score more, I think he can assist more. When he gets in front of goal, he's got that quality. He needs to show it on a regular basis, consistently, for us. You'd like to have this conversation at the end of the camp where you're swooning about him, saying "what a player". I still think he's building his reputation with the Under 21s in that respect.' Couldn’t agree more. Curtis doesn’t even have a ceiling, he’s got so much talent he could (and I still think will) be a superstar. He needs to start showing it more consistently though. If Keita gets a new deal that’s good for Curtis (and Harvey) because it wouldn’t take much for him to leapfrog Naby in the pecking order. If Keita left and we signed someone boss to replace him, that makes it more difficult for Jones and Elliott. Thursday Jun 9: The Nunez deal is edging ever closer despite “last ditch” attempts by Man United to “hijack” the deal. This was over as soon as we made contact with Nunez and told him we wanted him. There’s only one reason anyone would spurn us for United and that’s money, and if a player is motivated mainly by that he isn’t someone we’d be going for anyway. We wouldn’t be this far down the line if he was asking for crazy money so United are not a factor here. You’d have to be mental to turn down Klopp’s Reds to sign for them. How good is that by the way? Remember when we could never land anyone we really wanted if United or Chelsea or Arsenal were in for them. Shit, we were losing players to Spurs not so long ago. Now look, we’re the number one destination for any player not just looking for a massive wage. Off topic this but worth mentioning as it’s so fucking depressing and mirrors what is happening in footy. The Saudis are basically trying to fucking ruin golf, the sportswashing twats. Similar to what PSG and (to a slightly lesser extent) City are doing by completely distorting the market by paying stupid fees and wages to raise the bar to a level that non-oil states can’t compete with. In football, they’re trying to fuck over the likes of us, Bayern, the Spanish giants, United etc In golf, they just need to sabotage the PGA Tour and they’ll have the whole sport to themselves. The money the PGA makes is mainly given back to players in prize money and filtered down to grass roots golf. It has its faults for sure, but the key element here is that they have to operate within a structure that ensures they don’t lose money. The Saudis have no such restraints. So they have set up this utter shitfest of a ‘league’ where everything they do is just pure cringe. Golfers are selected to teams each week, those teams have the lamest names and logos, and the whole thing is just dogshit. No-one is buying tickets but that doesn't matter because they just give them away for free and then lie about how many people have turned up (bit like City). But it doesn’t matter if nobody watches it or cares about it, because eventually they’ll throw so much money at players that the PGA Tour will be ruined and they’ll be the only show in town. They gave 52 year old Phil Mickelson $200m just to join. That doesn’t include any potential winnings. That’s just money in his pocket for him to leave the PGA Tour and sign with them. Dustin Johnson got $150m, apparently. Bryson DeChambeau got $100m to jump ship. They have a bottomless pit of cash and unlike in footy there is no pretence of FFP so they can just lash eye watering sums at players to attract them, and the more who join, the easier (and cheaper) it gets to get the rest because the PGA Tour will take a hit from sponsors, meaning less prize money. Plus, the best golfers will play where the competition is the most challenging. It fucking stinks, these oil cunts are just ruining sports. They've got their hooks into F1 too I believe, but I don't know anything about that as other than horse racing it's the most boring thing in the world. Of course some of you will say the same about golf, but that's ok. Some of you don't think that Livin' on a Prayer is the greatest song of all time. People are wrong about lots of things. Seriously though, some of you won’t have a clue about this and won’t know most of the golfers involved, so allow me to sum it up quickly. Basically, all of the golfers who people already knew were absolute fucking wankers, well all those are on board. In fact, I can’t think of any of the established knobheads who haven’t joined. The whole thing is fronted by the biggest knobhead of all - Greg Norman - who I’ve known was an arrogant cunt since I saw in person how he acted at Birkdale in 1999. Actually Tom Watson was worse, but that's another story. None of the names who took the cash are a surprise to anyone. It's mostly washed up 40 somethings looking for one last payday before driving their golf carts off into the sun. Any time one of them was announced my reaction was “yeah, I knew he was a dick, not surprised at all”. As I say, there isn’t one of the established dicks that hasn’t taken the cash. The journalists are giving them a hard time about it and some of the press conferences this week have been horrific. Graeme McDowell saying he’s “proud” to help the Saudis get to where they want to get was a particular low point. Westwood and Poulter (two badknob heads except other than when its a Ryder Cup) were given a proper grilling today and just refused to answer the questions, which included “If Vladimir Putin held a tournament would you play in it?” and “would you have played in an event in South Africa during apartheid?”. The obvious answer to both of those questions is “fuck yeah, they would”. Loads of people say “you can’t expect them to turn down that kind of money” and I do understand that viewpoint. They are entitled to take the cash, but we’re entitled to call them cunts for doing it. The real villains here are the Saudis but that doesn’t mean those taking the blood money should get a free pass. Fuck that. Multi millionaires selling out the Tour that provided them with the lifestyles they have just so they can line their pockets further do not get a free pass. They’re greedy cunts with no moral compass. Speaking of greedy cunts, Mo was named PFA Player of the Year tonight. That's right, I went there. Congrats to him. We had six players in the team of the season too, which sounds about right. Could have been even more because Matip and Robbo were overlooked, although the players chosen ahead of them were both outstanding so it’s fair enough. Ronaldo getting in ahead of Son was funny, but his inclusion is not as outrageous as a lot seem to think. He scored a load of goals in a fucking awful, dysfunctional team, and without his input they’d have been in the bottom half. Of course he is a part of the problem there too because his lack of work rate hampers what they can do without the ball, but he’s always been the same and you know what you’re getting with him. He’s there to score goals and he did it. Take away the name, reputation and the fact most of us think he’s a twat, and you have a 37 year old who scored 24 goals this season, including two hat-tricks. That’s impressive whether people want to admit it or not. That being said, I hope he stays at United because they’ll never get better while he’s playing every week. Also today, the club announced the list of players who will be leaving at the end of their contracts. Divock is the most notable, but Karius was on there too. I have mixed feelings towards him. I have sympathy for what happened to him in Kyiv because he WAS concussed and that did cause the fuck ups that gifted them two goals and cost us the game. The real villain of that night isn't Karius, it's Ramos. That said, he didn't help himself by how he acted that summer, and he also chose to sit out his contract and collect the money instead of going to play somewhere else. So I don't wish him well, but I don't not wish him well either. I'm just glad he's finally gone. Friday June 10: Speaking of United, they have apparently dropped their interest in Nunez because they don’t want to get into a bidding war. This is like back when I decided not to pursue Jennifer Aniston when Brad Pitt started sniffing around her. The about face from United fans on this has been hilarious though. Last week I saw Darwin Nunez trending on twitter so I clicked on it in case it was about us bidding for him. We’d been linked with him for ages so it would have made sense. It wasn’t us though, it was United and their fans were going big on it. The virgins were posting their little team graphics with him playing just off Ronaldo, with De Jong bossing the midfield with Bruno, and the general consensus was that Ten Hag means business and United will be buying whoever they want this summer. Fast forward to the last couple of days and suddenly Nunez isn’t that good, he’s not worth the money and United are right to walk away. Yep, just like I was right to walk away from Jennifer all those years back. Newsflash knobheads, you were never getting him from the second Klopp made a move. I had more chance with Jen. I'm really having to fight hard not to respond to the dickheads but sometimes I just can't help myself. Look at this from today... I know I shouldn't get involved, but sometimes it's just so hard not to. The amount of shit I’ve seen from knobheads on twitter though regarding our spending is just weird though. They clearly aren’t teaching maths well enough in this country as people have no grasp of it. Apparently we can’t complain about City because we broke the record for most expensive defender and goalkeeper and now we’re spending big on striker. I mean, we just made £100m by reaching the CL Final and we’ll have also picked up a shitload of money for 2nd place in the league. Are we not allowed to spend the fruit of those labours? Not to mention we’ll more than cover the Nunez fee with the sale of Phillips, Williams, Sadio, Taki and Ox. It’s the very definition of how to successfully run a football club, yet somehow it’s being labelled the same as vastly inflating the value of our sponsorship and having our owners pay it. I mean fucking hell, stupidity on the internet knows no bounds, especially in football and particularly when it’s Manchester City and Everton fans involved. In fairness, half of them are bots paid for by Abu Dhabi. I’m not even saying that as a joke, it’s absolutely true. You can spot them a mile off too. They usually have about 3 followers and a username with more digits than one of those “clubcall” lines back in the day. The other thing they’re pushing is that Nunez is more expensive than Haaland apparently. Sure, Benfica are receiving more than Dortmund did, but then we aren’t paying €40m to a dead agent and another €30m to the player’s dad are we? We’re also paying a quarter of the wages that Haaland is getting, and that’s only if we count what he’s getting through the books. Fuck knows how much they’re paying him off the books. Because they will be. They’re paying Guardiola a shitload off the books too (just like they did Mancini before him), and probably half the team. You only have to look at the money the Saudis are throwing at greedy cunt golfers to know that the only thing stopping Abu Dhabi paying £1m a week is the pretence of FFP. They will be paying it, just not through the books. It will all come out in years to come, but by then it will be too late for anyone to do anything about it and we’ll have several fewer titles than we should have. The sense of entitlement those cunts have is staggering though. It’s not enough that they win the league pretty much every year, they need to have people kissing their feet and telling them how great they are. They’re always complaining about a lack of recognition but that’s because their accomplishments are hollow as fuck because no-one cares about them as a club and everyone knows they’re ignoring the rules that everyone else (other than Everton) are following. Today you had Laporte crysarsing on social media because he wasn’t in the team of the year. A team that was voted for by HIS FUCKING PEERS remember. It’s not like it was picked by the “LFC loving media”. And he had no business being anywhere near it anyway. Van Dijk is a shoe in and although I’d have made Matip the next best, I’m clearly biased. Take Joel of the equation and Rudiger is the obvious next one. He’s top quality. Laporte isn’t even the best centre back at his own club, the arrogant, entitled little fucking tit. Meanwhile, in France. The government has done something of a walk back from their outrageous claims and now admit that they made mistakes. They’re still peddling the fake tickets bullshit though and using that as the root cause for everything else that went wrong. The police did the same thing the other day. “No we shouldn’t have tear gassed you, but there were too many fans there because of the fake tickets”. They’re no longer claiming 30-40 thousand fakes but even the number they have given is bollocks because it obviously includes load of real tickets that were incorrectly flagged as fakes. The CCTV footage from the stadium and metro has also been deleted. Footage which they claim showed fans being violent and causing problems. The explanation given is that it’s automatically wiped after seven days unless the authorities ask to see it. A few things here. Why would the authorities NOT have asked to see it? Why are UEFA and the police not using the footage to back up their claims about poor fan behaviour? Do they really expect us to believe that in 2022 there is no way of retrieving deleted footage? It’s scandalous really. All of the video evidence collected by fans, journalists, TV news reporters etc shows the fans behaving impeccably and the police and locals being bad fucking scumbags. All of it. There’s nothing out there backing up any of the false claims. Yet they claim they had footage backing up those claims but they didn’t use it and allowed it to be deleted? As if. UEFA finally took down the article they posted two weeks ago blaming the fans for the delay in kick off. Spirit of Shankly have been on to them about that, but why did it take so long to remove it? It should have been taken down immediately, but it was left up there. Why? Just to water the seed that had been planted in people’s minds. Those who know, know. But the casual football fan around Europe who can’t be arsed looking into what happened will just hear what UEFA and the French are saying and believe it. That’s why they leave shit like that on the website. That’s why there is no full climbdown by the French ministers, just a gradual walking back of what they’ve said just so there is still blame attached to the fans. Their plan here is to just try and ride out the storm until people get bored of asking questions. It will happen too. The British (and French) sporting press have been great but it’s only natural that other events will take over and this will become less “newsworthy”. What you’ll get is our fans, the club, the local press and MPs etc continuing to fight and then being subjected to a lot of shite from outsiders about being victims and that we should move on. Thing is, we’ve got experience of this kind of thing so we know how it works. Compared to the fight for Hillsborough justice this is a walk in the park. There’s no hiding place for UEFA and the French Authorities. The club have been great so far too and Billy Hogan (my new favourite Hogan, sorry Hulkster) has kept fans updated with video updates outlining what action they’ve been taking. They’ve met with the so-called “independent” inquirer and they’ve already let it be known they are concerned about just how “independent” this is going to be. They’re fighting our corner and while it’s easy to say that this is exactly what they should be doing and it requires no praise, I just think about what would be happening now if Parry and Moores were still in charge. Or Hicks, Gillett and Ayre. It makes me shudder. Werner and Hogan have stood up for us and I’m grateful. I hope they continue to fight for us in the way the likes of Spirit of Shankly will. If we all stand together we can make mincemeat of the French authorities and UEFA. ....and that was the week that was

Monday May 30: Fucking hell, the fallout from Paris is mental. Horror stories from fans, brilliant reporting by journalists on the scene and outrageous lies from those trying to cover up their failings. It’s genuinely incredible what the French government is trying to do here. At least make your story a little bit believable. Initially the authorities tried to say the fans arrived late. That was quickly proven to be nonsense. Now they’re saying it was 30-40,000 fans without tickets or with forgeries that was the problem. Just think about that for a second. The capacity is 80k. If you add 40k onto that you have 120k fans at the stadium. So if the stadium was full you’d have 40k outside. The stadium wasn’t even full, as loads of Reds have shown by taking photos of empty rows of seats when the game kicked off. There weren’t 40k outside though, so how do they expect these lies to stand up? Then there’s the logistics of the whole thing. 40k forged tickets? How would they know that? Where are those forgeries? Are they including all of the genuine tickets that failed to scan because their system was fucking shit? Robbo has already told us about his brother being told his ticket was fake even though it came from the club. Loads of fans have said similar too. There are also tales of fans having genuine tickets taken off them by stewards at the gate and then being turned away. And while all of this was going on, local rats were climbing fences and running into the stadium unopposed. The security risk there is scary as fuck. Any one of them could have had a fucking bomb or some kind of weapon and none of them were searched. The ones who didn’t bunk in were outside robbing and slashing fans (not just ours either, Madrid fans suffered exactly the same treatment by police, stewards and local gangs, just on a smaller scale). There were potentially deadly crushes on the way to the stadium as well as outside the gates, and the police made that even worse by throwing tear gas canisters that caused panic in an already dangerously crowded area. Then they were randomly pepper spraying people as they just stood there doing nothing. This time it isn’t just our word that it was happening. In this modern era everyone has access to video so it’s easy to get the message out. It helped that basically every big hitter in the English sports media were there witnessing it, and some of them were right in the middle of it. Jason Burt from the Telegraph got pepper sprayed, while Henry Winter was there handing out water to fans who had been tear gassed. He’s a pompous, annoying arse but I’ve always been told by people who have had dealings with him that he’s a really nice, genuine guy and he showed that here. He was also fighting our corner on Talksport this morning too. This time the lies won’t stick. Not just over here either. The French media are fucking slaughtering their government for the lies. The Spanish press aren’t blaming our fans either. In fact, there’s been a lot of media coverage praising the behaviour of our crowd under the extreme provocation they were under. Our own media are 100% in our corner too. It’s a weird feeling really, we’re not used to this. I spent most of today reading about all this and watching horrific videos and it’s just so depressing. I needed a palate cleanser so watched the footage of the parade. What a day that was. It started off a bit subdued but by the end of it everyone was having the time of their life. Hendo even described it as one of the best days of his life. You could see how much some of the others were loving it too. Konate was dragged over for an interview and he wanted no part of it because he wanted to be hanging over the side of the bus interacting with the crowds. He was buzzing off it. Diaz at the front of the bus was having a blast too. Days like this will stay with these lads and spur them on in the future. It was mad that they had Calvin Harris DJ’ing too. Apparently that was Robbo’s doing. Imagine that conversation in the group chat. Hendo: “Ok, the gaffer says he’s bringing the ale, we need someone to sort a DJ.” Robbo “I’ve got a mate who says he doesn’t mind helping out”. Tuesday May 31: Similar to yesterday really. More likes from the French authorities but no-one of any note is believing a word of it. Unsurprisingly, the only people refusing to accept what really happened are rival fans desperate to be able to score points by blaming our fans. There’s fucking loads of the cunts too, which is just depressing as we’re all in the same boat here and should be standing as one on this. Don’t get me wrong, if they want us to lose 10-0 to Madrid because they fucking despise us, that’s fine. I don't want their support when it comes to football. But this isn’t that. It’s an entirely separate thing that effects us all. Or at least, it effects anyone that has to go abroad for a football match. The Blues have short memories considering what happened to them a few years ago in Lille. All of a sudden that's forgotten and this must be our own fault. Staying with the Blues, “Richy lad” has shown his true colours now that he’s back home in Brazil. He wasted no time talking about how he’s told Everton he wants a big pay rise if he has to stay, but that ideally he wants out. He’s a fucking cunt and I don’t even have the words to articulate my hatred for him. After the final he was on Insta mocking fans who’s coach left them stranded and who didn’t get to the game. He’s the fucking worst. He belongs at Everton as he’s made for them. The most disappointing thing he said today was that Alisson and Fabinho are his rivals but when they’re together for Brazil they’re friends and they will talk. I know Ali is the world’s nicest man but even so, I don’t want him having anything to do with this fucking scumbag. I reckon Fabinho probably fucking hates him though. Bobby too. Speaking of Fabinho, I forgot to mention this yesterday but his missus tweeted out a picture of the trade and said something like “there are some things oil can’t buy”. That kind of shocked me. She’s pretty outspoken so I’m shocked she had a dig at City, but the nature of it was surprising because I wasn’t sure that the players (and by definition their families) saw things the same way we do. There’s two levels to this. One is the thing that they’re well and truly aware of the difference in the passion of the fans and the parades, the other is the reference to ‘oil’ which tells me they’re resentful as fuck about City’s cheating. I’d love to see what gets said in the players’ group chat. Meanwhile, PSG are rumoured to want Naby and could pay £50m. That’s too good to be true. Getting our money back on him? I can’t see that, especially with one year left. If they’re willing to pay £30m that’s a great deal for us and we should snatch their hands off. Hell, I’d do a straight swap for Gini and feel pretty damn good about that. The club won’t, they don’t look back and will have a list of younger targets, such as the lad from Monaco and Bellingham, although he's not expected to be available for another 12 months. Wednesday Jun 1: Holy fuck, those two French ministers didn’t just double down on the lies, they quadrupled down. What they said today was far worse than anything that’s been said Saturday. I’m beyond angry. I felt sick reading those comments. Sick, disgusted, furious, upset, sad, you name it. I’m shocked too, although I shouldn’t be as politicians will do and say anything to save their own skins. This is so fucking bad though. Just outrageous lies with zero evidence to back any of it up. Whatsmore, there’s a fucking mountain of footage out there which completely disproves every single thing they’ve said. The rest of the senate weren’t buying their lies and gave them a hard time about it, and the French media aren’t swallowing it either. Our fans’ behaviour saved lives. There’s no denying that. Had they reacted the way normal people would then there would have been fatalities. The French are lucky it was us and not another English club, because it’s only our experience of these situations that saw fans remain calm and ensure the safety of themselves and those around them. Most other fans would have laid into the riot police or tried to force the gates to get out of the dangerous situation they were in, and I wouldn’t even blame them for doing so. That’s a natural human response in that situation. As I say, because we know about the dangers our fans were able to act in a way that ensured things did not escalate. The behaviour of fans all over Paris was exemplary and loads of French people are pointing that out. What those two ministers have said though, fucking hell. There must be something we can do. It’s slander for one thing. Can we sue the cunts? I want the club to come out firing again on this. They’ve been great so far but I want Henry and Werner going after these two rats with everything we have. I also want to hear from UEFA. They were quick to blame the kick off delay on “Liverpool fans arriving late” but we’ve heard fuck all since. They need to distance themselves from the lies being peddled by the French government and they need to apologise for their mistake, while publicly absolving our fans of any blame. Anything less than that is unacceptable. I know one thing, if UEFA don’t back us how can we possibly play in their showpiece tournament next season? We’d have to boycott it, and I’d be asking Real Madrid to stand with us and threaten the same, as their fans were treated similarly. Naive of me, probably. Money talks and therefore nobody will boycott anything. Elsewhere today, reports in Germany say Sadio wanted £390k a week to stay here. I’m calling bullshit on that. Mo is asking for that kind of money, but I doubt Mané is, although if he can get that then good luck to him because he gives most of it away to help his people back home and we’ve been underpaying him for years, relatively speaking. Speaking of Mo though, the local beat writers are saying if he doesn’t get what he wants he’ll see out of his deal and is even prepared to stay in the Premier League. Sound, enjoy yourself at Newcastle then. See how many trophies you win there. It's "not about the money though" remember. The fans know what it's about, apparently. *shrugs shoulders* Meanwhile, Richarlison is charged by the FA for throwing a flare into the crowd in the Chelsea game. Un-fucking-believable this. Burnley should be all over this shit. Why was he not charged and (potentially) suspended immediately? Leaving this until after the season is outrageous. Is there a precedent for this, because I don’t remember anyone being charged so long after the actual event. Harvey got pulled up almost immediately after the League Cup Final and all he did was pick the thing up. He didn't lash it into the stands. Richarlison's response? To post a picture of himself holding the flare. Massive fucking cunt. The next logical step here is for him to sign for United. Let’s face it, he belongs there doesn’t he? They’ve got a vacancy for a massive cunt too because they need a replacement for Greenwood. Hard to believe they could find someone worse than a woman beating rapist, but Richarlison is. Ok, ok, in all seriousness if you ask me which one of the two I’d send to jail, it’s obviously Greenwood. Ask me who I’d most like to punch in the face though and it’s Richarlison. Thursday June 2: It’s been tough this week. Social media is a cesspit but it’s also a necessary evil. I’ve been on there constantly this week just keeping up with what’s been going on with regards to Paris. It’s weird though, my timeline is brilliant. All the people I follow and all the things they retweet is just highlighting the heroics of our fans (I don’t use that term lightly either, their behaviour was fucking heroic and I’m incredibly proud of the restraint and common sense they showed) and the rank incompetence of UEFA, as well as the brutality and lies of the French police and government. It’s almost enough to restore your faith in people. I’m not seeing any of the nasty, ignorant shit we’re always subjected to. Until that is, I venture into the dark underbelly of Twitter - the fucking replies. They aren’t so bad when it’s an LFC account that has tweeted the initial post as most of the followers are fellow LFC fans and the replies reflect that. When it’s a national journalist or someone like Carragher or Lineker (not Gary Neville, that little cunt hasn’t said a fucking word all week) who have a more varied following across clubs from all over the country, you see what’s being said in response and it’s fucking soul destroying. In the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, they’re still in there peddling the “turned up late” and “ticketless scousers again” bullshit. In some cases they know the truth but don’t care, they just want to try and cause shit. In other cases, they’ve already made their minds up as to what happened and will just ignore anything that contradicts it. It’s fans from all over the country and you just know that “always the victim” chant is going to be ramped right up next season. The shit I’m seeing isn’t limited to just one fanbase but the most upsetting to me is when it’s Evertonians. I have no problem with them hating us. I don’t blame them for that in the slightest. Their existence is miserable as fuck and a big part of that is because we’ve always been better and, let’s be honest, we love rubbing their noses in it. When it comes to shit like this though, they should have our backs. Every football fan should, but Everton most of all because they know what we’ve had to deal with since 1989. Frankly it’s pretty devastating seeing other scousers shitting all over us like that. I have to say though that with at least half of the shit I’ve seen in the replies, when I click on the profile they’ve been Man City fans. There’s more of the cunts up in our mentions than there were at their parade last week. They’re actually worse than United fans for this shit now, which has really caught me off guard. The whole thing is so depressing though, we shouldn’t be having to fight against these kind of slurs again. We’re still fighting from the last time, but now we have to deal with it again? At least this time the media are on our side and are fighting our corner. That won’t last though as the news cycle will move on and we’ll be left to deal with the fucking slurs, insults and falsehoods due to UEFA and the French government slandering us. Friday Jun 3: Some weird quotes from Sadio again. They looked really bad initially (especially as some of the quotes circulating were completely false) but then a more exact translation came out that was nowhere near as disappointing. He’s trying to be light hearted and sarcastic about it but it doesn’t translate well when written down. The proper translation with context isn’t really anything out of line but it still didn’t really clarify anything though because everything he’s said could still just as easily point to him staying as leaving. Not sure why “60-70% of Senegalese people want him to leave though”. If that’s true, FUCK THE SENAGALESE PEOPLE, the ungrateful twats. Could really do without Sadio being a dick though, I’ve always had him down as one of the last players to pull shit like this so hopefully he knocks it off. Meanwhile, UEFA finally issued an apology. Of sorts. It’s still nowhere near acceptable as they didn’t show any remorse for initially blaming the fans for the delay in kick off. And let’s not kid ourselves here, that apology wasn’t aimed at us anyway. We were included in it but the only reason they said anything remotely apologetic is because Real Madrid put a statement out this morning expressing their unhappiness at the way their fans were treated. Fucking hell, we’ve been fighting this shit since Saturday night and Madrid waited six days to get involved. And when they did, UEFA immediately shit themselves. We should give UEFA the Gillett & Hicks treatment now. Target the sponsors, give them hell and tell them they’re getting it in the neck because UEFA fucked with the wrong set of fans. I also think every fan with a ticket for that game should be able to sue UEFA for damages. It’s not something that ever happens, but if you pay to attend an event and the event organisers are so negligible that you are subjected to the kind of terrifying ordeals that so many of our fans went through, it’s an open and shut case. I don’t know how the logistics of that would work, but UEFA should be fucking sued for this shit. In 1989 we went to Wembley on a Barnes Travel coach. The coach broke down and the replacement they sent just fucking drove past us as we stood on the side of the motorway at the entrance to services. They didn't come back for us either, just left us to fend for ourselves. All the passengers on the coach had a whip round and we hired a coach from a local company in the Midlands. We got to Wembley at half time and everyone agreed that we’d sue the arse off Branes Travel. My Dad collected everyone’s number and that week he went to a solicitor. It was a cast iron case that we would have won, but Barnes Travel offered a refund on the coach ticket and all the knob heads took it. My Dad was the only one who said fuck that, we want our match tickets refunded and we want compensation for the day being ruined. He ended up going to the small claims court and got a few hundred quid, but the solicitor said if everyone had stuck together they would have all got more than that. What the fans in Paris went through was far worse than we experienced at the 1989 final, and there should be legal action on a fucking massive scale. For too long footy fans have been treated like dog shit. This wouldn’t have happened at the theatre or at fucking Wimbledon. It’s footy fans though so everyone just shrugs as though it’s the risk you take. You know something interesting? I referenced it above but it’s been almost a week now and Gary Neville has said fuck all. The man who has an opinion on literally everything hasn’t said a fucking word about this. It doesn’t reflect well on him at all and I’m surprised to be honest. I thought he had more about him but I guess not. Next time he pipes up on something he needs pulling up about why he ignored this. Meanwhile, the FA put a video out from England training where ‘Kev’ Abraham goes up to Trent and tells him “I’m joining you guys next season”. Probably just messing around, but Trent looked a little confused by it and clearly didn’t get the joke if it was one. I like Abraham, I thought he was good at Chelsea and got a raw deal when they jibbed him off to sign Lukaku. I wouldn't sign him though unless we’re tweaking our style. I’m not against a bit of a tweak just to mix things up a bit though. We put loads of crosses in and having a penalty box finisher on the end of them isn’t a bad thing. He’s more Origi than Firmino though, and Origi barely ever played. Abraham would cost a fortune too unless there’s a release clause we don’t know about. Speaking of release clauses, can't we just go and rub Arsenal’s noses in it by taking Saka off them if Sadio is going? We've also been linked with Pulisic today among many others. Fuck that. He misses too many chances and he's always fucking injured. I do think he's a really good player but losing Sadio, who is fucking Iron Man, and replacing him with "Captain Papier Mache" would be stupid beyond belief. If we're shopping at Chelsea then test their resolve on keeping Conor Gallagher. …..and that was the week that was