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Oh that could have been in.

Has Head and Shoulders made Griezmans hair fall out.

Can we sign this here Godin fella.

Salzburg losing 1-0 in the other semi. Spennymoor 1-0 up in the other big game tonight.

Whats Martin Samuel doing coaching Atleti.

Simeone lost here and he is off now.

Thats him out the final is it.

Cannot decide if Arsenal have started well or Atleti have started shit.

should to interesting to see Oblak for atletico compared to Alisson for roma on tues night

Yeah was thinking that as well.

Were most of Signa's lads still on the Western Front ?

No they came back apparently.

The birth of Signa 1914 occurred thanks to a favorable economic situation, in which there was time to devote himself to sports and games, in addition to politics and economy . Following the example of some Italian cities that created the teams of their city on the model of English formations (such as Inter , Milan and Genoa ), also in Signa was founded in 1914 its own football team, called Sport Company Signa . In the early years, the team from Messina did not take part in championships or tournaments but only challenged other local teams ^[1] . With the beginning of the First World War , the competitive activities stopped to resume only at the end of the war. The Signa was registered with the FIGC in 1920 and could therefore participate in an official championship

In other football news Fiorentina won 13 -0 against Signa 1914 today. Fiorentina decided to stop scoring after the 71st minute.

Big game tonight lads Spennymoor Town v North Ferriby United in the National League North. Kick off 7.45pm

Club wanted to bring Keita van Dijk and the lad from Monaco in. Lots of doubters said the club had no intention of buying those players and was just a scam to get season ticket money in. Well van Dijk is here but would not be if Klopp had done what some said and just buy any other centre back. Keita will be in a couple of months due to Leipzigs refusal to sell early. I think the lad from Monaco has missed the boat so expect the club to have one or two other targets lined up. People seem to think Klopp could build a title winning team last summer. Yeah it is frustrating when signing do not happen but I am with Klopp all the way. Stop getting 4th or 5th choices in and get the top ones instead. We have a CL semi coming up and have a great chance of finishing 3rd or 4th. Plenty of people said we would finish 5th 6th or 7th.

Glory hunting twat.

Thought the only clause about selling in Bobbys contract was that the club would not sell him to Arsenal. In other words there is no release clause amount in his contract. Think it is shocking Bobby is almost down to his last 2 years though. Sort it out you blurts and give him a new 5 year one.

Never buy a paper. Never click on a site.

It is not news it is opinion. They can keep it and say what they like.

Not getting a penny of my money.

Their days are numbered.

Agree about not giving them money but I do not agree you should ignore it Anny. You have to fight your corner. This we do not care what others think of us just gives them a free platform to spout their bile. Their days are not numbered because people buy into their filth.

I submitted this complaint to the Express;

Sir. I write to protest in the strongest possible terms about the general inaccuracy, lack of right of reply, discrimination in addition to distorting facts to suit an agenda in the above article by Colin Mafham.

How on earth did this article get to be hosted on the on line edition of the Express's LFC Sports page?

Mafham perpetuates the continued ignorance by a small verciferous number of people that the dreadful attack of Sean Cox was a case of Liverpool fans getting their cumuppence and now using the 'victims' mentality.

Mafham's bias against Liverpool not to mention gross inaccuracies in his 'article' are obscene. Although this article was taken down on line, did it get into the printed edition? Why did the Sports Editor not review this article and more importantly why did he \ she allow it to be posted? This is a shocking oversight.

Liverpool Football Club and its fans, especially Mr Cox and his family deserve an apology from the Express, the Sports Editor and Mafham himself. I would also suggest the Express terminates any paid remuneration with Mafham.

The Express needs to publish an apology immediately and dismiss Mafham similarly.

If you feel complaining to the excess will make a difference and hopefully drive mafham out of work let them know.

EDIT This is better https://www.express.co.uk/contactform/complaints

Here is a link to it...

 

I read it earlier and found if unbelievable such a piece is published on a national newspapers site.

 

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/951219/Liverpool-must-take-serious-action-Roma-violence-Colin-Mafham-Sunderland-news

Like all the links i found to the article they no longer work and just go to LFCs Excess page.

His express email is listed here http://journalisted.com/colin-mafham#tab-contact

Just found his 'page' on the Independent is now totally blank.

https://www.independent.co.uk/author/colin-mafham

Maybe a campaign to get the bastard kicked out of mainstream reporting is needed. I feel a mailto the independent coming on.

While scanning through the reports of our achievement on Tuesday night yesterday I came across one of the most vilest pieces of reporting I had in a long time. It was a re harsh of the blame Liverpool fans for everything mentality linked to the attack on Sean Cox an inocent fans who had turned up to watch his team play. It was vile shit and it encouraged loads of vile anti Liverpool comments. I do not know if I got banned but I labelled a number of the posters scum because that is what they were for the comments they made.

It really breaks my heart to read that shit and alleged incidents of people getting pissed on from above in the lower ARE do not help.

Apparently the offending article has been taken down according to the Echo. I do not know whether this Mafham is a journalist or just some bastard given a platform to spout his anti Liverpool shit. He comes across as either a Manchester United or Chelsea card carrying supporter.

Not surprisingly the Echo are not allowing comments. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/incorrect-ignorant-offensive-newspaper-response-14579442

After the inspiring, enduring – and ultimately vindicated - heroism displayed by the Hillsborough families, after many years of an entire region's reputation being cruelly traduced – and after a decades-long fight for justice in the face of establishment indifference, I thought we had seen an end to small-minded prejudice towards Liverpool Football Club and its fans.

Think again.

A 53-year-old Liverpool supporter lies in hospital in a critical condition, the subject of an assault by two Roma supporters.

Yet in a vile, presumptuous and repugnant article published on today's Daily Express website the writer, Colin Mafham, appears to infer that Liverpool brought such trouble upon themselves.

We shouldn't be surprised.

We've heard those kind of historic prejudices before, but thought they went out of fashion with The Spectator's notorious 'self pity city.'

Sadly not.

Under the headline “Liverpool must take serious action after Roma violence or risk further trouble” Mafham, in a spectacular display of generalisation, wrote: “Why does trouble seem to follow them (Liverpool fans) like bees round a honey pot?”

After praising Liverpool's performance on the pitch on Tuesday he adds: “It's not the players who produced that performance who I have an issue with, it's some of the people who 'follow' them that frighten the living daylights out of me.

“You would have thought the deaths of 39 Italians at the European Cup final Liverpool lost to Juventus in 1985 - plus the five year ban on English clubs that consequently came after that - would have had a sobering effect.

“You would have thought the horrors at Hillsborough and 96 more deaths that followed only four years later would have made everyone more aware of their responsibilities to each other.

“Those two tragedies, in which the central figures were sadly mostly from Liverpool, are arguably football's most painful Achilles and hopefully will never happen again.”

Once again the two very different tragedies of Heysel and Hillsborough are lumped shamelessly together.

Heysel was a criminal act for which 14 Liverpool fans were convicted of involuntary manslaughter and seven served jail sentences.

Hillsborough was wholly different – a tragedy in which it took 28 years for a jury to rule what really happened: that 96 Liverpool fans were unlawfully killed in a disaster that Reds supporters were judged to have played no role in causing.

A view of The Albert pub on Walton Breck Road, where the attack happened

Yet, in an astonishing leap of imagination, Mafham muses: “So why do I fear that the latest generation of that club's supporters could well add another chapter to England's footballing book of condolences?”

The 'evidence' for such fear appears to come from the attack on the Manchester City team bus three weeks ago, actions immediately denounced by Liverpool Football Club and which resulted in the immediate action of a change of bus route with increased policing.

The arrival of Roma's team bus on Tuesday was trouble-free.

Yet Mafham asks: “We know where the empty bottles came from, but where the heck did they get those fire flares that were thrown at the Manchester City and Roma team buses? You couldn't bring them through customs the last time I looked.”

If that was factually incorrect, what followed was just plain offensive.

Roma fans attack a Liverpool fan before the game last night.

He enquires: “And why is a 53-year-old man now seemingly fighting for his life, and two Italians being held on suspicion of attempted murder, before a football match involving Liverpool?

“When you have a team capable of playing the joyous football Liverpool have for most of this season, how on earth are their fans always seemingly involved in such horrific altercations on big European nights.”

If you search for the term 'fire flares' you learn that they can be bought freely in this country.

A 53-year-old man is fighting for his life because he was allegedly attacked by a 20 and 27 year old Italian.

And does two unrelated tragedies 33 and 29 years ago really amount to “always seemingly involved in such horrific altercations?”

For the record, nine men were arrested on Tuesday night, five from Italy – all for violence related offences or possession of offensive weapons – one man was from Ealing, one from Thurrock and two men were from Merseyside; one was arrested for being drunk and disorderly, the other for cocaine possession.

“No one is suggesting that the violence that erupted on Tuesday night was solely the fault of Liverpool fans,” Mafham eventually adds. “Their visitors from Rome were clearly just as thuggish, and just as frightening.

“But there are suggestions that the reputation of Liverpool supporters had gone before them and Roman yobs had simply decided to get in first, and with such awful consequences. It's not right, but it does again highlight a common denominator.”

Liverpool fans outside The Arkles pub - but the Roma bus went elsewhere, untouched

It is a common denominator perpetuated by writers like Colin Mafham.

He concludes: “That's why I urge Liverpool Football Club to condemn, rather than giving succour to excuses like 'it's society's problem' and 'all the world's against us.'”

Here we go. Let's flashback to 1989 all over again and Self Pity City.

But Mafham saves his piece de resistance for his conclusion.

“The club needs to recognise it has a big problem - and has had for some years - and proactively support and work with those whose job it is to preserve law and order.

 

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“If they don't then there is a very real danger that revenge will be sought by both sides when they meet in Rome for the second leg on May 2, and all hell could break loose again.

“And if that happens we will all be losers, on and off the field.”

During the time it's taken me to write this article, the Daily Express deleted one paragraph from Mafham's article, then taken the whole piece down.

Liverpool are magic

Everton are tragic

It was ever thus

Good old Emlyn. Remember being in the square when he belted that out over the mic.

UEFA Player of the week, vote for Mo here https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/games/index.html

He's up against Marcelo and should walk it.

It never used to be like this. Up to 84 there was loads of banter between reds and blues but the animosity set in with the ban after Heysel. Young blues have been brought up on the bile spewed out about their birthright of winning the Champions Cup 3 times on the trot was prevented by us. Funny how they forget their own fans running on the Wembley pitch in 89 to remonstrate with their players not putting the reds to the sword. Or the 3 cretins charged yesterday for the incident at the Lyon game.

Nah that shit is excusable because it is only one or two of theirs but look at the twats reaction to the fella being in a critical condition in the attack before yesterdays game. A sizable number of their fans will be waiting to say Liverpool fans got what they deserved if there is more trouble in Rome.

Those young blues are now 40 somethings with their own kids now having their heads filled with all this anti Liverpool shit. Half the stuff you read in newspaper comments about Liverpool 'the victims' is from them. There might still be some decent blues about but they are getting harder and harder to find.

Come on Liverpool.