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All the authorities represented at the meeting stated their opposition to any reintroduction of standing areas, although they no longer state that this is predominantly an issue of fan safety, rather of crowd control.
How is it possible that people who have no fucking clue what they're talking about can be making the decisions for us?!
They also got English teams banned from Europe due to their behaviour at Heysel, setting English football back decades and stopping us from playing in the European Cup after the 89 League title win.
Match days now in England have gone to the dogs. The atmosphere is shite in every stadium bar one or two big games a year, prices are ridiculous and most people cant afford to go regularly anymore.
The German model is the ideal position our league should aspire to but they are just not interested in anything but money and themselves.
It will all go tits up in a few years though, the German League in 10 years time will be in the top two leagues in Europe if not the top league.
When the billionaire oil money dries up and most likely it will, there will be alot of clubs on the slide. Fans desert losing teams at the top these days. Once a slide starts it's very hard to stop.
It's still remains to be seen what will happen to Liverpool in the future and whether the owners will invest their own funds and not just the Torres money.
A club like that continually finishing outside the CL will start sliding fast, look at their friends Everton who could go down this season even with a good manager.
Irish Gooner wrote: When the billionaire oil money dries up and most likely it will, there will be alot of clubs on the slide. Fans desert losing teams at the top these days. Once a slide starts it's very hard to stop.
It's still remains to be seen what will happen to Liverpool in the future and whether the owners will invest their own funds and not just the Torres money.
A club like that continually finishing outside the CL will start sliding fast, look at their friends Everton who could go down this season even with a good manager.
And this is a problem we may face soon enough if we do not correct the policies that have put our own decline in motion. Not to where Everton is now necessarily but certainly toward the middle of the table if lose lose touch with the top four.
This summer is a truly decisive. It is almost certain Man City will spend big. It is almost certain Chelsea will spend big. It is quite possible Man U will spend fairly big. It is reasonably possible Liverpool will spend fairly big, and as long as 'arry's at s***s they will spend a fair bit too.
As for us. Selling Cesc looks our most likely move. The reality is unless win win the Premiership this year or spend lots more than usual this summer this trophy drought may go on much longer than we care to think. We cannot afford to sit and wait for this to happen to protest it. By then it will be too late to reverse it. We have to press the club for the needed change while it can still make the difference.