This whole affairs seems to raise alot of questions about discretion and how much the club and fans 'can' go hand in hand, there's a reason there are barriers of sorts, and while it's an interesting idea to invite fans or parts of the Liverpool FC community to such things as Press Conferences, it becomes a bit telling when stuff like this unfolds, because ultimately while the club should be willing to take on board what the fans want, there has to be a limit to how much Joe public gets to see and say.
It's like when you go and watch your kids play, we're all wannabe football managers sat on the side lines questioning everything and we all want an input, but there are people employed at the club that are there to do that and should be left to it to a degree without having to have every aspect of it under a microscope.
I haven't watched any of this Fox program for that reason, because I'd rather leave what goes on behind the scenes to those that run it. That's not to say I don't think we should have a valued opinion, it's just the whole 'reality show' side of football with Twitter and ideas like this that open up the club too much to criticism. If stuff like this was available to us 30 years ago, I doubt we'd all be too happy with some aspects of how the club is run, we didn't know then but we were winning on the pitch, so it didn't matter. The assumption is always that if things are going well on the pitch, then all is well off it. This just raises question after question and puts more and more pressure on the club at a time when it needs to respond in a positive way and needs everyone on the same ship travelling in the same direction. Instead, incidents are more visible and it creates more and more fractures with in the club's set up, more and more bad press and more and more pressure to succeed - against more and more adversity.
I don't know what went on. I always found Shaggy a good lad for the most part whom could occasionally be pretty scathing when he wanted to be, no problem with that, though the incident with Macca and a couple of other situations left a few questions about his personality. But then, what is his personality? It's just an internet persona, and it seems this whole situation surrounds 'another' persona that was created and eventually got out of hand and out of it's depth. So what do we really believe? We're not shy of hiring dickheads either, we all know that, bringing in people from other sporting cultures, and from different parts of the World creates a multi cultural team that blends ideas, but also clashes too. That in itself creates it's own problems.
The whole thing sounds like a sorry issue that really should just be handled behind closed doors, we need to stop airing our laundry in public. Fuck twitter, fuck blogs and fuck that embarrassing program. We're becoming a laughing stock, even moreso than we already have been over the last few years.
Close the doors and get the fucking house in order.
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