So have finally come back to this site after a few years, new job not allowing so much time to sit here all day reading others comments. Wasn't a huge poster before but fancied putting across my thoughts once again....
You may find this first return post a little quirky and out there... Basically I've always kinda viewed our club as pretty spiritual. There is a definite difference with LFC compared to most clubs, and I think unknowingly as a young boy it was this that drew me towards LFC. My older cousin was also a LFC supporter as a boy and I got the hand me down shirts 86-87 home and away, wore them all the time etc... I can still remember Hillsborough, but I think at the age of 10 it didn't really dawn on me, but I do remember all the flowers, wreaths, scarves etc being left on the Kop on TV... I think these kind of images endear a young boy further at that age. The tremendous highs and the enduring lows even struck a chord as a young lad. Liverpool FC was more than just football, it had soul and it was never boring even through the high and low points. My first really vivid memory is the day we lost the Title at home to Arsenal 26 May 1989. I remember my Mum was out on the town and the babysitter had just come to look after me watching the game... I cried when we lost that game... I guess that Spring had already touched me what with Aprils events and then also winning the cup a few days earlier. I guess after this Liverpool FC was a massive part of Football for me as a boy, playing in the back garden with My mate pretending to be Barnes, Rush when shooting or Grobelaar when my turn in goal.... Such great happy memories. Football further engrained into me with our last Title win the next season and also Italia 90 the summer after....
The looming aftermath of Hillsborough took its toll on our great club and its Manager after this, even the greatest team and players could no longer maintain what we had all been accustomed to. I've got this belief that somewhere the gods are altering life and football alike. To look back over the period I have supported this club and see how football history has changed, I sometimes have to pinch myself. Surely such things cant just happen... there have to be other forces at work somewhere?? The fact our greatest rival has come back and won so many Titles to overtake us in this period also seems kinda miraculous if you where to look at it from a point of view in 1989. Did anyone foresee that happening? I wonder what odds you would've got on that back then.
It kind of struck a chord with me to find out the Pope back in 2005 was a Liverpool supporter, the reaction in that match at half time was nothing more than a miracle in my eyes. I still find it hard to believe we managed to win that game, that save from Dudek from Shevchenko from 5 yards over the bar has made me believe this was some sort of miracle. It was as if the Liverpool fans started praying at half time... You'll never walk alone.... the only football song I believe that has some sort of spiritual power. The words always mean a lot, "At the end of the storm, is a golden sky". I'm starting to wonder whether the Stormy Clouds this club are starting to clear? In Rodgers it seems we have a man in the mould of Shankly and Paisley in my eyes... the Fact his first name starts with B also meant something to me... maybe I'm a little strange...
The last few weeks have again restored my faith after a few years where I have began to question what the point was anymore. Although I probably sound like some religion nut, its far from the true story. I just have always believed in fate. Everything happens for a reason and certain things have to happen before other things can follow on from them. Our club is like this, a roller coaster... endure the low points so achieve the high?
The revelations of the Hillsborough findings have made me realise that as fans we should never give up no matter how big or small our worries are. This great football team was put here to give us something to believe in. Just think if those families had given up, where would we or Liverpool FC be right now? I certainly think things could be a lot worse now. But then, they weren't going to give up, they are people like the rest of us who support this great club.... They believe! I'm proud to say I support Liverpool through thick and thin. I just hope and dream of the day we win the league once again... Can you imagine how big that would be..... I don't think the world will have ever seen such a celebration for a team... Liverpool would be swamped with supporters coming to their footballing Mecca. Its that which drives us on.... we should never give up until that day arrives once again.
And thats what kind of brings me back to current times. Our club has had massive change over the last 2-3 years, the storms have come and we got through them, we are just seeing those start to disperse. Its kind of heartening that we are now seeing a collection of youngsters with which I believe we have never seen such a glut of potential.... Rafa was brought to us to sew the seeds for the future.... his job was done.... and now Brendan is here to nurture those who were brought here to bring us our glory....Hansen once said you never win anything with kids.... well he was wrong at that point, so hopefully he can be wrong again? How strong a position this club could be in if the FFP is properly put into place in a couple of years... I for one cant see a team with as big potential as we do for youngsters in the Premiership, maybe Europe in some senses.
"A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe that you are the best and then make sure that you are. In my time at Liverpool we always said we had the best two teams in Merseyside, Liverpool and Liverpool reserves." Bill Shankly
"At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters." Bill Shankly
You may find this first return post a little quirky and out there... Basically I've always kinda viewed our club as pretty spiritual. There is a definite difference with LFC compared to most clubs, and I think unknowingly as a young boy it was this that drew me towards LFC. My older cousin was also a LFC supporter as a boy and I got the hand me down shirts 86-87 home and away, wore them all the time etc... I can still remember Hillsborough, but I think at the age of 10 it didn't really dawn on me, but I do remember all the flowers, wreaths, scarves etc being left on the Kop on TV... I think these kind of images endear a young boy further at that age. The tremendous highs and the enduring lows even struck a chord as a young lad. Liverpool FC was more than just football, it had soul and it was never boring even through the high and low points. My first really vivid memory is the day we lost the Title at home to Arsenal 26 May 1989. I remember my Mum was out on the town and the babysitter had just come to look after me watching the game... I cried when we lost that game... I guess that Spring had already touched me what with Aprils events and then also winning the cup a few days earlier. I guess after this Liverpool FC was a massive part of Football for me as a boy, playing in the back garden with My mate pretending to be Barnes, Rush when shooting or Grobelaar when my turn in goal.... Such great happy memories. Football further engrained into me with our last Title win the next season and also Italia 90 the summer after....
The looming aftermath of Hillsborough took its toll on our great club and its Manager after this, even the greatest team and players could no longer maintain what we had all been accustomed to. I've got this belief that somewhere the gods are altering life and football alike. To look back over the period I have supported this club and see how football history has changed, I sometimes have to pinch myself. Surely such things cant just happen... there have to be other forces at work somewhere?? The fact our greatest rival has come back and won so many Titles to overtake us in this period also seems kinda miraculous if you where to look at it from a point of view in 1989. Did anyone foresee that happening? I wonder what odds you would've got on that back then.
It kind of struck a chord with me to find out the Pope back in 2005 was a Liverpool supporter, the reaction in that match at half time was nothing more than a miracle in my eyes. I still find it hard to believe we managed to win that game, that save from Dudek from Shevchenko from 5 yards over the bar has made me believe this was some sort of miracle. It was as if the Liverpool fans started praying at half time... You'll never walk alone.... the only football song I believe that has some sort of spiritual power. The words always mean a lot, "At the end of the storm, is a golden sky". I'm starting to wonder whether the Stormy Clouds this club are starting to clear? In Rodgers it seems we have a man in the mould of Shankly and Paisley in my eyes... the Fact his first name starts with B also meant something to me... maybe I'm a little strange...
The last few weeks have again restored my faith after a few years where I have began to question what the point was anymore. Although I probably sound like some religion nut, its far from the true story. I just have always believed in fate. Everything happens for a reason and certain things have to happen before other things can follow on from them. Our club is like this, a roller coaster... endure the low points so achieve the high?
The revelations of the Hillsborough findings have made me realise that as fans we should never give up no matter how big or small our worries are. This great football team was put here to give us something to believe in. Just think if those families had given up, where would we or Liverpool FC be right now? I certainly think things could be a lot worse now. But then, they weren't going to give up, they are people like the rest of us who support this great club.... They believe! I'm proud to say I support Liverpool through thick and thin. I just hope and dream of the day we win the league once again... Can you imagine how big that would be..... I don't think the world will have ever seen such a celebration for a team... Liverpool would be swamped with supporters coming to their footballing Mecca. Its that which drives us on.... we should never give up until that day arrives once again.
And thats what kind of brings me back to current times. Our club has had massive change over the last 2-3 years, the storms have come and we got through them, we are just seeing those start to disperse. Its kind of heartening that we are now seeing a collection of youngsters with which I believe we have never seen such a glut of potential.... Rafa was brought to us to sew the seeds for the future.... his job was done.... and now Brendan is here to nurture those who were brought here to bring us our glory....Hansen once said you never win anything with kids.... well he was wrong at that point, so hopefully he can be wrong again? How strong a position this club could be in if the FFP is properly put into place in a couple of years... I for one cant see a team with as big potential as we do for youngsters in the Premiership, maybe Europe in some senses.
"A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe that you are the best and then make sure that you are. In my time at Liverpool we always said we had the best two teams in Merseyside, Liverpool and Liverpool reserves." Bill Shankly
"At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters." Bill Shankly
