Say what you like about Tom Hicks Jnr but at least he showed balls.
In a missive, dripping with crude contempt, he told one of the hundreds of thousands of Liverpool fans currently suffocating in fear and disillusion, that he didn't give a damn for his misery.
At least the frat-brat wasn't indulging in an activity which is as popular at Anfield today as collecting trophies was in the 70s and 80s. Hiding.
When the owners aren't taking cover behind each other's lies they hide behind their manager's worst signings. When Rafa Benitez isn't hiding behind a lack of funds he hides behind injuries.
And then there's the players. Here is the Liverpool team that went to Newcastle and won 5-1 just over a year ago to go top of the league. Reina, Carragher, Hyypia, Agger, Insua, Kuyt, Lucas, Mascherano, Gerrard, Benayoun, Babel.
Only Hyypia (a reserve at the time) has left the club, while eight of his outfield team-mates were involved in Wednesday's shameful capitulation to Reading. Has a set of players, all internationals, ever fallen so low, so inexplicably, in such a short space of time?
Of course Benitez takes the lion's share of the blame for this unacceptable collapse. He buys, picks and organises the team, so he carries the can.
But what of the players? Xabi Alonso's sale keeps surfacing as the reason they've lost it on the pitch. And yes, he was good, but he wasn't that good. Losing a non-scoring midfield player who wasn't even a regular for his country, should not turn the second best team in the land into an utter shambles.
His absence alone cannot explain how eight men who took Liverpool to the league's summit could play for two games against a team fighting for its life in the Championship and be out-classed and out-fought in every department. Especially with the FA Cup being the sole option left for genuine success.
The usual young suspects like Lucas, Insua and Ngog, are singled out as evidence that this Liverpool side isn't up to it. But what about the senior players? What about the likes of, say, Gerrard, Agger and Kuyt?
Internationals with 165 caps between them, who, in the two games against Reading were shadows of their former selves? Last summer, all three were awarded bumper pay rises, which, along with Torres's, took a huge chunk out of the manager's transfer budget.
What have they done since to merit such lavish bounty? Why does their defeatist body language suggest they believe they deserve better? It seems the more you pay the modern player the more he believes he's special and should be surrounded by players more worthy of his talent.
Those three aren't alone. Other internationals are regularly going missing in action. In short, too many senior players have decided to hide. Because they can. Because they know the owners, manager and young scapegoats like Lucas, will take the blame. And all they will get is pity.
But they are equally as culpable for the lack of leadership and responsibility that is destroying their club. Because no matter how badly the men in suits are performing, there is no excuse for players of their experience and calibre to lie down so gutlessly for three-and-a-half hours against a side like Reading.
Before this season gets worse maybe they should ask themselves if Hicks jnr is the only spoilt rich kid telling a fan his misery is an irrelevance to their lives.
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Calls are growing to appoint Kenny Dalglish and Phil Thompson as the managerial team to drag Liverpool out of the mire.
But surely there are two former-players who are far better-equipped: Ronnie Whelan and Graeme Souness. Coaching geniuses whose records dwarf Champions League, UEFA Cup, FA Cup and double La Liga winner Rafa Benitez, leaving them eminently qualified to denigrate the Spaniard.
Who can forget Whelan's hugely-successful spell at Southend, when in 1996-7 he managed to win a staggering eight times in 46 league games, thus ensuring the first of their successive relegations to the bottom division, plus his own sacking?
And Souness, whose 36 wins in 83 at Newcastle set him on course for the JobCentre and the Toon on course for the Championship.
But the Anfield chiefs must act quick. After all it's been four years since Souness, and eight years since Whelan, were last employed as managers.
And with Buxton, Burscough and Frickley Athletic worried about their Unibond Premier League status, it's only a matter of time before they come knocking at the doors of men who know exactly what it means to be in charge of woeful sides struggling for survival
