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An internal memo from our head of communications at the time Paul Tyrell presumably for the then board of directors.
I'm not defending its general contents, as I don't know enough about all this to comment one way or the other, but it doesn't compare *all* Liverpool supporters to the Khmer Rouge. On the contrary, it ends by saying most Liverpool fans are tired of the kind of thing it describes.
I don't see where you get the *all* from. It does compare Liverpool fans to the Khmer Rouge. Your last point is the same as mine in that it says the majority are behind H&G.
Frankly, it seems quite clear that those listed are the troublemakers among the fans for the owners and therefore through careful PR are to be outed as such.
The comment that the author makes that tha najority are behind H&G is disingenuous for the simple reason that it seems to imply that if you don't like H&G then you're SOS or vice versa.
That couldn't be further from the truth!
The comment that the author makes that tha najority are behind H&G is disingenuous for the simple reason that it seems to imply that if you don't like H&G then you're SOS or vice versa.
That couldn't be further from the truth!
Really? I think it shows that both sides missed the point and allowed the only thing that mattered to suffer!
I get the "all" from the fact that you referred simply to "Liverpool fans" (as you've done again in this post) and didn't make it clear that only some of them are included. Point taken about your second sentence above.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spor...ews/leaked-list-compared-liverpool-fc-4025956
Leaked list compared LFC fans to Khmer Rouge for speaking out against Hicks and Gillett
29 May 2013 07:55
Claims dossier drawn up by Everton FC PR man Paul Tyrrell during his time at Liverpool
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A leaked dossier allegedly drawn up by Everton FC’s director of communications during his former role at Liverpool compared prominent Reds fans to Cambodia’s notorious Khmer Rouge.
The document is claimed to have been drawn up by Paul Tyrrell at the height of antagonism between LFC supporters and the unpopular Anfield regime run by Tom Hicks and George Gillett in 2010.
It was leaked by the evertonarentwe.com fan website although it is not clear how the highly sensitive, internal report came into their hands.
The documents states that some Reds fans groups are “like the sporting version” of Cambodia’s 1970s revolutionaries, wanting to “get to Year Zero to start all over again and see the opportunity of furthering their general political beliefs through LFC”.
Journalists are also targeted and their allegiances and views identified, including former ECHO reporters Tony Barrett and Dom King.
Mr Tyrrell issued a firm “no comment” about the dossier today.
It is signed off PT and makes reference to how fans “regard the owners as evil pals of (George) Bush ... and the chairman (Martin Broughton) as Tory toffs and people such as me (with my family political background) as traitors.”
Mr Tyrrell’s dad was once a Labour mayor of Halton.
The Farm frontman and outspoken Reds fan Peter Hooton – who is referred to on the four-page list – said he was considering taking legal action over some of the claims about him in the dossier. Mr Hooton told other fans on web forums that he would be “getting his lawyers onto this”.
And Spirit of Shankly said it was disgusted to be compared to a “murderous genocidal regime” just for taking a different stand to the club’s management.
The SOS’s James McKenna told the ECHO: “To see this sort of confirms what we suspected, that there were briefings and dossiers and blacklists.
“You would think we were some kind of sinister political front. How can we be compared to a murderous regime committing genocide, and what is a ‘sporting version’ of a murderous dictatorship?
“If you look at what was happening in the summer of 2010, undermining the club didn’t come down to us.”
The fans are also accused of being happy to see the club plummet down the divisions, “effectively go bust and then reform in a pure Socialist form – run by a Supporters Trust”.
The dossier adds: “They failed in the past to take on the establishment in the form of the Conservative government in the 1980s ... and form a Trotskyist Independent People’s Republic.”
LFC sources said the club had been under a very different regime in the run up to the crisis of 2010 which saw Hicks and Gillett take the club to court during the ownership wrangle.
A spokesman added: “No-one from the club’s current management was involved with or had any knowledge of this document.”
Leaked list compared LFC fans to Khmer Rouge for speaking out against Hicks and Gillett
29 May 2013 07:55
Claims dossier drawn up by Everton FC PR man Paul Tyrrell during his time at Liverpool
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A leaked dossier allegedly drawn up by Everton FC’s director of communications during his former role at Liverpool compared prominent Reds fans to Cambodia’s notorious Khmer Rouge.
The document is claimed to have been drawn up by Paul Tyrrell at the height of antagonism between LFC supporters and the unpopular Anfield regime run by Tom Hicks and George Gillett in 2010.
It was leaked by the evertonarentwe.com fan website although it is not clear how the highly sensitive, internal report came into their hands.
The documents states that some Reds fans groups are “like the sporting version” of Cambodia’s 1970s revolutionaries, wanting to “get to Year Zero to start all over again and see the opportunity of furthering their general political beliefs through LFC”.
Journalists are also targeted and their allegiances and views identified, including former ECHO reporters Tony Barrett and Dom King.
Mr Tyrrell issued a firm “no comment” about the dossier today.
It is signed off PT and makes reference to how fans “regard the owners as evil pals of (George) Bush ... and the chairman (Martin Broughton) as Tory toffs and people such as me (with my family political background) as traitors.”
Mr Tyrrell’s dad was once a Labour mayor of Halton.
The Farm frontman and outspoken Reds fan Peter Hooton – who is referred to on the four-page list – said he was considering taking legal action over some of the claims about him in the dossier. Mr Hooton told other fans on web forums that he would be “getting his lawyers onto this”.
And Spirit of Shankly said it was disgusted to be compared to a “murderous genocidal regime” just for taking a different stand to the club’s management.
The SOS’s James McKenna told the ECHO: “To see this sort of confirms what we suspected, that there were briefings and dossiers and blacklists.
“You would think we were some kind of sinister political front. How can we be compared to a murderous regime committing genocide, and what is a ‘sporting version’ of a murderous dictatorship?
“If you look at what was happening in the summer of 2010, undermining the club didn’t come down to us.”
The fans are also accused of being happy to see the club plummet down the divisions, “effectively go bust and then reform in a pure Socialist form – run by a Supporters Trust”.
The dossier adds: “They failed in the past to take on the establishment in the form of the Conservative government in the 1980s ... and form a Trotskyist Independent People’s Republic.”
LFC sources said the club had been under a very different regime in the run up to the crisis of 2010 which saw Hicks and Gillett take the club to court during the ownership wrangle.
A spokesman added: “No-one from the club’s current management was involved with or had any knowledge of this document.”
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A spokesman added: “No-one from the club’s current management was involved with or had any knowledge of this document.”
Interesting in so much that the document was produced in June 2010
And Ian Ayre was appointed as a director on 18/12/2009 and was in the gang of three with Broughton and Purslow
Find it a reach, considering the memo was meant for Broughton and Purslow, that Ayre didn't have any knowledge whatsoever.
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Interesting last line in the Echo article there....A spokesman added: “No-one from the club’s current management was involved with or had any knowledge of this document.”
Interesting in so much that the document was produced in June 2010
And Ian Ayre was appointed as a director on 18/12/2009 and was in the gang of three with Broughton and Purslow
Find it a reach, considering the memo was meant for Broughton and Purslow, that Ayre didn't have any knowledge whatsoever.
On the other hand, it might suggest what they really thought of him.
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Tyrrell steps down as Director of Communications
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After his absence from today's press conference unveiling Roberto Martinez as Everton's new manager fueled rumours that he would be leaving his post, Everton's Director of Communications, Paul Tyrrell, has stepped down according to The Telegraph.
Tyrrell joined the club 18 months ago, replacing Ian Ross in a temporary capacity before being given the position full time.
He was instrumental in steering Everton's recent rebranding efforts that included the introduction of the controversial new club badge, one which will be changed again for next season.
He also became embroiled in a local scandal last week when a scanned copy of an internal document he is believed to have prepared during his time at Liverpool FC was leaked onto the Internet.
The document profiled several journalists and Liverpool supporters groups who were supposedly in opposition to the Gillette and Hicks regime at Anfield and branded the Spirit of Shankly group as the "Khmer Rouge".
Prior to his role in Liverpool's press office, Tyrrell was Head of Communications at Manchester City FC.
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After his absence from today's press conference unveiling Roberto Martinez as Everton's new manager fueled rumours that he would be leaving his post, Everton's Director of Communications, Paul Tyrrell, has stepped down according to The Telegraph.
Tyrrell joined the club 18 months ago, replacing Ian Ross in a temporary capacity before being given the position full time.
He was instrumental in steering Everton's recent rebranding efforts that included the introduction of the controversial new club badge, one which will be changed again for next season.
He also became embroiled in a local scandal last week when a scanned copy of an internal document he is believed to have prepared during his time at Liverpool FC was leaked onto the Internet.
The document profiled several journalists and Liverpool supporters groups who were supposedly in opposition to the Gillette and Hicks regime at Anfield and branded the Spirit of Shankly group as the "Khmer Rouge".
Prior to his role in Liverpool's press office, Tyrrell was Head of Communications at Manchester City FC.
Apropos of nowt... Rick Parry was on my train last week and he was wearing the shittest shirt I've ever seen - and I've seen some shit shirts.
The collar was about six inches thick, like a Harry Hill effort only not pointing out, it was white with huge rose petals printed on it, making it look like a ridiculous update of an elizabethan ruff, and him like a massive massive prick.
The collar was about six inches thick, like a Harry Hill effort only not pointing out, it was white with huge rose petals printed on it, making it look like a ridiculous update of an elizabethan ruff, and him like a massive massive prick.
Apropos of even more nowt... Zara have for about 65 seasons running persisted with shuffling out the shittest shirt I've ever seen. I strolled into one of their stores in San Fran last week and couldn't believe they were still producing those double-collar efforts I'd first seen about 13 years earlier. This abortion below was amongst the 'collection'.
Who in this fucking earth wears something like that?
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