I wake up this morning and read the scathing headlines about how some Red players are unhappy with the atmosphere in the locker room in Liverpool and I have to sigh and chuckle at the same time because I JUST wrote about this and here it is again staring us in the face. There’s two ways to look at this and both are not good for Liverpool.
1) Liverpool is a freaking disaster. They have no idea what they’re doing from top to bottom. Rafa Benitez has no idea how to manage his players, he’s lost this team and he’ll never get it back. The front office is so inept that they cannot manage the roster correctly nor can they so the proper PR to keep alot of this stuff under wraps. Moreover, they do not understand that it is ok for a coach to be on the hot seat publicly if he isn’t privately. Coming out and saying Rafa is safe is like spitting in the fan’s faces when you know they’re already calling for his job. UGH!!!
2) You can take Gary Neville’s approach…that they got what they deserved. Deserve is a hard word for me. I don’t think anybody deserves anything. You can earn stuff, but deserving is a whole other lot. If you work hard and you fail then you failed…you didn’t deserve failure OR success. If you work hard and succeed then you’re a success but you didn’t deserve it…you earned it. Gary Neville sounds like a spoiled little brat who plays on a good team and has no idea what it’s like to be in what I called a “downward spiral”. Perhaps if we put Gary Neville on the Liverpool squad they would win out the rest of the season because he’s so great he “deserves” it? I think not.
If you put Gary Neville on the Liverpool squad they would still suck because Soccer is a team game and individual greats can only take you so far and when they aren’t scoring they need to be leading and Gary Neville is no leader. Want to know how I know that? Because he’s yapping about another team in the most unsportsmanlike way (and I thought Soccer was a Gentlemen’s game.) If I were an official I’d yellow card Neville at his next match just for being stupid. But that’s just me.
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you may be right and you may not but until you can call the game by its proper name no-one is going to take you seriously.
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