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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/9561203/Liverpool-advert-reveals-Anfields-delusions-of-grandeur.html

 

First paragraph from a review of the Liverpool documentary.

 

Liverpool advert reveals Anfield's delusions of grandeur

 

There are two annoying things about Liverpool Football Club. The first is the insistence of their fans and disciples on referring to them at all times as ‘Liverpool Football Club’.

 

Why do they do this? Perhaps it has something to do with the second, which is the belief of all Liverpool fans that they constitute some sort of chosen people; more special, more noble, more decorated, more triumphant and more tragic, more blessed and more cursed, than any other club. Quite a bold claim for a club who derive their moral credo from a Gerry and the Pacemakers song.

 

Wow, fantastic, love it.  :lol:

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Whole thing needs posting

 

 

 

 

 

Why do they do this? Perhaps it has something to do with the second, which is the belief of all Liverpool fans that they constitute some sort of chosen people; more special, more noble, more decorated, more triumphant and more tragic, more blessed and more cursed, than any other club. Quite a bold claim for a club who derive their moral credo from a Gerry and the Pacemakers song.

 

Yet through the on-pitch struggle, the off-pitch trauma and the signing of Julian Dicks, the mythology of Liverpool remains both wildly popular and fascinating, which is why there was still a good deal of anticipation for the documentary Being: Liverpool, which aired on Channel Five on Friday. It promised a more candid and revealing view of life behind the scenes at Anfield than we could ever have hoped for. Unfortunately, it succeeded.

 

Say you are a celebrity who has endured a chastening few years, in public and in private. Your star is waning, your stock falling. What better way to repair the damage and reinvent your brand than with a televised confessional? This, then, was Liverpool striking out for forgiveness, for absolution, for renewal, in the only way their American owners knew how.

 

Every frame felt like it had been transcribed from the playbook of a Hollywood publicist, from the celebrity narrator (actor Clive Owen) to the reference to how “storied” the club were, to the superfluous, MTV-inspired colon in the title.

 

It has been a turbulent few months at Anfield. Staff were fired and staff were hired; players were bought and sold; innumerable boardroom meetings were held to debate the club’s direction. Sadly, we saw none of this. In the absence of any input from Kenny Dalglish, his unspoken presence haunted the programme like a fearful apparition, like Norman Bates’s mother in Psycho. Perhaps the series will conclude with a horrific, chilling scene in which it is revealed that charming, loquacious new manager Brendan Rodgers had been Dalglish in a wig all along.

 

For the time being, though, we have to assume we will be getting more of the same, which is to say a glamorised hagiography of a former Swansea manager who went on a leadership course one time, and wrote down everything he heard.

 

Rodgers is the undisputed star of the show. How else to explain the remarkable scene filmed in his house? Grinning from ear to ear as he walks us past the huge black and white print of his face on the wall, Rodgers introduces us to his wife Susan (“very patient”), her brother, teenage daughter Mischa (“she’s just got her GCSE results, they went quite well”) and her teenage boyfriend (“he was a model for Hollister”).

 

When we were promised a mind-blowing, access-all-areas documentary, being introduced to Rodgers’ daughter’s “special friend” was not quite what we had in mind.

 

The decision to portray Rodgers as an ideologically pure, sharp-suited Messiah will be a curious one to anyone who remembers his disastrous tenure at Reading. At the very least, he is revealed as a man whose talent for management is at least matched by his talent for management clichés.

 

“Being the Liverpool manager is a way of life.” “If it’s easy, it wouldn’t be worth doing.” “We were brought up not with the silver spoon, but with the silver shovel.” “It’s not just about training players, it’s about educating players. You train dogs.” “The player plus the environment equals the behaviour.” Being: Liverpool? Talking: B------t, more like.

 

How fascinating might this programme have been had it been made in the era of Shankly or Paisley, when Liverpool Football Club truly were exceptional. But no amount of flattering filters or Hollywood editing could conceal the fact that this is now a club mired in the mundane, no more or less special than any other. The documentary was, in essence, highly stylised artifice, all slogan and no substance; a confessional that confessed very little.

 

Still, if it was a choice between this and a weepy, hour-long interview with Piers Morgan, they probably just about did the right thing.

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Fenham Mag

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Man he has a shit storm coming his way. Poor lad.

 

Actually, no, not poor lad, read some of his previous stuff, he comes across as a proper cunt.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/8012152/Alan-Shearer-a-television-pundit-More-like-a-large-well-paid-child.html

 

for example. Although Shearer was in the wrong about not knowing who HBA was, this twat didn't have to make it a personal thing about him being bald.

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Man he has a shit storm coming his way. Poor lad.

 

Actually, no, not poor lad, read some of his previous stuff, he comes across as a proper cunt.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/8012152/Alan-Shearer-a-television-pundit-More-like-a-large-well-paid-child.html

 

for example. Although Shearer was in the wrong about not knowing who HBA was, this twat didn't have to make it a personal thing about him being bald.

 

Quite funny tbh, Shearer was absolutely rubbish as a pundit back then. :lol:

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Fenham Mag

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Man he has a shit storm coming his way. Poor lad.

 

Actually, no, not poor lad, read some of his previous stuff, he comes across as a proper cunt.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/8012152/Alan-Shearer-a-television-pundit-More-like-a-large-well-paid-child.html

 

for example. Although Shearer was in the wrong about not knowing who HBA was, this twat didn't have to make it a personal thing about him being bald.

 

Quite funny tbh, Shearer was absolutely rubbish as a pundit back then. :lol:

 

The highlight of Saturday's programme occurred not in the studio, but at the Stadium of Light.

Darren Bent's last-gasp goal hit the net, and as 38,000 Wearsiders roared in delight, on the touchline could be glimpsed the glowering, contorted visage of a furious Arsène Wenger.

 

Mackem!

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/9561203/Liverpool-advert-reveals-Anfields-delusions-of-grandeur.html

 

First paragraph from a review of the Liverpool documentary.

 

Liverpool advert reveals Anfield's delusions of grandeur

 

There are two annoying things about Liverpool Football Club. The first is the insistence of their fans and disciples on referring to them at all times as ‘Liverpool Football Club’.

 

 

So, so true. Massive pet hate of mine.

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Starting to feel a bit guilty for hating LFC as much as I do. Most of my good friends are supporters, and I've had to endure years of shit from them for supporting Newcastle. I have really enjoyed seeing them spiral out of control during the last few years, but even I must admit, shit as they are, they have been unlucky in the main.

 

They didn't dominate Man Utd as much as they think they did, and still barely created any real openings. They were still good value for a point however, and I think now that they have been screwed out of it by a poor penalty decision.

 

I want to laugh at them for being shit, and not for being fucked over by refs. I think a re-match is in order.

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Starting to feel a bit guilty for hating LFC as much as I do. Most of my good friends are supporters, and I've had to endure years of s*** from them for supporting Newcastle. I have really enjoyed seeing them spiral out of control during the last few years, but even I must admit, s*** as they are, they have been unlucky in the main.

 

They didn't dominate Man Utd as much as they think they did, and still barely created any real openings. They were still good value for a point however, and I think now that they have been screwed out of it by a poor penalty decision.

 

I want to laugh at them for being s***, and not for being f***ed over by refs. I think a re-match is in order.

 

 

Not for me like, I was seeing a lass in the late 90s and her mate was seeing a scouser.  We used to go round their flat, he used to give NUFC dogs abuse and how we never win anything, just had to sit and nod as I couldnt deny the eviddence.

 

Its all turning to shit now.

 

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Loved this bit of the article:

 

'The decision to portray Rodgers as an ideologically pure, sharp-suited Messiah will be a curious one to anyone who remembers his disastrous tenure at Reading. At the very least, he is revealed as a man whose talent for management is at least matched by his talent for management clichés.

 

“Being the Liverpool manager is a way of life.” “If it’s easy, it wouldn’t be worth doing.” “We were brought up not with the silver spoon, but with the silver shovel.” “It’s not just about training players, it’s about educating players. You train dogs.” “The player plus the environment equals the behaviour.” Being: Liverpool? Talking: B------t, more like.'

 

He sounds like David Brent in a couple of those quotes.

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Rodgers is probably just beginning to realise this is a tricky gig. Think he was misled at the end of the summer with the transfer dealings which show the Americans have a cap on spend. Quite how Liv will dig themselves out of this without AGAIN spending big I don't know. But it's pretty clear the money isn't there and Rodgers is going to have to build from within which will take at least 3 seasons; he has till Christmas. The next three games might actually seal his fate.

 

No proper goalscorer

Ageing star player

No anchor in midfield

Micro teens on the wings

Right back at left back

Once good keeper now a shadow of himself

Egomaniac for a manager with a massive 300 page 'pholosophy' version of Mein Kampf in Irish.

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I'm going to have to get this on 5 on demand to see this bit where he has a massive canvas of himself in his house.  :lol:

 

http://www.byfarthegreatestteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Brendan-Rodgers-picture.jpg

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