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Apparently Liverpool have requested to Everton that Gerrard gets a guard of honour before today's game :lol:

 

So typical of them f***ers

Hope they were told to swivel.

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Guest John Carvery

What would he need a guard of honour for?

 

Perhaps the children of liverpool can make a big float to push him into the stadium on. They could even sellotape some hubcaps over the wheels for added effect. 

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:lol: Liverpool have achieved practically nowt the whole time he's been there, wish they'd fuck off with this as it's embarrassing.

 

That's clearly not true, like. :lol: But I don't get what they'd need a guard of honour for on this occasion. Maybe on his last home game, aye.

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:lol: Liverpool have achieved practically nowt the whole time he's been there, wish they'd fuck off with this as it's embarrassing.

 

That's clearly not true, like. :lol: But I don't get what they'd need a guard of honour for on this occasion. Maybe on his last home game, aye.

 

Should get him to carry a silver cast of Gary Naysmith's ankle.

 

http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/001/345/496/gerrard_display_image.jpg?1317032363

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:lol: Liverpool have achieved practically nowt the whole time he's been there, wish they'd f*** off with this as it's embarrassing.

 

Two CL finals which one they won is practically nothing now? Agree with the sentiment though.

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Hardly anyone has half day Friday's anymore, and even then it's still no good if say your a Newcastle fan and are away to a London club or Southampton. If Friday games were reserved for local derbies then maybe because it reduces the drinking time before the match and fans don't have to travel far.

 

 

Newcastle-Sunderland on a Friday night and you don't think half the crowd would turn up mortal?

 

Most of the Gallowgate was noticeably pissed for Cardiff City that time.

 

I do like the idea of it though, was a good atmosphere at the Cardiff game and with the current state of affairs it would mean not having Saturday ruined by football which is also a bonus.

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More night games to grow the brand in North/South Americas and Africa me thinks.

 

This doesn't really work given its a Friday night. It'd make sense if they did a late Saturday game, but Friday afternoon isn't going to get much of a NA crowd.

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/manchester-city-close-agreeing-partnership-5124185

 

Can't find the 'Is there anything to like at all about Manchester City' thread, but pretty sad, and another sign of where football is today, when a historically big club (who have been relatively successful the last 4-5 years themselves also), are about to become a feeder club for Manchester fucking City.

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Clarke context and comments

 

First and foremost, and I should know this by now, twitter is not the place for this sort of thing, as it takes more than 140 characters to talk about anything seriously. So already I wish I hadn’t said anything, not because I regret the comment, but because the choice of forum was wrong and frankly understandable if people are riled up.

 

Next thing is, I don’t suddenly want to air a list of grievances that sound sensationalist and do some tabloid’s job for them. Clarke and I have history, that involves money, lies, on one notable occasion me being interrogated by the police over something I knew nothing about… and all sorts of other stuff.

 

Now, when it comes to mental illness, I understand it, I’ve lived around it, I’ve supported it, I fight against the stigmatization of it and so on. I think it’s a very real issue with a long road to go to combat it.

 

So that said, on to this case… It’s extremely difficult to watch someone repeatedly ruin other people’s lives, then explain it in such a way that makes them immune to criticism. And it keeps happening. It’s now reached a point where, as this proves, it’s like emotional touch paper. And sure, I’m not a professional expert on mental health, and no doubt, neither are you. But I know more about this particular case than you do just because you read about it in the Sun, or saw a documentary.

 

There comes a point where it’s just frustrating to witness someone constantly hammering the pattern of destruction for those around – and I was once one of those around - only to see the destructive force make a moving and sincere apology… then do it again.

 

(On reflection, that’s the nature of addiction/illness, and I know that all too well, but as I say, a rash tweet and it’s not the place for it. )

 

I should also say that during the course of this twitter… whatever it is, Clarke has been in touch with a retrospective apology over things that went on a long time ago, and I think that has to be respected by all, myself included.

 

Anyway... You have to be in a dark place to attempt suicide, and only a fool would suggest otherwise. However, I do find myself thinking that when you’ve been driving drunk five (is it?) times, risking lives of countless other people, and even in your darkest hour still manage to involve a lorry driver who could have died himself, and now has to live with that trauma and memory every day fro the REST of his life… Personally my stores of empathy start to dry up after a while.

 

Am I really that out of order for suggesting that’s not on? Do we repeatedly overlook reckless destruction of other lives beacause someone apologizes, again and again, and says it’s an illness? Isn't there a point where we can go, "enough is enough"?

 

I hate drink driving, I really do. I know victims of it, who have died, been paralysed, or lost loved ones, and I’ve watched this man get caught doing it several times then publicly forgiven, lauded, and handed a bloody good career! I’m sorry but that annoys me!

 

And I think that’s my overriding feeling. I don’t feel sad for Clarke any more, I was drained of that some time ago. Instead I feel sad, and maybe a little angry, for Gemma, and the kids, and the lorry driver, and the people who dived out of the way of the car all those years ago, and all the other people who have been fucked over and over and over… you know who you are.

 

Of course I wish Clarke a strong recovery – and not just from the crash. It would be a better world if he and all other sufferers of such an insidious disease could find a way to fight the good fight. But when he does end up facing the drink driving charges, this time around, I hope, not least out of respect for the hundreds of drink driving victims who tweet me every year, they throw the book at him.

 

I don’t think that makes me a cunt, or gobshite, or a wanker, or any other delightful name some of you came up with, but hey it’s a free country.

 

Though, as a final thought, I would say again, I’m a fool for forgetting that twitter is not, and never will be, the place for a comment like that. It’s too reductive and simplistic, and yes, without context, I can see it would seem insensitive and crass. Not my intention.

 

I’m going to bed.

 

Doesn't understand then, does he?

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