This year's EPL season has just crossed the half way mark. And already (thanks to Rafa Benitez's clueless and lunatic leadership) Liverpool is out of the European Champions League and League Cup, and currently languishing in 9th position on the EPL table. Any chance of finishing 4th at the end of the season (to qualify for next year's Champions League competition) must have evaporated last night when Liverpool lost 2-0 away to Fulham. Imagine a club on a shoe-string budget like Fulham could dominate a club like Liverpool in every department of the game - the same Liverpool that its fat, out-of-shape manager had pumped more than 250 million pounds on players since taking over. Last night the Reds were playing like a bunch of desperate street urchins, tripping over each other and collecting yellow & red cards instead of points!
Half a century ago the legendary Bill Shankly transformed Liverpool from a second division club to one feared by clubs the world over - winning the European Cup treble and English Football League titles numerous times. All these in addition to a cabinet full of FA Cups, League Cups and Cup-Winners Cups. Shankly laid the foundation for a strong, solid football club with deep-rooted tradition anc culture that were carried on into the 70s and 80s by Bob Paisley and other managers (Evans, Fagan, Dalglish). This year the club celebrates the 50th anniversary of Shankly's Liverpool appointment. How he must have turned in his grave to see the club he so loved and painstakingly built now sitting on the edge of abyss on his anniversary year.
Rafa - do the right thing. Go visit Shankly's grave, say sorry and then walk away. Spare the club of further embarrassment and financial ruin. Give Liverpool fans all over the world something to remember you for - putting an end to the rot that had started, by you!
Writer: Peter Chang
Email: peterchanglc@gmail.com
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