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ARRIGO Sacchi called football “the most important of the unimportant things in life”.
I love this quote, not only for its poetry but also for how it perfectly sums up how I feel about the game that has dominated my life. I know that war, famine and homelessness are all far more important things than whether Glen Johnson’s contract is renewed or not. But, rightly or wrongly, I get far more passionate about the latter.
Equally, I know that in the real world he isn’t as bad as a murderer, dictator or member of the Tory Party, but I still think Jose Mourinho’s a massive c***.
There are loads of reasons why I have a hatred of him. I get irrationally furious when women say he’s attractive, for example, when I think he looks like the Spitting Image puppet of John Major without the glasses.
I’ve also always struggled to understand the media love-in over Mourinho. I suppose, when your job is to fill pages of newspapers or hours of rolling news channels, it must be great to have someone in the public eye who is so willing to give you a good story. Calling Arsene Wenger a “voyeur”, for example. Or referring to himself as ‘The Special One’ — all great stuff for editors and producers. But is it enough to warrant the constant arse licking from the metropolitan elite?
Mourinho’s won a lot in football, the trophies speak for themselves. But if you believed what you read in the news you’d think he’d never lost a game. Whilst his (expensive) Chelsea side may well be on its way to winning at least one trophy this season, he hasn’t won anything since 2012. Even Moyes has won more since then.
There’s also his style of football. Last season neither Liverpool nor Chelsea won the league. But by God Liverpool fans surely had more fun nearly winning it than Chelsea fans did.
At Anfield, Chelsea stopped Liverpool winning the league by putting 10 men behind the ball and hitting the Reds on the counter. What a tediously unimaginative twat Mourinho is. He wins things but football is meant to be entertainment, so when he doesn’t win anything playing in such a negative way, what exactly is left?
There’s also no escaping the fact that he spends money before he wins. It’s not like he’s rocked up at Swansea and made them world beaters on a shoestring. At Porto he spent roughly £10million a season in a league that contains about three teams anyone’s ever heard of. Go on, if you’re not a Portuguese aficionado name a team other than Benfica, Porto and Sporting. Thought not.
He spent £102m in his first season at Chelsea, to add to a team that already contained Veron, Crespo, Mutu and Makelele. A poor team’s manager he most definitely is not.
But my biggest gripe with the Portuguese Prick is that he is hypocrisy personified. Football is lies, we all know that. I doubt, for example, that Peter Crouch’s feet actually did stick out the bed. Nor do I have any proof that Luis Garcia ever drank any sangria. Plus, no matter what their fans might claim, Stoke really aren’t the greatest team the world has ever seen.
The manner in which Mourinho’s hypocritical, lying bullshit is allowed to go unchecked, though, is often rather mind-boggling. Remember when he slagged off Tottenham and said they went to Stamford Bridge to “park the bus”? What about when West Ham were accused of playing “19th Century football”? Or when he whinged about teams who waste time? I honestly can’t be bothered pointing out all the times he could have been talking about his own team.
This is the bloke who said he wanted to be Liverpool manager before he went to Chelsea, who slags off his own players and fans, who complains about anything and everything that he can possibly think of — as long as it deflects away from his own failings and the failings of his team
Yet still he is revered.
Maybe my disdain for Mourinho is tied up in the fact that he’s Chelsea’s manager. Chelsea, the most classless of the nouveau riche clubs. But then again, he belongs there. This is a man who gouged the eye of an opposition team’s assistant manager, lest we forget.
I didn’t care about Chelsea in the days before Abramovich, probably because them being a rival to Liverpool was the exception rather than the rule. Since the Russian came in, though, the fans have acted as though they’re entitled to win everything just because they can buy the best.
Liverpool spent money last summer as well, and you can read all about how much and on what elsewhere. However, the Reds were investing in the future on players who will hopefully form the backbone of a winning team for years to come. Whatever you think of our transfer strategy, buying Markovic and Can does not equate to buying Fabregas and Costa. Especially when you consider the strength of the sides they were being added to. So yes, we’ve spent money. But I’d far rather see Liverpool FC achieve success by investing in the future than under the ownership of some dodgy Russian oligarch.
Under Abramovich’s ownership Chelsea have had some classy managers — Ranieri, Ancelotti and, of course, Benitez — but neither the owner nor the fans have seemed particularly happy when that’s been the case. They are seemingly at their most comfortable when an eye-gouging, hypocritical whinging shitcoat is in charge, because then what’s in the dugout can best reflect what’s on the pitch.
If Mourinho had come in instead of Rafa back in 2004, perhaps Liverpool would have won that elusive title already. But at what cost? You can dance with the devil if you want a silver coin, but when the song stops you’re left feeling dirty and wondering if it was worth selling your soul. One trophy won the right way will be worth 10 won through shit-housing. And that’s what matters to me.
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Sad an LFC site wastes time on a manager that’s won titles in three different leagues and who wouldn’t touch our club, even if FSG could afford him (which they can’t).
Clearly a piece driven by jealousy. Leave this shit to the mancs, eh? Fuck the others, concentrate on our own problems like mute locals, ST holders blocking a more vibrant enthusiastic younger group to come through, the miserable gits that leave 10 minutes early, the tossers that get on players’ backs for one fucking mistake etc.
And relax…a very nice venting of spleen there, but just about captures my take on the prick. A nice little win tomorrow would throw another spanner in his over inflated works. Studge in the 90th would be even better with the goal heavily disputed.
Braga….. but that’s it, just those four
Belenenses. Not sure what division but they have a nice little stadium on a hill in Lisbon. I only know that because I went to a concert there once. And their hero is a player named Pepe from times past. There’s a statue of him (in plaster) out front. Nice place.
Mourinho? It amazes me that he get’s off the hook for not winning anything last season. His team sat at the top for most of the season and at the beginning they were dead certs for the title. There was talk of the quadruple just like this season. They won nothing. Wonder if he’ll get away with it again this season if they lose it all. That’s what he’s best at-deflecting from his failures.
And now he’s resorted to slating his own fans. They aren’t enough like Liverpool fans apparently. Astute observation.
amen. His reaction to beating Liverpool last season at Anfield, running down the touchline like he’d won a trophy makesexsad chuckle though. For all his pomp and arrogance, he’s an insecure little blert who longs to be loved but has neither the charm not the talent to achieve it. Shithousary indeed.
We did parade Luis Garcia in front of them prior to kick off. Don’t think he liked that and said as much.
Brilliant article! Nice to see that prick getting it, I fucking hate him. Media in this country are a disgrace all sing the same boring song. “Fuck off Mourinhooo!”
Boavista!
I’m in 2 minds about this. Firstly, women do find him attractive but you can’t hold that against him. I get a similar thing having black hair that’s now greying. I don’t know why women find me sophisticated because I’m grey and arrogant but I’ll leave that to them.
When he was in the Premiership first time round I quite liked him. Thought he was entertaining. When he returned recently I thought he’s just a twat who’s lost that (I don’t want to use the word charisma) light heartedness and has become boring and bitter. Over the past few weeks that opinion is changing again. I think it’s down to the digs he’s been having at Chelsea fans but also I did enjoy him waving to the crowd twice when we we’re singing derogatory songs about him on Tuesday. When you look at his record of league titles by year it’s really impressive regardless of circumstances. Sometimes you have to win ugly.
My problem is Chelsea. I despise everything about them but it’s mainly their fans I hate (and I rarely use the word ‘hate’). I always feel like I want to teach them some manners when I see them. I remember the FA Cup final a few years ago walking from the Torch to the ground, drunk and aggressive goading every Chelsea fan I saw to ‘call us murderers now’. Luckily no one accepted my offer. I despise their players too. When Costa kicked that ball towards the corner flag on Tuesday after we’d put the ball out for an injury I felt a surge of anger that nearly had me bouncing down the steps of the Kop to get at him. Horrible little runt he is. Don’t get me wrong, I prefer peace but there’s something about Chelsea’s fans that does it for me (I’m sure you’ll appreciate I don’t mean sexually). Even the Mancs, although our bitter rivals I respect them as good honest lads. I might not like them on match days but they’re good lads. I can’t see Chelsea like that. The odd thing is though, much as I hate Chelsea I can’t bring myself to fully hate Mourinho. I’d guess it’s because he’s unpredictable.
Eminence gris, eh Robin?
I’m with Adam, he’s a turd of the highest order. Damn good manager though. I’ll be amazed if he still has a job if they don’t win the title this season. The ‘little horses’ charge last season was risible.
Haha. I like to think so Paul.
Look, I change my mind daily and I’ll probably agree with you after tomorrow. I despised him at the start of the season. What I have a problem with is your Michael Owen’s of this world – Was it a penalty Michael? Well, the ref hasn’t given it so it wasn’t…..If you get what I mean. I can’t help respecting people who put their head above the parapet.
Guimaraes.
Haha, I’m not having that! I felt a cunt for putting Boavista but I felt there was a Liverpool connection. If my memory serves me right I can even remember when we last played them 11/09/2001 although something in my mind makes me think we’ve played them since.
I wonder how many PL clubs the average Portuguese can reel off.
Porto winning the CL was the biggest achievement in the tournaments history – in terms of available resources (player wages + transfer spend). You can’t take that away from him.
Also, once a manager has reached the top he’s not likely to go to a smaller club or a club with less money just to prove he can win with little or no money. So I wouldn’t hold this against him either. How many managers go to big clubs, flop and then end up managing lesser clubs? Mancini for example. Rafa as well.
I think Mourinho is a c*** as well but I have to respect his record. It’s brilliant. Style of play last season was awful and his tactics for Real against Barca was anti football. But this season it hasn’t been too bad.
As for Chelsea. Can’t stand them but hate the Mancs far more.
Where did Rafa flop? His last season with us where we were outspent by every single team in the division and he had players sold out from under his feet and had to deal with the cancers of Hicks, Gillett and Purslow?
Massive success at Valencia, overall massive success with us (Euro Cup, another final, FA Cup, twice got more points than title-winning average, etc) and won Europa League with Chelsea. Inter wouldn’t give him funds so he walked and he’s won two trophies already with Napoli despite having a negative net spend.
Sorry, just don’t see where ‘flop’ comes from??
Maritimo, something inherently hateful about Chelsea. Back when they were shit and had only “authentic” fans every one of them I encountered was a prick, and I’m being kind there. Now I live in America and with the meteoric rise in popularity of the Prem here, Chelsea being successful has many a yank declaring blue is the colour. I see someone wearing the shirt, scarf whatever and I see it as a major character flaw, even though for these people no historical context exists, I couldn’t be friends with them even on a casual basis. See a lot of City shirts too, just makes me piss myself laughing though.
He’s both a c*** and a very good manager, but not as good as he thinks. Casting Real Madrid in the role of underdogs was never going to work; he was found out at the very highest level. Carlo showed the way. Walk in, calm things down, trust your players and win tournaments.
Brooklyn Kev what a sad wanker you really are. In fact most of you pricks on here, seem to hate chelse more than you actually support ur bin dippers! Bunch of sad glory hunting bin dipping mugs the lot of ya
Haha, what is it with you lot mate?
I remember the club spelled it’s name that way too on the sponsor board.
It’s not hard is it!
Ask yourself why lad.
Yeah Jonny (is that really how you spell it) anyway, yes I’m a “glory hunter”…
I normally enjoy this website, especially the excellent podcast about last weeks LFC vCFC game. Then I read this shite. Robin, you tell us how ‘orrible Chelsea fans are then tell us how you drunkenly tried to goad them into fights at Wembley; touché.
We’re not al that bad. I could tell you a story of how I rescued two young scally lads from a beating many years ago and personally escorted them to the relative safety of the old North Stand at Chelsea. To say they were grateful is an understatement. The week after Hillsborough occurred I had to be pulled off of a bloke on the shed who thought it was a good idea to abuse the minutes silence being held. My brother, a LFC fan of decades was on his way to Hillsbrough on that fateful day.
So, yeah, we have some bad bastards with limited imagination but the collective arrogance of Liverpool fans towards all thing Chelsea is getting tiresome. I was there ‘when were shit’ and was amongst thousand of fans who endured those crap years. We took more away fans than any other club from London during that period and showed a degree of support that few clubs can claim. Still, it’s aLiverpool website, I guess I’ll just stop reading now. I look forward to the abusive response…but I won’t be reading it, so carry on lads.
What do think of Mourinho though, Miles?
That really wasn’t the point of his reply to be fair Matt.
Appreciate your reply but one thing it’s difficult to change, in life, is your emotions.
That’s how I feel. I’ve travelled the country watching football in the past and I can honestly say, I don’t dislike opposition fans. I probably did as a young lad but then appreciate I was probably a bit of a knob then as young lads often tend to be. Now, I don’t want to feel hatred for anyone or anything but I as mention, you can’t change your emotions. So, why do I feel like that about Chelsea? I think a lot of people across the country could answer that and I don’t feel it necessary to explain. Maybe, Chelsea fans should ask themselves why.
The other thing is, the last thing I want is trouble with people but that said, if someone disrespects me I don’t shake his hand and thank him. No chance. I remember a few weeks before that final when you played Spurs. I remember how livid I was. So, at Wembley, I’d had a few and it resurfaced in me and I gave a few lads the chance to repeat it. No one took me up on it so I’d guess they felt similar to you and there was no animosity.
One final thing, are you now expecting football fans to take, say, Chelsea fans and judge them all individually, rather than as a collective? You’re fuckin trippin mate.
I was at that game (lots of Chelsea fans where I am) and I recall the minute’s silence was immaculately observed on the Shed. I’m pretty certain they were playing Leeds that day and their fans made a racket all the way through the minute’s silence. The Chelsea fans chanted “Scum” at them for two minutes solid after. I don’t like Chelsea one bit, but I’ll always respect them for that.
Mourinho is a modern-day Shankly. I mean in terms of how he’ll go to war for his club and he doesn’t give a rat’s ass how this is perceived outside; his club cones first, and he will defend them and fight their corner come what may. It makes him look at dick sometimes but I think he’s too smart not to notice that this is the case; the point is he doesn’t care. He’s prepared to sacrifice his image for the greater good (i.e. advancing Chelsea’s cause). For example, does he really believe there is a conspiracy against Chelsea? Does he feck. But if he can secure any slither of advantage by claiming this is the case, he’ll go there. And then he’ll go there again.
My first boyhood club was Celtic (my Scottish father is a fan) and I remember the UEFA Cup final against Mourinho’s Porto in 2003. it was the most cynical display of time-wasting I’ve ever seen from a football team. Infinitely worse than anything Chelsea did at Liverpool last year. I hated Mourinho for years after, but then I came to realize the fault didn’t lie with him; it lay with the officials who let it happen. Likewise with media – who appear to be competing to give Mourinho metaphorical fellatio at every turn. It’s not Mourinho’s fault that the media are so servile. Why shouldn’t he work them if they are so willing to be worked?
Mourinho never has anything but praise for our club, our fans, the history connected etc.. This is because – whatever else he is – he’s a football man when all is said and done. Ditto for Ferguson, the other one we love to hate. I’d rather have figures like this in the game than most of the plastic automatons with charisma bypasses. If he was Scouse, we’d have a statue for him outside Anfield and we’d rank him alongside Paisley and Shankly, no question.
Articles like this make us look like a jack Russell of a club yapping at the heels of Chelsea’s Great Dane. Or to put it another way, it makes us look exactly how Mourinho would have us look.
I’m Liverpool through and through but I really disagree with this article.
Suarez was a fucking disgrace. As Liverpool fans, we all danced with the devil, won a silver coin and were left feeling a little bit dirty when the songs stopped.
Footy fans, me included, don’t give a fuck as long as we win. You shouldn’t be getting on your high horse about mourinho.
Ps. I agree he is a hypocritical graceless cunt. I wish he was our hypocritical graceless cunt though.
You cannot disregard what he has achieved in the different leagues with different clubs and I would have walked to Spain to get fabregas and costa at Liverpool.
I love this website but this article lowers the tone.
Dedicating a page to slagging him off stinks of jealousy. I watched the match last week and Liverpool bossed the game. We completely outplayed Chelsea but lacked the killer blow.
Writing this makes us look like a small club.
ADAM you must do better…
I stopped reading at “Chelsea stopped Liverpool winning the league by putting 10 men behind the ball and hitting the Reds on the counter”
I’m sorry but good managers in any football code be it football, AFL, rugby do what they can to win be it beautiful or ugly. This was a rubbish read, f*** Chelsea and write about our amazing club.
id rather shithouse to titles than sit around being nice and winning nothing
The way the media act with Mourinho, you’d think he actually won the league last season. Despite massive spending – net, mind – in both windows (and taking Willian and Salah in the process, the latter for nothing but spite), Mourinho dropped points left and right all spring while playing shit football all season. Yet somehow he’s the genius, and Rodgers the fool.
A victory tomorrow would be sweet on so many levels.
A cathartic read for sure, and laugh out loud in places, but have a nagging feeling that you might have struck the wrong note on this one, Adam. To add to the quibbles – going to an away ground and nicking a win with some fairly tedious play etc, I seem to remember we did that on more than one occasion with both Houllier and Rafa, arch pragmatists both of them.
Chelsea = white trash with money. You hit the nail on the head when you called him a hypocrite.In the game last April we 72% possession and last week it was 62%. Parking buses is a 19th century tactic as long as it’s not the special one in the driving seat.
Why oh why do grown men use the word cunt? Do you use it front of your female friends, lovers, partners etc? Try sitting down or as was in my case sat down by a couple of women when I was younger who told me what an insulting misogynistic word it actually is.
For a really good LFC website this is a really poor effort and makes us look dangerously like our manc friends from down the road – we accuse them of being obsessed with all things Liverpool are we not in danger of going down the same route with Chelsea?
A recent incident really bought this home to me. Just enjoying the feeling of winning as I waited to come out of Villa Park and a couple of lads started singing the CFC history song – Why? Had we just played CFC and beaten them, were we anywhere near London – No on both counts – In my opinion we should just be celebrating our own victory and not worrying about other teams.
If a team comes and puts ten behind the ball it is a legitimate tactic and one we have to deal with. Something we spectacularly failed to do on that fateful day – and no Brendan as we can all see its not that easy to organise a defence – A couple of displays like that added to our flowing football and we would currently be very proud champions.
Does anyone seriously believe that if we could have bought Costa or Fabregas we wouldn’t have done it – come on its probably not true or logical we would just be kidding ourselves.
The first response has it right for me in talking about our own fans jumping on players backs, leaving early and generally being really quite for long periods. To moan about other supporters who until the last ten years or so had very little to support is pretty hypocritical in itself. We should be worrying about are own and not other supporters whoever they are.This kind of article and some of the responses to it make us look pretty small time, petty, jealous and I for one find that really depressing when considered against the better and more impressive parts of our support.
I agree with the broad thrust of this as I’ve already mentioned above, but just a couple of things on the game last season…
What a lot of people seem to forget is that when Chelsea came to Anfield at the end of last season, they still had a chance to win the league. They needed a victory to stay in the hunt and their chances were – admittedly – slim, but with a victory they still had the chance. So, how do you approach a game you have to win? You might still conclude that your best chance of victory is to keep things tight for an hour, playing cautious, percentage football, to stay in the game and then have a real go in the last 20. What you don’t do is time waste from the first minute and show absolutely zero intent in trying to cross- the half-way line. Gerrard’s slip meant Mourinho’s tactics were given ex post facto validation by a myopic media who couldn’t see his ‘tactics’ for the capitulation they were. Mourinho was prioritizing the Champions League (his prerogative) and was effectively happy to sacrifice Chelsea’s last hopes of winning the league by turning the game against Liverpool into a dud as a spectacle. This was no tactical masterclass; not unless he somehow knew that Gerrard would slip at some point in the second-half and help secure his team an unlikely and not particularly sought after victory.
This episode is symptomatic of how certain sections of the media are in thrall to Mourinho and can’t compile a single objective thought where he’s concerned. The misreading of the special one’s tactics and approach on that day is exhibit A. But as before, this is hardly Mourinho’s fault. If he can have these muppets fawning over him at every turn, why shouldn’t he milk this for all it’s worth?
Last point on the defensive display itself. Rodgers is right: it is (relatively) much easier to stop teams by deploying a 4 and 5 in one third of the field in an attempt to repel the opposition than it is to break that down. We’ve seen ample evidence of this down the years when the so-called lesser team denies their more celebrated opponents. When you already have a team worth a few hundred million pounds and you employ those tactics, that is about as simple and straightforward as it gets from a coaching standpoint. All your players still need to play well, retain concentration and discipline, etc., etc., but it is not a difficult gig for accomplished players.
Hi fella,
I think between both of your comments you have covered more or less everything that needs saying on this. Excellent stuff.
I take your point on defence in that it appears easier to stop goals being scored than in actually creating them. If I remember correctly he had been down playing their chances for a few weeks – it had all been a happy blur until then so I might be wrong! – so as bizarre as his tactics were it was almost a self fulfilling prophecy – the bit he got wrong was that they won! I will say though that we should have been cuter on the day ourselves as a draw would have been ok and we ended up panicking.
As ever history tends to be written by the winners.
Yep, it was a strange day that. I do remember saying to my dad during the game “what is Chelsea’s plan here?” I didn’t expect them to come and play expansive football, but I did expect them to try to win given this was their only chance of league success. I remember in the lead up to the game Mourinho had threatened to play a weakened team with the CL semi 3 days later. He was warned about the consequences of that and instead opted to play a team of mostly first choices, but play them in a way that allowed them to maximize conservation of energy.
Still, it would have been interesting to see him facing questions about his tactics had Chelsea trudged off that pitch with the draw they so clearly set out to secure given this meant the end of their league chances. Even the special one would have struggled to explain that one away.
Amen brother Murray. To those of you who criticised this article and its ugly, desperate tone well done. To the others, I refer you to how you address fans of another Blue club ‘bitters’.
Look in the mirror before posting next time.
perfectly possible to dislike a football club without being jealous or bitter. It’s a valid emotional response . Get off your high horse and take a look at yourself as you tut from on high. There’s scant morality in football as Chelsea ably demonstrate .as well as anybody
I don’t even want morality in football. I find it pathetic. I go to work and I’m on my best behaviour. I’m with my family and I’m on my best behaviour. I socialise and it’s the same. Can we not just keep a little something back that a lot of people like and perhaps, need to vent so they can be polite at work, with family and when out? As for the bloke who says calling Jose a cunt is misogyny. Fuck me! What the fuck has society become? I could name a 1000 examples of misogyny that the liberal people of this country are scared to tackle so they turn a blind eye. Instead they come on here and cite examples like this. Another example of someone getting it so wrong its embarrassing. That may be his wording for female genitalia but it certainly isn’t mine. A cunt is someone like David Cameron. Words evolve. Same with bastard and wanker. If I call someone a wanker it has no reference to the fact that he may masturbate. Can we have a little common sense please? And, for the record can I just say my experience of Chelsea fans is they’re horrible litte bastards and Everton fans are bitter twats.
Robin I am that “Bloke” who used the word misognistic in such an awful and inaccurate way. I cited it because it was there not because I am some random moralist. Did you not see what I actually said about why I stopped using it. Sorry I so offended you and used it in an inappropriate way. Its got nothing to do with keeping anything back and I am also well aware that misogny is used in many ways but words are damm powerful.
If you dont want morality in football then why dont we turn the clock back to the 70/80s and all that entails.Remove the safeguards so anything goes. Violence, beatings, chased all over the place or chasing people all ove rthe place. Racism – mass chants against black players, pitch invasions all that shite.I can bemoan the gentrification of the modern game with the best of them but I dont miss all that crap.It has been quite nice of late to able to go to various places and not risk the kicking that was highly likely previously.
Cheers.
Look mate, I’m at the point where I’m sick of people preaching to me what is morally right and wrong. We’re all from different. We’ve all had different backgrounds. We’re not all gonna think exactly the same. Embrace people’s differences. There seems to be a culture of trying to shame people into making them think like they do. I’m happy with my morals. I’m fairly normal. And that’s the other thing. Half of these people doing the preaching go home, put a nappy on and get their wives to breast feed them. I decide how I behave, what I say and how I think. Apologies but you linking jose’s a cunt to misogyny provoked that reaction. Now you’re linking can we have some banter among football fans with violence, beatings, racism and pitch invasions. I think I see the point you’re trying to make but my point is simply, I like the pantomime side of football, not violence, racism, pitch invasions and beatings. Just the ability to get irate over Mourinho or Costa or Chelsea’s shit fans.
Agreed but this article and some of the responses it has engendered don’t show that particular set of emotions IMO.
Anyway not too long to the match now – enjoy.
Brooklyn Kev, tutting on high, no you don’t get it. That is precisely my problem with the authors approach. As a guest of America you may have heard of a concept called American Exceptional ism; it refers to how the yanks think that they are exceptional and need to spread their message of purity to the rest of the grateful world; that is how some of the views on here come across, as if Chelsea were some moral cesspit that needs to be corrected by the Liverpool Way. Dislike me and my club if you like based on whatever logic you want but I just find it odd.
As for the poster who asked me my thoughts on Mourinho; brilliant, frustrating, glad he’s managing my team and not yours because if he was Liverpool’s manager tonight I’d be a lot more fearful of the result than I am right now.
Hopefully some football will break out soon.
American Exceptionalism isn’t something I encounter. Most Americans are frustrated, disappointed and disillusioned by their governments foreign policy and can see through this tenuous moral construct they use to justify war. Corporate greed has infiltrated American politics and foreign and domestic policy is driven by greed.On the football thing, looking forward to tonight’s game. I suppose my issue with your statement has more to do with the fact that this site is for us and by us. Reds should feel free to express their opinions rightly or wrongly. If it’s not to your liking find a Chelsea site. I’m sure they exist. I wouldn’t know as I don’t go on other teams sites but that’s just me .
Fair play Kev, maybe we have more in common than you realise as I agree with your comments on current USA.
The only reason I posted on here, and respectfully at that, is that my brother pointed me to this site as he thought it represented the best of Liverpool; open minded and fair despite being, of course, pro liverpool.
However, you seem to think that only LFC fans should comment so I’ll withdraw.
As a parting point I’ve always respected a lot about Liverpool; the city politics (support of dockers etc), the generosity at the hands of scousers friends in the past, celebrating That European Cup for Liverpool back in the 70s. My dad was an Evertonian who watched Dixie Dean, I admired watching Kenny Dalglish score the goal that led to the double way back at Stamford Bridge, my Liverpool supporting brother who’s posted above all give me some insight, that frankly would be wasted on chelsea site.
There you go, game starts soon I’m hoping my team consign yours back into history, as I should.
I wrote the article & I stand by every word of it. I also feel like tonight vindicates my opinion. Costa stamps on a player right in front of Mourinho & he doesn’t bat an eyelid. Then he stamps on someone else & Mourinho says he should be “allowed to play football”.
At half time he goes against FA rules & berates the ref, only being stopped when the 4th official notices the Sky camera. A “conspiracy against Chelsea” indeed.
He’s a horrible, cretinous man who has set his team up to reflect that.
This article is my personal opinion & not representative of TAW as a whole, and as a personal opinion I don’t see how I’m wrong to say what I’ve said.
One more thing, it’s been suggested by some that this article is “ugly”, “desperate” and that it makes Liverpool seem like a “small club”. That instead of attacking Mourinho I should have written an article slagging off our own fans. Coz that’s WAY more Liverpool isn’t it…
Why, exactly, can’t LFC fans express opinions about a manager they find distasteful? Why is “The Liverpool Way” one of ignoring someone who is so clearly a bad sport, a sore loser and yet revered by the press? Is it truly so anti-LFC to say “I don’t like this man, and here are my reasons why”? I’m not entirely sure what’s wrong with expressing an opinion about a rival club’s manager.
Jose Mourinho is a winner. He is a success. Yet I find him to be a bitter, snidy, disgrace of a person who I will never have the time of day for. His behaviour throughout the game & in the post match press conference tonight sums him up. An odious cretin. If someone can explain why exactly it’s “not Liverpool” to point such an opinion out, I’ll glady listen. But, as far as I’m concerned, there’s nothing wrong with writing an opinion piece about a man who Liverpool’s fate seems wrapped up in.
Je suis Adam
Murray you’re a cunt
Hey Damon, hope that was tongue in cheek about my brother. Given that you didn’t like the tone of the original article. He’s been following LFC for at least three decades and will be in Istanbul for the next Euro match. Maybe you could arrange to meet up, you know, call him a. Unt to his face. You wouldn’t last long.
Fucking twat.
Chill out Miles. I was just having a laugh. To be honest though, I didn’t appreciate your bro taking the moral high ground. With all due respect this site is about Liverpool fans venting their spleen and having their say. Lots of people use that specific word on this site and if they want to call mourinho a cunt then they should be able to do so without being made to feel small.
In any case I am Sorry for any offence I’ve caused you and your brother. I have a lot of respect for him if he has followed liverpool for that amount of time. Good luck to him in Istanbul. I hope we hammer those Turkish cunts and that he has a cunting good time.
Hi Damon,
Will do my best – and yes my tone was a touch up my own arse, sorry about that – ditto to Robin if he sees this.
Cheers lads.
Ps. Forgot to say Miles. You’re a cunt too.
Sorry Damon, I was going to post an apology even without you’re explanation. One drink too many, failing to see irony.
I’m the twat not you and I apologise.
Dunno about you but I was in a bad mood yesterday. After all the build up to the big match and even after chelsea winning I felt a big hole lost night, nothing to do, all the tension evaporated. Hope that vindicates it a bit!
Thanks for the complement, too!!
..and back on topic. I actually wish Jose would shut up a bit. He got sacked last time for bringing Chelsea into disrepute and it’s all starting again. He’s a brilliant man/team manager, but the whole conspiracy thing is getting me down. A little humility would go a long way now.
He also needs to have a private word with Costa who’ll now be missing a vital game on Saturday.
Seriously gents my apologies. Im so bloody childish! I’d had a few beers too. lol, all the best in the future. You’re right about the C word. It’s a bit cheap – I’ll avoid using it where I can in future.
Cheers, Damon, enjoy the rest of the season,all the best!
Please critique Eden Hazard some time, the guy is an amazing Belgian goblin… Why is no referee or commentator aware of his antics? Fact 1: he has superb control over his body. Fact 2: flailing your legs into defenders & going to ground is a yellow card… The time wasting t*** shouldn’t make it through one game.
& Thank you PSG !!! It was better than watching “the reckoning” in Tombstone… Love to see the law catch up to those horrendous c***s. Fabergas– my little friend, so sad.
Lastly, I implore the Kop to a new Chelsea chant…
FAKERS, C***S, FAKERS…
C***S, FAKERS, FAKERS, C***S !!