Liverpool FC Forum

[heimdall]

It goes totally against the grain but if us fans are serious and really want to get a message to the yanks, boycott the Villa match. 
The sight of Liverpool playing in a totally empty Anfield  will echo around the world. Hicks and Gillette will get the message.

If we want to make ourselves look like complete planks, destroy our credibility as supporters, inflame an already shambolic series of events mid-way through our season, potentially having serious consequences to the final outcome of our season - boycott the Villa match.

As it happens, I'll bet you my life that it won't happen, and so it shouldn't.

I disagree, if done correctly then this would send a hell of a strong message to the yanks, but in any case it doesn't matter as they will soon sell to DIC anyway, relax people.
This is all just business and the yanks are just posturing, they will take their rediculously easily earned money and feck off to ruin some other poor team.

[nobybob]

It goes totally against the grain but if us fans are serious and really want to get a message to the yanks, boycott the Villa match. 
The sight of Liverpool playing in a totally empty Anfield  will echo around the world. Hicks and Gillette will get the message.

i posted the same thing the other day woof, and got no positive feed back

i feel that it would put a rocket right up the yanks a$$ and would also show the power and togetherness of the fans,

even though i reckon the empty seats would just be filled with daytrippers  who want to take there camera phone and girlfriends for a night out

Yes it does go totally against the grain , but make no mistake these are serious times for LFC and serious actions need to be considered.
would it get the yanks out??
i think so

[LFC2007]

It goes totally against the grain but if us fans are serious and really want to get a message to the yanks, boycott the Villa match. 
The sight of Liverpool playing in a totally empty Anfield  will echo around the world. Hicks and Gillette will get the message.

If we want to make ourselves look like complete planks, destroy our credibility as supporters, inflame an already shambolic series of events mid-way through our season, potentially having serious consequences to the final outcome of our season - boycott the Villa match.

As it happens, I'll bet you my life that it won't happen, and so it shouldn't.

I disagree, if done correctly then this would send a hell of a strong message to the yanks, but in any case it doesn't matter as they will soon sell to DIC anyway, relax people.
This is all just business and the yanks are just posturing, they will take their rediculously easily earned money and feck off to ruin some other poor team.

[FACT] Look, there's little point in me trying to justify myself, it goes without saying in my book that boycotting matches would not benefit the club.

Any more unrest and we might well find ourselves out of the top four, out of the UCL, and out of the FA cup. Vindictive action at the potential expense our entire season? No thanks

At this moment the only course of action is to get behind the team and the manager. [/FACT]

[bigmick]

I'm not so sure a boycott would be such a bad idea. It'd probably be possible set up a few picket lines in the streets arouind the ground. I'm not talking Orgreave here, I'm talking groups of fans talking to other fans, handing out leaflets etc etc and asking them to maybe not agree to go into the ground until after the half time whistle. The way to go then would be to leave one route upto the ground clear of pickets so those who wanted to actually go in and watch could do so without any problem or guilt. If executed properly an Anfield with only three or four thousand people inside would make headlines and could be a precedent for fan power throughout the World.

It is after all purely because fans of sporting teams have elastic loyalty to a brand that c...s such as these two want to get involved in the first place. If you bought Weetabix for instance and changed the recipe, put four less bricks in each box and put the price up, people would simply buy a different brand of breakfast cereal. Buy a football team though, and you can feck around with it, up the ticket prices, sell the ground, arrange pre-season tours in Timbuktu, hatch TV deals to line your pockets and treat the fans like fools and it's no problem, they'll still keep coming in through the gates, buying the merchandise etc etc. That many people watch English football that you could sell a fag packet sized advert on the sleeve of Fernando Torres for a fecking fortune (and how long is it before some smarterse thinks of that one? we'll have club tops which are more akin to Tour de France or Formula One attire). The opportunitiues for owners are massive and that's why they come in with a scarf draped around their Gregory, it's all about the money innit?

Some might say it's fair enough, it's "bizzniss" and perhaps it is. It really is time though that somebody somewhere made the point that those fans who line the pockets deserve a bit of respect. Perhaps this is that time.






*DISCLAIMER*  Just aboput the only reason I can see which make the whole thing a bad idea, is that some numpty will no doubt kick off a scuffle with the Police and that will make the headlines rather than the protest.

[LFC2007]

Boycotts, just say no.

[bigmick]

Well LFC it's achedemic as it won't happen anyway. Much more likely I would have thought is one of those co-ordinated card protests inside the ground. You know the thing, where everyone gets a piece of paper on their seats and holds it up before kick off. It'll spell "feck off you c...s" when viewed from the blimp, or perhaps it'll get sanitised a bit and it'll spell "H & G go home"

[LFC2007]

Well LFC it's achedemic as it won't happen anyway. Much more likely I would have thought is one of those co-ordinated card protests inside the ground. You know the thing, where everyone gets a piece of paper on their seats and holds it up before kick off. It'll spell "feck off you c...s" when viewed from the blimp, or perhaps it'll get sanitised a bit and it'll spell "H & G go home"

Indeed it is academic, though your other suggestion for a KOP mosaic (of sorts) sounds bang on.

[Bammo]

I don't think a boycott would work simply for the reason that it's so expensive to go to games nowadays. Fair enough, for season ticket holders it may be reasonable to miss a game or a half but it may not be possible for every match goer.

what about a dad taking 2 kids to their only game of the season? £65+ for tickets, add to that travel costs...then he gets to the ground to be met by a picket line preventing him from going in. hardly fair to expect him to turn around and go home. now consider if it's someone who has travelled from around the world to see us play and it's entirely unreasonable to expect them not to go in.

a practical protest? don't buy anything at the ground. no programmes, food, drinks, nothing from the official store. protest banners (which will no doubt be banned) and songs against G&H mean the team is supported but they aren't.

[The Manhattan Project]

If the fans really want DIC they could hold up coloured cards forming the national flag of the UAE


It would look better than a giant "DIC" being spelled out.

But the number of fans who are demanding DIC seems to be growing.

This obsession with DIC threatens to spiral out of control.

Some fans are even dreaming of DIC while they sleep.

[zarababe]

RAWK and TLW are both saying that Al Jazeera are now reporting that Hicks INVITED DIC to make a bid. Sounds good to me.

Gawd crisis time and we are all watchin 'Al Jazeera' 

There is an English version of the channel for anyone lookin for the Arabs to tellk it form the 'horses mouth' - pun intended 

[zarababe]

It goes totally against the grain but if us fans are serious and really want to get a message to the yanks, boycott the Villa match. 
The sight of Liverpool playing in a totally empty Anfield  will echo around the world. Hicks and Gillette will get the message.

Great idea woof mod - if ppl protested outside the ground the players and Rafa would know the intention and who it is aimed at and the so-called 'custodians' f.uckin 'destroyers' would defo get the message 

GET THE FUC.K OUTTA OF OUR CLUB AND GO AND BUY DISNEYLAND 

[nobybob]

I don't think a boycott would work simply for the reason that it's so expensive to go to games nowadays. Fair enough, for season ticket holders it may be reasonable to miss a game or a half but it may not be possible for every match goer.

what about a dad taking 2 kids to their only game of the season? £65+ for tickets, add to that travel costs...then he gets to the ground to be met by a picket line preventing him from going in. hardly fair to expect him to turn around and go home. now consider if it's someone who has travelled from around the world to see us play and it's entirely unreasonable to expect them not to go in.

a practical protest? don't buy anything at the ground. no programmes, food, drinks, nothing from the official store. protest banners (which will no doubt be banned) and songs against G&H mean the team is supported but they aren't.

good idea maybe this is the middle course of action that we could all agree on. AT the end of the day we all love our club and want the best for it and we need a course of action that we can ALL suport to get the message across "get out now parasites"

[Anfield rapper]

We have to get the message across to the yanks that we are not happy with them owning our club. They may own the club but we are the ones who actually know whats right for the club. These people are not right for the club. We should make them as unwelcome as the mancs made the Glazers. Its not nice but thats the only way you get noticed and the only way you get change.

They have lied to us from the start. How things are going to be financed, what size the new stadium will be etc, all lies. They lied to Moores also and thats the only reason they now own the club. Moores was taken in with all the charm even when almost everyone else knew that DIC would be the better choice. Lets make it so uncomfortable at anfield that they just want to cut their loses and walk away. Its a long shot but its all we can do.

[nobybob]

To those who say wait till the end of the season, don't upset the team etc  the problem is >  come the end of the season our ability to protest organise and actually do something is gone, we will be powerless.
oh and incidentally in case you havent notice the team is already upset and results are already being affected. The sooner we get these yanks gone the better

[Number 9]

Im very concerned about the whole situation.The media whether it be tabloid papers or the likes of Sky have been a major factor in every fans anger.The two yanks have been a disgrace and have showed that they care nothing for our great club,and the proof is that apart from their initial circus when they 'bought' the club they have done absolutely nothing to endear themselves to the biggest and most important part of LFC..the fans!

They care nothing for how important our traditions are and have made no effort whatsoever to try and clean up the mess they have made.They look like fools but dont even care.
If they do sell to DIC they have simply used our club to make 'a quick buck' or £70 million...it will a travesty if they sell because we have been used..and it will be a travesty if they dont sell because we are in the hands of two kunts that care nothing for LFC,all they care about is money,they feel fu.ck all for us fans,the players the manager and his staff or the values that LFC have held and will hold for years to come!

The one plus side is that no matter what happens we will always be here when the two Yanks are dead LFC will still be going strong and that will be the proof that capitalism cannot overcome passion.

Protest or not..boycott or not,we need to be heard thats for sure.The sad part is i dont think they care whether we want them or not.For the time being anyway the power is in their hands.
LFC is everything to us but to G&H its just a small part of an empire...or something as little as a pawn on a chessboard!
The sooner the kunts are gone the better in my eyes,but whos for sure that DIC are gonna be any better??

This is a rocky part in our history and its crucial that the next step is the right one or things could get worse!