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[NANNY RED]

I dont feel sorry for Moores at all , The deal with Dic was done and dusted and yet at the last minute up pops Gillette again with the other gobsh.ite offeres a few bob more and pound signs flicker in Moores eyes,

He says he new Gillette well he must have been his best mate to just take his word that Hicks was sound and not do any nosying around about him, I am actualy suprised that Dic have hung around in the shadows waiting to come back in for us again.

Moores and Parry came out of this sale well this sh.it has been goin on for months and only now have we herard anything from the pair of them , Disgraceful in my opinion.

[Igor Zidane]

over here in Singapore, on one of the ESPN programs hosted by John Dykes (I don't know if you guys know him but he's quite good) , he talks to this other guy (I've forgotten his name) who always acts as the local news (from England) provider (he always pulls up various newspapers on the show and talks about them) and that guy said that according to his knowledge, Hicks is the one that favours Rafa and that one of Hick's basis for asking Parry to resign is based on Parry screwing up Rafa's requested transfers... and that apparently Rafa's outburst of "I'm concentrated on coaching my team" last year was directed mainly at Parry because Parry was the one that told Benitez to just focus on coaching... and what's more according to that guy, there has been reports that Hicks has managed to secure the finances to buy out Gillett's share and that is the reason why Hicks is being so confrontational in asking Parry to resign...

I think it's pure speculation... but what do you guys hear about this? might there be any truth in it? it seems like rafa's being pulled in the cross-fire by Hicks...

That's exactly it mate , rafa's been caught in the crossfire. It's well known that he was p!ssed at parry for his ineptitude in the transfer market .Hicks is trying to use this as a way of getting us fans on his side, he has seriously miscalculated. Hicks and gilette are our priority at the moment, we must concerntrate on getting them out . Whatever happens, Parry is gone anyway.

Hicks is in his final deaththrows imo , he's doing all he can to get control and he can't . Gilette has publicly said he won't sell to hicks. Even if hicks bought giletts half ,why not wait until he's got full control and then sack parry . It makes no sense at all , he can only request he resigns because he doesn't have control of the boardroom . It's all bravardo from hicks , nothing more.

[Red @ Heart]

Barry has brought this situation upon himself, he the one was responsible for bring in those two American profiteering sharks, instead of completing the initial deal with DIC at the time when J. Moors was selling LFC ownership.

I am wear that Barry had made some bad mistakes, but somehow he deserve the fans support for now, in order to get the club out of Hick's claws for ever. The timing of this new saga is wrong, and the LFC ownership must be sorted out just as the season ends, and the Liverpool supporters Club are really should pursuit with their new scheme of obtaining the club ownership through the supporters shares ownership, or put a huge pressure on Yankee sharks to force them to sell their ownership shares to new owners who is prepared to care about LFC interest.

whose barry?

Aint he one of the chuckle brothers

It was a typing mistake, do you want to be funny and wanting to know who is Barry? he is your lover!!!!!!!!!!!       you thick!!!!!!!!

you have an odd keyboard, the letters P and B are not even close on the keyboard,,, thats one hell of a typo. 

[Kukilon]

It could be Hicks way to find out who is being loyal to him.

[Reg]

Folks, I dont think too many people actually feel SORRY for Moores, however HE IS one of the view people in the position to sort this out.

Parry and Benitez are bit-part players, H&G hate eachother but realistically, if Moores decided to rally the fans, the past senior club players, have quiet words with thr press, sponsers and the FA etc.. he is probably the only guy who could make Hick's poisition totally untenable.

This interview I like to think, is the first shot across the bows. I imagine the second move would be more direct. The message is 10% contained within the interview and 90% the fact that he has broken his silence. It wont go unmissed on either Hicks, or Gillett who by definition, Moores probably sides with.

Game on Moorsey, sort that tw@t out.

[NANNY RED]

Why doest this b,astard just shut his gob



Breaking point in fight for Anfield as co-owner Hicks wants chief executive Parry thrown out

EXCLUSIVE By JOE BERNSTEIN -

Last updated at 21:13pm on 12th April 2008


Liverpool joint owner Tom Hicks has escalated the battle for control of Anfield to breaking point by insisting that he wants to introduce a new team to run the club's finances within the next six weeks.

The Texan's declaration of intent is the latest round in his increasingly bitter stand-off with fellow American owner George Gillett and the club's chief executive, Rick Parry.


Hicks called for Parry's resignation last week, a demand that the chief executive described as 'offensive', coming as it did just 48 hours after Liverpool's epic Champions League win against Arsenal.

Now, in a wide-ranging interview with The Mail on Sunday ahead of Liverpool's home game against Blackburn today, Hicks says he wants Parry removed from the job he has held for 10 years and a new CEO to be in position before the end of May.

Hicks is understood to favour the promotion to chief executive of commercial director Ian Ayre, a Liverpudlian who was brought in to the club last year to try to boost Liverpool's revenue-making operations around the world.

Hicks accuses Parry of holding back the development of the club, both in its commercial growth and on the pitch, and of having been actively involved in the controversial talks with Jurgen Klinsmann last year that effectively started the civil war at Anfield by undermining the position of Rafa Benitez as manager.

The American claims that Parry has 'refused to interact' with Ayre and his commercial team and that only the chief executive's removal from his job would enable Benitez to sign the players he wants in order to mount a credible title challenge.

Hicks said: "Rick Parry has been Liverpool's CEO for 10 years and we haven't won a league championship under his leadership. Our commercial revenues have not kept up with other top clubs during that time, which has made it very difficult to compete for the Premier League.

"After watching him operate, I came to the conclusion it was time to ask him to resign, due to his inability to manage an organisation, his seemingly arrogant attitude to our supporters and his lack of communication with Rafa.

"I reached my decision a few weeks ago but waited until after the games against Everton and Arsenal. It is important to try to have a new CEO in place by May so we can begin working with Rafa on player transfers."

Parry, who has the support of Gillett as the two Americans jostle for control of the £400 million Liverpool empire, is understood to be astonished that question marks could be placed against his record as an administrator both with the Premier League, where he was also chief executive, and with Liverpool.

He says a meeting of the six-man Liverpool board should be called to discuss Hicks's accusations.

As the board consists of Hicks, Gillett, their sons, Tommy Hicks jnr and Foster Gillett, Parry himself and former chairman David Moores, Parry is confident that the Gillett camp would win any vote of confidence in him by a 4-2 majority.

Parry said: "I stand by my track record in English football and as chief executive of Liverpool Football Club. It would be inappropriate for me to comment in detail on these allegations — that should be a matter for the Liverpool board.

"In fact, I would welcome an opportunity to discuss these matters with our co-owners and board colleagues. This continuous airing of issues in the media is clearly not helpful at this crucial stage of our season."

Helpful or not, Hicks is intent on setting his version of events before the Liverpool public. He is known to be particularly annoyed at being blamed for going behind Benitez's back to meet Klinsmann when he claims the meeting was primarily set up by Gillett, with Parry's knowledge.

Parry does not deny having been at crucial discussions with Klinsmann, the former German World Cup player and coach, but says he was there at the instruction of Hicks and Gillett.

Hicks insists Liverpool need a single strong owner at the helm.

He promised that if he takes full control Benitez would be given a long-term deal, and he vowed to eliminate the majority of the club's debt before they run out in a planned new stadium at Stanley Park in 2011.

Hicks said: "It's time for Liverpool to have one strong owner to give Rafa the support he needs to win trophies, grow our commercial revenues worldwide and build the best stadium in the world. I believe I am that owner.

"Under my ownership, Ian Ayre, Philip Nash [the finance director] and Rafa Benitez would make an outstanding management team. As we prepare to move into our new stadium in 2011, we will have the resources to be competitive year in and year out, and restore Liverpool Football Club to its position as the No 1 club in the world."

Benitez, who wants to sign three players in the summer, has complained in the past that the club have risked losing stars because of a lack of urgency in the transfer market.

Parry was also heavily criticised for not letting regular fans know the details of how tickets for last season's Champions League final in Athens were allocated. Hicks said he would ask Gillett to support the ending of Parry's contract.

"If he chooses not to, the record will be clear," said Hicks.

He is aware that he and Gillett are not popular with sections of the Liverpool fan-base who are fed up with the ownership saga dragging on for months. "I can certainly understand the fans' concerns," said Hicks.

Meanwhile, Moores, the man who sold the club to the two Americans 14 months ago, has hit out at their feuding. "It makes the club a laughing stock and that's not acceptable," he said. "This is not what the club is about. It is embarrassing and not an acceptable way of doing things. It needs to be resolved as quickly as possible. The two owners have got to stop thinking of themselves and start thinking of the club, its values, traditions and heritage."

[Reg]

The pot calling the kettle black:

'After watching him operate, I came to the conclusion it was time to ask him to resign, due to his inability to manage an organisation, his seemingly arrogant attitude to our supporters and his lack of communication with Rafa.' 

This man will not stop until he was ripped the soul out of our club.

[NANNY RED]

Im trying to watch the golf to calm me down but im fumin after reading that article who is this bas.tard trying to kid hes living in la la land .What a piece of S.hit he is trying to play us for fools by going on about Raffa and a new contract and the new stadium. and how he understands the fans concerns.

He knows all

[god_bless_john_houlding]

That's unfair nanny. He knows that certain fans want Benitez given a new contract and he knows that pretty much all fans want the new stadium, so he knows what he's doing. What he is failing to clearly see though is that the fans he's talking about don't want him in charge. He's trying to regain the trust of the fans, when it's quite clear that there is no chance on god's green earth that Liverpool fans will take to Tom Hicks.

[NANNY RED]

That's unfair nanny. He knows that certain fans want Benitez given a new contract and he knows that pretty much all fans want the new stadium, so he knows what he's doing. What he is failing to clearly see though is that the fans he's talking about don't want him in charge. He's trying to regain the trust of the fans, when it's quite clear that there is no chance on god's green earth that Liverpool fans will take to Tom Hicks.

We all know what hes trying to do John but surely he must not think were that stupid Hes playing Raffa off against us and it wont stop there .

I hate him so much it scares me

From The Sunday Times

April 13, 2008

Anfield anarchy

After a triumphant week on the field, the hierarchy at Liverpool are at each other’s throats off it

Jonathan Northcroft

Black-humoured hacks refer to it as a “cracked badge week”. That’s when a football club is deemed to be so deep in crisis that your editor prints a picture of the club’s insignia with a fracture line down the middle. It normally takes a calamitous defeat; Liverpool may be the first club to undergo a cracked badge week after winning through to the last four of the Champions League.

The Kop, which played such a large part in Tuesday’s thrilling quarter-final victory, were allowed 36 hours to savour the conquest of Arsenal before the politics that have been hurting morale throughout the season kicked again with a vengeance. On Thursday news broke that Tom Hicks, Liverpool’s co-owner, had asked Rick Parry, its chief executive, to resign. The request was sent in a letter that quickly appeared on a 24-hour television news channel.

Parry was soon appearing before the cameras to condemn Hicks for public washing of “dirty linen”. David Moores, who sold the club to Hicks and his partner, George Gillett, echoed Parry’s comments in yesterday’s Liverpool Echo. He called Hicks’s action “embarrassing” and “distasteful” and said it was “totally unacceptable to see this being played out in the public arena”. Hicks is adamant that the letter was supposed to remain private. If he didn’t leak it, who did, he wonders.

Hicks has given no interviews since the fallout caused when he disclosed in January that he and Gillett talked to Jurgen Klinsmann about replacing Rafael Benitez as manager, but feels he has no option but to break his silence. On the dirty linen issue he said: “I didn’t hear Rick Parry say it was offensive when George gave his radio interview [in Canada], telling the world our relationship had become unbearable. When the Klinsmann story broke, I didn’t hear Rick Parry or George Gillett say they were the ones who set up the Klinsmann meeting, that George had known him from Vail [the US ski resort] and that Rick, George and Foster [Gillett’s son] had participated with Tom Jr [Hicks’s son] and me in the meeting. Rick allowed all the controversy to build without taking any responsibility.”

Parry reacted indignantly, explaining his presence at the Klinsmann rendezvous had been ordered by Hicks and Gillett. “I stand by my track record in England football and as chief executive of Liverpool. It would not be appropriate to comment in detail on these allegations – that should be a matter for the Liverpool board. I would welcome an opportunity to discuss these matters with our co-owners and board colleagues,” Parry said. “This continuous airing of issues in the media is not helpful at this crucial stage of the season.”

Benitez has long known the approach to Klinsmann was instigated by Gillett, which prompted a warming in his relations with Hicks after they had fallen out over transfer policy. But the revelation that it was assisted by Parry – the man who appointed Benitez and to whom he answers on a day-to-day basis – will trouble the Spaniard. It may also prompt fans, who have blamed Hicks for the Klinsmann debacle, to re-evaluate.

Hicks did not go public before, hoping the matter would be put to rest in the interests of club stability, but under attack he believes he has to explain the Klinsmann rendezvous. Parry flew to New York for the meeting and played a part when Klinsmann and the owners talked about managing Liverpool. “George and Rick were both disingenuous letting me take the heat on the Klinsmann controversy just because I answered a reporter’s question truthfully when asked,” Hicks said.

Parry’s relationship with Benitez is one reason Hicks is seeking his exit. Others centre on Liverpool’s performance as a business and Parry’s relations with fans. Liverpool are Europe’s eighth-richest club, according to the latest Deloitte money league, and Hicks believes they could be doing better. Since 2006, when their position was the same, revenues have risen by £11.6m per season, whereas Manchester United’s jumped by £45.7m. Last May fans staged a protest outside Anfield, demanding Parry’s head, blaming him for the fact that thousands of season ticket-holders were missing out on tickets to the Champions League final in Athens, although Liverpool had been given only 17,000 tickets by Uefa.

Hicks, however, feels the matter could have been handled better. On Parry’s wider performance he said: “Rick has been chief executive officer of Liverpool Football Club for 10 years. During that time our commercial revenues have not kept up with other top clubs, which has made it difficult to compete for the Premier League. We have not won a league championship under his leadership. His seemingly arrogant attitude to our supporters and his lack of communication with Rafa [meant] it was time to ask him to resign. I reached my decision a few weeks ago, but waited until after the games against Everton and Arsenal.”

Hicks did not want to wait until the end of the season before seeking changes, because he feels it is important to have a new chief executive in place to enable Benitez to make signings when the transfer window opens on June 1. This could be possible because the man it is thought he wants, Ian Ayre, whom he appointed commercial director last year, is already there. Hicks said: “Under Parry, LFC never had a commercial department, which is why our revenues have fallen so far behind, which in turn hurts our ability to compete. Parry has had little to do with Ian or the team he has put together. In spite of this, Ian has put together a great team, reestablished relationships with sponsors and supporters and positioned the club to take advantage of its success on the pitch.”

Koppites are concerned about the boardroom skirmishing affecting their team’s chances in a Champions League semi-final with Chelsea, the first leg of which is nine days away. “I have confidence in Rafa to keep the players focused on the important games in front of us,” said Hicks. “He is having a great spring despite the media controversies, and I am confident we will celebrate in Moscow next month. I can understand the fans’ concerns, but as I said, we have had controversies stirred up by different groups for three months. I think the supporters will quickly move back on to the players when we play Blackburn. In addition, of course, I realise Tuesday being Hillsborough Memorial Day is a very emotional day in Liverpool history and should have its own special reverence from everyone at the club.”

Hicks acknowledged that he can only force Parry out with Gillett’s backing. That is unlikely to be secured because of the duo’s poisoned relations. “I will request George’s approval to terminate Rick’s contract. If he chooses not to, the record will be clear,” Hicks said. He confirmed that he will continue to block Gillett’s attempts to sell his shares to Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum’s Dubai International Capital (DIC) and denied that a “first refusal” agreement between the Americans that enables him to do so expires in six weeks.

Dismissing suggestions that his business empire is in trouble as “DIC spin”, Hicks said he still expected to use the first refusal agreement to buy Gillett’s shares himself and had a final message to fans – that him becoming sole owner was the best chance of keeping Benitez at the club. “I would give Rafa an extension,” he said. “George will either sell [to Hicks] or be forced to retain Rafa under our agreements for two more years. I want Rafa in charge. As a result, he will have a contract going forward.

“It’s time for Liverpool to have one strong owner that can give Rafa the support he needs to win trophies, oversee an outstanding management team to grow our commercial revenues and build the best football stadium in the world. I truly believe I can be that owner and under my ownership Ian Ayre, Philip Nash [liverpool’s financial director] and Rafa would make an outstanding management team.

“I have substantial assets and if I were majority owner I would invest additional cash. I have a 25-year track record as a successful investor and owner and I plan to arrange the permanent stadium financing and eliminate all debt on the team other than normal working capital and player lines of credit, and raise significant new equity from institutions and minority investors. Merrill Lynch and Inner Circle Sports are assisting me in this process.

“As we prepare to move into our new stadium in 2011, we will have the resources to restore Liverpool to its position as the No 1 club in the world.”

[RUSHIE#9]

That's unfair nanny. He knows that certain fans want Benitez given a new contract and he knows that pretty much all fans want the new stadium, so he knows what he's doing. What he is failing to clearly see though is that the fans he's talking about don't want him in charge. He's trying to regain the trust of the fans, when it's quite clear that there is no chance on god's green earth that Liverpool fans will take to Tom Hicks.

We all know what hes trying to do John but surely he must not think were that stupid Hes playing Raffa off against us and it wont stop there .

I hate him so much it scares me

From The Sunday Times

April 13, 2008

Anfield anarchy

After a triumphant week on the field, the hierarchy at Liverpool are at each other’s throats off it

Jonathan Northcroft

Black-humoured hacks refer to it as a “cracked badge week”. That’s when a football club is deemed to be so deep in crisis that your editor prints a picture of the club’s insignia with a fracture line down the middle. It normally takes a calamitous defeat; Liverpool may be the first club to undergo a cracked badge week after winning through to the last four of the Champions League.

The Kop, which played such a large part in Tuesday’s thrilling quarter-final victory, were allowed 36 hours to savour the conquest of Arsenal before the politics that have been hurting morale throughout the season kicked again with a vengeance. On Thursday news broke that Tom Hicks, Liverpool’s co-owner, had asked Rick Parry, its chief executive, to resign. The request was sent in a letter that quickly appeared on a 24-hour television news channel.

Parry was soon appearing before the cameras to condemn Hicks for public washing of “dirty linen”. David Moores, who sold the club to Hicks and his partner, George Gillett, echoed Parry’s comments in yesterday’s Liverpool Echo. He called Hicks’s action “embarrassing” and “distasteful” and said it was “totally unacceptable to see this being played out in the public arena”. Hicks is adamant that the letter was supposed to remain private. If he didn’t leak it, who did, he wonders.

Hicks has given no interviews since the fallout caused when he disclosed in January that he and Gillett talked to Jurgen Klinsmann about replacing Rafael Benitez as manager, but feels he has no option but to break his silence. On the dirty linen issue he said: “I didn’t hear Rick Parry say it was offensive when George gave his radio interview [in Canada], telling the world our relationship had become unbearable. When the Klinsmann story broke, I didn’t hear Rick Parry or George Gillett say they were the ones who set up the Klinsmann meeting, that George had known him from Vail [the US ski resort] and that Rick, George and Foster [Gillett’s son] had participated with Tom Jr [Hicks’s son] and me in the meeting. Rick allowed all the controversy to build without taking any responsibility.”

Parry reacted indignantly, explaining his presence at the Klinsmann rendezvous had been ordered by Hicks and Gillett. “I stand by my track record in England football and as chief executive of Liverpool. It would not be appropriate to comment in detail on these allegations – that should be a matter for the Liverpool board. I would welcome an opportunity to discuss these matters with our co-owners and board colleagues,” Parry said. “This continuous airing of issues in the media is not helpful at this crucial stage of the season.”

Benitez has long known the approach to Klinsmann was instigated by Gillett, which prompted a warming in his relations with Hicks after they had fallen out over transfer policy. But the revelation that it was assisted by Parry – the man who appointed Benitez and to whom he answers on a day-to-day basis – will trouble the Spaniard. It may also prompt fans, who have blamed Hicks for the Klinsmann debacle, to re-evaluate.

Hicks did not go public before, hoping the matter would be put to rest in the interests of club stability, but under attack he believes he has to explain the Klinsmann rendezvous. Parry flew to New York for the meeting and played a part when Klinsmann and the owners talked about managing Liverpool. “George and Rick were both disingenuous letting me take the heat on the Klinsmann controversy just because I answered a reporter’s question truthfully when asked,” Hicks said.

Parry’s relationship with Benitez is one reason Hicks is seeking his exit. Others centre on Liverpool’s performance as a business and Parry’s relations with fans. Liverpool are Europe’s eighth-richest club, according to the latest Deloitte money league, and Hicks believes they could be doing better. Since 2006, when their position was the same, revenues have risen by £11.6m per season, whereas Manchester United’s jumped by £45.7m. Last May fans staged a protest outside Anfield, demanding Parry’s head, blaming him for the fact that thousands of season ticket-holders were missing out on tickets to the Champions League final in Athens, although Liverpool had been given only 17,000 tickets by Uefa.

Hicks, however, feels the matter could have been handled better. On Parry’s wider performance he said: “Rick has been chief executive officer of Liverpool Football Club for 10 years. During that time our commercial revenues have not kept up with other top clubs, which has made it difficult to compete for the Premier League. We have not won a league championship under his leadership. His seemingly arrogant attitude to our supporters and his lack of communication with Rafa [meant] it was time to ask him to resign. I reached my decision a few weeks ago, but waited until after the games against Everton and Arsenal.”

Hicks did not want to wait until the end of the season before seeking changes, because he feels it is important to have a new chief executive in place to enable Benitez to make signings when the transfer window opens on June 1. This could be possible because the man it is thought he wants, Ian Ayre, whom he appointed commercial director last year, is already there. Hicks said: “Under Parry, LFC never had a commercial department, which is why our revenues have fallen so far behind, which in turn hurts our ability to compete. Parry has had little to do with Ian or the team he has put together. In spite of this, Ian has put together a great team, reestablished relationships with sponsors and supporters and positioned the club to take advantage of its success on the pitch.”

Koppites are concerned about the boardroom skirmishing affecting their team’s chances in a Champions League semi-final with Chelsea, the first leg of which is nine days away. “I have confidence in Rafa to keep the players focused on the important games in front of us,” said Hicks. “He is having a great spring despite the media controversies, and I am confident we will celebrate in Moscow next month. I can understand the fans’ concerns, but as I said, we have had controversies stirred up by different groups for three months. I think the supporters will quickly move back on to the players when we play Blackburn. In addition, of course, I realise Tuesday being Hillsborough Memorial Day is a very emotional day in Liverpool history and should have its own special reverence from everyone at the club.”

Hicks acknowledged that he can only force Parry out with Gillett’s backing. That is unlikely to be secured because of the duo’s poisoned relations. “I will request George’s approval to terminate Rick’s contract. If he chooses not to, the record will be clear,” Hicks said. He confirmed that he will continue to block Gillett’s attempts to sell his shares to Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum’s Dubai International Capital (DIC) and denied that a “first refusal” agreement between the Americans that enables him to do so expires in six weeks.

Dismissing suggestions that his business empire is in trouble as “DIC spin”, Hicks said he still expected to use the first refusal agreement to buy Gillett’s shares himself and had a final message to fans – that him becoming sole owner was the best chance of keeping Benitez at the club. “I would give Rafa an extension,” he said. “George will either sell [to Hicks] or be forced to retain Rafa under our agreements for two more years. I want Rafa in charge. As a result, he will have a contract going forward.

“It’s time for Liverpool to have one strong owner that can give Rafa the support he needs to win trophies, oversee an outstanding management team to grow our commercial revenues and build the best football stadium in the world. I truly believe I can be that owner and under my ownership Ian Ayre, Philip Nash [liverpool’s financial director] and Rafa would make an outstanding management team.

“I have substantial assets and if I were majority owner I would invest additional cash. I have a 25-year track record as a successful investor and owner and I plan to arrange the permanent stadium financing and eliminate all debt on the team other than normal working capital and player lines of credit, and raise significant new equity from institutions and minority investors. Merrill Lynch and Inner Circle Sports are assisting me in this process.

“As we prepare to move into our new stadium in 2011, we will have the resources to restore Liverpool to its position as the No 1 club in the world.”

Just about sums up every single word of Hicks' interview for me!

[god_bless_john_houlding]

It's a disgrace. He's constantly lowering the good name of Liverpool Football Club and he doesn't give a toss about it.

Just a thought, be interesting to see how you all feel...when we win the European Cup in Moscow, no doubt we'll have a homecoming, hopefully as good as 05 which was magical, but on that occasion and every other occasion whilst he was chariman David Moores was always on the coach. Me question is would Gillett and particuarlly Hicks have the balls and nevers to sit on an open top bus through the streets of Liverpool? If it is like 05 and the coach stops at St George's Hall (where i was) then there isn't a cat in hell's chance Hicks is getting out alive. Anybody think the yanks would be on the bus or tucked up in bed over in America?

[NANNY RED]

Hes crossed the line though now Rushie how dare he mention Hillsborough its a outrage

“I can understand the fans’ concerns, but as I said, we have had controversies stirred up by different groups for three months. I think the supporters will quickly move back on to the players when we play Blackburn. In addition, of course, I realise Tuesday being Hillsborough Memorial Day is a very emotional day in Liverpool history and should have its own special reverence from everyone at the club.”

[Kharhaz]

I hate sundays. I really do. All the tripe of the sunday tabloids get posted up here on each of there "experts" opinion, followed by "a source close to"...

Nothings changed really has it? looking at whats been said by hicks, a few pages back we said he was desperate, a few pages back we all agreed hicks should go. This was all before the recent events. No change for me. Unfortunately its coming to another bloody sunday isnt it?

[RUSHIE#9]

Hes crossed the line though now Rushie how dare he mention Hillsborough its a outrage

“I can understand the fans’ concerns, but as I said, we have had controversies stirred up by different groups for three months. I think the supporters will quickly move back on to the players when we play Blackburn. In addition, of course, I realise Tuesday being Hillsborough Memorial Day is a very emotional day in Liverpool history and should have its own special reverence from everyone at the club.”

Agreed Nan, he's been skating on thin ice with hot skates for the past 6 months now but even daring to mention Hillsborough in the same article as all of his other bullshit is just heating those skates up too much.

The fat fecker is clearly on the ropes now. He's using any kind of trick or saying anything he thinks is going to get the fans back on his side in the hope that it'll help him get the backing he needs to take control. Sadly for him (but not for us  ) it's not working.