bigmick wrote:With the greatest respect to the fans of our Israeli opponents, they are talking a whole bunch of nonsense visa-vis the second leg of this game. To plan to play a football match a couple of weeks henceforth in a country which is at war officially with a faction housed within the borders of one of it's neighbours would be a scandalous piece of mismanagement on the part of UEFA. When that country is also bordered on all sides by hostile nations which are supplying weaponry, expertese and personel to that hostile faction with a view to possibly even joining in the conflict themselves at a later date, to consider such a thing is cloud-cuckoo land.
While I can understand the frustration of the Haifa fans, both on the grounds that they would like the opportunity to see the game and in the sense that playing the game outside of Israel is a considerable disadvantage to them, to pretend that Liverpool fans, players or the club are behaving in an underhand way is a gross distortion of the situation.
The Israeli Palestine problem is a big one. Bigger than any football match and it seems almost disrespectful to humankind to me to be slinging insults between football fans when lifeless children are being dragged from buildings with their mothers in tears. Shankley didn't mean it, footballs not that important. I would refuse to go as a player, and UEFA are absolutely right to switch the game. Lets play the game, whoever wins doesn't really that much when you think about it in context.
Sorry- that's what i should have said before getting pis.sed off with all the moaning!!
nicely said Mick- totally agree!
quality response SS
