by big al » Wed Nov 12, 2003 5:53 pm
You've all pushed me into saying something that cuts my heart out. Man U are the best team in English football Because Ferguson demands ultimate professionalism both on and off the pitch.
1. That requires players to worship the shirt. Not spend time worrying about who's after them or what bloody medals they can win or can I go somewhere and get a sun tan. Some of you worship Mcmanaman But he's a bloody pest. If he loved the club so much he should have stayed and helped us get better. all he do'es is tell Owen he should leave "F**k You Maccers"
2. Never let the other team have the ball for more than two forward passes three is a goal.
3. Win every 1st, 2nd, 3rd ball etc. continually pressure the opposing team. Do't stand about waving your bloody hand for offsides or penalties. Even 5 year old kids know play the whistle.
4. Never Never never say die. I've got a sore leg I'm off. You were'nt allowed to have a sore leg in the old liverpool teams.
5 Believe in yourself and your team mates. No good if your players don't trust each other. Gerrard runs about the pitch kicking everything that moves because the poor lad bloody has too . Everbody else is too busy looking for their agent or manager in the crowd.
6 Use the costa nostra code say nothing, to nobody, about nothing. Whats in house stays in house.
7 Go to bed early. For too long we have had prima donna's running about all hours of the night thinking their gods gift. The old guard at liverpool would have sunk a size 8 up a couple of backsides long ago. This says a lot about professionalism and Beckham paid price at Old Trafford good on ye fergie.
8 Put your family life above everything including football. Shanks took only Family men, no womanisers, or p#ss artists and if they were they knew how to keep it so well hid that the boss never found out.
9 Close players down, close players down, close players down even your own if you need to and kick everyone Even the ref if he gets in the way. Not practical today but you know what I mean. Passion commitment Blind focus on the game.
10 Nothing is impossible for the team. If its mathmatically possible we can do it but we never tell our oponents we can't do it, just shake the head look coy and keep saying its a hard task.
11 Losing is nothing. Absolutely nothing!
12 Winning is the way to greatness. History is written by the victors. Liverpool have for so long written the history of brittish and european history. Now we are the ones being written about. and that sucks.
13 Take each game one at a time. That means for every game, pick the best of what you've got even mickey mouse cups. Ferggie falls at this on Shanks is still running. Bill never played a friendly game in his life. winning during training was just as vital. If you settle for less than perfection then what you'll get will be a whole lot bloody less.
14 No one is bigger than the club, Even Bill for all his greatness knew this and never tried to be bigger than liverpool fc. unlike ferggie.
15 Football is more than a matter of life and death.
Many have misinterept Shanks because he was'nt referring to himself he was much too modest a man for that.
Bill Shankly talked about those people who came to Anfield as children, who grew up and went off to fight and die in two world wars, yet always had liverpool fc in their hearts. Who lost comrades and friends that once stood with them on the terraces. Those that became old and left the mortal plain.
Liverpool is, was their life and will be in their hearts long long after death.
Liverpool for many give them hope in the bitter world of deprivation and poverty that shrouded their lives. For dockers and miners, barrow boys and factory workers for the unemployed he brought them something bigger than they themselves could ever be. He helped them be part of the greatest football club in the world. Yes guys we once rivalled Real Madrid, Benfica, Roma, Milan, once they feared us today they laugh at us.
The pride and spirit that Shankly, Paisley and Fagan give working class people not only in liverpool but across the britain, europe and the world. The fulfilment of dreams is what lies at the very soul of true liverpool football fans.
This is the code that the great managers and great players live by.
Do'es Houlier match up to this? No but then again we never expected him to. We just wanted him to understand it.
I would have rather had the spend the last five years with Roy Evans in control without trophies because at least he understood me and countless thousands who, live for the smell of freshly cut grass and wintergreen. Who's life still requires the weekly fix of their beloved liverpool and who know what its really all about.
Telling us the league is over shows he can never have our dreams in his heart. He lives in another world, that do'es not see Anfield as Liverpools greatest albeit third cathedral. his world is where teachers and bussiness men, play games with the dreams of children. He's not and never will be one of us. Stood in the Kop "Bullocks"
"rise up like lions after slumber, ye the unvanquishible number
shake your chains to earth like dew,which in sleep befallen you
Ye are many, they are few"
Please Please leave Mr Houlier
"Football Is the greatest democracy of all, That's providing your not Italian and pay the referee" Big al 2006