This is a hard one. Something that merely serves to vent my anger. Feel free to read my two-pence
There is a chance that this may be seen who have never come across my name before or even from those who haven't seen much from and understand my views.
I am Jack, 22 from Liverpool - that statement alone can likely tell you a lot about my views.
Many of us are reeling from the announcement on Sunday Night. I feel bereaved. That might sound dramatic to some but to some i am 100% aware you stand with me on this feeling today.
The announcement came as a shock and that matter is the craziest of facts. Businesses have done something to further their business. I think this is why so many feel aggrieved today, we were sold on a falsehood & a idyllic dream.
Now, i know non of use share opinions on politics, religion or other things but we do share a love of football and we are seeing that unite us. However, for me it stems deeper than this. The hardest thing for me today is my naïvity has been demonstrated in a statement not even penned by the cowards who own MY club. If i were to ask you why do you support 'x' i'm sure you would be able to give me a reason if pressed but i'm certain the reason is because you were born to or because your dad, brother, uncle did, that is the beauty of our sport, we are brought together to follow 11 fellas kick a ball on a field. I, though, have a different reason to most. I didn't spend 22 years supporting a club just because my Dad did, just because they were a local team, not because they won everything for a decade before i even existed, obviously that is why i began my affair with Liverpool but in the last 10-15 year as my mind has matured it became more. I was in love with my club. As a scouser there is an ethos innate to your being, i don't mean being from the city, i mean being a Scouser because it's more than simply a person from the city to me. It is a way of life, we have battled decades of hardship, injustice & attacks from the powers that be. When i think of the things my city has endured i burst with pride, even to the point as i type this i'm verging on tears. To me, socialism - at is core meaning - goes hand in hand with being a scouser; so it is no surprise we worship a Scot who was the epitome of the word. So the song goes;
"Shankly is our Hero"
Liverpool Football Club, whether you like it or not, is steeped in socialism - not necessarily the political ideal, but working as part of a social; for the benefit of society and community. Ask any Liverpool fan from the city and i promise you they would never see a fellow scouser or Red out on his own; there is a very big reason You'll Never Walk Alone is our anthem. Our current slogan is 'This Means More' an outright fucking lie, a marketing ploy playing on the hearts of Scousers. Despicably.
I spent my formative years being duped by a money grabbing organisation based on the ideals to which i developed my love for my city, my people and my club. I feel like i have lost someone in my life today. That might well sound ridiculous to you but the one thing throughout my entire life was Liverpool Football Club - the biggest connection to my late father: Liverpool Football Club.
I can assure you i am not the only one either, Football connects us to so much more than just the primal excitement of a ball going into a net, it connects us to family we never knew, its a thing that brings together people like absolutely nothing else can and it is being torn away from us for the sake of money. Football is a working mans sport, we have drifted so far from that and while we did not cause it we are all complicit in this; we allowed money to be the driving force in football because we just nodded and went along with it. We ignored it so happily as we paid our sky subscriptions.
The truth is the Super League may well be the evil in this whole story but no one, and i mean NO ONE, is innocent here, Sky, BT, UEFA & FIFA only care about their shareholders and sadly the most important stakeholder of football is no longer us, the fans. We need widespread changes to safeguard this from ever happening this way again.
I have seen people attack the 12 clubs, the Super league as being bad and evil, but its not, its a business decision that will, undoubtedly make an absolute shiteload of money. There is no doubt about that, but that destroys the sport we all love. Now, the truth is, that will be hard to realise is that so will the UCL, so will every idea if made under the current model of thought. Where money is priority and uncontrolled it will rule hearts and heads.
Football needs a restart, much like society, this pandemic has highlighted how rigged society is to benefit the elite and how they are desperate to consolidate their place and make the gap from the elite to the rest as wide as possible.
I say i lost a loved one, today i did. Liverpool Football Club, in its current from through the ownership of FSG is not something i can align my views with and i hope someday soon those of you who feel the way i do are vindicated in that feeling and we reclaim OUR clubs back from the serpents that current own the institutions we so desperately love but to achieve that we need to all make sure we keep up the fight.
Thank you for reading my vent, you're a top fella.
See ya soon lads x
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