Topic: Walking away from Liverpool FC.... From Football itself....

[Barnes10]

I've never even considered giving up. Change is inevitable. I've been supporting the reds for over 25 years and I've seen a few changes over the years. But we live in a world which has is also changing and has changed over the past few decades. Why in the world would you walk away from something that's burnt into your bones??

[politico]

I find it interesting that AFC Liverpool have not been mentioned.
Believe me nearly 100% of those who walked away to set up FC United thought they could never do it.
But we did and loved it ever since-and many initially did both just to see if FC had that United spirit and atmosphere.
Does anyone know if someone from AFC Liverpool are invited to speak at the Olympic on Saturday.

www.mapfm.co.uk/afa

[Timbo's Goals]

I have my moments, had two this week.
At the West Ham game surounded by knobheads filming the match through mobile phones and cameras and also sat behind a grown man wearing a poncho and cowboy hat fucking off for a hot dog at 33 minutes.
Also the amount of Liverpool fans giving it the " who are yer " and " easeh easeh " last Wednesday was embarrasing.

Yesterday at the match and every fucking match I've been to the last few years I,m sick of listening to visiting supporters songs.

" You'll never get a job / work again "  This from people that I pressume live in the shitholes of Newcastle / Sunderland the soft c*nts. The bit that disturbs me most is I have a feeling these people think they are being original and witty when in fact everyone thinks you are prize twats, we hear it every other week you pricks.

" You stole my stereo "
" Your support is faackin shit "
" Shall we sing a song for you "

Ohh nearly forget yesterday  " Geordie boys taking the piss...geordie boys taking the piss "

Seems you lot have a different take on the phrase as I was at St James Pk and saw your fans fucking off after 65 minutes, booing your manager and players and if getting dicked three - nil on two occassions, witnessing shite football and generally being a laughing stock is taking the piss then I,m Nelson Mandela. Biggest clueless fans in football.

I know it shouldn't bother me but it does, sometimes I just can't be arsed.

You are not alone Grifter.

Feel exact same sentiments week in week out. Especially when it really does seem as if the prize twats of whom you speak actually do give the impression that they are singing those tiresome dirges for the very first time.

 

And of course the same kind of old ground/deja vue could be applied to the theme of this very thread. Yet another disillusioned thread.

[That Kennedy moment]

I drifted away from the game in the early Nineties – most probably like a lot of our fans for a very good (ie very bad) reason. I could never totally shut myself off from the club, but the love for it all, which had built up over fifteen years and had given me some of the best days of my life, had gone.

It was like drifting, denying something that was too important to ever give up for good. And when I was ready it all began again, like falling in love after telling yourself for years that you'll never fall for it again.

Now I'm as mad about football as ever, despite hating all the money and greed and selfishness in the game. But the fact is I'm not a supporter any more, I'm an armchair.

That could be the distinction - you might stop going the match, but you'll never fall out of love with the game.

[Kite]

Over two years since I was thinking like this.  And things have gotten much much worse.  Certainily seems many more are considering walking away until our owners are gone.

[redprodigal]

Over this past year I've paid a lot less attention to other teams than I normally do. I used to watch pretty much everygame on tv but now I only ever watch Liverpool, I normally don't even watch any highlight shows.

I could never and would never walk away from Liverpool, but now I find myself listening to music when a year ago I'd be watching some game on sky.

Same as me but I find myself going on a forum when a year ago I'd be watching some game on sky.

[the_prodigal_s0n]

Right now I don't think I want to watch a single match next year. I certainly won't be going to any. I'm going to start getting involved in the protests as best I can, but I don't give a fuck about what's happening on the pitch until those two leeches are gone.

[Lush is the best medicine...]

until those two still own the club i dont think i can step foot in anfield

[SadRed]

Have certainly decided to take a break for a year.

[ceros]

I'm somewhere off that myself.  Although the very fact I would even consider it is a sign of the times.  I fear that football will have to collapse with all the money going for it ever to get back to being "like the good old days".

I support a club, Athletic Club de Bilbao, that is almost (though not so much anymore) like the good old days but, even so, the bond is not so strong anymore. I still love watching football and try to go to, at least, a couple of matches every year but it pisses me off that the whole thing has turned into a huge (sometimes) heartless business. I know we're lucky (like Barcelona, Osasuna and Real Madrid, we belong to the socios not to a private owner) but I was genuinely upset when, at the end of 2007, my team accepted to carry commercial shirt publicity... I know it sounds silly but it was a big deal.

So I, for one, would welcome some sort of intervention to dramatically curb spending and take football back, a little bit, to what it used to be. All these multi-million pound transfers and crazy weekly salaries haven't made football more exciting, I don't enjoy a match better today than I did 15 years ago.

[redmark]

The steady stream of ex-players (and Roy Evans!) completely missing the fucking point today, and perhaps more than anything the apparent 'collusion' of Dalglish, has made the idea more of a possibility. If the emotional ties to the past are tainted, emotional ties to current players distorted by wondering which were snidely briefing journalists, what's left?

Somewhere deep in this, there is the remotest possibility of the fans gaining some degree of control or influence on the club. It's fucking deeply buried though. Other than that, if we're just another brand of Sky Football (TM), with no emotional ties left, what's the point?

[Johnnyboy1973]

The only pleasure I take from LFC these days is knowing I give those c*nts nothing.

[LiamG]

I could never walk away from Liverpool FC, It's been a huge part of my life, happyness,sadness angry and disappointing at times but hopefully it wont be too long before these yanks are gone!

[MagicB8all]

With the way the game is changing.  Have you considered walking away from Liverpool FC... From Football entirely.  Do you know anyone that already has ?

This isn't to discuss Hicks or DIC just what your thoughts are on the game and is there a breaking point for you and where are you in hitting that ?


I'm somewhere off that myself.  Although the very fact I would even consider it is a sign of the times.  I fear that football will have to collapse with all the money going for it ever to get back to being "like the good old days".

For me the club has been crippled and having it's marrow sucked from it. today I find it's had it's having its heart removed.  I'm tired. So many self professed fans are showing themselves to be cretins ( that includes Moores and Parry). My passion has gone, I feel worn out. I want to leave football for a while, maybe for good!

People are telling me to support another club. But a club is for life. That's what makes what the Yanks have done so appalling.

[Aristotle]

No. I'm too addicted and masochistic to ever give this up.

[CHOPPER]

As very good red told me not so long back "I used to go the match to escape reality, now I go to reality to escape the match"

I think that those that have been going for a while now, know what he means.

[lfcdave]

The steady stream of ex-players (and Roy Evans!) completely missing the fucking point today, and perhaps more than anything the apparent 'collusion' of Dalglish, has made the idea more of a possibility. If the emotional ties to the past are tainted, emotional ties to current players distorted by wondering which were snidely briefing journalists, what's left?

Somewhere deep in this, there is the remotest possibility of the fans gaining some degree of control or influence on the club. It's fucking deeply buried though. Other than that, if we're just another brand of Sky Football (TM), with no emotional ties left, what's the point?

I agree fully with you mate. I cant believe the shite spouted by people with supposed Liverpool blood in there body. They just cant seem to see it at all.

I didn't go last season - just could not give my money to finance the Yanks. I feel even less inclined to go back after todays events.

[Ada069]

ILL ALWAYS SUPPORT THIS CLUB

[rednile]

As very good red told me not so long back "I used to go the match to escape reality, now I go to reality to escape the match"

I think that those that have been going for a while now, know what he means.

I can see want was meant by that ,  i can also see myself never gonig the match again . And i never thought id heard myself saying that a few years back .

[43 and counting!]

been at that stage for the past year or so

i have had enough.

Murdoch has destroyed the game. even if we won the league now, it wouldn't cure this horrible feeling I have in my heart about this game i once loved so much.

i have my name down for a season ticket, and have done now for over a decade. thousands were in front of me, but I must be getting closer and closer to the top of the list. i don't think i'll be taking the ticket up when i get there.

it's the reason i hardly ever post on here anymore. i only came on today to see what was being said about rafa going.

maybe i'll mellow in time, but i don't think so. when the game gets back to it's roots, and more local boys start playing for their local teams, I think the fans will reconnect.

I'll be long gone by then though, i reckon.

YANKS OUT!

[redforlife]

It's crossed my mind the last 24 hours although I know I won't completely.  But the fact i've contemplated it is scary enough.

[stockdam]

LFC for life.

Anyone who even considers giving up should do so.

[rob1966]

Walked away last season. Did 3 home games, not one away. Usually do about 30 games a season, but the passion has died. Wasn't arsed about the football on the pitch, I'd seen far far worse under Souness and the last years of Houllier, it was the sickening greed that surrounds football,whoppers in the ground and the cancer in America that did me.

Istanbul brought us a whole new breed of clueless fuckwits, who suddenly decided they were going to go the match. From pissed up Irish pricks in Superman costumes to Cockneys older than me (I'm 43) asking me which one was the Kop/Main Stand/ Anfield Road etc, I got sick of the lot of them. I remember one beaut who was sat next to me in the Kemlyn (thats the centenary stand for those who don't know), going to get hotdogs and drinks for his kid and missus and missing Torres' debut goal against Chelsea. These fucks are the same one's who swallow the lies peddled by the Yanks and Purslow and heap all the blame for our current plight on Rafa - just fuck off will you and go and ruin someone else sport.

[Effes]

Did this a couple of years ago - haven't really missed it that much.

If you do it at the right time (for you), you wont miss it.

[wz4jc3]

Thats pretty much how it is for me mate.

Been this way for me for a long time now. I have certainly become more a Liverpool fan than a football fan.

Football is in a mess!  Just reading the Andrew Jennings book on the corruption within FIFA (I know you're shocked to hear this).  Just about sums up a fucked up sport!  Liverpool is part of me and always will be no matter what happens and what I desire. YNWA

[the jesus]

Sometimes i worry that is use football as some sort of crutch, something to fill the gaps between working and sleeping.

I can't imagine life without it but i have started to try.

[Koplass]

I'm seriously considering taking a break, if not completely walking away now. I can't see myself being able to carry on supporting the next manager with the same passion, whoever it may be.

People will say that 'no man is bigger than the club' but Rafa represented something that I could see was being eroded, and now appears to have been completely stripped away. I didn't grow up in Shankly's era, I grew up with Evans and later Houllier, but even when we weren't winning anything I was still fiercely proud of what my club stood for.

Dignity, class, humility, unity. Success was almost secondary in my eyes to those attributes, but those positives have all come crashing down around us today. I feel so disconnected now to the people running our club, the people playing for our club and some of the people supporting our club.

I actually hate large elements of Liverpool football club now, and five years ago that was completely unthinkable. The only way I can see things changing now is if we collapse completely, do a Leeds or Notts Forest and rid ourselves of the leeches that have attached themselves to this once great establishment (and I'm not just talking about the owners here).

[AriGold]

Never. Our club needs us more than ever before and I'm going nowhere. This is our club and we should fight until these bastards are gone.

[the jesus]

Never. Our club needs us more than ever before and I'm going nowhere. This is our club and we should fight until these bastards are gone.

Our club might well need us to walk away for a while.

[exiledintheUSA]

I would never walk away from the Club, it's in my blood. Moving away from Libpool and the UK a few years ago was a tough move, I miss the daily banter with the lads and going the match but to still have it in my heart is the only thing that matters.

[AriGold]

Our club might well need us to walk away for a while.

Explain? The SOS and all the other hardcore fans have devoted a lot of time and money trying to flush these twats out, we can't stop now. We need to keep pressure on them to fuck off.

[Twelfth Man]

Football lost its soul with Sky. I'm gutted but not surprised. It is to experience a steady decline in interest and increasing disillusionment a fans lot these days. Only a mutual LFC where the most important factor in any club takes precedence, the fans, could possibly rescue the dire place we find ourselves in.

[Commie Bobbie]

The only pleasure I take from LFC these days is knowing I give those c*nts nothing.

Wouldn't say that's a pleasure more a neccessity

[the jesus]

Explain? The SOS and all the other hardcore fans have devoted a lot of time and money trying to flush these twats out, we can't stop now. We need to keep pressure on them to fuck off.

Like walk away as in not go, boycott, to flush the twats out.

[WillG.LFC]

Im only 26 and ive seen football chang for the worse, all the diving, cheeting, bitching, debt and greed is a joke. its barely entertaining anymore. im liverpool through and through but those in charge need to make a change, gillette and hicks should never have been allowed to buy liverpool

[redmark]

LFC for life.

Anyone who even considers giving up should do so.

I don't think it's a conscious decision that people 'consider' exactly. It's like a little bit of the magic gets exposed for the grubby shite it really is, year after year, then a huge chunk gets ripped off in one go. What is it that I actually support? Everything, and nothing specifically. I think it's a complex combination of every little memory, of the football, the players, the fans, everything. If enough of the pieces fall away or are tainted and spoiled, will I wake up one day and simply not give a shit anymore? I won't have made any 'decision', but it feels like the realisation it might just 'happen' one day is growing.

[ALPH1217]

Been on board for far too many years to walk away.

[rednile]

Never. Our club needs us more than ever before and I'm going nowhere. This is our club and we should fight until these bastards are gone.

There just comes a point when you just cant be arsed going the game anymore , ive reached that point . It doesnt mean i'll stop supporting Liverpool , it just isnt the same anymore .

[Spanish Al]

I don't think I will ever walk away from football and our club. The major reason being that I am surounded by it. I wouldn't be able to avoid it. But also because I know eventually we will become the best again. Eventually.

[fowlermagic]

You get older, you get a job, you marry, have kids, gro old...the game will never be like what it was as a kid but I still love it, love the club just dont have all day & all night to think about it  anymore as more important things take priority like life. It does not pay the bills, it does not say I love you back or keep you warm at night or the wolves away from the door...but its still the first thig I look at most days when I ook t the news,what is going on at Liverpool. It has made me smile, laugh and cry ....today would have made me cry when I was a kid, like the day Kenny quit but I have not shed a tear today. Is that wrong? I dont think so as I was more concerned about my mates 7 month old son having an op. Thats life and some day when the yanks are gone I will be smiling again at another great moment the club brings to us now & then. I cant walk away from it ...who can ? as it takes up a tiny proportion of our lives where 90 minutes can make our day but hardly breaks us when it does not. There is too many joys in life to let one facet of it destroy you and so the club will still be here tmorrow and we will keep YNWA.

Now for another drink