Some painful decisions lie ahead. All the top clubs no longer want supporters, they want customers. But the one thing that the rich and powerful fear is "the mob", remember the expenses scandal? It takes things getting ugly.
What we do need is a credible vehicle , whether it is our own "FC United" ( but i doubt if many would have the patience) or mre realistically a properly funded supporters group generating its own cash and power base.
Yes painful decisions lie ahead I dont accept that "the mob" mentality will work. You cite the recent expenses scandal, that was not a mob mentality at all. That was a national newspaper standing up for what is right and exposing those cheating twats. The nation rightly were disgusted and many of those MP's will lose their jobs.
Our situation is much more serious that 600+ cheating MP's.
Liverpool Football Club is no longer a club that relies on its gates and no longer has a scouse heartbeat, those days are well and truely over. Liverpool Football Club has become a global institution and chases the $, indeed the $ has become the sole ambition of our club.
Winning the league to us mere supporters is a dream that we all want to achieve to get to 19 before Manchester Utd is essential to us as we must maintain our status as the most decorated club in England. Winning the league to our owners is a means to their end. Therefore they have been happy to allow Rafa to spend in the transfer market to them its a no risk policy.
This speculating to accumulate though shall only be short term, and this transfer window so far has indicated that the policy has already shifted. Should we win the league it will mean millions of $ profit to our owners and at that stage they will be ripe for a take over.
We will never have owners who's first love is for the Club anymore, what we will have is owners who look for a profit. Its no use looking back and entering into the blame culture, Moores, Parry, Noel White or whoever is to blame whats the point in looking back save for taking lessons from their mistakes.
If we ALL accept that LFC is a business first and foremost then we will have a level playing field and that is when our owners will really begin to take notice and no just pay lip service.
SOS is a good start and Shareliverpool was a decent idea, if they joined forces publicly and privately then a combined commercial venture could begin. This venture could develop support throughout the world and gain credability.
Commercialising the supporters on behalf of the supporters becomes a real threat to the owners, a powerful commercial body will have more effect on their performance that a random march to the ground or a boycott of a match or anything of that ilk.
Sorry but boycott's and marches have been done by many supporters of different clubs and to be honest they are small time something that will blow over until the next one. Playing the fuckers at their own game however becomes a daily chore to them and eventually it will erode their desire to remain.
So they have fucked off and the commercial venture has become powerful what happens with the new owners etc, obvious fucking questions perhaps Mr Rogan Taylor could answer them after all he is the brainy one !. I think that a deal of part ownership would then come into play, hopefully one day we will get to that stage.
