The board room battle at Liverpool football club has been a main talking point among football for recent years now and with the High court battle saga just unravelling into tortoise and hare race with New England Sports Ventures patiently waiting on the fence for their inevitable congratulations and gratitude from the Liverpool fans who will welcome them.
Behind the scenes at Liverpool is no doubtingly a complete mess because of two men who were seeking to own a football club with no interest in football, something any good businessman straight away would say is a bad idea. But luckily enough for the players whilst they have been playing some appalling football, the media have not been picking up on this as the high court battle makes a much better read. Players like Torres, Gerrard and Carragher would usually be the players to come under heaps of pressure by the press in asking why the bad form. But football of today is much more than the football now.
Roman Abromovich was the first big money chairman that helped a club on the verge of champions league qualification places to now the best established team in England at this moment in time. He has managed to govern his club well in the essence he got all of the dead wood out straight away and brought in the players from the start he thought would give him the best squad, in which he was succeeded with minor debt. The Glazer family were the next big money family to take control of a football club and the first big money Americans. As any Englishman knows no football fan agrees with Americans associating themselves with football... let alone running one of the biggest clubs in Manchester United. They have never gained respect from their fans and in the past years protests from fans have resulted in a blast from the past bringing in the true colours of Manchester United of yellow and green scarfs. But somehow they are managing to cope with the substantial debt around £700m. However not to far away the same can not be said for the Liverpool owners.
Tom Hicks and George Gillett bought Liverpool football club each having equal shares, and its not in any Americans nature to be on equal terms, they always want that one better than each other, so squabbling started from the very beginning with each one trying to weasel there way into more shares into the club to gain further control. The Board room battle has resulted in jobs behind the scenes at the club lasting around 3 months for anyone working there who disagrees with the owners. But fortunately the first sight of a silver lining came in the appointment of Martin Broughton as the new chairman to look for the best sale of the club, and while the fans grew inpatient with a man who is a season ticket holder at rivals Chelsea, the fans lack of patience was kicked to the side of the road when compared to the fans hatred for the owners.
The Liverpool fans are most likely the most loyal and passionate fans in the country in the essence that they care for the club they love. Almost like a loving Auntie or Uncle, they visit them on weekends and are always in high spirits when seeing their nephews, but care for them enough to be able to tell them off occasionally. And that's what the club needs to always remember and where Tom Hicks and George Gillett went wrong from the start. They were fighting with each other for ownership of the club when all along everyone knows its the fans that run a football club, especially Liverpool Football Club.
This ongoing high court battle was brought to a close on the 15Th October and since then Liverpool football club have endured a turbulent, yet promising run of form with a 2-0 win against Chelsea bringing Fernando Torres out of his scoring duck and in that same week we saw heroics at Anfield that Liverpool only seem to get on European nights, albeit the Europa league. Steven Gerrard came off the bench at half time against Napoli to score a hat-trick in a memorable European night not only for fans but also the new Owner John W Henry and his wife who embraced the warm atmosphere by singing along to the infamous "You'll Never Walk Alone."
That song has always been the body and soul of Liverpool Football Club, but for this moment in time has it never been so relevant to the clubs predicament. The fans will be chanting the song in hope that their team will now not walk alone but with owners with whom they can trust upon to salvage their club.
Friday, 15 October 2010
Thursday, 14 October 2010
The swinging 60's, The 'peace' 70's, the punk 80's... our era may not be about music, but it seems a lot more important than that now for the teens
You often hear people questioning what type of music typified the Noughties decade, but i see it as an obvious answer as there was no type of music that typified the Noughties. What typified the Noughties was the fact that everything that was leading teenagers into adulthood was not met with the help teens seek, but the complete opposite of stopping them grow.
Knife crime, young offenders, teenage pregnancy. Just a few of the things that were labelled on teenagers during the Noughties. And many questions are asked why this is? And as there is no excuse for any of this juvenile behaviour the adults of today aren't exactly consulting it in the right manner. Yes, they lock them away. Yes, they think they give the best help for them. But what about the teenagers who are safe and good with a promising career ahead of them. How are they going to pay £5,000 insurance on their first car or pay interest at university when they have to get a student loan in the first place?
The government today seem to crack down on all the teenagers going into adulthood like a secondary school teacher does on a class with one bad student in it. "If you do one bad thing then the rest of the class will suffer" Is a phrase i heard on more than one occasion during school and it is now being copied by the government in the fact that a few crashes by young drivers result in the good drivers, who don't go out racing, who may just drive for the fun of driving sensibly have to suffer with them.
"When are you going to get your life sorted and on track son" A phrase no doubt nearly every son has heard from their dad at some stage. We always hear about how our older generation were the 'good' generation in getting jobs at the tender age of 11 and gaining independence from a young age. How are the kids of today supposed to gain independence when there is no way of a teen getting a job under the age of 16 without health and safety laws preventing them. How are we supposed to gain Independence when if we do manage to scrape a job in today's recession that all the money they earn still won't be enough to pay for insurance AND University? The answer is basically they can't. We hear about people living with their parents until they are in there 30's this is because of the ridiculous debt people are in from finishing university. And now the same party that PROMISED to cut down university tuition fee's are now THREATENING to increase them massively in the coming years piling on more debt for the students when they leave and no doubt an extra 20 odd years at home with their parents.
It seems as though the teenagers and young adults are in an impossible war to win. 'Back in the days...' you would hear about a strike here and a strike there to get what they want. Adults always telling us you don't always get what you want or even deserve, "just get what your given." Not something every adult listens to as we hear moaning all the time in newspapers about this business going on strike for a pay rise or that one over there. But one thing to note is that the teenagers do not go on strike, they take all the grief on the chin, have a chuckle, maybe a drink and "Get what there given and live with it."
What I'm trying to say in this article is that since the turn of the decade it seems like there has been a turn in respect to teenagers, we may have only been around since 1955 but we still deserve the same respect as our elders. No we did not fight in a war, no we did not express free love and peace... But no we didn't live in what seemed an easy route to adulthood. University tuition fee's didn't exist, insurance on a car would be 50 smackers at a push never mind the petrol prices.
The youth of today have it tough because the adults of today make it tough for us. The pressure we are under for A levels because apparently every ones getting 'Easy A's' is a load of ****. The fact car insurance for young drivers is souring because not everyone is a safe driver is again a load of ****. But what probably is the most heart-wrenching thing that that adults are doing is stopping teenagers furthering there education by making university all about the money. We get criticised for getting into University to easily and then the next week there's an article about how many people missed out on places at university... as a result of government cutting down on places. WHY? So that teens with the only plan going to university ruined now can be on the streets?
The whole system works around in a circular narrative in the fact we start off as the bad guys and then the story unravels itself through the reasons why we are the bad guys but because of the stubborn nature of "We're your elders, we know best and respect us" makes us still the seem the bad guys. If teenagers and adults are ever going to coincide then there has to be a line drawn where adults accept us into their world and help us along the way, instead of creating a brick wall that the adults seem to sit on top of with us scrambling at the bottom with debt holding us down.
So the era's before the Noughties were all created by the teenagers in the essence through music. This however is a new decade which the adults seem to think they can rule from the start and are now undermining the teenagers. So the Noughties are not remembered for a type of music, them decades have come and past...
...The Noughties are remembered by the teenagers for feeling let down by the older generation in stopping us grow but one phrase that we all do learn that the adults may want to listen to a bit more is "Get what your given and live with it."
Knife crime, young offenders, teenage pregnancy. Just a few of the things that were labelled on teenagers during the Noughties. And many questions are asked why this is? And as there is no excuse for any of this juvenile behaviour the adults of today aren't exactly consulting it in the right manner. Yes, they lock them away. Yes, they think they give the best help for them. But what about the teenagers who are safe and good with a promising career ahead of them. How are they going to pay £5,000 insurance on their first car or pay interest at university when they have to get a student loan in the first place?
The government today seem to crack down on all the teenagers going into adulthood like a secondary school teacher does on a class with one bad student in it. "If you do one bad thing then the rest of the class will suffer" Is a phrase i heard on more than one occasion during school and it is now being copied by the government in the fact that a few crashes by young drivers result in the good drivers, who don't go out racing, who may just drive for the fun of driving sensibly have to suffer with them.
"When are you going to get your life sorted and on track son" A phrase no doubt nearly every son has heard from their dad at some stage. We always hear about how our older generation were the 'good' generation in getting jobs at the tender age of 11 and gaining independence from a young age. How are the kids of today supposed to gain independence when there is no way of a teen getting a job under the age of 16 without health and safety laws preventing them. How are we supposed to gain Independence when if we do manage to scrape a job in today's recession that all the money they earn still won't be enough to pay for insurance AND University? The answer is basically they can't. We hear about people living with their parents until they are in there 30's this is because of the ridiculous debt people are in from finishing university. And now the same party that PROMISED to cut down university tuition fee's are now THREATENING to increase them massively in the coming years piling on more debt for the students when they leave and no doubt an extra 20 odd years at home with their parents.
It seems as though the teenagers and young adults are in an impossible war to win. 'Back in the days...' you would hear about a strike here and a strike there to get what they want. Adults always telling us you don't always get what you want or even deserve, "just get what your given." Not something every adult listens to as we hear moaning all the time in newspapers about this business going on strike for a pay rise or that one over there. But one thing to note is that the teenagers do not go on strike, they take all the grief on the chin, have a chuckle, maybe a drink and "Get what there given and live with it."
What I'm trying to say in this article is that since the turn of the decade it seems like there has been a turn in respect to teenagers, we may have only been around since 1955 but we still deserve the same respect as our elders. No we did not fight in a war, no we did not express free love and peace... But no we didn't live in what seemed an easy route to adulthood. University tuition fee's didn't exist, insurance on a car would be 50 smackers at a push never mind the petrol prices.
The youth of today have it tough because the adults of today make it tough for us. The pressure we are under for A levels because apparently every ones getting 'Easy A's' is a load of ****. The fact car insurance for young drivers is souring because not everyone is a safe driver is again a load of ****. But what probably is the most heart-wrenching thing that that adults are doing is stopping teenagers furthering there education by making university all about the money. We get criticised for getting into University to easily and then the next week there's an article about how many people missed out on places at university... as a result of government cutting down on places. WHY? So that teens with the only plan going to university ruined now can be on the streets?
The whole system works around in a circular narrative in the fact we start off as the bad guys and then the story unravels itself through the reasons why we are the bad guys but because of the stubborn nature of "We're your elders, we know best and respect us" makes us still the seem the bad guys. If teenagers and adults are ever going to coincide then there has to be a line drawn where adults accept us into their world and help us along the way, instead of creating a brick wall that the adults seem to sit on top of with us scrambling at the bottom with debt holding us down.
So the era's before the Noughties were all created by the teenagers in the essence through music. This however is a new decade which the adults seem to think they can rule from the start and are now undermining the teenagers. So the Noughties are not remembered for a type of music, them decades have come and past...
...The Noughties are remembered by the teenagers for feeling let down by the older generation in stopping us grow but one phrase that we all do learn that the adults may want to listen to a bit more is "Get what your given and live with it."
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