‘AT the end of the storm, is a golden sky, and the sweet silver song of the lark’
Lyrics burned into the very fabric of every Liverpool fan alive, from a song that defines our club whether in the darkest of days, or in the midst of the sweetest of victories.
At the end of such a wonderful week both on and off the pitch where the Liverbird has risen above and beyond a cockney Cockerel and a Welsh Bluebird – and more importantly securing our very own Uruguayan Rufous Hornero – are we seeing the rays of a golden sky bursting through the poisonous Hickgilletian smog that has choked us for far too long?
FSG, since coming into Anfield, have suffered from a curse, which in Latin is known as DuoBovempuer syndrome (trust me there is a joke there!) which stemmed from our fingers being badly burned under the last regime, when in reality we should have had at least 1 title following our impressive second place finish.
Instead we lost a raft of world class players, a world class manager, signed Christian Poulsen (no offence…maybe a little) and embarrassingly were dragged through the courts. Following the eager initial warm embrace shown to the Bostonians for freeing us from the evil clutches of the Tweedle brothers, feelings somewhat cooled with stop start appearances, the questionable treatment of a legend, Charlie Adam and the perceived struggles in the transfer market as an American and an Icelander inconceivably slipped through our fingers.
It is fair to say that opinion was as badly parted as my teenage hair (all chaps must have curtains at some point in their life, right?) with most of the graft put in at the club unseen as the toxic mess left by Paul and Barry Chuckle was slowly cleared.
Accusations such as ‘asset-strippers’ were thrown at the new owners with the doubters convinced that they were doing just enough to make the club a sellable asset once more so they could get the hell out of Dodge with a quick buck, despite what the facts seemed to suggest.
Yet now, as we approach the end of 2013, and at the time of writing, sit top of the Premier League awaiting the Chelsea v Arsenal scoreline, surely the divide is now less of a Grand Canyon and more of a trickling brook. There will never be 100% opinion either way, and some will never welcome FSG open-armed, surely the consensus now is that the future at Anfield is very bright and the club is taking big strong steps in the right direction.
The label of ‘asset-stripper’ is increasingly looking more and more ridiculous as Reds globally beam at the news of a new contract signed by our Uruguayan Wizard. Not only did the club as one stand firm in the light of repeated mega money bids for his services in the summer, they have secured his future, or for the pessimistic amongst us, at the very least put Liverpool Football Club firmly in the driving seat over his future, rewarding his scintillating form with a mega money contract, something clubs around us, like the Arsenal or even United could do well to learn from.
Whilst I maintain my opinion that Dalglish should not have been sacked (a discussion for a different time I feel, and more than just a simple football reason), he was, and given the turmoil the club has overseen for far too long it was imperative that the right man was brought in and given time and money to start that long climb back up the ladder to where we belong.
In Brendan Rodgers, as each game passes, it is showing that they made the right choice.
A difficult first season, with on field results affected as a result of off field issues, but in hindsight (an for some of us foresight) it was a necessary pain we had to endure. The real barometer was always going to start (but not end) this season, and regardless of how we fair in the final games of the year at the Etihad and Stamford Bridge (thanks for that FA) 2013 as a whole has been superb considering that even the most football illiterate of us can see, our squad is missing at least 4 players!
Here are 5 aspects I want to champion:
– The club, more often than not, is playing football at such a high level, we are able to go somewhere like White Hart Lane and absolutely boss it.
– We have a manager who is getting the best out of his players. The emergence of Henderson with the electric form of Suarez the clear indicators of this.
– The resurgence of Flanagan and Sterling in recent weeks and the ability to bring out the real Daniel Sturridge, which more experienced coaches before him have failed to do, show that he can inspire homegrown (I’m talking English, not specifically Melwood) talent.
· From an expensive, old and complacent squad we had a couple of years ago we are sat with a young, hungry squad playing for one another.
· We have a structured system in place to identify the right players and bring them to the club to void doing a Spurs.
Whilst I am far from claiming that FSG are infallible and the single greatest thing since toast (what else are you to do with sliced bread!), there are times when praises are to be sung and an 8-1 weekly aggregate taking us top coupled with a Suarez contract is one of those times.
The single plea to the owners is not to rest on your laurels, January will be the difference between Champions League or not and the seemingly endless stadium issue will continue to wrangle some, so lets keep moving forward.
Agree or disagree, I welcome both opinions happily, please leave them here and get in touch on Twitter @timdibs
Badly written silly article ignoring reality
Well written sensible article understanding reality
Yawn . The boring troll is still trolling !
Matt, what is your version of reality ? And what are the facts to support it ?
Interested because most commentators who slag off Rogers and FSG don’t offer up anything to support it, whereas (IMO) there seems to be evidence that we are heading in the right direction.
Once again the troll ian/aaron uses different names to troll . Idiot
hi tim, it is very pleasing to read an article as good as this when your taem is going very good. After all the hard times we have gone through as a football club, we can happily say that finally their is light at end of the tunnel. good day.
Good article, never had and still dont really have faith in BR.. But am gradually rethinking.. Thank you, Dalglish for giving us Suarez and Hendo.. BR should stop making Allen look like a good buy, when he is just another Charlie Adam.. Cissokho and Moses should run back to thier clubs.. #YNWA
LOL . A good run and everything looks Golden ? As usual clowns are getting carried away.
Lets see if we actually win something b4 proclaming the glory years are back , after all we have been here quite a few times before.
No one (at the time of this comment) is proclaiming glory years are back Patrick. Just a sense that the present/future is looking better than the recent past. Surely you agree with that sentiment?
Yawn . Nobody cares what you think.
Boring idiot .
Nobody cares except u. U boring pathetic hopeless failure. Trolling around under other peoples names… Your a virus…. Boring idiot virus now fck off
Yea, feck off ‘ian’ you bell end
Excellent discussion Patrick especially the part where exquisitely demonstrated your football knowledge.
What a troll . Bores the pants of everyone .
Nobody is interested in what you say.
Idiot
@tr0ll hunter,
Please stop it. Don’t force moderators moderating every comment.
@Ian. If I was going to have a discussion it wouldn’t be with a moron like u . Now feck off for good this time
Calm down Patrick, not asking you to have a discussion with me. You came here to air your views with fellow fans. So far you have labelled them clowns and told me to f off twice. Very mature.
Your a troll Ian/aaron
You are boring . Idiot
Not getting carried away Patick, title is Future Seems Golden, key word SEEMS! It’s a play on FSG, that might have been a bit subtle for you maybe
Good article, it’s pleasing to read something orignal for a change. And it doesn’t matter if I disagree on one or two points.
Well done and thanks!
I don’t think we need too much in january. We are only playing once a week so tiredness should not be an issue. Ince and hughes would freshen things up. Ings would be decent too. And for those of you who don’t think he’s good enough, you wouldn’t moan if we signed a 20 yr old from the albanian fourth division for 6m if he’d got 3 goals in 20 games so why knock an emerging english talent?
Our team is GREEN enough, adding more young players actually weaken it. Time for adding 1 or 2 proven players to push our club up to title winning team 🙂
“not only did the club as one stand firm in the light of repeated mega money bids…….” that is one of the most confusing, deceitful, untrue, etc statement that i ve read in recent times.
1. there was nothing mega in £40,000,001 for the best player in the league when the second best sold for €100,000,000
2. there were no bids. just ass-anal fc. who made a rediculos infamous £1 bid and proposed to raise it by 5mil, Which was refused before they could cos of the £1 insult.
Support the manager. Our unbranded OEM manager BR may win his first PL medal this session 🙂
am not against the gaffer, even though i dont rate him, but he has done a wonderful job so far judging by his standards and deserves all the respect for that. In lfc we trust 4 life. i was merely pointing out the fact that we didnt sell cos the bid was poor or wrong nd from the wrong team.
A bid of £40m +£1 for a chap who came public saying he wanted out would have been attractive to some owners to get rid of a troubled player with no come back on themselves!
They held firm and in the time since then have completely turned him round! Both club and manager deserve credit
Confusing, deceitful and untrue? This summer the club rejected 2 buds we know of of 30m plus, and we are aware of other bids in previous windows too! All this before the bale nonsense, and if that kind of money isn’t mega money you must be a rich man!!
Wer on dey up no doubt about it s a s Henderson coutinho get suso back glory days not far away
I agree. LFC now in the best position since Rafa time. Must sign WORLD CLASS players this January.
@Tim Williams,
I like your article. Please continue your good works !
Yana ur not a Liverpool fan , just a Manc troll . Fook off back to your cave , u slimy kid
Why so mad with me? Not only my thought that S. Gerrard has past his sell by date. See other LFC fans too sharing the same opinion with me. See following article
‘I believe our best midfield doesn’t include Gerrard’ – HITC Sport
http://hereisthecity.com/en-gb/2013/12/23/liverpool-i-believe-that-our-best-midfield-doesnt-contain-gerrar/
For me,it is not d end of d world,if we lose 2 mancity and chelsea,,,,,,,,we should support our team,,,and start lookin @ january(fixtures and transfer market),,,we av 2 win our matches in january,I don’t see any threat,,,,,,
YNWA,,,,,,,,TOP four,I will be happy,,,
hi tim,
am hearing about the £30mil plus bid for the first time 2ru u, pls can u enlighten on which team made the bid and what transpired?
“and we are aware of other bids in previous windows too!” which bids (amount)? from which teams? and what happend?
NB: all these before the bale nonsense. And please try to understand the difference between interest, speculation and an actuall bid.
i wait to read ur reply. thanks
“£40mil+1 for a “chap”……”, wrong choice of word if you are actually referring to luis suarez.
And oh…. you couldn’t have 4gotten the “all these before the bale nonsense” part. Did you?