Negativity Rears Its Ugly Head Once More

Of course what happens off the pitch is really none of our concern, but we are Liverpool supporters, if like me you have been brought up on the club - then rightly or wrongly you make it your business - we are after all one big family. This makes the amount of negativity still out there very worrying.

 Matters on the pitch though are a major part of our lives and when Tom Hicks and George Gillett took over the club, they bought Fernando Torres for £20 million as a signal of their intent. He was quickly followed by Pepe Reina. This pleased everyone from the supporters to the  players already at the club and with their quick integration into the team our results began to improve and the much prized Premiership title started to become a reality once more.

Then of course doubts began to surface about their finances and as the reality of the situation kicked in our decent players were being sold and inept ones were being brought in.  This of course signalled the start of the negativity on the pitch. 

The manager at the time was Rafa Benitez who, to his credit brought the Champions League trophy to Anfield in 2005, but he seemed unable to spend what little money given wisely.  The club suddenly became full of players were not able to adjust to either the level or the rigors the premiership.  Rafa also had this thing about rotation, which of course we all know does not work in the long run.  To achieve the result required, you need the same eleven players to play together week in and week out. That way they will learn each other's mannerisms and matches will be won, hence our success in the sixties and seventies.  Things though did not improve and Rafa parted company with the club last summer.

Whilst all this was going on of course, we the supporters were suddenly faced with the prospect of our beloved club being pushed into administration. Tom Hicks and George Gillett were unable to provide the club's bankers with the funds required to keep it solvent.  Things eventually came to a head when they insisted that a new Chief Executive Officer and Chairman was appointed to the board to make the club more of a business proposition.

For a while this lifted the supporters, but with the constant bad news reports being thrown at us by the media, several groups began to surface with an aim of saving the club that we all loved.  One of these was the Spirit of Shankly who I admit, although a member I fell out with halfway through the campaign because I did not agree with how they were doing things, I still don't because I think that the success surrounding the removal of Tom Hicks and George Gillett has gone to their heads.

As we all know during the summer of 2010, the situations on and off the pitch collided when the Chief Executive Officer decided it was a good time to play a game of Football Manager.  Something of course he was not qualified to do and rumour has it that he was the man who decided which players needed to go and also that Rafa needed to be moved on.  Now I don't condone his actions but what I will say is, whatever decision he needed to make, had to be agreed by someone higher than him.

Summer 2010 came with factions now becoming evident within the supporter base.  This is of course is something unheard of amongst the Liverpool faithful.  Once you are told or find out about the club, you are addicted for life - there really is no other way of putting it.  We had the Rafa lovers and those that felt the right decision - including myself, I might add, that the right decision had been made.

The one positive thing that was keeping us all together was of course the rumours of a new buyer on the horizon, but again after several weeks of rumours, it all came to nothing and the glimmer of light that had been there disappeared and with the new season fast approaching our attention was turned to who would become the new manager.  This of course became a saga in its own right.

People were made aware very quickly that there was a short list of six candidates, but who they were was not made public - I found out only because of my contacts in the media.  The standard of manager on this list though was thought to be so bad, that a certain gentleman within the walls of Liverpool Football Club decided to act.

That man of course was Kenny Dalglish who offered to steer the club forward and out of the turmoil it was going through.  He was as we all know turned down flat by the Chief Executive who appointed Roy Hodgson to the post.  This set alarm bells rings, because although Roy is I suspect an extremely nice man and was indeed voted the LMA Manager of the year for steering Fulham to the finals of the Europa League the supporters feared he was not the right man for the job.

The beginning of the season soon arrived and as we follow the teachings of the great Bill Shankly, we filled the Kop on match days as unit behind our manager.  What we witnessed though was a football team unable to adjust to the ways of the new manager which meant the football in front of us was dire to watch. So dire in fact that the name of Kenny Dalglish began to ring out from the terraces - and yes I was one of those that did that.  Gone was the football we were famous for and in its place was football that even today's school coaches would not teach.  There were also rumblings of discontent in the dressing room coupled with the actions of certain players on the pitch.  One of which,  has shown his true colours and departed.

The negativity this was causing added to horror show that was beginning to played out around the club's ownership.  We witnessed grown men behaving like chidren because they could not accept that their foray into the world of English football had been a mitigating disaster.  The club's bankers had by now set a date for the loan payments to be brought up to date.  If this did not happen, the club was doomed.  Again as in the summer, names of the people interested in buying the club were being banded about this time, it was different, there was a name in the ring that no one managed to find out about.

Suddenly, though statements started to be realised through the club's website. There was a buyer on the scene that had been quietly going about his business in what is known as the Old Liverpool Way and an offer was on the table.  This of course could be classed as positive although I know to ensure that I did not miss anything, I was limited to around 2-3 hours sleep a night due to the shenanigans going on either side of the Atlantic.  But it was all worth it in the end when on a victorious Friday evening, Chairman Martin Broughton and Chief Executive Christian Purslow signed on the dotted line to signal that the club had been sold and the horror of the past three years had finally ended.

Or had it, the supporters were experiencing the horror of seeing our once great club languishing in what is known as the relegation area of the premier league.  The will to win seemed to having completely disappeared from the ethos within the club's playing staff.  We all know why now of course but coupled with a manager who did not have a clue, anything positive that the supporters had felt after the sale was being slowly eroded away. 

Phone-in after phone-in was littered with supporters asking for Roy Hodgson's removal and that included one that Tom Werner and John Henry took part.  Give them their due, they did answer the questions in the best way they could at the time.  The main answer of course was that they were sticking by their manager.  I suspect that being non-footballing men and also being on a massive learning curve they had to ensure that rather than rush into a decision it had to be the right one.

Christmas 2010 arrived and as my dad always said to me, whatever position you are in during the holidays, will indicate where you will be at the end of the season.  In Liverpool's case this meant that we would in all probability be relegated.  Whether this is a marker used in American sport, I don't know but something stirred John Henry into action and a change was on the horizon.

We were due to play Manchester United in the FA Cup and throughout the week leading up to this, strange things were happening around the club - there were rumours of course being banded about - even my contacts in the media had no idea if there was any truth in them.  It got to the point where because we knew that Kenny was on a cruise, his ship was tracked, which of course gave us an idea of when he would be back on Merseyside. 

With Liverpool being brought back under the confines of the old Liverpool Way though, nobody was prepared for the weekend, we were all about to witness.  On the Friday, there was a strange silence around anything to do with the club and along with Roy's normal press conference being cancelled, it signalled that perhaps something was in the air.  I will admit to leaving my radio on all night to ensure I did not miss anything.  For the first time in ages my second sense had appeared to let me down but after coming online, I like many thousands of Liverpool Supporters received a message via Twitter to log onto the Website in 10 minutes.  Now I get very nervous very quickly when Liverpool Football Club suddenly pops up with messages and I think I went to the website immediately, pressing the refresh button for the next ten minutes.  We had been told that it was what we had been waiting for - It was Kenny was being installed as temporary manager.  Now I suspect you all felt the same as I did- every bit of negativity I had felt over the last three years, was gone.  The King was home and his throne awaited.

I will be honest when I say I did not read the statement properly to start with, for the simple reason I picked up both my mobiles and my land line phone and spent a lot of trying to contact people.  It is as I am sure you are aware no fun trying to talk to someone with your voice full of emotion and tears streaming down your face.  When I read it again, it said that Kenny would be taking charge of the Manchester United game the following day - unbeknown to us of course, he was already in the air and on the way home.

All of a sudden everything around Liverpool Football Club became positive, the supporters became one again and the outlook was suddenly brighter.  We lost the Manchester United game, but the look on Sir Alex's face said it all.  The word Help was probably one of many going through his mind - his old adversary was back in town and this could mean trouble.

Anfield suddenly became a joyous place to be.  The players were again playing like a team with a purpose and our results began to improve. For the first time in three years, the last day of the transfer window although stressful was a joy to experience.  We actually brought 2 decent players, although one of course is still injured. Kenny due to his connections with the academy has also given several of the youngsters a chance and we the supporters have witnessed what the future of the club will be if they are allowed to continue with their development.

As things go of course and my reason for pouring my heart out in this blog, is that there is always a blip.  After having a fantastic run of 7 unbeaten games under Kenny, we lost again bottom of the premiership club West Ham.  It was always going to happen of course at some point, but I am amazed at how quickly the negativity amongst the supporters returned.  All of a sudden, players were being pulled apart for no apparent reason.  We all have bad days and this was their's.  I see it as learning curve, Kenny now knows the job he has to do in the summer.  With the blessing of John Henry and Tom Werner, he needs to have a complete turn out of the players that are simply not good enough for the club, if that includes some of the bigger names then so be it. 

I hope and I believe I am right in thinking he will be named as Liverpool's permanent manager in the coming week. This will not only give the team that final bit of confidence they need, but it will signal his intent on the premier league.  All I can say is Sir Alex you may get number 19 but you certainly will not get number 20.  The King is back in town and with all the negativity gone, we are out to claim what many supporters, myself included believe is our devine right - The Premiership title.

So I say to everyone who manages to read all this blog - forget about the negativity - Liverpool Football Club has a bright future in front of it and we can all be part of that by giving Kenny and the lads our undying support whether they win or lose a game.

 Of course what happens off the pitch is really none of our concern, but we are Liverpool supporters, if like me you have been brought up on the club - then rightly or wrongly you make it your business - we are after all one big family. This makes the amount of negativity still out there very worrying.

 Matters on the pitch though are a major part of our lives and when Tom Hicks and George Gillett took over the club, they bought Fernando Torres for £20 million as a signal of their intent. He was quickly followed by Pepe Reina. This pleased everyone from the supporters to the  players already at the club and with their quick integration into the team our results began to improve and the much prized Premiership title started to become a reality once more.

Then of course doubts began to surface about their finances and as the reality of the situation kicked in our decent players were being sold and inept ones were being brought in.  This of course signalled the start of the negativity on the pitch. 

The manager at the time was Rafa Benitez who, to his credit brought the Champions League trophy to Anfield in 2005, but he seemed unable to spend what little money given wisely.  The club suddenly became full of players were not able to adjust to either the level or the rigors the premiership.  Rafa also had this thing about rotation, which of course we all know does not work in the long run.  To achieve the result required, you need the same eleven players to play together week in and week out. That way they will learn each other's mannerisms and matches will be won, hence our success in the sixties and seventies.  Things though did not improve and Rafa parted company with the club last summer.

Whilst all this was going on of course, we the supporters were suddenly faced with the prospect of our beloved club being pushed into administration. Tom Hicks and George Gillett were unable to provide the club's bankers with the funds required to keep it solvent.  Things eventually came to a head when they insisted that a new Chief Executive Officer and Chairman was appointed to the board to make the club more of a business proposition.

For a while this lifted the supporters, but with the constant bad news reports being thrown at us by the media, several groups began to surface with an aim of saving the club that we all loved.  One of these was the Spirit of Shankly who I admit, although a member I fell out with halfway through the campaign because I did not agree with how they were doing things, I still don't because I think that the success surrounding the removal of Tom Hicks and George Gillett has gone to their heads.

As we all know during the summer of 2010, the situations on and off the pitch collided when the Chief Executive Officer decided it was a good time to play a game of Football Manager.  Something of course he was not qualified to do and rumour has it that he was the man who decided which players needed to go and also that Rafa needed to be moved on.  Now I don't condone his actions but what I will say is, whatever decision he needed to make, had to be agreed by someone higher than him.

Summer 2010 came with factions now becoming evident within the supporter base.  This is of course is something unheard of amongst the Liverpool faithful.  Once you are told or find out about the club, you are addicted for life - there really is no other way of putting it.  We had the Rafa lovers and those that felt the right decision - including myself, I might add, that the right decision had been made.

The one positive thing that was keeping us all together was of course the rumours of a new buyer on the horizon, but again after several weeks of rumours, it all came to nothing and the glimmer of light that had been there disappeared and with the new season fast approaching our attention was turned to who would become the new manager.  This of course became a saga in its own right.

People were made aware very quickly that there was a short list of six candidates, but who they were was not made public - I found out only because of my contacts in the media.  The standard of manager on this list though was thought to be so bad, that a certain gentleman within the walls of Liverpool Football Club decided to act.

That man of course was Kenny Dalglish who offered to steer the club forward and out of the turmoil it was going through.  He was as we all know turned down flat by the Chief Executive who appointed Roy Hodgson to the post.  This set alarm bells rings, because although Roy is I suspect an extremely nice man and was indeed voted the LMA Manager of the year for steering Fulham to the finals of the Europa League the supporters feared he was not the right man for the job.

The beginning of the season soon arrived and as we follow the teachings of the great Bill Shankly, we filled the Kop on match days as unit behind our manager.  What we witnessed though was a football team unable to adjust to the ways of the new manager which meant the football in front of us was dire to watch. So dire in fact that the name of Kenny Dalglish began to ring out from the terraces - and yes I was one of those that did that.  Gone was the football we were famous for and in its place was football that even today's school coaches would not teach.  There were also rumblings of discontent in the dressing room coupled with the actions of certain players on the pitch.  One of which,  has shown his true colours and departed.

The negativity this was causing added to horror show that was beginning to played out around the club's ownership.  We witnessed grown men behaving like chidren because they could not accept that their foray into the world of English football had been a mitigating disaster.  The club's bankers had by now set a date for the loan payments to be brought up to date.  If this did not happen, the club was doomed.  Again as in the summer, names of the people interested in buying the club were being banded about this time, it was different, there was a name in the ring that no one managed to find out about.

Suddenly, though statements started to be realised through the club's website. There was a buyer on the scene that had been quietly going about his business in what is known as the Old Liverpool Way and an offer was on the table.  This of course could be classed as positive although I know to ensure that I did not miss anything, I was limited to around 2-3 hours sleep a night due to the shenanigans going on either side of the Atlantic.  But it was all worth it in the end when on a victorious Friday evening, Chairman Martin Broughton and Chief Executive Christian Purslow signed on the dotted line to signal that the club had been sold and the horror of the past three years had finally ended.

Or had it, the supporters were experiencing the horror of seeing our once great club languishing in what is known as the relegation area of the premier league.  The will to win seemed to having completely disappeared from the ethos within the club's playing staff.  We all know why now of course but coupled with a manager who did not have a clue, anything positive that the supporters had felt after the sale was being slowly eroded away. 

Phone-in after phone-in was littered with supporters asking for Roy Hodgson's removal and that included one that Tom Werner and John Henry took part.  Give them their due, they did answer the questions in the best way they could at the time.  The main answer of course was that they were sticking by their manager.  I suspect that being non-footballing men and also being on a massive learning curve they had to ensure that rather than rush into a decision it had to be the right one.

Christmas 2010 arrived and as my dad always said to me, whatever position you are in during the holidays, will indicate where you will be at the end of the season.  In Liverpool's case this meant that we would in all probability be relegated.  Whether this is a marker used in American sport, I don't know but something stirred John Henry into action and a change was on the horizon.

We were due to play Manchester United in the FA Cup and throughout the week leading up to this, strange things were happening around the club - there were rumours of course being banded about - even my contacts in the media had no idea if there was any truth in them.  It got to the point where because we knew that Kenny was on a cruise, his ship was tracked, which of course gave us an idea of when he would be back on Merseyside. 

With Liverpool being brought back under the confines of the old Liverpool Way though, nobody was prepared for the weekend, we were all about to witness.  On the Friday, there was a strange silence around anything to do with the club and along with Roy's normal press conference being cancelled, it signalled that perhaps something was in the air.  I will admit to leaving my radio on all night to ensure I did not miss anything.  For the first time in ages my second sense had appeared to let me down but after coming online, I like many thousands of Liverpool Supporters received a message via Twitter to log onto the Website in 10 minutes.  Now I get very nervous very quickly when Liverpool Football Club suddenly pops up with messages and I think I went to the website immediately, pressing the refresh button for the next ten minutes.  We had been told that it was what we had been waiting for - It was Kenny was being installed as temporary manager.  Now I suspect you all felt the same as I did- every bit of negativity I had felt over the last three years, was gone.  The King was home and his throne awaited.

I will be honest when I say I did not read the statement properly to start with, for the simple reason I picked up both my mobiles and my land line phone and spent a lot of trying to contact people.  It is as I am sure you are aware no fun trying to talk to someone with your voice full of emotion and tears streaming down your face.  When I read it again, it said that Kenny would be taking charge of the Manchester United game the following day - unbeknown to us of course, he was already in the air and on the way home.

All of a sudden everything around Liverpool Football Club became positive, the supporters became one again and the outlook was suddenly brighter.  We lost the Manchester United game, but the look on Sir Alex's face said it all.  The word Help was probably one of many going through his mind - his old adversary was back in town and this could mean trouble.

Anfield suddenly became a joyous place to be.  The players were again playing like a team with a purpose and our results began to improve. For the first time in three years, the last day of the transfer window although stressful was a joy to experience.  We actually brought 2 decent players, although one of course is still injured. Kenny due to his connections with the academy has also given several of the youngsters a chance and we the supporters have witnessed what the future of the club will be if they are allowed to continue with their development.

As things go of course and my reason for pouring my heart out in this blog, is that there is always a blip.  After having a fantastic run of 7 unbeaten games under Kenny, we lost again bottom of the premiership club West Ham.  It was always going to happen of course at some point, but I am amazed at how quickly the negativity amongst the supporters returned.  All of a sudden, players were being pulled apart for no apparent reason.  We all have bad days and this was their's.  I see it as learning curve, Kenny now knows the job he has to do in the summer.  With the blessing of John Henry and Tom Werner, he needs to have a complete turn out of the players that are simply not good enough for the club, if that includes some of the bigger names then so be it. 

I hope and I believe I am right in thinking he will be named as Liverpool's permanent manager in the coming week. This will not only give the team that final bit of confidence they need, but it will signal his intent on the premier league.  All I can say is Sir Alex you may get number 19 but you certainly will not get number 20.  The King is back in town and with all the negativity gone, we are out to claim what many supporters, myself included believe is our devine right - The Premiership title.

So I say to everyone who manages to read all this blog - forget about the negativity - Liverpool Football Club has a bright future in front of it and we can all be part of that by giving Kenny and the lads our undying support whether they win or lose a game.

 Of course what happens off the pitch is really none of our concern, but we are Liverpool supporters, if like me you have been brought up on the club - then rightly or wrongly you make it your business - we are after all one big family. This makes the amount of negativity still out there very worrying.

 Matters on the pitch though are a major part of our lives and when Tom Hicks and George Gillett took over the club, they bought Fernando Torres for £20 million as a signal of their intent. He was quickly followed by Pepe Reina. This pleased everyone from the supporters to the  players already at the club and with their quick integration into the team our results began to improve and the much prized Premiership title started to become a reality once more.

Then of course doubts began to surface about their finances and as the reality of the situation kicked in our decent players were being sold and inept ones were being brought in.  This of course signalled the start of the negativity on the pitch. 

The manager at the time was Rafa Benitez who, to his credit brought the Champions League trophy to Anfield in 2005, but he seemed unable to spend what little money given wisely.  The club suddenly became full of players were not able to adjust to either the level or the rigors the premiership.  Rafa also had this thing about rotation, which of course we all know does not work in the long run.  To achieve the result required, you need the same eleven players to play together week in and week out. That way they will learn each other's mannerisms and matches will be won, hence our success in the sixties and seventies.  Things though did not improve and Rafa parted company with the club last summer.

Whilst all this was going on of course, we the supporters were suddenly faced with the prospect of our beloved club being pushed into administration. Tom Hicks and George Gillett were unable to provide the club's bankers with the funds required to keep it solvent.  Things eventually came to a head when they insisted that a new Chief Executive Officer and Chairman was appointed to the board to make the club more of a business proposition.

For a while this lifted the supporters, but with the constant bad news reports being thrown at us by the media, several groups began to surface with an aim of saving the club that we all loved.  One of these was the Spirit of Shankly who I admit, although a member I fell out with halfway through the campaign because I did not agree with how they were doing things, I still don't because I think that the success surrounding the removal of Tom Hicks and George Gillett has gone to their heads.

As we all know during the summer of 2010, the situations on and off the pitch collided when the Chief Executive Officer decided it was a good time to play a game of Football Manager.  Something of course he was not qualified to do and rumour has it that he was the man who decided which players needed to go and also that Rafa needed to be moved on.  Now I don't condone his actions but what I will say is, whatever decision he needed to make, had to be agreed by someone higher than him.

Summer 2010 came with factions now becoming evident within the supporter base.  This is of course is something unheard of amongst the Liverpool faithful.  Once you are told or find out about the club, you are addicted for life - there really is no other way of putting it.  We had the Rafa lovers and those that felt the right decision - including myself, I might add, that the right decision had been made.

The one positive thing that was keeping us all together was of course the rumours of a new buyer on the horizon, but again after several weeks of rumours, it all came to nothing and the glimmer of light that had been there disappeared and with the new season fast approaching our attention was turned to who would become the new manager.  This of course became a saga in its own right.

People were made aware very quickly that there was a short list of six candidates, but who they were was not made public - I found out only because of my contacts in the media.  The standard of manager on this list though was thought to be so bad, that a certain gentleman within the walls of Liverpool Football Club decided to act.

That man of course was Kenny Dalglish who offered to steer the club forward and out of the turmoil it was going through.  He was as we all know turned down flat by the Chief Executive who appointed Roy Hodgson to the post.  This set alarm bells rings, because although Roy is I suspect an extremely nice man and was indeed voted the LMA Manager of the year for steering Fulham to the finals of the Europa League the supporters feared he was not the right man for the job.

The beginning of the season soon arrived and as we follow the teachings of the great Bill Shankly, we filled the Kop on match days as unit behind our manager.  What we witnessed though was a football team unable to adjust to the ways of the new manager which meant the football in front of us was dire to watch. So dire in fact that the name of Kenny Dalglish began to ring out from the terraces - and yes I was one of those that did that.  Gone was the football we were famous for and in its place was football that even today's school coaches would not teach.  There were also rumblings of discontent in the dressing room coupled with the actions of certain players on the pitch.  One of which,  has shown his true colours and departed.

The negativity this was causing added to horror show that was beginning to played out around the club's ownership.  We witnessed grown men behaving like chidren because they could not accept that their foray into the world of English football had been a mitigating disaster.  The club's bankers had by now set a date for the loan payments to be brought up to date.  If this did not happen, the club was doomed.  Again as in the summer, names of the people interested in buying the club were being banded about this time, it was different, there was a name in the ring that no one managed to find out about.

Suddenly, though statements started to be realised through the club's website. There was a buyer on the scene that had been quietly going about his business in what is known as the Old Liverpool Way and an offer was on the table.  This of course could be classed as positive although I know to ensure that I did not miss anything, I was limited to around 2-3 hours sleep a night due to the shenanigans going on either side of the Atlantic.  But it was all worth it in the end when on a victorious Friday evening, Chairman Martin Broughton and Chief Executive Christian Purslow signed on the dotted line to signal that the club had been sold and the horror of the past three years had finally ended.

Or had it, the supporters were experiencing the horror of seeing our once great club languishing in what is known as the relegation area of the premier league.  The will to win seemed to having completely disappeared from the ethos within the club's playing staff.  We all know why now of course but coupled with a manager who did not have a clue, anything positive that the supporters had felt after the sale was being slowly eroded away. 

Phone-in after phone-in was littered with supporters asking for Roy Hodgson's removal and that included one that Tom Werner and John Henry took part.  Give them their due, they did answer the questions in the best way they could at the time.  The main answer of course was that they were sticking by their manager.  I suspect that being non-footballing men and also being on a massive learning curve they had to ensure that rather than rush into a decision it had to be the right one.

Christmas 2010 arrived and as my dad always said to me, whatever position you are in during the holidays, will indicate where you will be at the end of the season.  In Liverpool's case this meant that we would in all probability be relegated.  Whether this is a marker used in American sport, I don't know but something stirred John Henry into action and a change was on the horizon.

We were due to play Manchester United in the FA Cup and throughout the week leading up to this, strange things were happening around the club - there were rumours of course being banded about - even my contacts in the media had no idea if there was any truth in them.  It got to the point where because we knew that Kenny was on a cruise, his ship was tracked, which of course gave us an idea of when he would be back on Merseyside. 

With Liverpool being brought back under the confines of the old Liverpool Way though, nobody was prepared for the weekend, we were all about to witness.  On the Friday, there was a strange silence around anything to do with the club and along with Roy's normal press conference being cancelled, it signalled that perhaps something was in the air.  I will admit to leaving my radio on all night to ensure I did not miss anything.  For the first time in ages my second sense had appeared to let me down but after coming online, I like many thousands of Liverpool Supporters received a message via Twitter to log onto the Website in 10 minutes.  Now I get very nervous very quickly when Liverpool Football Club suddenly pops up with messages and I think I went to the website immediately, pressing the refresh button for the next ten minutes.  We had been told that it was what we had been waiting for - It was Kenny was being installed as temporary manager.  Now I suspect you all felt the same as I did- every bit of negativity I had felt over the last three years, was gone.  The King was home and his throne awaited.

I will be honest when I say I did not read the statement properly to start with, for the simple reason I picked up both my mobiles and my land line phone and spent a lot of trying to contact people.  It is as I am sure you are aware no fun trying to talk to someone with your voice full of emotion and tears streaming down your face.  When I read it again, it said that Kenny would be taking charge of the Manchester United game the following day - unbeknown to us of course, he was already in the air and on the way home.

All of a sudden everything around Liverpool Football Club became positive, the supporters became one again and the outlook was suddenly brighter.  We lost the Manchester United game, but the look on Sir Alex's face said it all.  The word Help was probably one of many going through his mind - his old adversary was back in town and this could mean trouble.

Anfield suddenly became a joyous place to be.  The players were again playing like a team with a purpose and our results began to improve. For the first time in three years, the last day of the transfer window although stressful was a joy to experience.  We actually brought 2 decent players, although one of course is still injured. Kenny due to his connections with the academy has also given several of the youngsters a chance and we the supporters have witnessed what the future of the club will be if they are allowed to continue with their development.

As things go of course and my reason for pouring my heart out in this blog, is that there is always a blip.  After having a fantastic run of 7 unbeaten games under Kenny, we lost again bottom of the premiership club West Ham.  It was always going to happen of course at some point, but I am amazed at how quickly the negativity amongst the supporters returned.  All of a sudden, players were being pulled apart for no apparent reason.  We all have bad days and this was their's.  I see it as learning curve, Kenny now knows the job he has to do in the summer.  With the blessing of John Henry and Tom Werner, he needs to have a complete turn out of the players that are simply not good enough for the club, if that includes some of the bigger names then so be it. 

I hope and I believe I am right in thinking he will be named as Liverpool's permanent manager in the coming week. This will not only give the team that final bit of confidence they need, but it will signal his intent on the premier league.  All I can say is Sir Alex you may get number 19 but you certainly will not get number 20.  The King is back in town and with all the negativity gone, we are out to claim what many supporters, myself included believe is our devine right - The Premiership title.

So I say to everyone who manages to read all this blog - forget about the negativity - Liverpool Football Club has a bright future in front of it and we can all be part of that by giving Kenny and the lads our undying support whether they win or lose a game.