You'll Never Walk Alone

Over the last couple of weekends, I have had all sorts thrown at me about the club and have been insulted because I am prepared to give Kenny, Steve and Kevin, time to get the team back to where it should be.  Why is this, you may ask, the answer is below.

When Bill Shankly was appointed in 1959 the club was in a Mess. Did we see them at the top of the First division immediately - NO WE DID NOT. It took several seasons, seasons in which at the beginning Bill had to virtually plea for the funds to buy players. He also made mistakes along the way before 1965 when on the 1st May people suddenly realised Liverpool were going to be a force to be reckoned with.  The same thing happened to Sir Alex Ferguson, who if you know your football history was on the verge of being sacked before someone said and I quote "hang on a minute, let's give him a bit longer" This they did and the rest they say is history.

History is repeating itself and Kenny is taking the team through a transition stage. Yes there will be mistakes made and the wrong players brought.  The players will lose confidence and our results will not be as most of you seem to believe they should be, but sometimes it takes situations such as the team is going through at the moment, to highlight problems that may have not have seemed as serious as they actually are.

This time last year, we were suffering under a manager who was totally out of his depth and to be honest you could have thrown a bottomless pit of money at him, and it would not have made an iota of difference.  The club realised this and called Kenny back from a well-earned holiday.  Did he moan - no he did not, he accepted the challenge in front of him and promised to do his very best.

Now that challenge is still in front of him and will remain so for some time yet.  He cannot wave a magic wand and hey presto we are sitting at the top of the Premiership.  It will as I have said take time. It is far more important to get the team playing like a team that has been together for a while. If this is successful then the success we all crave will follow. This is, as I have said above not happening at the moment, but I am sure, Kenny will work with those not selected for their national teams over the coming fortnight to try and find out, what is causing the crisis of confidence or indeed the ' I could not give a damn attitude'.  This of course will continue with the players selected upon their return.  The solution found may mean that some of the players lose their place in the team, quite rightly so of course, but it will be a lesson learnt and one that should ensure that they play to the best of their ability in the future.

We the supporters have our part to play in this also, and this must start with being MORE PATIENT THAN SOME OF YOU APPEAR TO BE AT THE MOMENT.  We must get behind the team and in particular KENNY, who sensing the disquiet amongst the supporter base issued a statement yesterday.  The majority of manager's would not have done that and it shows us the type of man Kenny is.  He not only cares about the club and the team, but the supporter base as well.

He knows we are upset and angry and quite frankly we must all get behind him and tell him in the words of the song KENNY, YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE.

Do that and you will find, the next time the team play at Anfield a renewed sense of hope around the team, a sense of hope that will eventually see you line the streets of Liverpool to congratulate the team.  It may not happen this season, it may not indeed happen next season, but it will happen.

If you cannot do that and continue to try and destroy what small shreds of confidence are left, then quite frankly you are not a Liverpool supporter.