Don’t blame Liverpool because your club is rubbish
Your club might be, and probably is, rubbish. But don’t use that as an excuse to blame Liverpool or strip us of the Premier League title.
I’m well aware of the toxic, football ‘banter’ culture that runs through Twitter like the nasty streak in Luis Suarez.
All it serves to do is teach a generation of fans that you can’t enjoy supporting your team without bringing down another. And if you don’t believe me, read the replies to any tweet saying ‘player X is a good player’.
Invariably, it’ll be full of rivals supporters claiming that one person being good at kicking a ball invalidates the skill of that other ball-kicker.
Which brings me to the matter of the Premier League being suspended until April 3 at the very earliest.
This has opened the debate over what should happen if the season has to be stopped at this point and what we should do if it is.
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Rivals clubs, and fans, have called for 2019/2020 to be voided, the points scrapped and the whole thing started again when it’s safe to do so. West Ham vice-chair Karen Brady thinks it would be ‘fair’ to do so.
Of course, it has absolutely nothing to do with the Hammers having an awful season and only being above the drop zone on goal difference? Shocking, innit.
Voiding the league would help her avoid the questions into her 10 year tenure at the club and the way it only ever seems to stagnate, never move forward, especially in light of the decision to bulldoze Upton Park and move to the soulless London Stadium.
Doubtless there would be others keen to do the same, but this isn’t Football Manager. You can’t just restart the game at the last save point when things aren’t going your way.
Manchester City would be delighted with that outcome. So too Tottenham and Arsenal, who are in 8th and 9th.
But Liverpool have been the best team by a country mile this season, and had a phenomenal campaign in 2018/2019. Over two years Jurgen Klopp has blown away nearly every team in his path and that deserves recognition.
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So to is the work Brendon Rodgers has done at Leicester, who are third. Wolves and Sheffield United also deserve to be scrapping for Europe.
To call for the league to be voided because you’ve had a crap season is childish, unfair and wrong. It would be better to look how you could improve things at home before trying to ruin it for others who have got it right.