You’re wrong, Liverpool never sat on their perch
Liverpool never sat on their perch.
Smell that? It’s the sweet smell of success as the Liverbird rises to soar once again! Like the mythical Phoenix rising from its own ashes.
By now everyone has heard of Sir Alex Ferguson’s simple, yet poignant congratulatory call to King Kenny as he said ‘we are not at war.’
If you’ve not read Jurgen Klopp’s open letter to fans in the Liverpool Echo, I urge you to do so. This is such an important message.
Once upon a time, Sir Alex made the observation that they’d knocked Liverpool off their perch. I had to chuckle to myself when I heard this. Liverpool and the Liverbird have never sat upon a perch.
But they did crash and burn marvellously, most beautifully as Jurgen would say. And it took them 30 years to rise from the ashes. This was not Sir Alex’s fault, nor Arsenal’s, Chelsea’s or City’s. Liverpool were caught adrift for 25 years largely of their own undoing.
30 years is not so long to have to wait…really. I know this because I’m also a Chicago Cubs fan and we waited 108 years to see our lads crowned champions again.
So I would like to take this opportunity to thank Sir Alex, and Manchester United. Arsene Wenger and Arsenal, Chelsea, and City. You gave us at Liverpool another mountain to climb.
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This great city, her people have never ever, shrunk from this kind of challenge. Like those brave Liverpool lads, who gave their last measure of devotion in trying to climb a hill in some far off land out in the back of beyond.
This is why, and how our precious Kop got its name. It was for this group of warriors, veterans. Climbing a hill under heavy fire.
So the Liverbird has risen to soar once more. Not with a tail wind, that’s just too easy. If you wanna win every match every trophy then it would be best if you only played against lesser sides, like the orphans, at The Little Sister’s of the Poor.
A tail wind is counterproductive to lift, only against the wind can a soaring bird rise. Nowhere is this better know than Liverpool. They have been fighting a head wind from the very beginning, for centuries.
Liverpool are a part of this amazing ‘thing’ we know as English football. Can you imagine where the league would be today if our Reds has not crashed and burned?
If they would have won another dozen titles in those lean years. Good for Liverpool, but not for the game, or English football.
What the hell are you talking about, you say?
All you need do is look southeast to France and east further still to Germany. Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga. They are one team dominant, and it has done their leagues no earthly good whatsoever.
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Several times in the past decade or so, UEFA has toyed with the idea of reducing England’s guaranteed places in European competition. It is only the strength of the league that guarantees them four Champions League places.
It is important to be loyal, as fans, but we should never lose sight of the fact that we are also just a part of something far larger than ourselves.