Posts Tagged ‘Luis Suarez Liverpool’

Frustrating Liverpool would be joint top if they’d won home games.

Posted: December 28, 2011 in LFC Posts
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It’s hard to look at the league table right now knowing that if Liverpool had won all of their home games they’d be joint top right now! Fanciful notion I know, but home wins against Man City & United, both of which they should have won, plus wins against the likes of Sunderland and yesterday’s draw to bottom placed Blackburn, would not have seen Liverpool sitting on the fringes in 6th place. There were away games they should have won too, or at least taken a point, Stoke & Fulham being prime examples. In fact, as you know, it’s the away games that are their current strength.

You don’t need to be Sherlock Holmes (the new movie is great by the way) to figure out the reason’s for so many home draws. They lack killer instinct. Liverpool have dominated games but failed to either take their umpteen chances or turn their dominance into goals. The reality is Suarez hasn’t found the back of the net as many times as his play has deserved and Carroll just hasn’t produced the form he showed at Newcastle which is the reason Liverpool snapped him up after Torres scarpered. We need to buy a quality striker and fast.

Will Liverpool buy in January? I hope so. They really aren’t that far away from really challenging  for the top spots and defensively they are as good as anyone having only conceded 14 goals this season. With only a few days away from the transfer window the hope is Damien Comolli has identified several key targets and Mr. Henry is wiling to provide the funds.

Let’s pray we’ll see a quality forward arriving shortly.

Kenny takes the high road while FA show they know sweet FA

Posted: December 25, 2011 in LFC Posts
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I watched Kenny’s press conference a few days ago and was impressed by his responses to the questions about the Suarez situation. His answers put things firmly in perspective with regard to how the club intends to move forward. The simple answers is they can’t do anything until they see the report from the FA which reveals what evidence the independent panel used to base their decision to ban Suarez for eight matches and fine him £40,000. 

Kenny wisely proffered that perhaps this was the way the FA always did things in these kind of situations (completely ineptly in my opinion) and they would have to wait and see before they could properly construct a response and an appeal. 

As you may have already read form my previous post, I think the FA has shown complete lack of professionalism and leadership in this matter. How can it take so long to reveal the evidence that formed the basis of Suarez’s heavy-handed punishment? No one has pointed out that I am aware of that the only reason they went to an independent panel was because they didn’t have the balls to deal with the issue themselves and take the heat for the decision, one way or another. They abdicated their responsibility under the guise of being impartial. 

The FA have now created an amazing precedent for themselves. If a player is actually found guilty of racism, which Suarez was not, what punishment will they now have to hand out? You can only imagine it would be way beyond eight games and lord knows how much in fines. 

It’s clear the FA in accepting the decision of the independent panel have not thought through the repercussions of the Suarez decision and I’m going to be fascinated to see what action they take if John Terry is found guilty of actual racism in February.

 

FA totally to blame for Suarez situation

Posted: December 23, 2011 in LFC Posts
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As a devoted Liverpool supporter I feel strongly the FA are totally responsible for why the Luis Suarez issue is now totally out of hand. The FA’s independent panel wanted to make an example of Suarez to emphasize the need to get racism out of football but have gone totally overboard with the punishment to the point, as John’s Barnes said yesterday, they are crucifying him.

This has led to the understandable outrage by the club and supporters and why we are all behind Suarez in his appeal. The fact he admitted he used a term he thought was none offensive should have been taken into account.

The FA have shown absolutely no leadership in this matter. They have remained silent while the situation escalates. They should have held a press conference immediately after the decision and revealed the evidence the independent panel used to make their decision so there is complete transparency. They should have made it clear that they fully accept Suarez is not a racist, as does Evra, but by not doing so they have caused great harm to Suarez and the club who rightly are standing by him.

I totally support the campaign to remove racism from football but the FA have to do it in a fair, open and transparent way.