Roddy B wrote:
What are you on about? The next paragraph I mention history playing a bit part as well. It's not always someone else's fault, many of our fans have unrealistic expectations of the team, but many people seem to take their views as the majority. Any level-headed Liverpool fan will just expect improvement. Many of our fans have hefty expectations because of our past. As I said, over the past 10 years, we've won pretty much every trophy other than the league, that means there's a few generations of Liverpool fans that have grown up watching their team win things, they become used to it and they are usually raised by parents that are also used to it. I'm not saying it's all the media's fault, but the media is by far the biggest voice in getting the 'Liverpool should be winning things', they are the ones that influence people more than anybody.
I'm on about when something happens like Monday's loss there always blame to be had by someone else. Dalglish's interview he basically came out and said you would've won or not lost at least if Spearing hadn't been sent off. Not once did he say that it was the players fault for being poop in front of goal. As soon as someone questions the expectations of fans you are jumping on the defence claiming to be the media's fault, to be fair I haven't seen the media claim Liverpool should be winning anything for a while, that seems to have moved to Man City. It isn't the media's fault those people are gulliable.
Roddy B wrote:
As for the game the other night, when a game's 0-0, and your team has a goal wrongly disallowed and then has a player wrongly sent off, which completely turns the game, what do you do, Dan, thank the ref and his assistants for a top performance? We should have put the game to bed well before then, nobody will deny that, but when you have legit goals disallowed, it makes the job twice as hard, which is why people complain about officials.
I'm not aying you shouldn't complain about officials, we've all been done too like you were on Monday but the blame has been put completely on them by some people and it's ridiculous. You don't thank them, of course not, but you don't also completely put the blame on them. It's like Man Utd v Newcastle, a terrible decision but United has countless chances after that goal and didn't make it pay, it wasn't totally the officials fault.
