Source: Liverpool_Echo
Liverpool FC fans letters: Current regime puts fans at odds with club
OUTSIDE of human tragedy, is it at any other time than sporting triumph when the opinions of a team's supporters, players and commentators collect as one in hearts and minds?[LNB]The sheer audacity of facing down such overwhelming odds was set against potential glory in Istanbul - as triumph revealed the greatest ever spectacle in European club football. And Benitez's connection with LFC and that historical night is immortalised.[LNB]Yet those who cannot detach themselves emotionally from the past, I suspect, are the same people at odds with the decision to cut ties with a leader who has lost his way (without Ayesteran, in my opinion). Those who can take a step back have a different perspective.[LNB]I'm guessing if our disillusioned captain couldn't be persuaded to spurn the advances of Real Madrid and (once again) Mourinho, then certain others would follow. The money recouped would be used to service the club's debts prior to its sale. And for how long LFC would kick about in football's second tier is something nobody wants to consider...[LNB] No tragedy Benitez's going. What awaited if he had stayed?[LNB]Frederick Doyle, Garston[LNB]JUST like many in Liverpool I am outraged at the way Liverpool FC, one of the greatest football institutions, is being run.[LNB]The recent unfair 'mutual sacking' of Rafa has proved a step too far. We don't dismiss managers after one bad season. We are different.[LNB]Similarly we are very worried about the future of the club - we have no new stadium, we are in a mountain of debt, our chairman supports our rivals, the asking price is too high, and we are sick of being kept in the dark.[LNB]The time for sitting back and being raped is over. We want Broughton, Purslow, Hicks and Gillett out ASAP and we will not stop, we will fight until the end starting with the planned 'LFC Independence Day'.[LNB]The media should not underestimate the anger, contempt and passion of Liverpool supporters. We would appreciate it if you could in some way show the hatred we feel towards the owners/board room and publicise the upcoming protest. Or simply reassure Liverpool fans that you yourselves are committed to keeping alive a football institution that is dying a slow and painful death, because at the end of it all, it is fans like us that keep you in a job.[LNB]Sam Harrison, via email
