Source: Liverpool_Echo
Liverpool FC on its knees as season ends in strife
THERE was a time, not so long ago, when Liverpool supporters used to ask, then discuss, five straightforward questions.[LNB]They went along the following lines: Who are we playing? When and where is the game? Which players are injured? What are our transfer plans?[LNB]It was a simple time. Occasionally results would go askew and that would lead to some frustration but, in the main, feelings of angst were always assuaged by the fact the club had firm foundations and were capable of recovery.[LNB]If only the same could be said now. Pre and post match chatter these days, particularly after Sunday's harrowing defeat against Chelsea, is consumed by one alarming quandary - why? Why has it come to this?[LNB]The end of the season from hell, which will finish with Liverpool taking the road to Hull, cannot come quickly enough but when the final whistle sounds at the KC Stadium on Sunday afternoon, it will not signal the termination of all woes.[LNB]Far from it. Liverpool, as it has been noted on many occasions, is a club on its knees, lacking direction, the rudderless ship sailing into the eye of a storm; each passing day brings about a new, complex set of woes.[LNB]Take yesterday's events. After the agenda had been dominated for days of how Rafa Benitez wants to meet new chairman Martin Broughton, a story then appears claiming that Liverpool's manager had cancelled two appointments.[LNB]At a time when the club needs everyone pulling in the same direction, to arrest an alarming slide, it is impossible to escape the conclusion that, unless drastic, decisive action is taken, Liverpool are on the verge of falling to a place from where there is no escape.
