Earn our respect Gillett and Hicks!

A quiet past few days thanks largely to the fact we don't play until Aston Villa visit Anfield tomorrow evening. It's been a long time since we've had a Monday night game and this one is pretty important. Ex-Red Ronnie Whelan, one of the master pundits at stating the bleeding obvious, has really earned his pay by telling .tv that we need to beat the Villains to stay in the title race...thanks for that Ronnie....

Of course there has been the increasing speculation of DIC making another bid for the club having previously failed in attempt to buy 15% of the club last October as Tom Hicks revealed in that extraordinary interview with the Echo. To be honest, I don't think it's big until they actually make a bid and we hear what G and H have to say but all the indications are that the Yanks don't want to sell the club and are almost all set to receive that loan from RBS for the stadium. Which all means more debt and more uncertainty over Benitez will continue.

There's an excellent article in today's Irish Sunday Independent in which Dion Fanning, an excellent writer, a staunch critic of Gerard Houllier but a firm supporter of Benitez, says that the boss has all along suspected things might end up the way they have.

In Fanning's words, Benitez saw through the bullshit that accompanied the Americans' press conference when they tookover and their media interviews in the run up to the European Cup final last May and that in someways it's been a good week for him as he now firmly has the fans and even the media it would seem on his side.

In the Sunday Mirror, Benitez's friend Paco Lloret, who wrote the excellent book, Rafa Benitez - The Authorised Biography, says that the boss wont surrender to the owners unfair and undermining treatment and walk away from the club. He will have to be sacked. Something Gillett and Hicks have little justification for doing right now other then their own personal views of the Spaniard.

As fans we need answers from G and H which is why a Liverpool FC Supporters Network has been established by those from the most popular Liverpool fans forums like YNWA and RAWK in order to put some legitimate questions to the owners about why they seem to be reneging on their promise to uphold the traditions of this great club.

When Gillett and Hicks tookover last February, Gillett in particular was very vocal about the need to talk with the fans. He promised to earn our respect. Well he'd earn a little bit more if he and his partner answered some of these reasonable questions.