Thursday 17 April 2008

Deadlock - Why this situation will go on and on



And so more public mud slinging in the name of Liverpool Football Club in the week when we remembered and mourned the loss of 96 fellow fans 19 years ago. And this won't be the last of it either.

Hicks calls Parry's tenure a disaster, Parry remains defiant and where does that leave Liverpool Football Club? At deadlock, complete and utter.

What is clear is that Tom Hicks does not have the money to buy George Gillett's share and does not have the money to build a stadium or finance building of the team. If he thinks he does and can, he is deluded.

But instead of dealing in reality he will play the PR game in a desperate attempt to get the fans he lost long ago back on his side but he won't manage it. He has lied consistently.

Instead of the shovel going in the ground 90 days after he bought the club with Gillett we are here over a year later still waiting.

He said today it should have been built three years ago and that this is Parry's fault. Unless Parry has millions stashed away somewhere is it not the responsbility of the money men to get the stadium up and running? The delay with the stadium was always about the finance. Hicks (and Gillett) said they had it. They lied.

And the lies continue. Having previously denied even the existence of talks with DIC he acknowledged it today while managing to belittle and criticise them all roughly in the same sentence. Ridiculing that "gal" Amanda Staveley who had worked on DIC's behalf and doing all he can to say that it is they who are actually the bad guys.

They may not be the good guys but we all know who the bad guy is in all this - He's the overweight Texan that was on Sky this morning and on the loop all day telling lies and dragging the great name of this football club through the mud.

Rick Parry is far from criticism in all this and would serve the club's best interests commercially by stepping down but the manner in which Hicks has gone about all this is what is most appalling.

An American football coach once said "The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others"

The inferior man just has to go but with both sides so set in their ways, this situation will drag on, dragging our great club with it.

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