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#Suarez #Evra PR disaster for #LFC

Kenny Dalglish may be giving Liverpool fans hope on the pitch, but he is a football manager and not a corporate governor. His Directors and “management” team should be guiding him, not letting him make a complete tit of himself and degrade the integrity and values of a great Football Club, by vehemently supporting a player who publicly behaved in a totally inappropriate and prehistoric manner, whilst wearing a Liverpool shirt.

The #Suarez #Evra affair – no apology for 5 days, then a half apology, with a blatant lie – I only said the word once! (verified independently as being said seven times).

Liverpool published a statement that they remain fully supportive of Suárez’s claim that he addressed Evra in “a conciliatory and friendly way”  - whoever signed off that statement should be kicked straight out of any business for lack of common sense, foresight and decency. Guardian article here.

Who is running the PR dept at #LFC? Is it Ian Cotton another ex TV suit or MD Ian Ayre who suggested paying Liverpool and better supported clubs a bigger slice of the overseas TV money and creating a greater divide between the top and bottom of the Premier League.  Go read, digest and understand the collective principles of the Premier League Mr Ayre, then read all the evidence and press about the Suarez affair, understand the #KickItOut campaign, refresh yourself with the Stephen Lawrence case, and then and only then may you begin to understand why you failed in your recent attempt to join the Football Association Council, and why you should take your narrow minded beliefs out of football.

Events over the past few months have demonstrated that poor decisions and bad news will only be repeated with these characters “managing” the Club.

John W Henry and LFC, you deserve a better group of people managing Liverpool Football Club, a Club with a great history and potentially a great future.

Laith Amiry, weekendfootball

 

Swansea v Tottenham #matchpreview Saturday 31 Dec 2011 15:00

Swansea’s home record is quite incredible. They have the best defensive home record in the Premier League, conceding only 3 goals in their 9 home games this season, but they also have the worst away record, they have failed to win away from home and lost six of nine.

This pattern can not continue, as the fixture list has been kind toSwansea. Of their nine home games to date, only one has been to top seven opposition, Man United; Swansea’s only home defeat, and the score, 0-1.

Swansea’s next three home matches, all this month, are against Tottenham, Arsenal, and then Chelsea. It is unlikely that Swansea will retain their best defensive home record come the end of this week, let alone the end of January.

Tottenham look true contenders for a top three spot this season. They are playing some great football, they are second in the form table, third in the league with a game in hand, and have won 12 of their 17 league matches to date.

Gareth Bale cemented his status at Tottenham with both goals in their 2-0 win at Carrow Road on Tuesday night, and Harry continues to tease the big money clubs with comments like “Only Barcelona, Man City or a Real Madrid would be able to pay for him” ……… “but he isn’t for sale”. Spurs must not sell him!

Weekend Football prediction – Tottenham Away win, correct score 0-1

Best odds for the away win, are currently 1.73 with StanJames.com and for the correct score of 0-1 the best odds are 7.00 at Ladbrokes

If Tottenham manage to score as many goals in this match as have been scored in the Liberty Stadium in the league all season, and Swansea have no reply, you will get 13.00 at Ladbrokes for 0-3.

Laith Amiry, weekendfootball

Man United v Blackburn #matchpreview Saturday 31 Dec 2011 12:45

United are back to the top of the form table with a 5 1 0 record and incredible 18:2 goal ratio over their last six, and now breathing down City’s neck on equal points and only 5 GD behind.  Perhaps they needed the slap City gave them in October, since then, they have only dropped one point, at home to Newcastle. In their last five league matches United have scored 17 goals and conceded one, in stark contrast to their pre and post City blues where they went 7 successive league games scoring a solitary goal in each game.

United have a squad deep enough to cope with their growing injury problems. Their weakest area is their defence, and now Johnny Evans has been added to the list, but if they can score 4 or 5 a game they can afford to concede one or two, plus the versatile Phil Jones will be back sooner than expected.

Steve Kean has been under enormous pressure at Ewood, and his tenure will have been extended by taking a point from Anfield on Boxing Day. Not sure whether that will help him or not in the long run.

Blackburn end the year, bottom of the Premier League table, still looking for their first away win of the season against a United side who are in top form, and back to scoring 5 goals a game.

Head to head, Blackburn have not beaten United in the league in their last ten (7W 3D), but they did have victories home and away over United in the 2005/06 season.

The odds on a Blackburn win are enormous, particularly from Victor Chandler.  I don’t remember seeing odds of 28/1 on HDA for a league match, other bookmakers are around 20/1. United need to keep the pressure on City who have a potential banana skin at Sunderland, and will go top for more than 24 hours, if they win, or draw, regardless of the outcome of the Sunderland v City match.

I don’t see anything but a home win here, but not the likes of the last two matches against Wigan and Fulham where United dominated and buried 5 goals without reply, both opponents rolling over far too easily. Blackburn have to and will scrap.

Weekend Football prediction – Man United Home win, correct score 3-1

Best odds for the home win, are currently 1.15 with StanJames.com and for the correct score of 3-1 the best odds are 12.00 with Victor Chandler

Laith Amiry, weekendfootball