29 Oct 2025 19:41:38
I read today of a great comment by Bill Shankly. "If you can't support us when we lose or draw, don't support us when we win".
I'm as guilty as any fan with some of my comments, more so due to anger and disappointment, but let's face it, it is true.
I can't get over tactics or the board's decisions but I'll always be Forever Wolves.

1.) 29 Oct 2025
29 Oct 2025 20:47:57
Haha, the arrogance within football never ceases to amaze me! I always love it when people that work inside footy come up with ridiculous platitudes like that! Oh the irony of a man that is LITERALLY getting paid to be there moaning at the people using there hard earned wages to pay his extortionate wages! Tell ya what Bill you pay me money to come and watch me do my hobby at well above market rate and I will allow you to say whatever you like about it! ?

{Ed001's Note - Shankly earnt his money and he was not paid extortionate wages. Do you not know who he is?}

2.) 29 Oct 2025
29 Oct 2025 21:06:05
There's a difference in supporting the Club whilst losing faith in the owners BoS. Two totally different issues and let's be honest the progressive dumbing down of the club by the owners has been going on for years now.

This isn't some patch of bad form or a losing streak, it's been coming for some time, predictable, progressive and divisive.

Personally, I think the fans in general have been extremely patient with Fosun but now realise they've been taken for a ride.

3.) 29 Oct 2025
29 Oct 2025 21:52:44
There is Statue of Bill Shankly in the village in Scotland where I used to live (Muirkirk), he was born just up the road.

4.) 29 Oct 2025
29 Oct 2025 22:04:44
Ed 01 - It's not a matter of life or death it's more serious than that.
Another fabulous Shankly quote I believe.
You may not be old enough to remember it but when Ron Yeats was signed he also made some crazy remark about him being so big you had to take a tour to get round him!

{Ed001's Note - Shanks was a legend. My auntie May used to go to the games with his wife Nessie after she retired (she worked at Anfield all her life) and had so many stories about him. Before my time unfortunately.}

5.) 29 Oct 2025
29 Oct 2025 22:07:18
Bill Shankly my arse. Scottish bloke who got paid to manage Liverpool. I was born a wolves fan and have no choice. Don’t tell me it’s my fault for the failings of the owners and the staff they employ.

6.) 29 Oct 2025
29 Oct 2025 22:32:42
I do know who he was Ed, I also see he was on a final wage of around £4k+ at a time when the average wage was £800! Would you have preferred to manage a football team in the 1960's on work on the docks like most of those fans paying to go and see Bill work?! It wasn't a comment aimed a Shankley to be honest but more aimed at the lack of reality within footy and to be honest I think when you look at those numbers I'm not seeing that I'm wrong ?

{Ed001's Note - he spent years on much less than the average wage. Your comments are just bizarre.}

7.) 29 Oct 2025
29 Oct 2025 22:52:37
The respect has gone ?

8.) 29 Oct 2025
29 Oct 2025 23:04:20
Sorry Ed but he absolutely did not! I find it somewhat ironic that you've asked me 'do you even know when he was' when I'm not sure you did?! In his playing career he was on between £4-5 a week, which would have put on on a a average wage of £200-260 a year. Which was in the 1930's when the average wage was around £100-150 a week for gruelling manual labour or heading down into a pit! So what excalty is bizarre about me saying that the comments show a lacking of the working man's reality when all you seem to have done is entirely reinforce that position?! I understand that he's your hero, which is fine but please don't try to tell me that footy isn't removed from reality because it absolutely is and it started from the moment it became pro and has steadily snow balled from that point.to the madness we ow find ourselves in.

{Ed001's Note - you really have no idea of context, just a few googled stats and ignorance. You seem to think he was on big money, which must explain why he lived in a little house and drove a clapped out old motor. He was a player in the maximum wage era, so not sure why you think he was removed from reality. He was a man who grew up with nothing, who worked his arse off to get where he was. You think when he was manager of Carlisle he was on big money do you?}