Just what is it with the Daily Post?
Week after week, day by day they seem to pursue an agenda which is directly at odds with what Liverpool are trying to achieve with regards to the new stadium. Today we’ve been subjected to a four page splash suggesting an emergency board meeting has been called, and that the stadium plans will collapse unless the club is taken over in the next 72 hours:
Millionaires battle to takeover Liverpool FC
This follows on from Saturday’s epic in which they claimed we’d missed a deadline to prove we had the funding. If you read the article closely you’ll spot we haven’t missed any deadline:
Liverpool FC miss funding deadline
The shadowy hand of the NWDA is continually seen in the background, with an “unnamed source” from the government quango always ready to disparage LFC and suggest a ground share with Everton as the way forward. The NWDA’s Chief Executive Steve Broomhead is a particular fan of this idea, despite opposing the ground share proposals of Nottingham Forest and his own favoured club Notts County. Hypocrisy writ large from a man more interested in delivering a flagship project for his organisation than a stadium the fans of the club want, the regeneration the area around the current ground needs, and something the whole city will benefit from.
The first time ground share reared its ugly head the Post charged into action to support it, publishing something like 20 pro-ground share articles in just over a week. It took a passionate Red to knock down the doors of the Echo offices, and plead with the editor for a sense of balance in the debate, before the first anti-ground share article was seen in the Post’s sister paper as an antidote to the propaganda. Since then and despite the overwhelmingly anti-ground share stance from the fans and LFC, the Post has continued with its drip drip feed of articles supporting a purple stadium either directly or by undermining the Stanley Park proposals.
Today Chris Bascombe does a good job in counteracting the Post’s morning nonsense in an interview with Rick Parry:
When will the Post and the NWDA understand that we have no interest in their ground share, and should stop trying to undermine the current proposals at every turn for their own vested agenda.
September 20th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
Is it time for Liverpool fans to boycott the post?
Seem they have agendas they are trying to push, that are against the views of most reds. Would a boycott be useful and would it work?
September 20th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
I am in agreement with Tony’s suggestion.
Maybe the Post will ‘wake-up and smell the coffee’ when a significant section of their readership (50%+?) boycott the paper.
Reading through negative article after negative article (20+ versus a mere handful of positive pieces) you’d be hard pushed not to believe that an agenda is being pushed here (”either you groundshare or we will throw enough dirt to ensure that the new stadium will not happen”?)
September 20th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
My mate says this has nothing to do with Post’s sports department.
September 21st, 2006 at 8:48 am
There’s another negative article in the paper this morning. Please go onto the Stadium Debate forum for the link.
I reminded of Shanks comment about Brian Clough: “He’s worse than the rain in Manchester. At least God stops the rain in Manchester occasionally.”