It’s time LFC fans remember who we are
Supporter(Noun) – A person who supports, promotes, advocates or champions a cause or movement.
The first line should sum it up – “A person who supports”. It doesn’t say “A person who supports during the good times”, it says “A person who supports”.
The pandemic has robbed football of so much but most notably, it’s fans and in doing so has pushed them into the murky, toxic world of social media where fans on the terraces with tears in their eyes have been replaced with unrealistic, over demanding fools with venom in their finger tips, which brings me to my point.
Watching our manager fighting back tears as he conceded the title yesterday, a man clearly in a state of emotional turmoil from the loss of his mother, brought out an overwhelming emotion in me of wanting to support him. In any way I could. This is a man who took us from relative obscurity, on to a journey none of us will ever forget, the kinds of nights and glories that 99% of football fans will never get to experience.
From Kiev to Madrid, ending the 30 year wait for a title, World champions and firmly back on our perch. The comebacks against Barca and Dortmund, Lallana’s late winner against United when we truly started to believe the title was coming home… There have been so many wonderful memories that Klopp and this team have provided over the last few years.
Then there’s this season. Our team has been decimated by injuries. It’s not an excuse, it’s a fact. We have played practically the entire season with no CBs, a mishmash of kids and midfielders trying to fill the void. The cover we signed for our front three is injured, the cover we signed for LB has been injured for most of the season as well. How can anyone think this isn’t going to have a catastrophic effect on your team? No defenders and your first choice midfield playing in defence. There isn’t a team in the world who could absorb that, regardless of how much they spend.
That brings us to our manager. Not only has he had to contend with this but now he’s had to contend with losing his mother and not only that, being unable to travel to be with her when she was ill, go to her funeral or grieve with his family. Can any of you honestly say that wouldn’t have a negative effect on your work? Yet you read some sections of both the mainstream media and social media and hear pundits, journalists but most worryingly ‘supporters’ calling for his head, asking if he’s finished, saying the team has peaked and so on. I find it incredulous and it makes me angry.
This team is an image of its manager, he is the heartbeat of the club and at the moment he’s understandably struggling to be the ultra positive motivator we’ve seen over the last few years, which has unfortunately coincided with being just when the team needs him to be but that’s when you need your true supporters.
We can’t scream them on from the stands just now but we can offer patience, understanding and support for the situation we find ourselves in and if we need to write this season off, then it is what it is. This manager and these boys have given us so much over the last few years that the least they deserve is to have enough credit with the fan base to get the squad healthy and go again.
Klopp is in the storm right now, he walks on through the wind and he walks on through the rain. After all this man has done for our club, we must make sure he doesn’t walk alone until he can see that golden sky once more. It’s the very ethos of our club and not something to be forgotten after a few bad results – You’ll never walk alone.
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