Friday, January 25, 2008

FA Cup 26/1/2008 - Liverpool vs Havant & Waterlooville

In this momentous FA Cup live commentary and radio broadcast soccer match betwee English Premier League giant Liverpool and non-leaguers Havant & Waterlooville, the media would have you believe that Liverpool are on the ropes and they might be in for a shock against the little Havant team. If you are able to get past the media nonsense, you would know that Liverpool would win this comfortably, and even if they do not perform, a win is a shoo in and it would be at least by two or three goals. It might not much given that they are an English Premier League team and playing against a bunch of part timers tonight, but they will do it with their eyes closed be sure about that. There is frankly no challenge tonight and it only serves as a distraction for the Liverpool faithful and team and manager Rafa Benitez.

In fact, this live commentary and TV telecast game continues to present to the world how much Liverpool's American owners have undermined Benitez and the team. They have admitted as much that the only reason they have bought Liverpool is to suck money out of the club for their American sports teams. If that is so, I hope another consortium who are truly devoted to Liverpool would step in and buy over the club. It is becoming scaryingly close that Liverpool might be going the way of Leeds. If the team fails to qualify for the Champions League each season, they will not have money to finance their debts, and they wouldn't have money to buy players, and that means one thing - going straight down, no matter how good a manager they have in Benitez. In fact, I would not be surprised if Benitez leaves the club after this season, and basically hands in his resignation. Nobody would blame him for that, and if that happens, you can basically say goodbye to Liverpool in the English Premier League. Do you know how much money is being paid to baseball players in the United States? If Hicks is determined to take money away from Liverpool to finance those baseball players, you can only expect to see part timers playing for Liverpool in the future.

That said, tonight's live commentary and radio broadcast FA Cup match between Liverpool and Havant & Waterlooville will see further protests against the American owners by Liverpool fans. Unfortunately for them, the club has announced refinancing deals which means the Yanks will still be around to continue destroying the club. It is unlikely they will leave anytime soon, until at least they realised what bad business they have done and dragged Liverpool into. For the Liverpool fans, I hope tonight's live commentary and radio broadcast FA Cup match against Havant & Waterlooville will bring some much needed temporary relief against a backdrop of continuing trouble for the once great soccer club.

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