VIEW FROM THE STANDS: American duo not likely to change

Jan 21 2008 by Paul O'Leary, Liverpool Daily Post

PLENTY has been written about the club in the past two weeks, indeed, there were more revelations from Hicks on Friday relating to his commitment to LFC.

Words in a newspaper are one thing, but what he needs to understand and very quickly is that he will earn more respect from us by speaking less and supporting his manager with funds for player investment.

This has always been the ‘Liverpool way’; traditionally members of the board were barely seen let alone heard. The amount of time David Moores spoke to the press about ‘footballing’ matters in all his time as chairman was probably less than our current owners have done in less than a year. I believe Hicks to be the more confrontational of the two, he is the one that the Press go to when they want someone to ‘bite’ or speak out against Rafa.

I can’t see anything but him causing more problems for us, he is not going to change his demeanour, after all this is the man who had the biggest hand in getting George Bush elected, men like Hicks are single minded and strong in their views, they are not easily swayed or tamed.

Steven Gerrard summed it up excellently this week when he said LFC was about winning football matches and this is the only reason we want to be headline news. If the stories about DIC are true then maybe it would be in the best interests of everyone if they bought out the Americans.

Nothing but good words have been written about them in relation to how they run their sporting interests and I believe many fans would have been happier for them to have bought the club a year ago.

It’s sad to say but we are now playing for pride in the Premier League, we must ensure we are not embarrassed by how many points we finish behind the winners.