Sunday, December 27, 2009

Confession Of A Scouser-holic

Why i fell in love with this team? That's even an enigma to me as why i supported a club that it didn't win the BPL for almost 20 years. I might as well join the typical Malaysian bandwagon supporting Manure Utd, the so called greatest club of the millenium with it's illustrious success and big publicity throughout the Asia region. So, what type of club is Liverpool? For me, it's a club that is rich in history of success with great hardcore fans that even won the hearts of Gunner's legend Thierry 'Mr. Handball' Henry and Andrei 'Russian Torpedo' ARSE-shavin. Even the SCUMS legend and our ex-hard tackling midfield captain Paul Ince said that the LFC faithful never booed their ex players.eg LFC VS Villa a few years back where our former Champions League winner Milan Baros who played for Villa at that time was going to pick up the ball near the kop end and the kop shouted 'Milan, Milan' with Baros acknowledging their voice gave a clap towards the kop end. That really bring tears to my eye. The only boos i've heard the LFC supporters gave so far was our so called 'Serial Killer' turned 'Serial Diver' El Haji Diouf and Lil' MO who turned scum this season.

The other factor was the song 'YNWA made famous by 'Gerry and the Pacemakers'. A song that will lift your hearts up and will give you goosebumps when you sing it together with your Liverpudlian mates before the game starts. No other clubs in BPL i've seen so far have this uplifting song to be played at their homeground before the game starts. The lyrics are so meaningful and could even use it our life especialy when you thought that the world is unfair where everything goes the wrong way for you eg 'Coz at the end of the storm, Is a golden sky' really means a lot as it tells you there is hope after encountering all the bad problems that accured in your life. Some cheeky Manure fans even used the YNWA acronyms and made it 'You'll Never Win Anything' that i have to admit brings a chuckle or two for the reds faithful.



The moment i saw the emergence of Toxeth Terrier aka Robbie 'God' Fowler was another factor why i supported LFC. A bright player with the attitude of a rock star due to his controversial moments such as made gay gestures towards Grame Le Saux and the famous cocaine sniffing celebration againts Everturds. A great natural finisher of the game at his prime with a sweet left foot that will guarantee to score spectacular goals.



Another player that impressed me is towards the end of 1996/97 season where a 17 year old kid who made his debut againts Wimbeldon and scored a goal as well. His name is Michael Owen. A pacy striker who uses his speed to outpace the opposition defenders to score goals. I even saw him playing for England in Singapore during friendly with their national team before the Under 17 World Cup tournament that will be held in Malaysia together with a young Carra and Danny Murphy. Too bad he made his alligence with the Devil to win the heart of Capello in giving him a spot in the England team for the World Cup at South Africa 2010.



Maybe there's more factor such as it's sponsor, Carlsberg is my favourite beer etc, well the 3 main factors above would do for now. At least i've seen them won the League Cup,F.A, EUFA Cup, Champions League Cup and even Supercup during my 13 years of support. There's joy and tears plus a bit of anger sometimes while supporting this club. Hope i can see them lift the BPL someday and that will be the day i plan to go to Anfield to watch them lift the trophy. Well, it's a high hope but as the lyric in the YNWA song it says ' Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart, And you'll never walk alone,You'll never walk alone'....



DT
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Friday, December 18, 2009

Wohooo!!!...another event where we can get up close n personal with our beloved team in the world...Liverpool F.C. Well, itz not the current Rafa Benitez squad but itz the 'old horses', i mean legend of the team...the Liverpool Masters team which consists of Paul Jones, our temporary backup goalkeeper during the Gerrard Houllier regime in 2003, scouser turned blue nose Don Hutchison, ex-spice boy turned pundit Jason McAteer, the joker Mark Wright n the ex Gunner that shattered our hearts in the 1988-89 season before he joined Liverpool, Michael Thomas and Mark Walters too during the Souness era.They were joined by John Durnin and Jimmy Carter who were in the Reserves during their prime and were unfortunate not to make it to the first team due to the presence of strikers like Rush and Aldridge and later on Fowler and Collymore. The Masters Tournament 2009 (which was LFC won last year) which was held at Stadium Putra, Bukit Jalil on the 22th of November.

Wif Paul Jones













Wif Michael Thomas
Me n my loyal compadre and co-Scouse fanatic Ivan, made our journey from Malacca around 12 pm and as usual during this month, it was a rainy day. We arrived around 2.45pm to greeted by plenty of activities at the entrance of the stadium and we see lots of Liverpool fans arriving just like us! We've met up MYRAWK's Jon C upon arrival around 3pm near the stadium entrance and hung around the entrance pending the opening of entry into the stadium. Meanwhile we checked out the mini events that was held around the stadium. LFCM got a booth for doing their membership drive and selling their merchandise, Pizza Hut selling their pizza for snacks, Fly FM roadshow and even mini footie event such as checking the level of your shot power and accuracy. Suddenly, the players from the tournament with the likes of Andy Cole(urgh..), Ray Parlour(yawn), Ian Walker and a few others came by outside the stadium to sign autographs and photo session with the fans. Most were friendly and warm and smiled and laugh with those seeking autographs. Our beloved tv footie pundit Jon Dykes also came by doing interviews and take photos with fans.

Wif Jason McAteer
Prior to the start of the tournament proper, there were 2 warm-up games, one featured the men between two amateur teams which i forgot their names and largely forgotten as it was rather bland. However, the second match had the male hormones flowing as it featured the women's match. One of the female team comprised local radio DJ's with the likes of Hitz, Fly etc whilst the other teeam featured DJ Hunny, Serena C and lots more. A lot of ' wooohingss', whistling and shouting came from the guys from all the corners of the indoor stadium ahem...including us during that 'hot chicks playing footie' game. However, the truth were that it was clear that the girls team were not 'proper' football or futsal players and most of them were running aimlessly and it was more like watching a herd chasing a ball. There were even shouts of refund of money from one supporter due to the standard of game on display.












Wif FLY F.M's D.J Hunny Madu



After the warm-up games, the real games started...and our mighty Liverpool Masters team won all their games during the group matches against Sheffield United, Manure United and BPL All-Stars. We've beaten Manure in a thrilling and closely fought and literary fiery encounter (much like an EPL match!!) which ended with 4-3 scoreline in the group game. We met Manure again the final and were actually leading the game into the final 30 second of the match until Jesper Blomqvist equalised with the score at 4-3 and eventually lost to them at the penalty shootout. No extra time was played and the match went to penalty kicks. During the penalty shoot-out, 'Don' Hutchison got his penalty saved. Kudos to the LFCM fans who sang YNWA and their kop like chants during the game although the 'Torres' tune was sung, it seemed out of place! During the prize giving ceremony a mob of the so called Manure fans who suddenly emerged out of nowhere taunting the Liverpool fans during a rendition of YNWA along with the sound of their irritating small trumpets after their team emerged as the winner of the tournament.














Wif Don Hutchison


Wif Paul Jones And John Durnin














Wif Mark Wright

A truly great event from first til last eventhough my idol Rush and Barnes didn't come for the tournament this time. We also understood that McManaman was in town but did not play in the tournament. Hopefully next year's tounament would be better and the LFC supporters from MYRAWK and LFCM would be seated together to make more noise. A great thanks to MYRAWK's Jon C and William for getting us the tickets. Sad to see the LFC Masters team lost the game but as they always say 'Form is Temporary, Class Is Permanent'. They'll win it next year and who knows? maybe 'God' will play for us next year if u know what i mean.It was more fun than I had anticipated and would certainly be joining my fellow Scouse brothers for next years' EPL Masters!! It was certainly worth the trip from Malacca and seeing fellow Reds who were really a joy to be with mingle around.
Me And fellow MYRAWK-kites

YNWA - DT"
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