Why I feel let down by Kenny and Liverpool FC

The world and his wife sat slack jawed in amazement last night just before Liverpool took on City at the Etihad.

A pair of truly ludicrous statements, one from Suarez and the other from LFC were added to by the nonsensical ramblings of Kenny Dalglish both before and after the match in which his Liverpool team were put to sword.

Now I have been very vocal about Liverpool’s poor behaviour throughout the Suarez affair it as, in my humble opinion demeaned one of the greatest clubs in the world.

But it is largely self inflicted and could have been solved with a touch of contrition and an apology from Suarez, one that would have allowed Liverpool to back the player through a tough time.

But no, last night we were allowed a peep behind the curtains into the inner workings of Liverpool and it was not pleasant.

Rather than a player accepting a punishment for an offence that almost every non- Liverpool supporting person I know considers him guilty of we were subjected to excuse after reason after bleating reason.

 And here I paraphrase -

The FA are guilty of fitting up an innocent lad from a humble family.

The FA deliberately created a panel of experts who would find Suarez guilty, the FA were corrupt and anti-Liverpool.

The lad never did anything wrong and Liverpool FC have stood by him as he has principles and values that everyone at the clubs shares.

And here come the good bits.

Liverpool know what wasn’t said in the report. They are OK with Suarez because they know stuff that we, the public wont ever hear about, stuff the panel knew about but never mentioned in 115 pages of explanatory notes.

Kenny has spoken and we must accept that what has not been disclosed would have us all accept Suarez as an innocent in all of this.

And Kenny and Liverpool would like to tell us but they would get into trouble, and they dont want to get into trouble.

Kenny would love to provide full disclosure but, well he might be in trouble with the FA if he did and Liverpool FC might also be in trouble, so they will accept their punishment even though they are innocent.

But if any man on this planet should have chosen other words it is Kenny Dalglish.

Kenny is a man who has been at the centre of a real battle for full disclosure, a battle he and Liverpool will always have my full support in irrespective of what the current bun fight over Suarez turns into.

Kenny and LFC have stood proudly by the families of 96 fans as they refused to give up on a just and right and true cause for all the information about the tragedy that is Hillsbrough to be made available.

Part of me will always be little bit Liverpudlian, Scouse, A Red, because I have wanted those truths to have been found, for those families to get justice.

So for Kenny of all people to say that he knows something but to refuse to tell his own fans is an error of judgement that hurts far more than the actions of a South American footballer ever could.

Kenny is Liverpool, so what he says matters beyond what the FA say, or John W Henry or Suarez.

Surely for Kenny to have closed ranks in the face of injustice in the Suarez case is the last thing he should do.

If you are going to fight for justice then fight for it irrespective of the possible trouble you might get into.

That is what I have admired so much in Liverpool and in Kenny Dalglish in the past, and perhaps that’s why I am so disappointed by what is currently happening at LFC.

Even though I support another team Liverpool are supposed to be different, they are supposed to be better than what I heard last night.

Liverpool are the one club I know of who are inextricably linked to me by a fight for honesty and the one club that stands for dignity in the face of seemingly unbeatable odds.

Liverpool are, lets face it, a special club, a bigger club than the one that put out that statement last night.

And Kenny Dalglish is a bigger man than the one I saw interviewed last night too.

Kenny Dalglish if you know something that could prove your player innocent, if there are facts that are not yet in the public domain you have to live by your principles and get that information out there, because that is the Kenny Dalglish I can truly respect and honour.