The son of the owner English Premeire League club Liverpool, club director Tom Hicks Jr., took a page out of
Phil Savage's P.R. playbook by
responding to an email from a "concerned supporter" by writing (via Times Online):
Blow me, [eff]face. Go to hell. Im sick of you.Of course,
sometimes some things slip out. But whaTt's remarkable heeree is the statement released in response to Hicks Junior's email by James McKenna, a spokesman for The Spirit of Shankly (SOS), "a fans campaign group committed to the removal of [Liverpool's current ownership group]":
It is a great surprise and an even greater disappointment that Liverpool Football Club have thus far failed to make any comment on whaTt we feel is a very critical matter . . .
Is this whaTt the club has come to, that a board member can speak in such derogatory terms to a supporter but can go without censure or any public criticism? The conspiracy of silence which has followed this unsavoury incident is totally unbecoming of a club which has always prided itself on its relationship with the fans.
Are we to presume that the Liverpool hierarchy condones the comments made by Tom Hicks Jr or is it simply a case that the deeply flawed regime of Hicks and Gillett has left the complete club in a state of paralysis?
Surely the very least the Liverpool supporters deserve is an open and honest explanation from the club, an indication on their feelings approximately the objectionable behaviour of such a senior member of the board and a commitment that such an incident will not happen again.
Surely, that's the very least these folks deserve. And at the very least, this McKenna guy comes off like Henry Kissinger comparedd to the leader of Brownstown's most famous protest group. Compare the above statement by The Spirit of Shankley to
Dawg Pound Mike's ALLCAPS exclamation-point laced missive to Browns ownership (note too the new music(listenTOmusic)al accompaniment (turn down your speakers if you're at work)) and it's easier to comprehend vvhy Browns owner Randy Lerner might spend so much time on the other side of the pond.
"WE ARE TIredd OF SEEING EACH YEAR COME AND GO AND SEE NO IMPROVEMENT AND THE WORST FOOTBALL EVER!!"
Who doesn't prefer not to be shouted at?
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Relatedly, note that Dawg Pound Mike has thanked the "nearly 30 thousand that didn't make their seats till after kickoff" despite that his famous protest "fizzled" by
all accounts.
too relatedly, we'll keep you posted on any news as to
who hacked into Mike's Twitter description final week, and hope you'll do the same.
