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      Liverpool fans stop Hicks & Gillett attending match
      Dec 13, 2009 08:03:18 pm
      Shout! Shout! Tom and George out! These are the yanks we can do without! Come on! We're talking to you! F**k off!

      Anyone go down the protest today?
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      Reply #1: Dec 13, 2009 08:15:04 pm
      Shout! Shout! Tom and George out! These are the yanks we can do without! Come on! We're talking to you! F**k off!

      Anyone go down the protest today?

      My word that is a shout! :D Love it!

      I couldn't move today. I literally left half my liver in Anfield lastnight! :D

      Hope it's sending a message. These Yank c*nts have long overstayed their welcome.

      Jihad sounds like a shout HR.
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      Reply #2: Dec 13, 2009 08:59:16 pm
      Fair Play SOS - some good news today, puts a smile on my face anyway

      It may not have been the right result on the pitch for Liverpool today, but off the pitch it was a success for the Liverpool Supporters Union, Spirit of Shankly.

      A peaceful protest took place prior to kick off, aimed at denying joint owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett access to Anfield. The protest was a success with 8 empty seats in the director’s box during the game and police turning Hicks and Gillett away on health and safety grounds.

      SOS posted a short update on their Facebook page tonight saying the protest worked. Full details will be made available on Monday.

      Tom and George were on one of their few all-expenses paid trips to Anfield, with it being against a big four club of course. Don’t hold your breathe seeing them against Wigan on Wednesday.

      It appears there were some arrests, although one in particular seems to have been a blatant targeting of an SOS leader.

      Well in SOS, the message is clear Tom and George, You’re Not Welcome.

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      Reply #3: Dec 13, 2009 09:08:29 pm
      Just found this on another forum:

      This is the story of the day from an SOS perspective.

      By about 12.45pm we had each of the four entrances covered by about 10 or 15 people but the numbers grew throughout the afternoon. We had been contacted in the morning by the police who had got wind of some sort of protest (they mentioned websites so quite clearly, and understandably, they monitor what is posted). I have been the liaison with the Police so we indicated that there was to be a protest as we understood the owners where to attend. I was told in that conversation that the Club had said that none of the owners where to attend. The point was made that all the officer (who to be fair is extremely reasonable and fair as far as my dealings have been with him) was doing was repeating what he had been told. We made the point that everyone would look very stupid if it turned out that the Club were trying it on. The officer said he would be personally "very emabarrassed".

      We then got credible reports from the people inside the Club at a senior level that Foster Gillett was going to attend. This clearly put a different slant on the misinformation that the police were receiving.

      By about 1.45pm it was clear that we could not rely upon anything we were hearing so it was decided to concentrate upon the Shankly Gates entrance and everyone was whistled around to there. With onlookers and those taking part there were now a couple of hundred people.

      The stewards were fine (only doing their jobs) but were starting to overstep their authority with stepping out of the gates and asking people to move back. At this stage there was only one officer deployed but shortly four police horses arrived and then a further couple after that. Then a minibus of police deployed by us as well.

      If you know the Shankly Gates and Anfield Road there is a small pavement either side of the road by the entrance. We were penned to the right hand side as you look at the gates with horses next to us.

      There were a couple of false alarms (Howard Webb's minibus got challenged at one point and a Carlsberg bus got stopped and emptied) but no one senior from the Club was able or prepared to say anything other than they had been told that neither of the owners were coming. Upon being challenged by us about the fact that there were credible sources saying that Foster Gillett was coming despoite them telling the police what they did the response was "he's not an owner, he's only a director". That didn't help the situation.

      The crowd built until there was a shout that a silver people carrier had Foster Gillett in it (we had spotters up the road). At this point there was the only flashpoint of the afternoon, a couple of the horses pranced around a bit, one sitting on the car bonnet and the officers jumped in. One officer on a horse was pretty aggressive but the horse deployment itself was over the top and caused more problems than it solved. There was a surge from the pavement and the minibus was stopped. In the melee the police arrested two lads (one a Committee Member) for "public order" offences. The previous arrest was a drunk and disorderly of a bloke who wouldn't stop backchatting the same horse officer who seemed the most aggressive.

      The police made it clear that they would allow the demonstration but would not allow the road to be blocked.

      The senior officer took a couple of us to one side and indicated that he felt the atmosphere was not peaceful. We had previously asked him to verify who was in the ground and who was not. The view being that if he verified they were already in then that would lower the temperature, but if they were not in then he should also tell us and get verification of who was expected. He said, not unreasonably, that he would be relying upon what he was told by the Club and also the message that he was getting was that the "Club" didn't know who was coming or not coming. We responded by saying that in that case we would remain for as long as we could.

      Ultimately the officer said to us that he would not allow the owners to come to the ground as he felt that there was a safety issue all round. We said what did that mean and he said that he would turn their vehicle away from Anfield Road. We said all all that would do would be to see them sneak in somewhere else. He said no, the police monitored all approaches and would not allow them near.

      We remained for another 15 minutes or so as the officer disappeared. Next thing is two lads who had been further up the road said a Black Range Rover had stopped and a police officer had got in and turned the car around while staying in it himself. One lad said he was 95% certain that Tom Hicks was in the car.

      The crowd stayed a liitle longer (it was now 3.15pm) but we slowly dispersed on the following bases:

      1. This is not a one off isolated protest;

      2. We had made a very serious point to the Club about the owners no longer being welcome;

      3. The police assurred us that the owners would not be allowed near the ground today, and on the basis that we would see if that happened (i.e. that both the police and Club could be believed) - if the police weren't truthful or the Club continued to lie then the next protest would not cooperate;

      4. There was no doubt that the protest had made a mark.

      Ultimately, I'd characterise the protest as "feisty" but definitely peaceful and non-violent. There were empty seats in the Directors' Box but we await feedback from all sources about who actually did or didn't get in.

      We also await information about the three arrested lads who we were told were taken to Wavertree nick.

      All in all, the ante has been upped and we'll be back next time we get a sniff that they intend to try and swan in to our ground.

      Spirit Of Shankly
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      Reply #4: Dec 13, 2009 09:13:29 pm
      Cheers for the update.
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      Reply #5: Dec 13, 2009 09:20:31 pm
      Well in SOS.
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      Reply #6: Dec 13, 2009 09:21:30 pm

      And more importantly well done to the Liverpool supporters who care passionately and strongly enough about Liverpool Football Club to try and do something about these pair of leeches.
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      Reply #7: Dec 13, 2009 09:25:17 pm
      Fair Play SOS - some good news today, puts a smile on my face anyway

      It may not have been the right result on the pitch for Liverpool today, but off the pitch it was a success for the Liverpool Supporters Union, Spirit of Shankly.

      A peaceful protest took place prior to kick off, aimed at denying joint owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett access to Anfield. The protest was a success with 8 empty seats in the director’s box during the game and police turning Hicks and Gillett away on health and safety grounds.

      SOS posted a short update on their Facebook page tonight saying the protest worked. Full details will be made available on Monday.

      Tom and George were on one of their few all-expenses paid trips to Anfield, with it being against a big four club of course. Don’t hold your breathe seeing them against Wigan on Wednesday.

      It appears there were some arrests, although one in particular seems to have been a blatant targeting of an SOS leader.

      Well in SOS, the message is clear Tom and George, You’re Not Welcome.

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      Best thing I've read all day.
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      Reply #8: Dec 13, 2009 10:00:00 pm
      What a sad times for LFC !!
      It would make Shankley and Paisley shake their heads in disbelief at that the demise of our great club steeped in history and great players.
      Who on Gods Earth let the 2 American idiots get control of our great club?
      Surley we should have learnt from our greatest rivals Man Utd when the Glazier family took over !!
      found this on another forum:

      This is the story of the day from an SOS perspective.

      By about 12.45pm we had each of the four entrances covered by about 10 or 15 people but the numbers grew throughout the afternoon. We had been contacted in the morning by the police who had got wind of some sort of protest (they mentioned websites so quite clearly, and understandably, they monitor what is posted). I have been the liaison with the Police so we indicated that there was to be a protest as we understood the owners where to attend. I was told in that conversation that the Club had said that none of the owners where to attend. The point was made that all the officer (who to be fair is extremely reasonable and fair as far as my dealings have been with him) was doing was repeating what he had been told. We made the point that everyone would look very stupid if it turned out that the Club were trying it on. The officer said he would be personally "very emabarrassed".

      We then got credible reports from the people inside the Club at a senior level that Foster Gillett was going to attend. This clearly put a different slant on the misinformation that the police were receiving.

      By about 1.45pm it was clear that we could not rely upon anything we were hearing so it was decided to concentrate upon the Shankly Gates entrance and everyone was whistled around to there. With onlookers and those taking part there were now a couple of hundred people.

      The stewards were fine (only doing their jobs) but were starting to overstep their authority with stepping out of the gates and asking people to move back. At this stage there was only one officer deployed but shortly four police horses arrived and then a further couple after that. Then a minibus of police deployed by us as well.

      If you know the Shankly Gates and Anfield Road there is a small pavement either side of the road by the entrance. We were penned to the right hand side as you look at the gates with horses next to us.

      There were a couple of false alarms (Howard Webb's minibus got challenged at one point and a Carlsberg bus got stopped and emptied) but no one senior from the Club was able or prepared to say anything other than they had been told that neither of the owners were coming. Upon being challenged by us about the fact that there were credible sources saying that Foster Gillett was coming despoite them telling the police what they did the response was "he's not an owner, he's only a director". That didn't help the situation.

      The crowd built until there was a shout that a silver people carrier had Foster Gillett in it (we had spotters up the road). At this point there was the only flashpoint of the afternoon, a couple of the horses pranced around a bit, one sitting on the car bonnet and the officers jumped in. One officer on a horse was pretty aggressive but the horse deployment itself was over the top and caused more problems than it solved. There was a surge from the pavement and the minibus was stopped. In the melee the police arrested two lads (one a Committee Member) for "public order" offences. The previous arrest was a drunk and disorderly of a bloke who wouldn't stop backchatting the same horse officer who seemed the most aggressive.

      The police made it clear that they would allow the demonstration but would not allow the road to be blocked.

      The senior officer took a couple of us to one side and indicated that he felt the atmosphere was not peaceful. We had previously asked him to verify who was in the ground and who was not. The view being that if he verified they were already in then that would lower the temperature, but if they were not in then he should also tell us and get verification of who was expected. He said, not unreasonably, that he would be relying upon what he was told by the Club and also the message that he was getting was that the "Club" didn't know who was coming or not coming. We responded by saying that in that case we would remain for as long as we could.

      Ultimately the officer said to us that he would not allow the owners to come to the ground as he felt that there was a safety issue all round. We said what did that mean and he said that he would turn their vehicle away from Anfield Road. We said all all that would do would be to see them sneak in somewhere else. He said no, the police monitored all approaches and would not allow them near.

      We remained for another 15 minutes or so as the officer disappeared. Next thing is two lads who had been further up the road said a Black Range Rover had stopped and a police officer had got in and turned the car around while staying in it himself. One lad said he was 95% certain that Tom Hicks was in the car.

      The crowd stayed a liitle longer (it was now 3.15pm) but we slowly dispersed on the following bases:

      1. This is not a one off isolated protest;

      2. We had made a very serious point to the Club about the owners no longer being welcome;

      3. The police assurred us that the owners would not be allowed near the ground today, and on the basis that we would see if that happened (I.e. that both the police and Club could be believed) - if the police weren't truthful or the Club continued to lie then the next protest would not cooperate;

      4. There was no doubt that the protest had made a mark.

      Ultimately, I'd characterise the protest as "feisty" but definitely peaceful and non-violent. There were empty seats in the Directors' Box but we await feedback from all sources about who actually did or didn't get in.

      We also await information about the three arrested lads who we were told were taken to Wavertree nick.

      All in all, the ante has been upped and we'll be back next time we get a sniff that they intend to try and swan in to our ground.

      Spirit Of Shankly
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      Reply #9: Dec 13, 2009 10:55:01 pm
      Well in SOS  :ernaehrung004: To be continued...
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      Reply #10: Dec 13, 2009 11:10:24 pm
      I hope for one of two things, The Yanks to sell up or the Yanks to invest significant amounts of cash in our club, I can't see the latter being an option for them, so well in SOS for persistently showing these pair of lying fuckwits that they will never be welcome at Anfield, your a credit to Liverpool fans & the club itself.
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      Reply #11: Dec 13, 2009 11:16:36 pm
      The only good thing that happened today.
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      Reply #12: Dec 13, 2009 11:19:02 pm
      The only good thing that happened today.

      Dunno we got a close up of Cheryl's breasticles on X-factor  :o
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      Reply #13: Dec 14, 2009 07:27:26 am
      Fair play SOS and well done to the people who are actually very concerned about the financial situation clouding our club.

      If Hicks and Gillett were indeed denied access then it's a massive coup. They flew in from the US basically for nothing, only to come to the ground and get kicked out by us fans.

      Massive well done and shows how much they're unwanted at the club.
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      Reply #14: Dec 14, 2009 08:02:27 am
      At last a very effective protest from the point of view of stopping the Yanks getting in to the stadium but I wonder what the net effect will be as they apparently only visit for a ''big four' game which as Corballyred states are all expenses paid trips from the U.S.A (at the clubs expense) plus if you listen to S.O.S's account of the day there was an overpowering and unnecessary police presence (again at our expense, I think ?).

      The show of force from our fans towards the yanks would normally be enough to make anyone sell up but with these two knobheads in charge all there doing by prolonging their leaving is increasing the debt on our club !
      They'll both leave (eventually !) with money in there pockets  so (sadly ) I can't see them leaving any time soon !

      Looking at our current league position it could be a long winter of discontent at our beloved club, but with the right man in charge (Rafa !) and new owners (eventually ) there WILL be light at the end of the tunnel, or more aptly as OUR song goes AT THE END OF A STORM IS A GOLDEN SKY !
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      Reply #15: Dec 14, 2009 08:03:26 am
      What a sad times for LFC !!
      It would make Shankley and Paisley shake their heads in disbelief at that the demise of our great club steeped in history and great players.
      Who on Gods Earth let the 2 American idiots get control of our great club?
      Surley we should have learnt from our greatest rivals Man Utd when the Glazier family took over !!
      In answer to your question it was Moores and Parry who let these two arse holes take over this great club of ours.Even when we were in the old second division I never felt the despair that i do today with Hicks and Gillette.Even then the one thing we all had was hope,and that hope came to fruition when the late great Bill Shankly arrived at Anfield.
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      Reply #16: Dec 14, 2009 08:18:02 am
      Shout! Shout! Tom and George out! These are the yanks we can do without! Come on! We're talking to you! F**k off!

      Anyone go down the protest today?

      We should re-write that song with those Lyrics as the base! Kenny, you are a genius.

      Im really sick of these cu*ts, and to read that these kind of things are being resorted too, while great as this is what we need, it really saddens me it got to this. But it has, so onwards we fight, right up until they are gone. And every little thing will be done, as they WILL be gone. Because we are LIVERPOOL F***ing FC, THE GREATEST CLUB IN THE WORLD, THE UNIVERSE! AND WE WON'T F***ing GIVE UP UNTIL NOT ONE TRACE OF THOSE cu*ts IS LEFT!
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      Reply #17: Dec 14, 2009 08:20:27 am
      We should re-write that song with those Lyrics as the base! Kenny, you are a genius.

      Im really sick of these cu*ts, and to read that these kind of things are being resorted too, while great as this is what we need, it really saddens me it got to this. But it has, so onwards we fight, right up until they are gone. And every little thing will be done, as they WILL be gone. Because we are LIVERPOOL F***ing FC, THE GREATEST CLUB IN THE WORLD, THE UNIVERSE! AND WE WON'T F***ing GIVE UP UNTIL NOT ONE TRACE OF THOSE cu*ts IS LEFT!


      Amen to that !
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      Reply #18: Dec 14, 2009 08:31:38 am
      I'm looking round the papers this morning...........not a mention of the protest, not even a one liner, very dissapointing.

      SOS have scored a major hit on the American clowns, but why has the media ignored it?

      With each passing day we see the media lambasting our club at every opportunity while at the same time ignoring anything positive.

      Keep up the good work SOS............

      We will not be silenced, our voices WILL be heard!!!

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      Reply #19: Dec 14, 2009 08:37:18 am


      SOS have scored a major hit on the American clowns, but why has the media ignored it?

      With each passing day we see the media lambasting our club at every opportunity while at the same time ignoring anything positive.

      Keep up the good work SOS............

      We will not be silenced, our voices WILL be heard!!!



      The protest is a 'good' thing from our point of view , no one other than our fans want to read about this !
      Liverpool back where they belong is bad news for everyone else concerned, not worth talking about.
      That's why we're not reading about the protest this morning !
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      Reply #20: Dec 14, 2009 09:50:16 am
      And more importantly well done to the Liverpool supporters who care passionately and strongly enough about Liverpool Football Club to try and do something about these pair of leeches.

      So right JD, my hat goes off to these people who spend their time not just on matchdays fighting for the truth and letting other supporters know what is really happening.
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      Reply #21: Dec 14, 2009 11:46:13 am
      Quote by twobe12

      "Who on Gods Earth let the 2 American idiots get control of our great club?"

      Blame that useless piece of excrement, Parry, together with the idiot son of the Moores family.
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      Reply #22: Dec 14, 2009 11:53:30 am
      Only decent thing to come out of Sunday's match, that.

      Well in to everyone who protested, massive respect, and I'm really encouraged to hear this isn't a one-off, that the protests will continue.

      YANKS OUT!

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