Liverpool fans stop Hicks & Gillett attending match

RESPECT

Massive respect to Spirit Of Shankly. A monumental effort by the lads to get the message across. Only a slight chink in the Yanks armour, but each protest will slowly and surely chip away at it. At some point it will break. For these men to give up their free time and organise this operation with military precision is nothing short of miraculous.

If only something disastrous was to happen to one of the Yank families? And before i get negged for this comment, do you really think they give a F**k about any of 'us'? They can only drain this club of it's lifeblood for so long, it has to end somewhere. Let's hope it's sooner rather than later.

Good on you SOS - seems like you're finally getting your finger out

Is right to the Redmen who care enough about our club to do something about it. 

Long may this continue!

YNWA

While I am fully behind getting rid of the yanks, it is sad that people appear to care too much about the fact that an owner wasnt allowed in Anfield and less about losing to Arsenal

While I am fully behind getting rid of the yanks, it is sad that people appear to care too much about the fact that an owner wasnt allowed in Anfield and less about losing to Arsenal

Um no, it is not sad. It is sad it has got to this, but the people who did this care a hell of a lot about losing to the arse, as they care enough about the club to do this.

well done SOS, it's a tragedy that we have to do this but there a cancer that needs to go NOW. And i say we should play this to the bone, unending disruption to these two tits.  Liverpool fans in the states need to harass these assholes in there back yard as well.  We need to make them owning this club unbearable.

Dunno we got a close up of Cheryl's breasticles on X-factor 

Without pics I don't know if that's better or not.

They will continue,each time with more vigour.The tide is changeing,challenge Scousers and they Will respond.To the end Brothers.

Just registered on this great site and I have just read some of the posts concerning the septic tanks. I know the money we got for Shabi has gone to make the interest payments on the loan but, is the boycoting of buying official club merchandise the way forward for us.

Most people doing that are daytrippers and probably don't even know who the owners are.

While I am fully behind getting rid of the yanks, it is sad that people appear to care too much about the fact that an owner wasnt allowed in Anfield and less about losing to Arsenal

I don't think that's true, mate. Look in the post match thread and you will see plenty of comments about the Arsenal match and the numerous threads questioning all things Rafa have been bumped back up the list. The efforts by SoS are important and deserve a thread at least.

Most people doing that are daytrippers and probably don't even know who the owners are.

Disagree and buying official merchandise from the club shops can only benefit the club.

We need more revenue not less.

The SOS have being brilliant pity the F***ing media choose to ignore it.

The SOS have being brilliant pity the F***ing media choose to ignore it.

Hear hear.

Tells you everything you need to know about the motivation of the media.  It wouldn't surprise me one jot if some of them are on the H&G payroll.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5FbFmP4ptw&feature=player_embedded#

Good stuff. Just seen that vid on Twitter.

And agreed on the press thing. Think the only coverage in the media I've seen about it was on talkaloadofbull.com, ironically.

They will get the message sooner or later! (Hopefully sooner)

Finally

Liverpool FC fans in Anfield American owners protest

Dec 15 2009  by Luke Traynor, Liverpool Echo

THREE people were arrested during a protest against Liverpool’s American owners at Anfield on Sunday.

Up to 200 fans took part in the Spirit of Shankly demonstration outside all four corners of the stadium ahead of the match against Arsenal.

A game of cat-and-mouse emerged from around 2pm following rumours that both Tom Hicks and George Gillett would attend the fixture.

Angry supporters were keen to identify which vehicle could be transporting the two owners into the stadium so they could voice their frustrations.

The protest was described by both the organisers and police as peaceful.

However, three people were arrested for public order offences.

Two of them were charged and another received a fine.

In the event neither of the owners went to the match, although Foster Gillett, who sits on the Liverpool board, took his place in the stands.

A spokesman for the Spirit of Shankly said: “We wanted to point out their continuing mismanagement and remind them once again that they are not welcome here.”


http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2009/12/15/lfc-fans-in-anfield-american-owners-protest-100252-25391236/

And so the Echo continues to swallow the club's bullshit whole. Although this wouldn't have anything to do with Trinity Mirror being the company who produces the LFC match-day programmes and the LFC magazine would it?

Tom Hicks was spotted by a couple of lads in his black Range Rover and and a senior police officer had to get into the car to tell them to drive away from the ground.

Echo sold it's soul a long time ago.

In the event neither of the owners went to the match

We know. They couldn't get in.

Finally

Liverpool FC fans in Anfield American owners protest

Dec 15 2009  by Luke Traynor, Liverpool Echo

THREE people were arrested during a protest against Liverpool’s American owners at Anfield on Sunday.

Up to 200 fans took part in the Spirit of Shankly demonstration outside all four corners of the stadium ahead of the match against Arsenal.

A game of cat-and-mouse emerged from around 2pm following rumours that both Tom Hicks and George Gillett would attend the fixture.

Angry supporters were keen to identify which vehicle could be transporting the two owners into the stadium so they could voice their frustrations.

The protest was described by both the organisers and police as peaceful.

However, three people were arrested for public order offences.

Two of them were charged and another received a fine.

In the event neither of the owners went to the match, although Foster Gillett, who sits on the Liverpool board, took his place in the stands.

A spokesman for the Spirit of Shankly said: “We wanted to point out their continuing mismanagement and remind them once again that they are not welcome here.”


http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2009/12/15/lfc-fans-in-anfield-american-owners-protest-100252-25391236/

And so the Echo continues to swallow the club's bullshit whole. Although this wouldn't have anything to do with Trinity Mirror being the company who produces the LFC match-day programmes and the LFC magazine would it?

Tom Hicks was spotted by a couple of lads in his black Range Rover and and a senior police officer had to get into the car to tell them to drive away from the ground.

Liverpool FC fans cleared after alleged ‘Yanks’ race slur against club owners

TWO Liverpool fans were taken to court after police allegedly deemed their chants of “Yanks Out” against the club’s controversial owners as “racist.”

A leading UK football supporters organisation today condemned the attempted police prosecution as both men, one a leading member of Reds fans’ union Spirit of Shankly (SOS), were cleared at court within minutes.

James McKenna and another SOS colleague were hauled off the streets by officers during a peaceful protest against the American multi-millionaires Tom Hicks and George Gillett before the Liverpool game against Arsenal at Anfield in mid-December.

They were directing cries of “Yanks Out” to an expensive-looking vehicle, with blacked-out windows, which was driven through the Anfield Road gates towards the directors box entrance.

Mr McKenna, 22, and his friend, were apprehended by police who, according to him, said they were under arrest for “racist chanting”, specifically the use of the colloquial term for an American.

They were taken to Wavertree Road police station, kept for six hours, before being charged at 9pm with what is now described by Merseyside Police as “an offence of public order.”

But just over two weeks later, at the pair’s first appearance at court in Liverpool’s Community Justice Centre in Vauxhall, the Crown Prosecution Service immediately withdrew their case due to a perceived lack of evidence.

Malcolm Clarke, chairman of the Football Supporters Federation, who were so outraged they gave Mr McKenna legal advice, said he was taken aback by the police reaction to the use of the word “Yank”.

He told the ECHO: “It would be of grave concern if people who lead protests are particularly targeted by police or clubs.

“We live in a free society and people are entitled to put forward their opinions about their football club.

“This was clearly a protest against two particular people, not a general racist slur against Americans. I would be curious of how a court would have viewed this supposed offence.”

On December 13, up to 200 fans took part in the planned protest amid rumours both Tom Hicks and George Gillett planned to attend the fixture.

When one car pulled into the ground, some Reds fans mistakenly assumed the occupants were the American owners and a bout of chanting erupted.

In the event, neither of the owners went to the match although Foster Gillett, who sits on the Liverpool board, took his place in the stands.

Today, Mr McKenna, from Bootle, who has previously confronted Mr Gillett in the city’s Crown Plaza Hotel for an impromptu meeting, said: “I just shouted ‘Yanks Out!’

“The police were out on their horses and they grabbed me. When I asked what for they said: ‘For racism.’

“We were just there to make our point to the owners as we heard they were attending.”

A spokeswoman for Merseyside Police said: “Three men were arrested following a commotion on Anfield Road just after 2pm.

“A 22-year-old man from Bootle was arrested for using threatening, abusive or insulting words or disorderly behaviour within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress and was subsequently charged with a public order offence.

“A 30-year-old man from Dingle was also arrested and charged for a section five public order offence.

“Both men were bailed to appear at North Liverpool Community Justice Court where the charges were discontinued.”

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That is just plain ridiculous.

Isn't it? Unbelievable.