Friday evening at 6pm (BST) - Let's show our support for Rafa

Just ripped this from RAWK - Currently in the process of adding the email addresses. Done
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I posted a suggestion last night, and I've received numerous PM's since from various posters, urging me to make a thread specifically for this idea. So here goes.

The idea is that we should all prepare our own individual statements which make it abundantly clear, that we (the fans) are 100% behind our manager, and that our support for him will remain totally resolute, regardless of what anyone in the printed or broadcast media say about him.

These statements don't have to be too long. As long as the message is loud and clear then a few lines or a paragraph should be sufficient. My idea is for us all to e-mail these statements to numerous addresses at precisely 1 o'clock on Friday afternoon. If we can get enough people on board to participate in this, then surely we can make someone in the broadcast or printed media take notice.

If Sky News, The BBC, Setanta, Radio 5, The Times, The Liverpool Echo, Tony Barrett, Guillem Ballague, Christian Purslow, et al (all suggestions are welcome here) were all to receive thousands of e-mails in their inboxes within the space of a few seconds, then surely someone somewhere would have to notice that there is a collective show of solidarity among us, and that we want Rafa to stay.

I suggest that all of our e-mails contain the same subject, header, and footer. For example, something along the lines of this:

Subject: I want Rafa Benitez to stay

Header: Hello my name is (insert name here) and I am a life long supporter of Liverpool Football club.

Then insert your own statement that you wrote in your own words. Remember to make it absolutely clear, that we do not wish for Rafa to leave Liverpool

Footer: I trust you will also be hearing from my fellow supporters. Yours sincerely (insert name)

I’m open to tweaking the subject title, as well as the header and footer. If anyone has any suggestions then don’t hesitate to put them forth. But the important thing is, whatever we decide on, we should all use the same headers and footers to show that we are all together on backing our boss.

I also think that having the same subject title would also strike a chord. Imagine thousands of e-mails descending down your inbox, all with different names and addresses, but with the same subject. It would certainly make me sit up and notice if I was a journo or presenter. It would really show that we are united in this.

He came and carried us in our time of need in 2004, and gave us some of the greatest nights in LFC history. The time has come for us to repay the favour, and do whatever we can to carry him in his hour of need.

I’m going to go trawling the web for as many email addresses as I can find. I’ll post them in here as I go. Once we have a collection of these addresses, (the more the better) then we can copy and paste them into the “send to” pane of our emails. Then at 1pm on Friday we all click send together. We send our message together, and we show everyone and anyone willing to listen, that Rafa has our full support.

I hope you are all willing to get on board with this. It’s well worth the effort if you ask me. Bill Hick Appreciation society recently set up a facebook page demonstrating our support for Rafa, hopefully that might be a way to get even more people to take part in this. I’m also going to send a message to the administrator of the SOS facebook page to ask if they would be willing to post a link to this thread.

YNWA Rafa

Cheers,

Billy.

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Journalists

Guillem Balague: admin@guillembalague.com

Tony Barrett: tony.barrett@thetimes.co.uk

Bill Bradshaw: bill.bradshaw@express.co.uk

James Lawton: james.lawton@independent.co.uk

Matt Lawton: m.lawton@dailymail.co.uk

Martin Samuel: martin.samuel@dailymail.co.uk

Ashley gray: ashley.gray@dailymail.co.uk

Oliver Kay: oliver.kay@thetimes.co.uk

Sam Wallace: sam.wallace@independent.co.uk

Dominic Fifield: dominic.fifield@guardian.co.uk

Martin Lipton: martin.lipton@mirror.co.uk

Henry Winter: henry.winter@telegraph.co.uk

Kevin McCarra; kevin.mccarra@guardian.co.uk

Hugh McIlvanney: hugh.mcilvanney@sunday-times.co.uk

Lee Watson: leewatson@guillembalague.com




Newspapers

sportletters@sunday-times.co.uk

sport@independent.co.uk

editorial@dailymailonline.co.uk

sport@tribune.ie

mailbox@mirror.co.uk

starsport@dailystar.co.uk

sports@sundayworld.com (Aldo does a sunday column for this lot)

sport@liverpoolecho.co.uk

mailbox@mirror.co.uk

home.news@thetimes.co.uk

sport@guardian.co.uk

sport@independent.co.uk






Broadcasters

606@bbc.co.uk

5livesport@bbc.co.uk

u2us@skysports.com

fff@foxsoccer.com

onair@talksport.co.uk

football@bbc.co.uk

tonight@itv.com
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Again, this was ripped off RAWK and wasn't my idea.

Fantastic idea though.

Fantastic idea though.

I'll be taking part. I wasn't disagreeing with it. Just making sure I didn't get the credit for it.

Yeah, well in to BTK off RAWK for coming up with the idea.

Obviously there's going to be people who disagree with the notion which isn't a problem. There's plenty of other threads in the Kop to debate your views against our manager, so let's keep this one debate free please.

u2us@skysports.com won't know what F***ing hit them.

Will do this myself as well! Hopefully many of our forum as well as RAWK do the same. Don't give a sh*t that it'll be 5am that I have to do it, seems like a boss idea and I'm well into it.

Another template from shanklyboy from RAWK.

An idea for the content.
Change add or ignore as you see fit.


HEADER: In support of Rafa benitez

FOOTER:
Dear Sir,
It would appear that the media campaign against Rafa Benitez shows no sign of abating.In fact even after 6 years it appears to be gaining momentum.
As a lifelong Liverpool supporter I give the manager my wholehearted support in the face of this deliberate and continued attempt by the media in this country to discredit him at every opportunity.
We are only too aware of the agenda being perpetrated as we have been watching with increased frustration and disbelief for a long time now.
We can seperate The Truth from the lies and the opinion masquerading as facts regarding our club, as we live and breath them every day.

We are supporters of Liverpool Football Club, and our history has taught us many things.There is very little we haven't seen, heard or experienced. We have been fortunate to have had some of the greatest managers the football world has ever known. So I think we are suitably qualified to make a judgement on our current manager without the need for the media to attempt to influence and patronise us with their version of Rafa Benitez and his achievements at Liverpool.

No amount of speculation and innuendo on the part of the media will change our level of support for Mr Benitez as we firmly believe he is the right man to be at the helm of our great club.
In fact, the more the media attempts to skew the facts, the stronger our support will become.

By all means report what you see, that is your right. However it's well worth taking note that there are those of us out there that are intelligent enough to see through different eyes.


Yours Sincerely

Brilliant.

Just was about to copy and paste it myself !!

Anyone that can think off anymore links to add to the first post ? The more people we send it to the better media coverage we get !

Great idea this!!

Just a thought though, wouldn't it get more people if it was put on Facebook etc so that more people who don't use forums like us and RAWK will see it and get the information too?

Fantastic idea.

So what time and day is that in Australia?

Fantastic idea.

So what time and day is that in Australia?

Pretty sure that would be 10pm Friday night in Sydney mate.

Brilliant idea!   I'll  definately do  it  

Awesome idea ! I'm in ! It'll only around 5:30 in India ! IRWT !

EDIT : It's tommrow right ? The coming Friday ?

I am cetainly in.

Count me in!

Great idea, I'm drafting email now!

Great idea, I'm drafting email now!

Haha good thinking, I was trying to work out how long it would take me Friday night to do all this and find this page again etc. Could just draft email and click send at 10PM (EST)!! hahaha 

Fantastic idea.

So what time and day is that in Australia?

Pretty sure that would be 10pm Friday night in Sydney mate.

He's right, Daddo.

Definitely be getting on to this.

Brilliant idea, I've got mine drafted


Dear Sir,

In Rafa I trust and I will tell you why,
He's in joy when we are and saddens when we cry,
He loves LFC and the fans more then you imagine,
And you won't change our minds no matter how hard you try

I've seen the Kop rock to Europeans nights like it hadn't done in 20 years,
The joyous celebrations of the the FA cup and the Champion's League in tears,
We rode high in the league and are now low,
As greed of men pillage our club, whilst the media cheers

We, the fans, want Rafa to remain in the throne,
Write what you like but we back him, let it be known,
We've had the best in the past, our ups and downs,
But Rafa will never walk alone

Yours Sincerely

Why is it were doing it at 1p.m. I'm defo in though.

So basically we're going to fill up the inboxes of these people overwhelmingly - perhaps leading to mass press coverage?

Is that the idea behind this, or?

Just seen this on the Facebook group - written by David. Clears it up well.

"There's two campaigns running at the moment Imran, the first is to encourage as many Liverpool fans to write to Benitez, expressing their understanding of the situation and that we want him to remain at the club. The second is BTK's military style synchronised bombardment of as many relevant media outlets as possible. The first is to ask Rafa not ... See moreto be bullied into leaving the club, the second is to remind the media the vast majority of Liverpool Fans who have access to the FACTS want Rafa to remain, and that we're not going to be persuaded otherwise by lies and opinions masquerading as facts."