I'd take League over CL ANY day of the week, as would the majority of our fans I'd garner...
I also assume you think finishing 4th (if we do) constitutes a successful season?
No. "Successful" for us has to include winning trophies. That's what I want and that has to be the spending, development, planning and goal-setting priority for the owners and manager.
But your words were: "Why would
any real fan care
whether or not we make CL!? WTF have we won?" (emphasis added)
We're not going to win the league this year. Two months ago many of us, including me, thought we had a true opportunity to do that. That we won't is disappointing for all of us. Hugely, can't sleep, having trouble being happy about other things that I should be happy about - disappointing. But that doesn't mean there is nothing left to play for.
You can argue the idea of expanding the CL to non-champions back whenever it was they started doing that - but it's fact and it was fact in 2005 and the memory of winning that trophy (success) is a great one for most of us. Nothing taints that. I suspect you also took great joy in winning that. Didn't you?
So your thoughts on which trophy is preferred, that is entirely your privilege (and I agree btw, that at this point, winning the league would mean more because of how long it has been), but someone thinking that it is important for us to qualify for Europe doesn't make that person something other than
a real fan.
In fact there is a good bit of that on here - you're not a
"real fan" if you think X or don't think Y, if you're not Scouse, or not from UK or if you're from America or if you really fell in love with the club when you walked into Anfield for the first time in 1998 (that's me) or you want to qualify for Europe for next season or whatever the arbitrary qualifier is. I'm in a country now where there's a huge rise in this "think like THIS or you're somehow not legitimate" kind of mentality and I hate it as much as I hated that kind of peer pressure back in school days. It's great to discuss and debate and even argue about points - but people with differing viewpoints on how the club can get back to where it should be - don't need to be
enemies.
Sorry for the long post.
Up the European berth contending Reds.
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