Speaking as a Guardian reader…

…it pains me to say that The Sun, despite being a paper that is frankly an insult to serious journalism, has done us Hatters a serious favour. The footballing world is turning against Liverpool and this is undoubtedly due to the overzealous, sensationalist reporting of the paper I always read as a fat bloke shouting as me as if I were French. The Sun reported that the sum Liverpool refused to put forward was £200k, the infinitely superior Times claims £100k, a sum that we would still do anything to receive. Sadly my little A4 sheet of numerical indignation has been prepared so I, for the first time in my days on this Earth, have chosen to believe the word of The Sun over another paper that isn’t The Star. Generally I value the factual accuracy of The Sun in very much the same way I would a Psychic or GMTV, and funnily enough the editor seems to hold a similar view. Sadly I spent a fair bit of time hand-writing that infernal thing due to serious printer malfunction (I never get around to buying ink) and this process required a major investment of effort given my atrocious handwriting.

Going back to the matter in hand, the overbearing cuntishness of Liverpool FC, a great deal of my time today has been spent venting my frustrations over what is becoming a major issue. It is heartening to see the support that we as a club are receiving, although it is not exactly directed at us, more at all small clubs in financial difficulty. In a similar vein it is hilarious to see Chelsea being presented as the good guys for once having once donated approximately £35k to a lower-league opponent’s youth setup. I’ve never particularly liked Chelsea – okay I bloody hate them – but I have the utmost respect for them for that gesture. Liverpool could be experiencing that right now but instead opted to infuriate a sizeable number of people and mildly irritate a whole lot more.

I ask once more, what is a 6 figure sum to a Champion’s League side earning 8, maybe 9 figures a year from TV revenue compared to the  £400,000 earned by us League 1 clubs? If the lower leagues are allowed to crumble then it will directly affect the Premiership and this process begins with clubs being allowed to go out of business. We are lucky that it is not something we have seen in the football league in recent years, but below the radar clubs are dropping like flies. Every club that goes out of business will put around 30 players out of work as well as admin staff, match-day staff and coaching staff. At Luton Blackwell has been donating his wages to those players in the earlier stages of their careers who still need a regular income whilst the likes of Gerrard and Torres could retire now and live the millionaire lifestyle for 30 years or more

The Premiership needs some perspective, so we are going out there tomorrow to give them it the only way they understand – with a ball at our feet