Enemies as Friends

There are a few absolutes in this world, and especially in my life.  Here are two of them:  I have a grossly irrational love for Liverpool Football Club, as sort of highlighted here.  Save for genocide, terrorism, and baby rape, I hate nothing more in the world than the Boston Red Sox, as sort-of inferred here.  Well picture my surprise when Liverpool finally is able to dump Hicks and Gillett, the two American owners who have driven the club into the toilet, as the New England Sports Ventures group rides on in to save the day!  The very same group that owns the Red Sox.  So now every dollar I give to supporting my beloved LFC is a dollar that could go directly into the BoSox’s coffers.  If this is what globalization is, then it fucking blows.

The sad part about all of this?  It’s probably the right move.  My friend nate (who has actually been talked about quite a lot here) runs a Liverpool blog (http://ohyoubeauty.blogspot.com) and I offered to write some words about the new ownership marriage from my perspective as an objective fan living in Boston during the Red Sox reign atop baseball.  So today’s post here is synergistically linked with my post over there.  Oh, internet.  So please, read all about my thoughts on what the new Sox ownership in Liverpool means for the club.

Back tomorrow with a post about TV.  I think.

Jamie Carragher and his befuddlement

I had finally had enough.  After passionately following the 2002 and 2006 World Cups, I had to keep that emotion going and get behind a soccer team that doesn’t compete every four years.  I had no idea how much research, planning, and soul-searching that process entailed.  After (shoddily) researching many teams in many different leagues in many different–and stridently refusing to follow MLS in the United States–I finally settled on England and the Premiership.  There were a great deal of players from the World Cup that season that played at Chelsea and Man United, really enjoyed their way of playing, and they seemed to be good in a few video games I had, so why not throw my allegiance there?  They seem to be on TV a lot (as much as the Premiership is on TV), have great players, and seem to win.  Then my friend Nate came to my rescue and saved my soul by introducing me to the ways of LiverpoolFC, and the Legend that is Jamie Carragher.