Total disillusionment

I've just posted the following on The Tomkins Times website as the media report on Rafa's pending removal as Liverpool manager:

I do empathise with those on here who feel like throwing in the towel as Liverpool supporters. Of course, it’s impossible to do but sometimes it would be so much easier if it were possible to just walk away. For a true Liverpool fanatic, the attachment to the club is always there. It is part of you and can never be out of your thoughts.

Personally I feel so disillusioned, not just with the way the Yanks have undermined and disgraced our club but also with the significant number of so-called Liverpool fans who have actually compounded the situation by lapping up the media bullshit and criticising the manager without considering the full facts. These are ‘fans’ from all generations and from all sorts of different backgrounds. In their simplistic views, failure of the team equals failure by the manager and the simple remedy is to remove the manager. When the next manager comes in and can’t do any better because he is beset by the same problems behind the scenes, those fans will call for his head as well. It’s not just the morons who bombard the internet forums with their extreme views and dubiously labelled ‘facts’ in barely legible English but also intelligent people who simply are influenced to easily and who don’t care enough to check the facts and make informed opinions of their own.

We Liverpool fans want to believe our club is special and unique but actually our support has dumbed down so much that we are no different to Spurs fans or Newcastle fans. If we can’t finish above a team that has spent over £200m net in the last two transfer windows while we have invested nothing and actually made a net profit during the same period, blame the manager! If success isn’t instant or continuous, sack the manager!

I feel like everything that was once great, unique and special about our club has drained away and all the remains is a very small pool of knowledgeable true supporters who are totally disaffected by the way our club is being run.

I will always want the team to do well on the pitch but I don’t want to be associated with the current owners, the current board or the vast majority of idiots calling themselves Liverpool fans.
I just long for the return of the values that Shankly first instilled in this club and for Liverpool FC to be a club I can believe in and be proud of.