Prohibition of questioning managerial decisions is weird. It’s not new, for example, last year suggesting that the timing of Klopp’s announcement damaged the title challenge was dismissed as heresy. It had absolutely no effect, it was claimed, because we won a game immediately after.
I don’t remember pre-JK managers being afforded such protection, perhaps because they weren’t as good, but even at the heights of Benitez’s teams I remember him getting stick on here for one thing or another.
Maybe it’s the radicalised, cult-like nature of modern network fandom, encroaching on this mildewy old place, with its ageing, balding clientele ill equipped to deal with the collapse of dialectic reasoning.
This new McCarthyism is reminiscent of forumites being suspended for “disrespecting the office of Manager of Liverpool Football Club” during the period between Benitez and Dalglish tenures, for talking about echinoderms.
Dark days indeed.