Quincy Abeyie wrote:
Bold Tone wrote:
The pettiness you list above only scratches the surface and some of them (VVD tapping up for example) have nothing to do with us.
[font=sans-serif]A wise man once said "You must not tolerate so well the injustice that doesn't affect you yourself".[/font]
Fans do not know if their own clubs are just as guilty so this is never going to be an issue that they feel strongly about and certainly won't register in the main reason to hate another club.
Liverpool’s crime was not to break the tapping-up rule that appears on page 205 of the Premier League handbook, under the heading “Approaches to Players”, and is widely disregarded; it was to be so brazen and ham-fisted about things that they provoked Southampton into waving a red flag.
“Everyone sounds out players one way or another to see if they would have any interest in coming to their football club,” Coates adds. “There’s no point in pursuing something if the player doesn’t want to come. You want to find out: ‘Would he be interested if we were interested?’ You could waste so much time and money otherwise. But it’s how decent you are about how you do things. You’ve got to have some sensitivity.”
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jun/28/tapping-up-part-of-game-stoke-chairman-peter-coates
