I'M FINDING it very difficult to separate emotion from reality when I think (daily) about our ground debate.
And, although it's as useless as longing for an ex you can't get back, I still can't quite forget about the King's Dock.
Everything about it fitted for me - it was going to be our city centre home on The Banks of the Royal Blue Mersey.
It was going to be iconic.
It was going to be historic.
It was going to be a home to be proud of which would sit beside the Liver Building as a jewel on our famous waterfront.
You could say that the reasons the King's Dock dream died are largely unimportant, because they're in the past.
But history is there to be studied and learned from.
That's why some more essential reading for today is this piece, from the superb Toffeeweb.com, written by Greg Murphy.
Fascinating, depressing, infuriating.......have a read.
http://www.toffeeweb.com/season/07-08/comment/fan/article.asp?submissionID=1300
But getting back to my opening admission. I'll always remember those first awesome King's Dock images and how I felt. Excited, optimistic, overwhelmed.
They came to nothing but stirred emotion.
Then I think back to my reaction when I saw the proposals for Kirkby last week. Confused, trying to be positive, slightly underwhelmed.
But the Kirkby proposal is based in reality. It is feasible, affordable, do-able.
Like many blues the whole thing has left me in limbo. Maybe I'm over-informed but each option throws up more questions than answers.
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alanio wrote...
don't Greg .. remember it so well: it was too perfect, hey? I'm as confused as it gets about it, I think it's just accepting the reality that we're not top tier anymore ... but we should never accept that as permanent, where I think this board have and are planning for life as 6-15th place Premiership club ... hard to swallow, very hard .
Posted by: alanio | July 25, 2007 10:49 AM