The Dalglish Effect

Guest Blog

The period and content of the is article could go back 1435 days, but it won’t. This article could cover many topics already discussed and agreed by Liverpool FC fans worldwide about the direction of their club, but it won’t.

Instead, this article focuses on the day the ‘Dalglish Effect’ washed over the whole Liverpool FC Community, the day a hero and legend returned to help out, seeing anything else as an insult to the club and its supporters. What does this mean, passions, belief and expectation reconfigured?

For me, the ‘Dalglish Effect equals pride.

Every Liverpool FC fan owns a box called pride, millions of people’s religion and happiness are kept in it, Liverpool FC their religion, winning their happiness. This box is part of every Liverpool fans life, passed onto them by fathers, wore upon their chests, discussed with vigour and history that can’t be faulted nor erased.

Since the 6th Feb 2007 (1435 days ago) every Liverpool FC fans pride has diluted, never dried up but none the less become diluted. Jumped on by rival supporters and clubs to clamber closer to the position Liverpool FC holds as an institution of success. Bombarded by media and bloggers trying to increase readership and blog statistics, using words as chisels to chip away at the status of Liverpool FC as a big club.

Well, chapter closed i’m afraid.

I won’t go into any detail of the results the day the ‘Dalglish Effect’ started, it will be well covered by thousands of articles and authors. But I question the importance.

Instead, today saw the box all Liverpool fans own dusted down. 9,000 boxes paraded at Old Trafford, the remaining 42 million boxes were given pride of place next to their loyal owner.
Today saw dreams, expectation and belief refound and dusted down. The same dreams, expectation and belief that were placed in the box called pride after the 90 minutes had expired.

What happens in the next few months is open to predictions but one thing is secure, the next chapter of Liverpool FC has started to be written and every word is screamed out for everyone to hear with PRIDE

The ‘Dalglish effect’ officially started on the 9th January 2011.

Enjoy it…YNWA

 

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