So what does everyone do? Do we all continue to whinge and cry about the owners or do we all get on with what we do best.. being the best team in Europe.

On a personal level, I’m no renewing my LFC e-season ticket, bt that’s as far as my protests will go. I will still go to Anfield. My wee man will get any kit that’s going and I hope to stop talking about money and concentrate on football.

I think Hicks and Gillette should learn from this experience. It can only get better for them as far as the supporters are concerned and they should now know a lot more about what it means to own a football club like Liverpool. Maybe they’ll sell, maybe they won’t. If they have any sense they’ll hold unto Rafa for as long as the fans want him. But, they must give Rafa a fixed budget, say 40m per annum so that he knows where he stands. Whether it’s adequate is another matter but the man needs to know where he stands.

The team needs to stand up and be counted too. In all fairness, the last few weeks can’t be solely attributed to the ownership issues. The team have been brutal and have merely gone through the motions. That’s not enough at a club like Liverpool and the fans are entitled to expect more from the team. You don’t need a team of superstars to draw with Wigan, Luton, Middlesboro or to lose to Reading. They need to buck up and get on with playing football.

Stevie G needs to behave like a captain. Stop whinging about where he wants to play. Stop cracking stupid shots from 50 yards out, stop getting in the way of the strikers. He should play on the right with Alonso and Mascherano in the middle. If its good enough for Ronaldinho and Ronaldo it should be good enough for Gerrard. He could learn a lot from Carra in terms of his attitude. If you think of it, if Gerard was sold we could buy Alves, Molouda and still have enough for a good striker.. so let him not think that the team must be built around him. He has to play for the team, and forget his own ego.

As for Rafa. Rafa’s job appears to be secure. The least he’s entitled to now is certainty regarding his budget. Tell him what he has to spend and let him get on with it. Let him take in a decent assistant manager to help. If he get’s that he will be in as good a position as most top European managers. It will be up to him to motivate the team and to get them back to winning ways. There’s nothing he can do now about the owners so like everyone else he’ll have to make the most of his lot.

We’re different at Liverpool. We won our league titles when money wasn’t the factor it is now. We won because we were better at what we did than the other teams. We’ve got to keep ahead. We shouldn’t be dependent on simply buying new players. At the end of the day, for all their money, United and Chelsea can still only play 11 men.

We can stil win the Champion’s league. We can win the cup. But for those recent draws we’d be in pole position for the league, but everyone needs to stand up and be counted from now on – glory in adversity.

YNWA