We are, after all, in this together!

As we all know, times at Anfield are challenging and difficult at this moment. It is a time for strength of support to well up around the club. It is in these times of adversity that the 'kop faithful' has delivered time and time again.


People have made mistakes and no one single person should be targeted as we are, after all, in this together.


I am not in the 'in rafa we trust brigade', or, the 'rafa can do no wrong club' as some would say. But I do trust and respect the man and I continue to believe that, while he at times made some questionable decisions in my opinion, he is the man who will deliver in the long term (in what are difficult circumstances). He has earned my loyalty and patience in showing his when he turned his back on Madrid and by sticking by the club despite our 'other problems'. I , for one, will not be calling for time on the Rafa era after four months of tumultuous happenings especially after years of gradual improvement.


I won't be quoting our anthem, but I will instead take the words of Theodore Roosevelt.


"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."


I hope for improved fortunes in 2010 and that the 'kop faithful' will once again come together in one voice, one roar behind our great football club.


Merry Christmas to everyone at the club, my tweeting friends and all Liverpool fans all over the world.


You'll Never Walk Alone