Angry Liverpool fans attacked three RBS branches in the early hours of this morning in protest against refinancing of a loan taken out by the club's American owners. The doors of the city's flagship Royal Bank of Scotland branch on Dale Street were padlocked resulting in chaos as bank employees arrived for work. Supporters who are becoming increasingly concerned for Liverpool FC's future, are now turning their attention towards the bank which controls loans for the club's American owners. Branches in Hunts Cross and Crobsy were targeted simultaneously in the early hours. Posters reading 'No to refinancing' were plastered across the buildings and have been attributed to a renegade group of supporters. A group of MPs joined the protest last week lobbying the Government, who have become majority Shareholders in RBS, to step in. Walton MP Peter Kilfoyle tabled an Early Day Motion calling on the Government to 'ensure the Royal Bank of Scotland does not renew their credit facility at the end of its current term.' US businessmen George Gillett and Tom Hicks have endured a backlash of ill feeling since taking control of Anfield in February 2007. Despite assuring fans that they wouldn't burden the club with any debt - they secured a £350m loan against the club, which is due for refinancing at the end of July. LFC fans unhappy about the debt and failure to begin work on a promised new stadium have called on RBS to cut their ties, effectively forcing the American duo to sell up. The Spirit of Shankly fans' group, who have been most outspoken towards the owners, denied any knowledge of the attacks and called for a more 'diplomatic approach.' Representative James McKenna said: "Whilst we are vocal against the refinancing of the club's loan - we are encouraging our members to take a more diplomatic and sensible approach." The Royal Bank of Scotland were unavailable for comment http://www.clickliverpool.com/news/...ranches-attacked-by-angry-liverpool-fans.html
Thats not the way to do it, all it's doing is giving us a bad name and even more reason for the press to have a go.
Maybe, but it's hardly surprising and I think as it gets closer to July 24th stuff like this will become more frequent ....
sensationalism at its best, while I dont condone what they done its stems from sheer frustration and you can understand it
I was expecting torched buildings when i saw the thread. A few posters and a padlock is hardly terrorist activity but probably still shouldn't have happened. The padlock caused "chaos" apparantly.
I can't see any way that plastering posters over a bank is going to help this bad situation to get any better.
in fairness from those photo's no harm was done adn it wasnt as bad as the media made out. In saying that, its not the right way to go about it
I feel a little warning like that is not such a bad idea. Only people with a close interest in Liverpool even know that RBS are the bank involved. I would much rather a little bit of bad publicity than them c*nts getting to rape our club for the forseeable future. RBS need to know there are consequences to their actions.
A question to all who have said this is not the way - what do you suggest as been the way ? not having a go at anyone i am just asking what do people think should be done to help try sort out the mess our beloved club is in !
Well we have a month do try and do something, there are no games to protest before, during or after. Marches tend to do nothing. As for picketing outside I doubt that would make the news somehow unless thousands showed up an blocked the streets. Its not the best plan in the world but these guys have gotten a headline which is the most important thing and draws attention as to why they did it. Its not like they vandalised anything, they put up posters and padlocked the door hardly the work of master criminals.
The one and only way to get rid of the yanks Asap is boycotting of games. They understand one thing and one thing only...money. If they are losing that they will sell up. End of story.
Don't see what's wrong with that. . . actually a smile came to my face as I was reading it. At least people are standing up and doing something! Peaceful protests and SOS marches are not going make a difference at this stage of the game imo
Yeah because that's been successful thus far . The time for half measures is gone imo. They WILL get the refinance this month and move forward so from the start of next season it's up to the fans to stop going to games. Will it affect the players?..most likely it will but some things are more important than winning a few games. We need these two idiots out more than we need a title AFAIK.
To some of the points raised 1 Protest at games - as far as i know after the union met Rafa last season, he had asked for them to not protest at the games as it could possibly affect the players, the management and staff stated they needed all the crowd supporting the team - so the wishes of the palyers/manager were respected 2 - boycot of games - sadly i dont think this would ever work as there are too many out there that will just take the tickets instead - some of the the people who claim to support the club have no clue about our history or anything that effects the club prime example of this is the amout of people from outside the city that still think its accectable to but or read the s*n Plus it could also be argued that if supporters did not turn up to games this would affect the players on the pitch ! To me having them two out is more important than how mant people do or do not turn up to a game but alot of proplr do not see it like that and do not really care what goes on or what mess the club is in as long as they get to go to the game Look at the merchandising boycot last year as an example to see how many people didnt know or did not care about what was been done to try get the message to these twats !