Sadly it looks like Steven Gerrard and Fernado Torres could both be leaving Liverpool due to the clubs failure to qualify for the Champions League.

I have an open message for greedy footballers who feel they have a god-given right to jump ship just because they have not qualified for The Champions League – GROW-UP!

One would suspect the Gerrard/Torres flames are being fuelled by sensationalist headline grabbing journalists who need to sell newspapers. We all know what a mess the newspaper industry is in and football stories sell newspapers. You have to wonder how much worse things could be for newspaper journalists if The Barclays Premier League did not exist? After all there is only so much that can be written about Jordan, Peter Andre, Kerry Katona, Cheryl Cole and Simon Cowell.

Gerrard and Torres – will they be at L4 for much longer?

Back to the football

If there are any players at Liverpool who are already plotting their way out of the club this summer, I would like to remind them that playing for the Champions of Europe is not a god given right. It is only in recent times UEFA came up with the money-spinning format that is The Champions League. In days past, all footballers and football teams had to earn the right to play in the World’s elite football tournament by actually winning their league. Imagine that, having to win something before you gained a seat at the top table of European football.

Show some loyalty

We all have bad days at work, not everything can go your way all of the time. If the likes of Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres were to leave Liverpool in the summer it would further weaken my love of the game of football. Yes, Liverpool have had a bad season, but whose fault is that? It’s not mine, nor is it the fault of any other Liverppol fan.

Ultimately, it is the players, they take to the pitch and they kick the round shaped object up and down and across the pitch. There are times this season when Steven Gerrard has looked uninterested in his football. Well as captain as Liverpool Football Club, that is simply not acceptable! Is it any wonder the team has not performed when the captain has a bigger sulk on then a three year old who is told he cannot have a toy.

To be a Champion you must be a Champion

Let’s not forget, it was only last season Liverpool threw away the opportunity of winning The Premier League. The idiotic rant of Rafa Benitez beggared belief, and sadly Liverpool imploded and handed the title to Manchester United. UEFA are not going to change the format of their Champions League cash cow. But Mr Gerrard and Mr Torres look at your predecessors, the likes of Kenny Dalglish, Emlyn Hughes, Tommy Smith, John Barnes, Ian Rush did not throw their toys out of the pram each time Liverpool did not win the league. (Yes in those days a team had to win the league to qualify for The European Cup).

So now it is time to shut-up and get on with it.Liverpool have been truly average this season. They do not deserve a Champions League place. The football played has been dire, but don’t leave the fans in the lurch. Ultimately if Liverpool Football Club have failed this season, it is because the players have not given their all.

Football fans deserve better

There is rife speculation from journalists and ex-players saying the likes of Gerrard and Torres deserve better. Quite frankly, its all crap. It is the fans who do not have the exuberant lifestyles of the super rich footballers who deserve better.

For many football is escapism, it offers us a vehicle to a different world where we can forget all about the real world for 90 minutes.

All football fans want the same thing – success! In fact football fans crave it, it gives us all something to look forward to outside of 9-5 world in which many of us live.

The common man typically only gets 4 weeks holiday a year. The common man has to scrimp and save to make ends meat to feed his family and to keep them clothed, warm and dry. The common man spends an absolute fortune going to watch his team on a match day. The common man is raped by football clubs who charge over the top for drinks, burgers and the like, and why? To keep footballers accustomed to a life of luxury. If any of the big players do leave Liverpool Football Club this coming season, I wish them nothing but bad luck.

Before you make your decision to move on because you are not in The Champions League, think about what the rest of us have to put up with.