Posted by Andy Badgeman
I haven’t been able to lift my head off the floor since the news of Kenny’s departure broke. I can’t even find the energy or motivation to go to the toilet. I’m simply laid on my bedsit floor in the foetal position in a pool of my own piss and tears. Crying tears of pain. Tears of loss. Tears of dejection.
Tears for Kenny.
My desolation becomes more intense the more I think about what has happened to my King. My hero. The head of my family. He has been cast aside in the most ruthless manner. And now we must walk through the storm alone. Walk on. Walk on.
In the dark.
Yes, I’m afraid of the dark today. And I can’t see a golden sky at the end of the storm. I no longer hear the sweet silver song of the lark. Because my dreams have been tossed and blown.
When I think of Kenny’s long black coat hanging lonely on a coat hanger in the sacred wardrobe of the King I cry some more. Just hanging there. No longer needed by modern football. Never to be called upon to keep us warm against the icy wind blowing our way. The Baltic blast of Mr Ferguson, the biased media and the evil at the FA. No longer being asked to sit on the enormous shoulders of the King. Shoulders that carried this great football club - Liverpool football club – away from the burning building of pain. A coat no longer being asked to protect the wrists of the chosen one. Wrists that spilled blood for the cause.
Crickets are chirpin' the water is high
There's an adidas coat on the line hangin' dry
Window wide open African trees
Bent over backwards from a hurricane breeze
Not a word of goodbye not even a note
He’s gone. The man in the long black coat.
Somebody seen him hangin' around
At JLA on the outskirts of town
He looked into our eyes when we stopped him to ask
If he wanted to stay he had a face like a mask
Somebody said from the bible he'd quote
There was dust on the man in the long black coat.
Preacher was talking there's a sermon he gave
He said every man's conscience is vile and depraved
You cannot depend on it to be your guide
When it's you who must keep it satisfied
It ain't easy to swallow it sticks in the throat
We gave our heart to the man in the long black coat.
There are no mistakes in life some people say
It is true sometimes you can see it that way
But people don't live or die people just float
We stand with the man in the long black coat.
There's smoke on the water it's been there since June
Tree trunks unprooted beneath the high crescent moon
Feel the pulse and vibration and the rumbling force
Somebody is out there beating on a dead horse
He never said nothing there was nothing he wrote
He’s gone. The man in the long black coat.
Reply by Rick Ticketnicker
Fantastic tribute to the King there mate. I couldn’t have said it better myself. I’ve been crying floods of real, genuine tears since the announcement was made too. My wife and two kids are beside themselves. There is simply no point in carrying on anymore. I’m just hooking up the hose pipe to the cavalier in the garage and then we’re all going to pay our personal tribute to the King by inhaling enormous amounts of carbon dioxide. Thanks modern football.
Reply by Club shop wool
I feel like a poorly maintained brick wall in my heart has been pushed down today. I feel worse than when I had several weeks of intense chemotherapy. Much much worse. I would go through the latter stages of advanced and aggressive stomach cancer if only it would bring the King back. But it wouldn’t. Because the FA wouldn’t allow it to happen.
Reply by Carra’s hitman
If I see John Henry walking through a provincial shopping centre in the north of England I’ll be on the phone sharpish to some hired goons. And then we’ll see who will be walking alone. Through a storm of shattered kneecaps.
Reply by The Steve Clarke Five (times)
My head feels like it’s been caved in by a paving slab today. A paving slab thrown with great force by a sleeping innocent who would later go on to be bummed all over the show. I hope when the pain disappates, that my deformed cranium will be a reminder to everyone that this is not the Liverpool way.
Reply by Phil Thompson
When they did that. What they done there. Well I was amazed. And if they done that what they did there to help improve Liverpool Football Club and everything. Well I think what they did there, they did that there wrong. What they done. Because what they did was not right. And I think what they done there. What they did to Kenny and everything. Was not right. It was wrong.
