I don't accept I'm being melodramatic, look at the bigger picture, please.
How many points have we lost this season due to officiating? How many times are we booked or sent off due to the same? How has Jack been treated by the officials, Alfie? What's your opinion on the CO and the impossible stats on our citings compared to theirs? If you were a player would you allow your admiration for Gerrard to override your concerns about signing for a club which sees its players regularly suffer assaults and is targeted by the authorities?
The club's name is tarnished almost every day and at every opportunity by the mhedia, the BBC in particular. Politicians use us as society's whipping boys whenever they can. That constant drip, drip, drip of negativity influences opinions eventually, particularly when the club appears to condone it by not putting it right. The message the club sends by effectively doing nothing but wringing its hands is one of acceptance and subservience. If you were considering investing in a club would your due diligence not look at how that investment may reflect on you and also at the public relations of the enterprise? How was it perceived in its operating market? Would you prefer to invest in a club that boasted of being 'open to all' or one that accepts vilification and apparently doesn't have the will, self-respect, confidence or the execs to ensure that it is honestly and accurately represented to the public?
Our enemies end-game is to reduce us to a permanent Hearts, or worse.