Let´s focus on football, please!

While English Soccer is looking at ways to glamorize the FA CUP, (we´ll talk about it in following posts) let´s just say that at least this Saturday there will be no need to draw more extra attention to the competition.

All eyes are, undoubtedly so, set on the clash between Liverpool and Manchester United.

It would be the first time they met since Luis Suárez was banned for eight matches, after shouting racial slurs to Patrice Evra in the 1-1 draw in October.

But this circumstance, instead of being treated as a hassle, Liverpool´s managing director, Ian Ayres, plans to use it as a way to showcase a new attitude in the club requesting calm and respect towards the rivals from both fans and players.

On the other hand, Sir Alex Ferguson, following the same line, addressed the fans writing a letter that said: “I wrote to fans attending the away match in October urging them to co-operate with stewards and officials at Liverpool so we can make a strong case for restoring our allocation for future United games at Anfield. The fans did almost everything asked of that day and as a result, we have a much improved allocation for this important FA Cup tie”.

The rest is just common sense. Let´s follow both of them and hope that next post will be focused only on football, and not on hate or violence.