It’s time this blog got some entries again, and in the week that Liverpool FC saw their name dragged through the mud by an organisation fighting to hide their own incompetence, there’s hardly a better time.

UEFA messed up. They shouldn’t have messed up, but they messed up. So they looked at who could be blamed in their place. Liverpool fans were an easy target. First of all as a body of people rather than individuals it was easier to lie about them. William Gaillard said there had been a long list of incidents involving Liverpool fans, no other club’s fan had been involved in as many incidents. So we were then labelled the worst in Europe. That mud stuck.

By the time Michel Platini, Gaillard’s boss, had admitted that Liverpool fans were not, after all, the worst fans in Europe, that mud was not going to come off very easily at all.

Some idiot in the Irish press had a great deal of fun stirring up controversy about the reports. He found great pleasure in upsetting supporters but from what I can gather, this is what he does. Pick a subject, find a controversial angle, rant about it. That kind of thing has been successful worldwide for years. People cringing yet laughing at some comment that crosses as close to the line of what is acceptable as it possibly can. But usually the people who do well in this regard are also funny. People will cringe at controversial comments, but will only laugh at the same time if they are actually funny. The fact this guy is unfunny, is probably the reason why nobody in Britain I’d spoken to had actually heard of him. Anyone any good from the Irish media usually crops up at some point in Britain, especially if they’re as interested in Britain as he seems to be. A quick glance at his columns shows he writes mostly about events in this country, including his side-splitting commentary on the latest Big Brother racism row and what Ken Livingstone’s up to in London. I only heard about the article, with its sub-heading of “Filthy Scouse scum”, because it cropped up on some Liverpool fan sites during the week. The idiot who wrote it was full of mock surprise when he got a deluge of complaints in the days that followed. He did it for publicity - he had a go at Cork in his follow up just to drag up a bit more controversy - and that’s what I suppose he’s getting now by my writing this. Except I’ll not bother to mention his name. If you’re an Irish Red (or an Irish Manc for that matter) reading this, I pity you if you have to put up with this loon on a regular basis. If he’s not already had a go at something that you feel is important give him time, because he will. Controversy aside he has nothing to offer, so you can either ignore him, or sit back and wait for him to go that one step too far in his quest for attention. At least then you’ll have something to laugh about in his writings.

Of course the idiots like him thrive on snippets of information they can twist and selectively ignore components of in order to suit their own agenda. That’s why Gaillard should be sacked. He made claims about Liverpool fans he said were backed up with evidence. Yet nobody, not even the British government who met with UEFA during the week, has seen this evidence. It’s like me saying I’ve got evidence in photographic form of a UEFA spokesman caught in a compromising position with his boss, yet not showing anybody the evidence. Except in that case, if I named the individual, I’d be sued for what I’d said unless I could provide that evidence. Having a go at “Liverpool supporters” is easy, because “Liverpool supporters” are not - as far as I know - legally able to sue UEFA.

I personally doubt this list of misdemeanours actually exists. But if it does, why can’t we see it? And why can’t other teams see what their fans have been accused of?

It wasn’t just obese (I’m told) Irish journalists that wanted to have a go at Liverpool as soon as Gaillard had thrown them a bone. In the British press the BBC had already made big headlines over Gaillard’s comments, letting the story drop down the running order by the time the truth was being told by Platini. A Bluto-lookalike journalist was quick to condemn the club too, taking select comments from the week and having a go at us. No mention in his report of how UEFA had glossed over scooters (as in the petrol powered ones) that get dropped from upper tier to lower tier in Italian grounds, where visiting supporters have to risk being stabbed in the arse as they walk through their cities. No doubt he’ll have been one of those journalists calling for the head of the England manager for playing David Beckham, before calling for the head of the England manager for not playing David Beckham. He’s also probably a little too slow to realise that UEFA’s spokesman not only got Liverpool labelled as the worst in Europe, but that he also said this troublemaking was, effectively, typical of British people. Bluto won’t be going to any big tournaments to cover England games if UEFA carry this line of accusations on. England won’t be there.

One columnist who’s been a little more able to see why this has been badly reported is Liverpool supporter and Mirror columnist Brian Reade. Yes, he’s a Red, he’s going to be looking at the story through red-tinted glasses. But just about all those others who have left negative comments about the Gaillard accusations are almost certainly haters of Liverpool FC - not even neutral.

In his article KOP THIS UEFA . . YOU ARE SPINELESS, Reade says what most Liverpool fans, and many open-minded neutrals, also think:

I’M about to leak to you a report which brands UEFA “the most gutless cowards in Europe”.

It follows an investigation into their attempts to cure football of its most deadly cancer, racism. And it’s a tale of pitiful fines and empty gestures, which have led to a generation of black footballers considering walking off pitches across Europe in protest.

For the report I reexamined the many incidents of racial abuse over the past decade and UEFA’s mealy-mouthed response to them.

I won’t make them public as it’s too sensitive. But I’m willing to if UEFA insist, because that’s called being fair and transparent. If you go on record claiming a group is the worst in Europe and that group asks to see the evidence, you show it them.

So why don’t UEFA do the same by giving Liverpudlians their handily prepared report which proved “the worst fans in Europe” were to blame for the organisational anarchy in Athens?

Is it because such a report might make people ask why Europe’s worst fans have never been censured for their supposed actions?

Is it because any list of presumably petty offences, when compared to killing policemen, burning motorbikes on terraces, attacking referees, turning the air putrid with racism, would prove they aren’t Europe’s worst fans?

Or is it simply vindication of my own report’s conclusion. That UEFA are the most spineless, backsliding, buck-passing organisation in Europe?

Our name is mud thanks to William Gaillard, who thought it was a good idea to tell lies about us in an attempt to cover up UEFA’s errors. Was he acting off his own back or was he acting on orders? And why hasn’t he apologised?