Second Captains Part II

Rodgers was great. That documentary he did was phenomenal.

Branno admitting he broke the away fans rule, boasting about giving a fake address to get a home ticket, and insinuating that card payments don't exist outside of Dublin. Just incredibly dim-witted and un-self-aware from someone who gives the impression he sees himself as some sort of intellectual.

I did love Branno getting very upset about Duffer getting a great dig in at King Stephen the First, though

He was crap, let’s move on and stop pretending he built anything.

Yeah, definitely don't hear a Liverpool bias. He's sneering about everyone. Arsenal, city, Liverpool included. He's plenty critical of Liverpool.

He is a Liverpool fan, as I've said before many of his old football references are Liverpool centric. Something happens this weekend and he says oh that happened before to Liverpool in 2003. It doesn't seem that unusual because Liverpool and Utd are the drama clubs that everyone pays attention to. If he was citing all the west ham examples it would be more obvious.

He's a good pro and has actively kept that out of his work. It doesn't mean he has to criticise Liverpool at every turn.

The ref made the mistake last weekend. The game played on for two minutes. Loads of variables occured. The forest fans had barely noticed.

Every human on the planet has some sort of bias and the notion that football opinion writing/presenting has to be bias free seems mad to me, even if Ken is striving for that. Every writer grew up supporting a team. Their team has had interactions with lots of teams. That influence is going to affect how they see the game.

Ken isn't good because he's a human AI giving unbiased views on the game. He's good because he takes a point of view and eloquently puts it out there for amusement.

I don’t think he is particularly biased. He isn’t spitting out of car windows or fuming when Arsenal win Carragher style. I just think it’s noticeable where his allegiances lay.

Wasn't it a take off of 1984? The whole "he won victory over himself. He loved Big Brother/Brendan Rogers."

He is fairly obsessed with him and Trent

Jesus, maybe I've misremembered...was it not part of a longer piece where Brendan was running around the streets of Liverpool and as he ran, more and more people joined him and by the end, Ken believed.

Could be, think it's 10 years old now if it was the 13/14 season

Miguel is probably the worst contributors. Just makes stuff up and rambles until he eventually maybe ends up with a point.

Give me Johnaton Wilson or Rory Smith any day.

My reddit source offers an explanation for his Rodgers opinion. They did not like his Rodgers stance at all on the Liverpool reddit page.... he got called a "self hating Liverpool fan" by one contributor.

Also love the description of the Ken sighting at the globe....

Everything in that would just make me think the person is talking shite. The fact he goes on to say Ken used to claim he had trials in Marseille is hilarious. That was a running joke for years on newstalk. Wouldn’t believe a word of some anonymous Reddit poster.

He may well have supported Liverpool at some point - who knows really, it's never been explicitly stated - and like a lot of things that seem to exist as a story on the internet, you'd be hard pressed to know where it all actually originated.

My bet is that someone here or on Reddit posted about it back in the mists of time and it's become accepted fact. Think about it: where did you first hear about it? I'm guessing it was a post here, on twitter, or Reddit...

Tbh I think Ken is too jaundiced and cynical to truly favour one club. Now, there's some he truly dislikes: City and Newcastle in recent years are the best examples.

A lot of his United commentary in the last decade has been pretty scathing - but I think that's more a reflection of how United have lurched from crisis to crisis during that time.

He's also appeared many, many times down through the years on The Arsecast podcast talking about Arsenal. By the strength of the evidence that people are using to definitely say he supports one team or another that should be practically a smoking gun - but I've never noticed any bias towards Arsenal from him over the years.