Explaining Everything...

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]So, I'm sure you're going to want me to go through what happened with the situation with Arnest. And I want to start off by saying one thing really clearly. I made the video the other night that said I'm wrong. I'm sorry.

[00:00:11]Like I always promised I would, but I want to just caveat it by saying something. I made the video. I said I'm sorry. I mean, I'm sorry, but I I don't feel 100% confident in anything around the manager's future. I'm not 100% confident I'm wrong about what I was saying a week ago. I'm just not going to say it anymore because I went early.

[00:00:35]I'll go through it. I'll answer your questions. I'll answer them as honestly as I can. But I still, as I sit here right now, cannot categorically rule out the idea of him getting fired. I can't tell you it's as boner Friday as I thought it was last week. But right now, I'm working on the assumption he's going to be here. Like everybody else, I'm just going to talk about life as if Slot's going to be here for the start of next season. And if anything happens then over the next few days or the next week, we'll get stuck into it together here on the channel and we'll talk about it. So fire away. Um I will get into the transfer stuff, all those stories in a little bit as well. So what I'm going to try and do, one promise I think I can make you is going forward, I'm just going to give you opinion. I'm just going to give you my take on a situation and I'm not going to even bother going into the sourcing of stuff and things like that. I'll leave that for others to talk about. I'll just do what we enjoy here, which is talking about things, giving opinions on it, and trying to be the best host on here that I can be. Um, so yeah, look, there's a lot of thank yous I've got to do, but I want to start off with thank you to the most important person in this setup who kept the wheels on, which is Connor over the last few days. So, a huge thank you to Connor on what I'm sure was a confusing time for him as well because I go dark in these situations. I just disappear. Nobody hears from me or sees me really. I just kind of go into a world of my own. Um, but I want to read you out something if I can and then I'll open up the floor to your questions or anything that you guys have to ask. So, let me just read out a post because I don't know this person. I know this person from interacting on here, but I don't know this person. and they posted something that really made me made me just go, "Yeah, you're right.

[00:02:16]You're right." And I want to just read out this post. You've probably seen it in the comments if you're looking through recent videos. It's from L Scouser 8. So L Scouser then and the number eight. And this is better than I could possibly explain the situation to you. So El Scouser 8 wrote under one of the videos, "I don't want to speak out of turn and I apologize if I'm wrong, but I believe Craig has some form of autism. I do. I have asperes. I am on the autism spectrum. It's part of what makes me me. They go on to write, I have a close family member, fully diagnosed.

[00:02:48]Autistic thinking traits can amplify guilt and responsibility.

[00:02:52]They can lead to situations they've created in far more intense personal ways. They have an absolute need to be truthful, reliable, and consistent. Um, so I made a mistake, but that's Norman and football media isn't even on his radar. He's reacting in a way that makes sense for his wiring. He's holding himself to a standard nobody else is.

[00:03:13]The same traits that help make this channel number one are the ones that make him feel like he must fall on his own sword. That is spot on. And they put it far better than I ever could because I don't know why I go into a dark place when these things are wrong or when I feel like I've let people down. But any taunting from people that want me gone isn't going to be anywhere near as bad as the taunting I've given myself over the last few days because being here and being honest with you guys is everything to me. It's how we built this channel.

[00:03:43]So that's where I'm at. Any questions, fire at them. Um I would say thank you to everybody for all of their messages as well, but I haven't seen some of them. I know Connor's been inundated with emails. This isn't about me. This isn't about me being a drama queen or anything like that. I just needed what I needed to do for me for a few days to clear my head after that. I don't hide, but I did need to clear my head because I was an absolute mess. Yeah. Look, it's been a weird few days for me. My wife knows even when I get into these mindsets that I just need to work through it. I just need space. I need time and I need to get clarity on things. I I wish I didn't take things to heart as much as I do in that way, but I've always believed this is me. I live with it. I roll with it. It is what it is. Some of the highs are incredible.

[00:04:29]Some of the buzz is incredible. But when I get into a low, I can't do that. I just hit the floor. Um, and it's tough for everybody around me. It's tough for everybody in my life. And I wish it wasn't this way, but I can only be honest about it. And if people want to have a pop, that's okay as well.

[00:04:46]Dominic, thank you, bro. 14 months with us as well. Absolute legend. Thank you.

[00:04:50]I completely get you. I have autism, too. I couldn't have worded it as well as Elsa did. I read that comment and I showed it straight to my wife and I thought, you see, I couldn't have said that like that. I couldn't have explained it like that. Uh Bransfield said, "Hey, Craig, great to see you back. Would not be the same without you.

[00:05:06]Um, you've no need to be sorry about anything. Much love." So, I need I think we need to get into the video the other night, right? We we need to get into this and say, "When I said I was wrong, people like to laugh about sources.

[00:05:20]People like to just say when somebody gets something wrong, yeah, your sources are, trust me, bro, and all this stuff.

[00:05:25]I'll never be able to tell you because I won't throw somebody under the bus where the information came from, but I can tell you I'd make the same call again tomorrow with the same information because it came from really, really senior good people. And what I've seen over the last few days is I watched somebody sent me a clip of I think it's you'll never walk alone reds or YNWA reds. And I think this was either today or yesterday. And in their video, this gentleman whom I don't know spoke about two contacts that he has inside Anfield.

[00:05:58]And the information that he has received almost echoes entirely with mine, but he spoke about a potential infighting between Hughes and Edwards. Now, I don't have any information on that, but it would make some sense to me if that's the situation because at Anfield yesterday, it's a disgrace that John W. Henry was not there and that more of the FSG lot weren't there. That is an absolute disgrace. It's a disgrace that the manager sat in the dugout like a coward refusing to get on the microphone and the way that those lads were given their send off wasn't good enough in my opinion from the club. So, I have a lot I want to say on that over the course of the night as well. Um, but I don't know of any infighting between Hughes and Edwards, but I did really see that Edwards was conspicuous in his absence there yesterday. Richie Robot was there. Um, one of the FSG brigade was there, but no Michael Edwards anywhere to be seen. At least I didn't see Michael Edwards yesterday, which again for two absolute top-notch bonafide servants of our club leaving and potentially a few more. To not have senior FSG officials at Anfield, I thought it was a disgrace. Uh, Nightmare, how are you, mate? Nightmare to the AM. Uh, hey Craig, nice to see you back. open slot leaves. So am I. I'm still hopeful that he leaves. I'm just not going to say it as a fact. And look, there has been some genuine fair feedback from people who would say something like, "Maybe don't say you're 100% on things." That's fair. That's more than fair. I mean, I have to take stuff like that on the chin. Uh, and I can look I think the reason I would say I'm 100% is because every fiber of me believed it was 100%. But throwing the numbers out there like that leaves no wiggle room. And you're right. You're right to criticize me on that. That's no problem. I'll do my best to learn from that. And I will never be stating anything as a fact again. Um there isn't really an upside in these situations when you say things like that. People think the views are, but I promise you the emotions I felt over the last few days of being dwarfed by whatever the or dwarf the views or anything like that.

[00:08:06]Being not being wrong like I was going through two processes. And I know this is going to sound petty, but one, I was wrong and I was hurt by being wrong because I let people down. But if I'm being really blunt, I was also grieving the fact that we might have to sit through another season of this And that was equally as difficult to get my head around because I told you when I gave you guys the news, one of the most exciting parts for me was being able to see relief in other people. the same relief that I felt because I know how much we don't want them here. I know how much every one of us doesn't want them here.

[00:08:48]So, I've had to kind of wrestle with that emotion as a fan as well, thinking, "Fuck, can I go through another season of a slot in charge?" Because, and I don't say this lightly, I despise him.

[00:09:00]Everything about him is the absolute opposite of what a Liverpool manager should be. the way you conduct yourself, the way you operate in the media, all of it just it's just not us.