Top Reality TV Spoofs to Save Liverpool FC
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X-Factor and Big Brother reality contests are the answer to Liverpool’s current lack of quality players.
After a disappointing season slumping to seventh place in the league, Liverpool perhaps more than any other of the Premier League’s top sides needs fresh talent.
The problem with Liverpool is money. The club is wracked with debt and the lack of Champions League football next season means the club is unlikely to draw the top players to Anfield which Liverpool so desperately need to reboot the club’s fortunes.
A spark of innovation is needed to save the club, and that innovation could come from the winner of Vietnam Soccer Prince, a reality TV show which is Vietnam’s answer to Britain’s Got Talent: the football X-Factor, but in Vietnam.
2,000 potential football prodigies were thinned down to a select handful in the familiar reality TV format – with the winner being offered a 12-month contract to play at Liverpool at the end of the competition.
If Vietnam Soccer Prince is truly the answer to Liverpool’s woes, then maybe these other shows could also find future stars for the club.
Big Rafa
Big Rafa is watching you! Contestants will be holed up in Anfield 24 hours a day for 12 weeks with no means of contact with the outside world. Players will be able to nominate other players for eviction on Saturday night after a challenge which will test various ball control skills.
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Alonso?
In a desperate bid to find a decent holding midfielder to back up Steven Gerrard, Liverpool can turn to Graham Norton to find the next Xabi Alonso. Players of Aquilani’s talent will be eliminated week by week with an ironic chorus of “You’ll Never Walk Alone“.
I’m A Desperate Footballer – Get Me Out of Here!
Dumped in the Outback of Australia, contestants will have to live, eat, sleep and play football in the jungle. Physical endurance will be tested to the limit as players have to play keepie-uppies whilst eating strange animals.
Who Wants to Be A Liverpool Player?
After an initial round of fastest foot first, players will be put through 15 challenges which get progressively harder in order to win a place in the Liverpool first XI. Consolation prizes will be available at the 5th and 10th milestone to win a contract with Tranmere Rovers and Everton respectively.
Strictly Kop Dancing
Testing the fancy footwork of the current crop of would-be talent, flair players will have the opportunity to shine whilst partnered with some of the true stars of the beautiful game. Scores out of 10 will be awarded for each footballing routine, before the contestants are resolutely humiliated by the judging panel for not hitting a half volley in time with the music.
Please add your own comments and reality TV suggestions below!
Liverpool should hold trials of school kids in the inner city and televise the results. Local talent would come through and TV companies would lap it up.
Robbie Keane looks like he would be an epic breakdancer.
Most of the kids on the YouTube soccer vid look like they’ve got more talent than the current Liverpool team – sign them all up.
Kickworldwide who make the Vietnam Soccer Prince show have gone into administration owing thousands to disgruntled creditors and the word is that the 17-year-old Vietnam winner at Liverpool has been dropped to train with the U15 academy because he is not good enough. So much for saving Liverpool… Seems like Liverpool should be disassociating themselves with this show quick more like!
Unbelievably, I see the original founders of Kickworldwide / Soccer Prince have come out saying they bought the business back and it’s business as usual… How can it be business as usual when creditors are owed thousands and former staff are out of work? I bet the Vietnam Soccer Prince winners’ “prizes” are in jeopardy. Have they no shame? One of them is a former commercial manager of Stockport County. No offence to Stockport but that is hardly the credentials of a worthy partner for Liverpool, is it? No wonder they went bust… and I’ll bet they go bust again in the near future. Liverpool get out of there quick… we don’t want to be swimming with these bottom feeders!