Sunday Apr 12:
Hodgson says the season needs to be completed, regardless of how it’s done. Now this is a fella whose team is 11th and has no real stake at the top or bottom. It would be easy for him to jump on the ‘void it’ bus but his comments on this were a lot more sensible than most I've seen of late.
Basically he said that everyone will have to make compromises on how long they get to prepare the players for the restart, and also that there may need to be a lot of games played in a short space of time. Good stuff from the old boy.
Not so good stuff from Bernardo Silva though, who proved that it’s not just Man City’s press office that has a massive chip on their shoulder about the Reds.
"I hope this is not a bad example, and people don't take it badly. But I always think about the last three seasons, Man City and Liverpool. Three seasons ago we win the league and they were 30 points behind. Kevin De Bruyne, unbelievable season, Mo Salah, scores a lot of goals. He's a great player and I admire him a lot, and they give the award to Mo Salah.”
The way he casually dismissed Mo there - “scores a lot of goals”. He scored 44 goals you cunt. We’re talking about about the most historic goalscoring seasons in English football history. De Bruyne was phenomenal that year and could have won it, but you can’t blame anyone who was swayed by someone scoring 44 goals. Plus, he scored home and away against City in the CL, whereas De Bruyne did fuck all. Like it or not, that influences the voting.
Silva wasn’t done whining though. "The season after, very tight. Raheem Sterling was on the run with van Dijk, they give the award to van Dijk. This season again, Kevin de Bruyne, another unbelievable season. We're behind, but because Liverpool are champions probably one of them is winning the award again."
Cry me a river, short arse. If you want recognition, join a big club. Simple as that.
Monday Apr 13:
Didi Hamann says Werner wouldn’t fit our style. This is completely at odds with the general consensus, and Werner himself has spoken about how the way we play suits him perfectly. It feels like just because he runs around a lot everything thinks he’s a “Klopp player”.
There’s far more to it than that though and I agree with Hamann, which is not something I say very often as, much as it pains me to say, he’s a bit of a knob. His logic here is sound though. Werner would be a huge drop off from Salah or Mané out wide, and his style is completely different to Bobby’s so if he played central we wouldn’t be able to play the same way.
As I’ve said before, I’m basing this on a small sample size but based on the limited amount I’ve seen him I reckon he’s a bit of a bull in a china shop and doesn’t have the guile required to play in our front three.
Tuesday Apr 14:
Graeme Sharp wants the season void. You know, I’ve never liked that cunt. I actually have a lot of time for some of the Everton 80s Legends. For example I like Reidy and Big Nev is one of the best people around. Howie was my boy too, but Sharp is second behind Ratcliffe when it comes to being a bad bitter knobhead.
Didn’t like him as a player as all he used to do was back in and try and get free kicks off Hansen and Lawro. He was all elbows and mullet, the prick. Can’t stand his little high pitched voice either, the whiny bastard. The only reason he’d want the season voided is to stop us winning the league. Bitter cunt.
Story in Germany today that our plans to sign Werner are in the balance because Klopp can’t meet with him face to face because of this social distancing and no flights. What a load of fucking bollocks. That might have been a legitimate problem 10 years ago but not anymore.
IF Klopp is trying to sign him, he’ll have been face timing the shit out of him. Hell, he’s probably part of the daily yoga class we’ve been seeing on LFCTV, only they’ve carefully edited him out before they post it online. Can just see Werner giving the “Naby laaaaaaad” with the others. His birthday was in March, so Ox probably sang to him in German.
On a serious note though, this deal has now become complicated as fuck as the buy out clause had to be activated this month to get him at the rescued fee, but everything has to be on hold now as no clubs have any idea how long this is going to last and how much it’s going to cost them if they have to keep paying the players.
Wednesday Apr 15:
31 years ago today a large number of people died due to the incompetence of the establishment. The establishment didn’t accept responsibility of course, they pointed the finger of blame anywhere they could to avoid admitting their role in so many needless deaths.
Still, that was 31 years ago and at least that’s not happening anym… ah, ok.
As a great man once sang “the more things change the more they stay the same”.
If the rest of the nation were as clued up as the people of Liverpool and surrounding areas (not you Southport, you cunts) then this shit wouldn’t keep happening.
RIP the 96 and the thousands who died at Grenfell and those who are still dying through this fucking wretched virus.
Thursday Apr 16:
Loris Karius has come out swinging. Not sure what prompted this, but maybe he just needed to get it off his chest...
“In retrospect, I should have dealt with it more aggressively in public. I had a concussion after a blow from Sergio Ramos, which restricted my spatial vision.
“This was unequivocally ascertained in a detailed study by one of the world’s leading brain specialists. At first, I was happy to know what went on in this game. I didn’t want to make it public myself.
"When the result was released, there was a lot of malice and insult, often well below the belt. I never used it as an excuse. But when people make fun of someone who has badly injured their head, I have no understanding.
"The reactions were over the top and disrespectful. My mistakes were not assessed fairly.
Ok this might surprise you, but I agree with every single word of that. I’m 100% convinced he had a concussion because that first mistake was so outrageous that there is literally no other explanation for it. “No, he’s just shit” is the reason I often see given. It’s bollocks though. He’s never made a mistake like that Benzema goal before and will never do it again. In fact, I’d be surprised if there is another keeper on the planet who has made a mistake exactly like that one.
The idea that it just happened and had nothing to do with the bang on the head is as stupid as those fucking goons out there now in America with the placards saying “Corona virus is fake”. He had a concussion and it fucked up his game and cost us a European Cup. Nothing wrong with what he said there.
He wasn’t done though.
"All my efforts and good performances before were suddenly no longer relevant. The reactions were over the top and disrespectful, especially that it has been drawn out in this way. Errors are measured with different, even abnormal, dimensions and are not assessed fairly.
“You can’t blame fans if they whistle a player. You pay an admission [fee] and have the right to be dissatisfied. A professional has to endure that. If there are personal insults or death threats, the line is then crossed. There were some of them [death threats], but I can’t take that seriously. These are people who write anonymously and don’t even show their faces in their profiles."
He’s right there too, although he’s definitely overstating his previous ‘efforts and good performances’ because he was never any good even before Ramos clobbered him.
And that’s the thing. He wasn’t good enough before, he was always going to make mistakes because average goalkeepers do that. What happened in the final put a massive bullseye on his back though, so any mistake he makes now is magnified hugely.
There are some things he said and did in the aftermath that pissed me off (the Baywatch video especially), but generally I just feel sorry for him because there’s no coming back from what happened in Kiev, especially for a goalkeeper.
Friday April 17:
I thought these comments from Rushy were interesting regarding the possibility of playing behind closed doors:
“I wasn’t the best trainer and sometimes I would just go through the motions. But in front of 40,000 or 50,000 fans I would come alive. If you’re playing in front of no one it begs the question, would you be any good? Would you be up for it, first of all? Would it be the same as a normal game in front of a crowd?
“It will be like playing a Sunday league game. I don’t think the standard of games will be very good. It will be hard to get motivated even if something is at stake. Crowds bring excitement.
“Celebrating goals will be strange for a start without there being any crowd interaction and it will still be a shame to see games without the fans who are the lifeblood of the game."
I’ve often wondered what games would be like with no fans. I didn’t watch PSG’s games behind closes doors and I don’t think I’ve ever watched a game with no crowd. Our players thrive off the energy of the crowd at home, but we’re great away from home so I think they’d cope fine in an empty stadium, but I don’t know for sure.
Rushy made some good points there. Some players mightn’t handle it as well as others, but the most important thing here is that if playing in a closed stadium is the only way to finish the season, then it’s something we all just have to deal with. It’s going to be shit though.
One final point worth mentioning. Rush also said that this current team is the best Liverpool side he’s seen. That’s a bold statement, but one I agree with and I’ve felt that way for a couple of years. It counts for a lot more when Rush says it though!
Saturday April 18:
The Souness / Pogba ‘feud’ which has been rumbling for months came to a head this week when Pogba said he’d never even heard of Souness. Doesn’t surprise me in the least. Pogba doesn’t exactly seem like a student of the game, does he? He comes across as one of those lads who doesn’t even like footy and who wouldn’t even give it a seconds thought when he isn’t training or playing. He probably doesn’t even know half of the United legends, let alone the Liverpool ones. He’s fucking lucky he’s playing now and never had to face Souey. Imagine what Souness would do to a preening twat like him.
Meanwhile, Alisson is back in training. That would be big news if there were any games to play, but there aren’t so it’s largely irrelevant. If he hadn’t gotten injured we might still be in the two cup competitions we got knocked out of because of Adrian’s clangers. God, that seems like a lifetime ago now doesn’t it?
Saw this today from Sadio’s international team-mate, Keita Balde. “It depends on many things" Keita Balde told AS when asked if Mane would welcome a move to Madrid. "I don't know what his decision is. In a year or two, maybe he will want to change and I don't think he wants to be there all his life.
"He is a smart boy and he knows what is good for him and what he has to do. But in Madrid they are giving many names."
"The coach [Jurgen Klopp] loves him very much. Something very attractive has to come for him to leave Liverpool. He has given much to Liverpool and Liverpool to him. A big one will have to come and I promise him a lot to think about it. There are few teams like Liverpool."
What the fuck is all that shit? Just say “I don’t know where Sadio will be playing in a couple of years” and leave it that. There’s more waffle in there than in one of the government’s daily corona briefings. Lots of talking while saying absolutely fucking nothing. Shut up, Keita Balde.
Sunday April 19:
Nice interview with Klopp on the official site. He’s just so great isn’t he? Just a really funny guy. He was asked about what he’s been doing and he mentioned some of his favourite movies. Waterboy and Dumb and Dumber, only he pronounced the ‘B’ in Dumb and Dumber and it was hilarious.
He says it’s not fun for anyone to watch them with him because he laughs so loud that they miss the next joke. What a man. I’d love nothing more than to sit and watch Dumb and Dumber with Kloppo.
Actually maybe that’s true. Spending a day with Robbo might top everything. He’s one of the most naturally funny lads I can remember playing for us. It was obvious from the very first time LFCTV gave him licence to express himself (commentating on the derby game from the season before he arrived) that he’s a funny cunt, and everything he’s done since confirmed it.
Today he posted his ‘to do list’ on twitter and it was boss. Some of the highlights were four different phone calls to Trent just to make sure he’s ok, drinking Irn Bru “because you deserve it Andy”, texting Virg to tell him he misses him and browsing Milly’s insta. He’s sound. All the lads seem sound, but Robbo is the one who’d be the best company. Him and Milner I reckon.
Christ I’m bored.
Monday April 20:
Not much happening today, although Lovren took out his son with a full blooded slidey in his back garden and posted it on instagram. I’m one of big Dejan’s biggest fans and this has made me love him even more.
Fuck all else going on.
....and that was the week that was
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