Saturday Dec 1:
Interesting Klopp quotes on the different style of play this year. Basically confirming what we thought, that the new more patient approach is deliberate and that the team needed to evolve. He put it down to how opponents play against us, saying that they won’t play football in their own half because they don’t want to fall victim to our press.
Not entirely sure it's just that though. To me there's definitely an element of us just not playing that well and individual players not hitting the heights they did last season. We aren't at full throttle but I think that's also deliberate, and the team is geared up to hit it's stride in the new year. If that happens and we're still in the position we're in right now then we really will have a great chance to win the bloody thing.
Meanwhile, Bobby Duncan scores four and makes two for the u18s as they won 6-5. I watched the highlights, and one of the assists was a mis-hit shot that Paul Glatzel turned in at the back post, but Bobby still claimed it as an assist. Kids eh? He’s got 16 goals so far this season and is getting better by the week.
Really want this kid to be boss. Not only that, I want him to win titles, not just for us but for his cousin Stevie. Not only that, I want him to win a title by scoring an Anfield winner against Chelsea to deny City the title. In fact, I want him to do it after slipping over, getting up and beating half their team before scoring in front of their fans in the Anny Road and then doing a post match interview like this….
Sunday Dec 2:
L 1 Everton 0 Hahahahahahahahahaha. Oh man, fucking hell. Hahahahahaha. It’s going to take an awfully long time for me to stop buzzing off this one. The only thing more satisfying than winning a derby by being boss and embarrassing the Blues, is not being boss but beating them anyway, in stoppage time. We’ve done that a few times, but this was the best of the lot just because of how comical the winning goal was, and also the perfect comedy timing of it.
“Murderers” was belting out from the away end, and literally two seconds before the goal one of them lashed some purple pyro on the pitch because they thought Van Dijk’s shot had gone in the Kop and they’d clinched a famous draw. You just can’t make this shit up. Everton - Being funnier than fiction since 1878.
Pleased for Origi, it’s probably his final swan song for us barring an unlikely return to the fleeting, blistering form of spring 2016, but if it is then what a way to go out. He’ll forever be remembered by Kopites now and tales of his heroics will be handed down from generation to generation.
The icing on the cake was Klopp running onto the pitch like a madman. I didn’t even see it at the time as I was watching the lads celebrate. It was only when I got in the car afterwards and checked my phone that I saw the magnificence of it all. It was so out of order and he deserves all the criticism he’ll get for it, and if the FA hit him with a touchline ban he can have no complaints.
It’s ok to love it and buzz off it, as it was funny as fuck and an all time derby moment. But you can’t defend it, and if you are defending it then ask yourself what your reaction would be if Mourinho did that after United beat us with a 97th minute fluke. If you say you’d be ok with it, then you’re a big fat liar. What Klopp did today was not ok, it was out of line and there’s no excuse for it. It was also one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen.
Monday Dec 3:
Klopp is charged with misconduct. No surprise there. Whatever punishment he gets will have been worth it though. Surprisingly, most people in the game seem to be defending him and it’s just the odd whopper who’s kicking off. Like Danny Mills. Daft bald prick. Talking about inciting a crowd when he spent his whole career doing exactly that by being a dirty cunt. As bad a pundit as he was a player, and that takes some doing.
Chris Sutton laid into Mills on Twitter, basically calling him a big drama queen and saying there’s nothing wrong with showing a bit of passion. Big fan of Chris Sutton, he’s dead funny. My favourite Klopp take has come from Neil Warnock though, who simply said “I thought it were lovely”. Brought a tear to my eye that.
As did this, albeit tears of laughter. Michael Ball in the Echo. “Klopp says he apologised afterwards to Marco Silva because, and he knows, it was a classless thing to do and by running onto the field he disrespected the manager and Everton. His reaction, and that of his backroom staff and the Liverpool subs, spoke volumes of how far the Blues have come in such a short space of time since last season, how the Reds are now running scared of them and how he knew they had been the recipient of a massive slice of luck.”
Hahahaha oh fucking hell, make it stop. I almost laughed up my spleen yesterday and now it’s starting again.
Their best Anfield performance in 20 years and we still created twice as many chances as them and won the game. Yeah, we’re terrified. The balance of power is shifting. Our heads are falling off etc Fucking hell, I’ll say it again. If Everton didn’t exist we’d have to invent them.
I’ve spent most of the day watching videos from yesterday and, as with any epic moment like that, there are just so many layers to it. Klopp running on was obviously one, but from watching various clips today from different angles there are other things I didn’t pick up on initially. Like Virgil turning away in disgust and being halfway back into position by the time the ball went in.
One of the best things though was the reaction of Mané, who instead of celebrating with the lads went off to taunt his mate Gana Gueye instead. The needle between those two in derbies is great. Their friendship really does go out the window when there’s a derby. Sadio was giving him all sorts of shit when he was time wasting, and after the goal he went over and laughed in his face and handed him the ball, which Gana Gueye just swatted out of his hand. Just glorious. This one will stay with me for a long time, so imagine how it must feel for the Blues. I think Emlyn said it best. Liverpool are Magic, Everton are Tragic.
Tuesday Dec 4:
El Hadji Diouf says signing for us was the biggest mistake of his career and that he should have gone to United or Barcelona, because they both wanted him. Yeah, not sure that’s true as United tended to get most of their signings right back then, no way would they be getting suckered into signing a bum like him. Still, if there was one player we could airbrush from our history is this piece of shit, and if he feels the same way then can we not just pretend it never happened?
Klopp’s punishment is announced, and it’s an 8k fine. Is that it? Talk about getting off lightly. That’s half a day’s salary for Jurgen. So, let me ask you this: If you could run on the pitch and hug Alisson after a 97th minute derby winner at Anfield, and all it would cost you half a day’s pay, who wouldn’t take that deal? In all seriousness, I doubt that Klopp has ever had better value for money with anything he’s ever bought. He got to run onto the pitch to celebrate a derby winner and forever earn a place in derby folklore, and it didn’t even cost him a slap on the wrist really.
Naturally, the Blues are fuming. Well most of them are. Marco Silva wasn’t arsed, to his credit. He said there was nothing wrong with what Klopp did and that he shouldn’t be fined for it. To be fair, he’s only been there five minutes and I’m sure there’ll be people in his ear telling him that shit don’t fly. That kind of attitude won’t get him anywhere. He’ll either need to transform himself into a bitter twisted redshite hating Moyesy bastard, or he’ll go the same way as Big Red Ron.
Wednesday Dec 5:
Burnley 1 L 3 The result was deserved, but sometimes the outcome of games can hinge on one split second of play. Alisson made an incredible save in stoppage time, and then 10 seconds later he started a counter attack that saw us put the game to bed. If he doesn’t make that save, or if we still had Mignolet or Karius in goal, we draw this game. Simple as that.
I feel like Alisson has been getting a lot of love that he hasn’t really had to earn up to now, but in some big moments he’s really come through for us, not least this one. When you look at the still photo of it, it’s just an incredible stop, a save of the season contender. Reminds me a little of Pepe’s save from Marvellous Marlon in the “Gerrard Final” in 2006.
I’m seething about the goal we conceded though. How the linesman isn’t giving offside against the lad who put Alisson off by going for the ball is beyond me. That’s just basic shit that. Under any interpretation of the rule that’s offside. Our defensive record is so impressive that cheap goals like this really bother me. We’ve got a shot at breaking records, and incompetent ducks like this lino could ruin it.
Klopp was having a right moan about Burnley’s tackling. Aside from the scandalous Bardsley one I didn’t see anything untoward. They’re at the bottom fighting relegation, playing against a side in the hunt for the title. They need to tackle like their lives depend on it and if they didn’t then their fans and Sean Dyche would be entitled to feel let down.
Klopp’s comments were a bit weird. "I said to the referee after the first sliding tackle [made] over six or seven yards, when he got the ball and everyone liked it: 'Please, tell them they cannot do that. It wasn't a foul but they cannot do that.” If it wasn’t a foul then yes, they can do that. That’s the whole point of rules. It was all a bit “Arsene Wenger at Stoke” for me.
Thursday Dec 6:
Gomez will miss six weeks. That’s shit, but it could have been worse. Meanwhile, Dyche responded to Klopp’s complaints by having a go at Sturridge for diving. “It’s funny, he didn’t reference Daniel Sturridge’s cheating. He never got touched, nothing near him, and actually got a free-kick.
“I watched Liverpool as a kid and was a Liverpool fan growing up and they had a fantastic side of skill, will, demand and a physical edge. If that has gone, or the suggestion is you’re not allowed to make those tackles that our lads made last night, and it’s been replaced by cheating, I absolutely am happy to be old-fashioned.
“I just can’t believe Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool fans – and I don’t believe they do – would want cheating in the game and sacrifice good, honest challenges.”
Ok, I feel dirty saying this, but I kind of agree with most of what Dyche said there. Sturridge has dived quite a few times (the one to get a pen at Old Trafford even had Suarez shaking his head!) and he went down under no contact last night to win a free-kick. If a player had done that against us we’d be pissed off too. Hell, Klopp was laying into PSG last week and rightly so, but this makes him look a bit daft, as will the next time he’s celebrating Milner crunching someone!
Friday Dec 7:
Oh no, the Fekir links are starting again after it’s suggested he’s going to be available in January. I can’t handle any more of this. I wanted us to sign him so badly that I’m still not over it falling through, even though we’re unbeaten and could end this weekend top. He’s be PERFECT for us and would give us the kind of depth, creativity and firepower that City have.
We don’t have that currently, not outside of our first eleven anyway. City can bring in Bernardo Silva, while we’re hoping Lallana is somehow fit enough to make the bench. A player like Fekir coming in January could make all the difference, but it’s not going to happen and I don’t know why I always do this to myself.
I know he’s not coming. I know that ship sailed last summer and unless it docks back in Liverpool with a new knee for Nabil, it won’t be coming back. Yet as soon as I see even the most tenuous link to him, from the most unreliable click bait of websites, it starts all over again.
In other transfer speculation, Matip is still being linked with a move away. He’ll play at Bournemouth tomorrow because Lovren has a concussion. He’s too good to be fourth choice and if he wanted to go it would be understandable, but we’ve got a title to win so it’s all hands on deck and no-one should go in January. Not even Origi or Solanke, even though it’s unfair on both that they’re getting no football. I would have sent Origi packing to the highest bidder last summer, but then we wouldn’t have had that all time moment last Sunday. That game showed us that you just never know when we’re going to need these lads.
Meanwhile, there’s a “top 100” list on ESPN. These things are always subjective and generally I try to not pass judgement on them. But Andy Robertson is rated as the 8th best left back in the world. Get to fuck. All bias to one side, he’s the best left back in the world. Ever. Seriously. Show me someone who thinks they’re better than Robbo and I’ll show you a fucking deluded spoofer.
and that was the week that was…
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