Saturday Feb 29:
Watford 3 L 0. Wow. If you’re going to lose an unbeaten record, may as well do it in stye I suppose, with an absolutely fucking brutal performance and a 3-0 spanking to a team in the relegation zone. I wasn’t shocked we lost because this was a tricky looking fixture given our current form. I never dreamed we’d lose like THIS though.
Every single player was shite. That’s really hard to do as even in the worst performances there’s usually one or two who you can say were alright. Not this time though. They were all shit. Even Virgil. Even Robbo. Pure shit. So what does that mean? There has to be an explanation why everyone is out of form as that just doesn’t happen without a good reason.
It’s no co-incidence that any time we have time off we come back looking like shite. Usually we get knocked out of the cup and go for warm weather training, and when we come back we start dropping points all over the gaff. This time is wasn’t warm weather training, it was the winter break. It’s the same result though, we come back looking completely undercooked.
Watford smashed us everywhere today. They were faster, stronger, hungrier. That hardly ever happens to this team but we were shit against Norwich, Atletico, West Ham and now today. What I can’t really process is that we’re getting worse. If we’d put a performance like this is as soon as we got back it would be easier to understand, but we’ve had four games to sharpen up and instead we’re getting worse.
Thankfully we’ve built up such a huge lead that it doesn’t matter, but the Atletico game is next week so that’s a worry. The unbeaten record going is a bit of a bummer like, but on the bright side it will make the rest of the season far less stressful now that we’ve got that defeat out of the way. And far better it be Watford beating us than City or Everton. They’d have loved to be the ones to ruin the record, but tough shit.
Sunday Mar 1:
What’s this shit with Besiktas’ twitter account taking little swipes at us? The other day they were taking the piss about the time they knocked us out of the Europa League and today they’re going on about how they (and Arsenal) are the only 'invincibles', and they’re tagging LFC into their tweets. These are the same cunts we beat 8-0. Get back in your box your fucking nobodies, trying to make a name for yourself at the expense of the Mighty Reds.
Meanwhile, we’re being linked with “Eton Educated Jack Grealish” again today. Lallana is attracting interest from a few clubs and it seems to have all but been confirmed that he’s off at the end of the season, so the press are putting two and two together and coming up with Cantwell. I’ll say it again. Fuck that.
In other news today, City won the League Cup again. Surprisingly Villa put up a fight and made a game of it, but it wasn’t to be as the football Gods are still paying them back for this….
Monday Mar 2:
Neil Critchley leaves to take the Blackpool job. Good for him, he deserves a crack at it. That club seems a bit of a shambles though. They change managers all the time. I expect Critch will be back within six months like Ljinders and Michael Beale (who came back after a spell in Brazil only to leave and join Stevie at Ibrox), but hopefully not as it would be nice to see him make a real go of it as he’s widely regarded as being a lovely fella. Best of luck to him.
In other news today Sturridge cancels his contract in Turkey after his ban for betting was increased to four months. Unless there are details we aren’t privy to, that’s a fucking scandal as there was nothing wrong with what he did. It makes no odds to us as he’s not our player anymore, but I don’t like injustice and this appears to fucking stink of it.
Also today, Ancelotti is charged by the FA over his conduct at the end of their draw with the Mancs yesterday. From watching the video it doesn’t look that bad and he’s certainly not someone with a reputation for that kind of thing. The condescending way the ref was talking to him probably tipped him over the edge. We’ve all been there, whether it’s with a parent, a teacher, a bouncer, a copper, a traffic warned or a spouse. Sometimes people talk down to you and it’s fucking infuriating.
I lost it with a traffic warden a while back. Not because he was going to unfairly give me a ticket (well not JUST because of that) but because of the way he was speaking to me. I saw Carlo with that ref and I could relate to it entirely. No-one likes being talked down to, especially by some little jobsworth fucker.
My Dad is the worst for shit like that though, he just won’t tolerate it at all. One time he got pulled over by a copper for what was a relatively minor and completely unintentional traffic offence. He tried explaining but the copper was being a complete arse about it. My Dad knew he was getting done regardless, so he says “Everyone makes mistakes officer. Your Mum and Dad made a massive one when they had you”. Be ace if that’s what Ancelotti said to Swarbrick.
Tuesday Mar 3:
Chelsea 2 L 0. A game of two halves. We were alright in the first half and didn’t deserve to be behind. Then it all just went to shit and we looked desperate and clueless. It’s weird seeing some of these players who have looked completely imperious for two years suddenly look vulnerable.
I don’t think Klopp is helping himself either though. Why the fuck does he insist on playing Origi wide left? How much evidence does he need before accepting that he’s a centre forward? Play him in the middle and he scores goals. Stick him on the left and he just pisses everyone off.
It’s reached a point now where it isn’t Origi who pisses me off when he’s shit. He is what he is and can’t really help it. Klopp can though. He can do something about it by playing him in his best position. Fair enough when he’s being kept out by Firmino, but tonight we had Minamino through the middle. He was alright for a bit and then vanished. It’s going to take him a while before he’s ready to make a significant contribution because he just looks like a kid playing in a grown ups game.
That’s natural, as it takes most new signings a while to get up to the physical levels of the rest of the squad. He’s also a good example of why signing players in January isn’t really Klopp’s style as 99% of players couldn’t just come in and go straight into this side. Van Dijk is the 1%, but everyone else (other than Salah) has taken time, even those signed in the summer and who had a pre-season to adapt.
It’s not going out of the cup that bothers me. I’ve said all along I don’t really care much about it. I’d have continued to pick some of the young lads like Hoever and Chirivella if it were up to me, but the waters were muddied by us losing two of our previous three games. Going with a strong line up and trying to ‘stop the rot’ so to speak made sense, but only if it actually worked. It didn’t, and now we’ve lost three of four.
Had we picked the kids tonight we could have dismissed this defeat as ‘not counting’, like the Villa one. We can’t do that now though, it’s a legitimate defeat and it doesn’t feel good. This is how fans of everyone else must feel.
Wednesday Mar 4:
Rafa is talking about how hard he had it here again. Some bollocks about what his transfer budget was when he was trying to win the title. “We had no money. Our transfer budget, in my last year, was €17m. So, with that you could not compete. We had to try to sell to buy and when you sell Javier Mascherano, Xabi Alonso, Fernando Torres. It was the only way to try to get closer to the rivals. This Liverpool team has two or three years of very good investment and a lot of success in signing. And then, a coach whose opinion is valued by the owners.”
Turn it in man for fucks sake. You did good, you got close, but you couldn’t get over the line (and you didn’t “have to sell” Torres or Mascherano, that was Hodgson. You did CHOOSE to sell Alonso though because you wanted to buy Robbie Keane and Gareth Barry).
Klopp has done what you couldn’t and he didn’t do it by outspending everyone else. Honestly, this does my head in. He doesn’t need to be so fucking insecure about his legacy here. He won a European Cup. His legendary status is secure. For the love of all that’s good and pure, just stop it Rafa.
Thursday Mar 5:
“After tonight I can get back to supporting United” said Rooney. You know what they say, once Everton has touched you….
Rooney’s Derby side lost 3-0 to United tonight but that wasn’t enough for some United fans who decided to yell all manner of foul abuse at Jesse Lingard as he boarded the coach. Even before they dropped the “N bomb” on him it was fucking sickening, but when I heard that I genuinely couldn’t believe it.
It’s bad enough they felt empowered enough to be yelling that with so many other people around, but it looks as though nobody did anything. Now in fairness I don’t know what happened after the video stopped and maybe someone took the vile cunts to task over it. I suspect not though.
It’s easy to use something like that to score points and say “look at the state of these United fans” but it’s not about United fans. The overwhelming majority of them will have been as sickened by it as the rest of us, more so in fact as it reflects badly on them all, even though it shouldn’t. Cunts will be cunts and they follow all manner of different clubs.
Even if you take the outrageous racism element away from it, those fuckers deserve a massive hiding. Yelling “Fuck off Jesse, you’re shit” and then quoting stats at him “No goals and no assists in 27 games” or whatever it was. Honestly, I’d happily see the cunts publicly flogged. How did we reach this point where people think it’s ok to act like that?
It’s fine for United fans to think Lingard is shit, because he is. It’s fine for them to voice that opinion too. We’re football fans, it’s what we do. Voicing it directly to him though? When did that become ok? It’s bad enough when it’s some faceless fuck doing it from behind a keyboard, but yelling at him as he’s getting on the coach (after a 3-0 win!!) is just incomprehensible to me.
Lingard is dealing with some serious family issues and he has to listen to this? I never thought I’d see the day that I felt sorry for Jesse Lingard, but I do. This is fucking appalling and I just hope it doesn’t affect him too much.
Friday Mar 6:
Alisson injured? Of course, oui. It wouldn’t be a big European week without some kind of fucking drama. It’s a setback but I can’t say it’s shaken my faith too much. Why? Because last year we lost Salah and Firmino immediately before Barca when we needed to score four fucking goals. We did that, so forgive me for not pissing my pants in fear about us not having Alisson. If Origi can make himself a legend then there’s no reason why Adrian can’t.
Meanwhile, some mad quotes from the deluded Dusan Tadic who is convinced Ajax should be European Champions.
"If Ajax had gotten what it deserved against Tottenham, we would have defeated Liverpool in the final. We would not play as badly as Tottenham and be much more inspired than Liverpool. The confidence of the Ajax players was so powerful that Liverpool would not have been able to cope, period."
Mate, you couldn’t beat Spurs so shut up. Not just that, but Tadic couldn’t even beat Nathan Redmond out of the Southampton team, and he’s talking about handling the Mighty Reds. They shit the bed against Spurs and it was entirely they’re own fault. When you flop like that, you don’t get to talk smack about what you WOULD have done. Stay in your line, knobhead.
and that was the week that was….
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