Saturday Jan 18:
Klopp says we have ‘more natural enemies’ than other clubs and uses the example of St James’ Park last season (where Newcastle players and fans were frothing at the mouth trying to beat us) to emphasise his point. This is the kind of thing we as fans notice and comment on, but it says a lot about Jurgen that he recognises it too even though he completely avoids social media and all that shite.
Even he can see that all these fuckers were so desperate to see us not win the league, but it makes it all the sweeter this time. I do think it will change once we finally win it. To be fair, I understand it to a degree. This silly ‘not won the Premier League’ thing is one of the few weapons opposing fans can use against us. There’s very little else for them to taunt us with so naturally they don't want to lose it.
It’s so fucking stupid though, particularly the Leicester thing where they’ll sing to us, Everton and Villa “Champions of England, you’ll never sing that”. I don’t get this whole ‘Premier League’ bollocks at all. How is it any different to the League Cup? That competition has changed names loads of times too, but we don’t always have to hear about how Liverpool have ‘never won the Carabao Cup’ do we?
It’s fucking stupid but in a few months it’s not going to matter anyway because they won’t have that stick to beat us with anymore. Not even City can live with us anymore and today he Hodge put one over on ‘Pep’ once again as Palace snatched a hilarious draw at the Etihad thanks to a stoppage time own goal from Fernandinho.
It’s mad how they always seem to give City so much trouble. As a rule, City roll over shite ‘park the bus’ type teams with ease but for some reason Hodgson’s prehistoric approach tends to work against them.
Elsewhere today, Rhian Brewster got his first goal for Swansea. Good to see, hopefully that’s the first of many.
Meanwhile, ‘Big Sexy’ is being linked with the Blues. That’s just not going to happen, surely? Emre Can has a high opinion of himself and making a move like this would be like Scott ditching Charlene and then a couple of years later shacking up with Mrs Mangle. There’s no way his ego would allow it, even if they made him a stupid offer.
Sunday Jan 19:
L 2 Man Utd 0 Mixed feelings. Happy we won, frustrated we didn’t embarrass the shit bastards and dish out the kind of hammering that will haunt them for generations. It’s coming. It’s only a matter of time before we put five or six past them as the gulf between the sides hasn’t been greater since we were in different divisions.
These things go in cycles and now it’s our turn. It’s mad when you look at that United squad now and realise just how fucking woeful it is. There’s a handful of good players, a collection of bang average ones and Rashford is the only genuine star they have. Greenwood might become one too, but when you compare them to us now it’s just night and day.
There’s a thirty point gap but by the end of the season it’ll be closer to fifty because they’re hopeless. We utterly dominated them today but the one ‘weakness’ you could maybe say we have was evident again as we didn’t kill them off and then had to work much harder in the closing stages than we should have. If we become more adept at getting that second goal to give us breathing room then we’ll start hammering teams.
Mind you, if we were to become more clinical then maybe the Premier League would have to introduce a handicap system to keep things competitive. Maybe make the strikers only shoot with their wrong foot, or have Virg play blindfolded or something? We’d still win 75% of our games.
Meanwhile, we’re being linked with Timo Werner again. This is going to be one of those where we’re linked with him in every transfer window for about six years until he eventually signs for someone else and it turns out we were never even interested in him in the first place. I’m not basing that on anything other than a gut feeling, and the fact that we’re signing Mbappe so there’s no room for him here anyway.
Monday Jan 20:
Speak of the devil. Mbappe has done an interview with the BBC and he’s done it in English, because he’s been taking lessons. In the interview he’s raving about the Reds who he says are ‘like a machine’ and he’s buzzing off Trent copying his celebration. He’s “proud” because “that guy is amazing”.
When I read the quotes, my eyebrow raised like the Rock’s. When I actually saw the video, the eyebrows went the full Ancelotti and lost all control. It’s not what he says, it’s the way he says it and the enthusiasm and excitement you can see in him. He wants it. He wants it bad.
Holy shit, this is happening.
Meanwhile, Nemanja Matic on MUTV: 'On the pitch, we felt, "We are in the game, we can score, we can create. I think we played some good football. In the last 35 to 40 minutes, we were the better side. I think everyone on the pitch from our team felt that we were in control, completely in control, so that's the model of how we should always play against top teams.'
There you have it, the only thing that moves slower than Matic’s legs is his brain. He’s like a fucking brontosaurus. All legs and neck with a brain the size of a sparrow’s bollock.
Tuesday Jan 21:
“We lost to Liverpool, a team you all say are fantastic, and we’ve been in the game until the last kick of the ball. For me, that’s strides forward. There were signs that we’re on the right track.” Glorious. I can’t for the life of me understand why so many Reds don’t like him. He’s great.
He poses no threat to us whatsoever and he’s causing ructions at United because half of them want him out and the other half want to back him. Then you’ve got his mates like Neville and Keane backing him to the hilt. It’s fantastic, it’s the stuff dreams are made of. We had to endure 20 years of them dominating everything but now look at them. They’re fucked.
There’s a lot to pick apart in the above quote though as there are so many layers to it. The first thing that jumped out was ‘a team YOU all say is fantastic’. So he’s not saying it. Interesting.
“In the game until the last kick of the ball”. Well that’s one way of putting it. Another would be to say that it was a fucking miracle they somehow managed to get into stoppage time trailing by just one goal, because THEY GOT FUCKING BATTERED.
Strides forward? Honestly, how many games have we had this season that were more difficult than that? Loads. Even in recent weeks we’ve been tested more by Wolves and Watford to name just two. But they’re ‘making strides’ on the basis they didn’t get twatted. This is the once mighty Manchester United and just listen to the pathetic little straws they’re trying to cling to as signs of ‘progress’.
The ‘signs that we’re on the right track’ is the best bit though, because as long as he can convince enough people that isn’t the case then they’ll allow him to continue.
More United news today is that they’ve been charged with failing to control their players after the way they harassed Craig Pawson on Sunday following the Bobby ‘goal’. I have a major problem with this because in this day and age of VAR there’s absolutely no need for players to be up in the refs face like that. Any contentious decision is going to get looked at anyway, so why the fuck is De Gea bumping the ref with his chest and yelling obscenities in his face?
I’d understand it if there was no VAR and a goal had been awarded, but the werewolf looking cunt should be suspended for that.
Thursday Jan 23:
Wolves 1 L 2. Thank fuck we don’t have to play Wolves again this season. That’s twice now they’ve made it really difficult for us. Klopp always says how tough they are to play against and he’s not just blowing smoke up their arses. I don’t know why it is, I’m not that well educated tactically, but they are a right pain in the arse to play against for a team that isn’t THAT good.
I mean fucking hell, how good can they be if they’re below United in the table? I’m not being facetious there, it’s an entirely valid point. The Europa League obviously hampered them early in the season, but still, it’s baffling how a team that looks so strong against us (and has beaten City twice) is below that wretched United side in the table.
When you go through the team from back to front, it’s clear that they’ve got some talented players and some bang average ones. So, it must be the system and style that makes them hard to play against, and for that you have to credit Nuno Holy Spirit. Top fella him as well as a top coach. I like him a lot.
They’re like Kryptonite to good teams but they aren’t great against the shit ones who sit back against them. The way United, Spurs and Arsenal are going though, in a year or two Wolves might be an established top four side.
They aren’t a threat to us as we’re miles ahead, but the other traditional ‘big six’ should be looking over their shoulders.
We weren’t at our best tonight but it’s all relative I think. I’ve seen it claimed that we didn’t play well, but if we didn’t ‘play well’ then we’d have lost because Wolves were so up for this they’d have beaten anybody else tonight. The only reason they didn’t win was because it was us, and even when not at our best we’re still fucking boss, especially Hendo who is killing it these last few months. What a guy,
Tell you something though. If I wasn’t all in on getting Mbappe I’d be banging the drum for Traore. Imagine what Klopp could do with him.
Friday Jan 24:
Last night on BT Jake Humphrey asked the three panelists if they think that at their peak, they’d have got into this current Liverpool team. Crouchy, as you’d expect, completely downplayed the idea and said there’s no way he’d get in ahead of any of this current front three, but that he’d quite fancy doing th Origi job of coming on for the last 15 minutes.
Joe Cole looked really uncomfortable and shifted awkwardly in his seat. He probably wanted to say ‘yes’ but he had the awareness and humility to know he couldn’t justify it without looking like a knob. So instead he gave a great answer, saying that he wouldn’t say that he’d get in the side but he would say that he would love to have been coming into this squad and playing for this manager as a 17/18 year old coming through. He even said he’d pay to play for Klopp.
Paul Ince, meanwhile, had no such hesitation or humility and brashly declared ‘for sure’. He was asked again, and he repeated it.
I wouldn’t expect anything less from a man who while at a star studded Manchester United, managed by Alex fucking Ferguson no less, insisted on being called ‘the guv’nor’. He wouldn’t get in this team. Not because he wasn’t a fantastic player, because in his day he was. No, he wouldn’t get in because he’s the polar opposite of Jordan Henderson.
Hendo is under-rated because everything he does is about the team and helping others shine. Ince was over-rated because everything he did was about furthering himself and making himself look like ‘the man’. That benefitted the teams he played in, well, it benefitted the teams he played in that weren’t called Liverpool, but Ferguson got rid of him and so did Houllier. There’s a reason for that.
He couldn’t play in this team because he doesn’t have the character. Captain Hendo picked up an injury in a big game (Barca) and demanded to stay on and ordered the doc to shoot him up with pain killers. He completed the game, then collapsed in an emotionally and physically drained heap.
The biggest game Ince played for us was at Old Trafford. We were 1-0 up when Captain Ince cried off with a minor knock with 10 minutes to go. We lost the game 2-1 and Houllier was fucking livid. Ince’s card was marked that day. Your captain doesn’t go off with a knock in a game of that magnitude. So no Incey, you wouldn’t get in this team because the rest of the lads wouldn’t want you anywhere near it, and Klopp would rather cut off his own cock than have a self centred ego maniac like you in his squad.
Meanwhile, on the injury front, Shaq and Milner won’t play on Sunday but Naby might. Not sure I’d want to pick him in a game like that. The pitch won’t be the usual standard, the opponent will be physical and it’s not a game I’d want to see him make a return from injury in as it just screams out “off after 15 minutes”.
Good to have Matip and Lovren back though. Having that kind of solid base (and maybe Fabinho in front of them) should allow us to play a number of the kids again and still get through comfortably. In general I don’t care too much about who we play in the cups but in the present circumstances I’m all in favour of having the easiest draws possible so we can keep playing Jones, Elliott, Williams, Larouci, Pedro etc as much as possible.
Not only because it gives the senior lads a breather, but because it’s been great fun watching those lads this season. They’ve restored ‘the magic of the cup’ for me. Can’t wait for Sunday.
…. and that was the week that was
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