Saturday Nov 24:
Watford 0 L 3 Good three points that. Not entirely convincing but results are everything at the moment seeing as how no-one is even making any kind of pretence about giving City a game. They’re battering everyone so we have to just win and so far we’ve been finding a way to do it.
There’s a lot to like about what we did here, not least because Klopp only had one training session with his players. These are the kind of games we’ve fucked up so often in the past, but we’re taking care of business. It wasn’t fluent but we barely gave Watford any chances at all. We’re hard to play against and that’s half the battle.
What’s the deal with Mo’s celebration though? It was defo a dig at Ramos, but what was the intent behind it? Bet we never get an explanation. He should just say “it’s my celebration now” and do it all the time. He scores so many goals it will quickly become synonymous with him and when Ramos does it it will look like he’s copying Mo. This has Lovren’s finger prints all over it.
In other news today, the Copa Libertadores game between Boca and River Plate was called off after River fans smashed up Boca’s bus. One player had to have glass removed from his eye and the Boca team were pretty shaken up about the whole thing. Apparently Carlos Tevez was the worst affected, which will surprise nobody. You can take the player out of Man City but you can’t take Man City out of the player.
Still, it could have been worse. Someone could have lashed a can of Kopparberg. That would have been terrible.
Sunday Nov 25:
Ben Woodburn is back playing for the u23s. His loan hasn’t been cut short yet but it’s trending in that direction and could happen any day now apparently. The last couple of years of his career haven’t been great. He barely featured for us last year and a loan move made sense, but not being able to get in Sheffield United’s team doesn’t bode well.
Thing is, he’s still really young. To put it in perspective, loads of us are really excited about Harry Wilson (who scored again by the way) and how maybe he can come back next season and contribute here. Worth remembering then that when Wilson was Woodburn’s age he couldn’t get a game at Crewe. He’s three years older than Ben, so that shows just how much time Woodburn still has to develop.
So hopefully he doesn’t get too disheartened by this loan move as ultimately it means nothing in the grand scheme of things. Come back here, play some games in the u23s and find a new loan move in January. In hindsight, Rangers might have been good for him as Ejaria and Kent seem to be enjoying themselves up there.
Charlie Adam is talking about Shaq again, but this time he’s far more complimentary. “I don’t think he was (suited to a relegation battle), but listen, he’s got a wonderful talent and his game probably suits playing for a bigger club with better players. His awareness to pick a pass and see things that other players don’t – and we probably didn’t have enough players at his level.
“I criticised him because I felt when we were in a dogfight, we probably needed different types of characters – a Jon Walters, a Glen Whelan – they were the types of characters we needed.
“The little man can score goals out of nothing but we were low on confidence and couldn’t carry anybody of that ability without the other side of the game.”
Maybe if he’d said that in the first place he wouldn’t have pissed off Stoke and Liverpool fans as much as he did. Still, I’m not entirely happy with his explanation anyway. I mean, you can’t have a team of Jon Walters and Glenn Murrays, you need someone with a bit of guile too, otherwise you’re Burnley.
Monday Nov 26:
“I don’t compare seasons, to be honest, but I’ve known Robbo now for one-and-a-half years and I feel that he’s at 75 per cent – maybe less – of what he can do. There’s a lot of potential still. But it’s all good. He improved a lot but there is still a lot to come, he is still a young fella. There’s enough time for that.”
Kinell, imagine Robbo 25% better than he is now. The benchmark for left backs has always been Maldini. By that I mean he’s the one you’d reference if you were saying “he’s the new Maldini” or “who does he think he is, Maldini?”. If Robbo improves by 25% then he’ll be the first name anyone thinks of in that situation.
Tuesday Nov 27:
If I was King of the World, my first decree would be to round up all those ‘big game hunters’ who like to shoot defenceless animals and drop them in the middle of the jungle without their guns. My second would be would be to drop Trump, Farage, Robinson, Boris Johnson and their minions in there as well.
My third would be that the next person to write a story about Fabinho leaving in January has to do a six month stretch in Alcatraz. Seriously, just fucking stop it, it’s ridiculous. Get your precious clicks by making something up that at least has a tiny percentage chance of coming true.
Meanwhile, Jurgen’s a fucking case isn’t he? In his press conference ahead of the PSG game he was buzzing off the French interpreter and his sexy voice. Crazy bastard.
Camacho is in the squad for tomorrow night but Origi and Solanke aren’t. What’s going on there then? Solanke was tearing it up for England u21s but he can’t even make the plane when we’re taking 21 players?? Doesn’t bode well.
Lallana isn’t there either as he’s injured. Again. Seriously, enough is enough. He’s worse than Sturridge. That’s not just a throwaway line, it’s a fact. He’s missed more games in the last two years than Sturridge has. He’s finished at this level now and I hate saying that as I’m one of his biggest fans.
Wednesday Nov 28:
PSG 2 L 1 Well that was shit. I know that there’s no shame in losing away in Paris, and it’s not the result that I’m upset about. It’s the eye test. So many times this season I just haven’t liked how we’ve looked, irrespective of the scoreline. The results have generally been fine but there’s just something troubling about watching us. It’s hard to explain, but it just isn’t right, is it?
We’ve gotten away with some below par performances domestically, but in Europe we’re being punished. We’ve been SHITE on our travels. Proper shite. It’s the polar opposite to last season. The thing is, it’s not the idea of going out in the group stages that bothers me, it’s having to go into the Danny Welbeck Cup. Fuck that noise.
Thursday Nov 29:
That picture of the asylum seekers and the coach load of Reds has made my day. It’s just so heartwarming, and funny too. Had those two lads stowed away on the coach of another group of fans (Chelsea, Burnley or Stoke for example) it could have trouble, but they touched lucky with a load of young scouse lads, who looked like they were absolutely buzzing off the whole thing and made a real fuss of them. Love it.
Also today, Carra says he spoke to Shaqiri after the game last night and told him how important it was to win the derby. No-one loves a derby more than Carra, he’s probably the only Red I know who’s as obsessed with this game as the Blues are. It’s hilarious that he’s pulling players over and telling them they “have to beat Everton”.
Saw this on newsnow. “James Milner is not a central midfielder” blasts Dean Saunders. *sigh* “Dean Saunders is not a credible pundit” blasts Dave Usher. I liked him as a player but as a pundit he’s king of the hot take. It’s a scary thought that someone actually interviewed him and then gave him a job as a manager. You only need to listen to him for two minutes to know he’s got some seriously fucking weird views on footy.
Meanwhile, Robbie Keane is retiring from football. Dream move for him, he was a big fan of retirement as a kid apparently.
Friday Nov 30:
LFC Twitter is in meltdown because Klopp said he doesn’t see anything wrong with our midfield. Couple of things here. Firstly, even if he did think the midfield was a problem, he’s hardly going to say it and undermine his players in a room full of journalists. He’s not Mourinho.
Secondly, the question apparently referenced teams running through our midfield, so he rightly pointed out that we’ve only conceded 5 goals in 13 league games so that’s bollocks. The midfield has been shite in Europe though, as have the forwards. And the defence hasn’t been great either come to think of it.
Andy Robbo was helping out at a local food bank again. He’s done this before but it was more low key than this, as the club decided to send cameras and made a big thing of this one, while appealing to fans to contribute to the food banks at Anfield for this Sunday. Something about this really doesn’t sit right with me.
On the surface, it looks good. The club giving exposure to a worthy cause and that. Yet they are handing over 250k to a millionaire Premier League exec while urging us to help stock the food banks. This is a multi million pound company who pays its manager £6m a year and most of the players similar. Yet they wouldn’t pay the living wage to some of their employees.
Fans who are being ripped off on ticket prices to fund all of that are now being asked to dig a little deeper to help those less fortunate. How about you hand over that 250k to the food banks instead of Scudamore, and then you can appeal to our good nature. I dunno, I’m probably not expressing myself well here, but I just feel like they’ve got a fucking cheek. Maybe it’s just me.
That was the week that was….
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