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That was the week that was (Oct 5-11 2019)

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Saturday Oct 5:

 

L 2 Leicester 1 Footy is mad these days. The last couple of years has completely changed how we perceive results. A draw at home with the third or fourth best team in the country has never been a bad result. It isn’t always a good one, but it's ok. At least it always used to be. Now, any dropped points feels massive so that last gap Milner pen seems bigger than it probably actually is.

 

I don’t think this is how it’s always going to be, but it is how it is right now as a direct result of what City have done over the last couple of seasons. The scars from last year run deep and any point dropped feels like it could be decisive, which is ridiculous when you think about it as we're not going to win all 38 games (although going into the season I thought we might need to win 34 to improve on 2nd place).

 

For all we know City might not get anywhere near 100 points this season though, and if that’s the case then as fans we can chill out a bit because this feeling of “needing to win” every single game is fucking exhausting.

 

Last season was great because we won number six but the stress of that title challenge was brutal because there’s just no margin for error. It’s probably helped us though, because we’ve had a few games this season where we could have dropped points but didn’t. This is the closest call we’ve had so far but Chelsea and Sheff United weren’t exactly comfortable either. 

 

The lads know how to get it done though. Getting a penalty so late on is a bit fortunate (although it was a pen) but not when you look at the last ten minutes as a whole. After conceding, we regrouped and then piled on the pressure. The win was fully deserved. Brendan was talking some bollocks about them deserving a draw but they had two chances in 90 minutes and I’m fairly sure one of them was offside. We could have scored five.

 

Klopp was made up with how the team played and you can tell he thinks a lot more of Leicester than most fans seem to. He says they’ll finish in the top four. Not sure I’d lock them in for it but they defo have a chance because there are big question marks over everyone other than us and City. 

 

Also today, the u18s came from a goal down to win 6-1 at Everton. These games always make me laugh because when Everton score their players go absolutely fucking nuts. Completely over the top in their celebrations because it’s just ingrained into everyone at that club to hate the redshite. I’ve been to loads of these games and it’s always the same when they score. Same thing happened here, but then the young Reds just slapped them around and humiliated them.

 

I like this team, especially the midfield. Cain and Clarkson are a joy to watch, two proper cultured little footballers, and I like the look of James Norris too. 

 

Sunday Oct 6:

 

City lose, United lose and Everton are in the bottom three. Fucking hell, what a day. It’s hard to comprehend that we’re eight points ahead after only eight games. City have lost two and drawn one, which isn’t great (and is almost a crisis by their standards) but in the past would have normally seen them only a point or two off the top. As I said though, the bar has been raised. This time by us. Now they know how we felt last season, the pricks.

 

They’ll get themselves back on track eventually but these problems they have aren’t going to be fixed in the next few weeks and there’s a chance for us to extend this lead and virtually make ourselves uncatchable. City will drop more points between now and Christmas, so the key is for us to make sure we drop less then them and then see where we are in January.

 

The rest of the country all seem to be saying the title race is over and the only ones not saying it are Reds. Yet if this goes tits up you just know we’ll get mocked with “them deluded scousers thought they’d won it”. No-one I know thinks we’ve won it, how could we ever be that cocky and presumptuous when we haven’t won the league for so long? Maybe if we’d been enjoying a run like we had in the 80s we’d be full of that type of bravado, but that’s not the case.

 

I’m not prepared to say we’ve got this in the bag but to be honest if I supported someone else I’d probably be looking at how good Liverpool are these days (and how wobbly City look) and I’d be thinking that it’s over. It’s only our own fears and insecurity stopping us thinking like that, but that's not a bad thing.

 

Meanwhile, there was a weird line up for the 23s today. They won 3-2 against Wigan, but half the players you’d expect to play weren’t there. Surprisingly, Harvey Elliot did play though, and Yasser Larouci played centre forward. Dixon-Bonner scored twice and Tom Hill got the other.

 

Joe Gerhart played for Wigan. He’s the 17 year old scouser we’ve been linked with. He looked class and scored twice. He looks like a better version of Bobby Duncan. Hopefully he’s less of a knobhead. To be fair it would be tough to be more of one.

 

So there’s some talk that the FA are going to look into the incident at full time yesterday when that loser Ayoze Perez lost his shit and went for Robbo. Jeez, that’s the very definition of ‘nothing to see here, move along’. There’s no way anything will come of that as Robbo didn’t do anything and as much as I can’t stand that giraffe necked twat Ayoze, he didn’t really do much either.

 

Monday Oct 7:

 

Ben Woodburn broke his foot and will be out for three months. He’s been doing quite well at Oxford apparently, but this is just in keeping with how the last two or three years have gone for the kid. It's sad, but his career might have peaked at 17 with a goal in front of the Kop in the League Cup.

 

In other news today, it’s emerged that Barca haven’t paid us for Coutinho, although we have had all the money. It’s complicated, but from what I can tell either we sold the debt to a bank so we got our money (and Barca owe the bank), or Barca borrowed the money to pay us and now they need to pay it back. The gist is that they’ve got an £80m bill for a lad who is now playing for Bayern Munich. This is great, it’s made my day. Absolute fucking 'more than a club' wankers.

 

Tuesday Oct 8:

 

Four years to the day that Klopp arrived. It’s really not long in the grand scheme of things and it's hard to believe the incredible progress we’ve made, especially considering the disappointment we had along the way. Remember when we kept losing finals and some of us (like me) believed we were cursed? It felt at times like we’d never win anything again, but you can’t keep Klopp down and that resilience has proved infectious as his players never give up. 

 

The last two years have been sensational. It started with Salah arriving and us suddenly scoring four or five goals every other week, and then Virgil came in to shore things up at the other end. Since then, two Champions League finals, the highest points tally in our history and who knows what this season will bring. 

 

It’s amazing when you go back to Klopp’s first press conference and revisit the things he said. He’s made good on everything and he’s done it in the exact timescale he said (four years). Doubters are now believers, we’re the Champions of Europe and we’re contending for the title. This is what we hoped we’d get when he arrived, but the fact he’s done it and not needed to be bankrolled by oil money is just remarkable.

 

He’s the best manager in the world and by the time he leaves he’s going to have a place alongside Shanks, Bob and Kenny on the LFC Mount Rushmore.

 

Wednesday Oct 9:

 

Messi reveals he almost left Barca in 2014 because he wanted to leave Spain due to ‘the tax thing’. Yeah, can’t blame him. Cheeky bastards making him pay tax just like everybody else. Do they not know who he is? The older he’s got the less likeable he’s become. 

 

At least Ronaldo has always been an arrogant twat and never really pretended to be anything else. Messi and Ronaldo are the living embodiment of the clubs they are most associated with. Barca are as odious as Madrid but have always had this pretence that they’re the good guys, whereas Madrid have never really given a shit what people thought of them as long as they were successful.

 

Thursday Oct 10:

 

Bobby scores for Brazil in a 1-1 draw with Senegal, but Sadio stole the show with a dazzling display, running Dani Alves and Marquinhos ragged on Brazil’s right flank. He’s really cranked it up a notch since the turn of the year hasn’t he? Fabregas was tweeting last week that he’s one of the three best players in the world and Messi voted him as number one in his Balon d’Or selection. 

 

I wouldn’t argue too strongly against that as they might be right, but equally I’m not even sure he’s one of the three best players in our squad. He plays in a role that gets more recognition, but Alisson, Virgil and Robbo are all the best in the world in their respective positions, while Bobby remains massively under-rated by the wider football world. 

 

Sadio is brilliant though, no question about it. When was the last time we had so many players who were right up there with the very best in the world at what they do? Never. Rafa’s 2008/09 team had a fair few, but not this many.

 

Meanwhile, Rodri says City are teaching him how to commit tactical fouls properly. Brilliant this, as Guardiola is always at pains to deny that he instructs his players to do this. Presumably by properly they mean without getting booked, like he was on Sunday? He also said that Liverpool are the best team in England and in Europe and that we’re the team everyone wants to beat. 

 

Cue a load of paranoid Reds calling it mind games. It’s not, it’s the truth. Klopp continually calling City the nest in the world is mind games because it's not true. We don’t really want to admit it to ourselves because nobody wants to tempt fate and rightly so, but forget who you support for a sec and look at the facts. Over the last 46 league games we’re seven points better than City and we’ve won a European Cup. So what part of Rodri saying we’re ‘currently’ the best isn’t true? It doesn’t mean we’ll still be the best by the time we reach May, but as of now what he said is 100% accurate.

 

Friday Oct 11:

 

Harvey Elliott is banned for two weeks because of his Harry Kane impression on social media. Some of the reasons used in his defence were fair enough. His age being and the immediate contrition he showed being two obvious ones. There was one thing that cracked me up though. “It was not aimed directly at Harry Kane”. Hahaha you fucking what? The exact quote was “Lmllmlmlm I’m Harry Kane and I’m a fucking mong”. In what way is that NOT aimed at him? Because he wasn’t tagged in? Amazing scenes.

 

I'm ok with the ban as it's more of a token punishment and probably deserved, but it's a bit rich when City's players were carrying on the way they did on the plane last season and nothing was done about it. Not to mention the Palace keeper getting away with doing a Nazi salute. Still, two weeks is nothing and the main thing is he can play in the League Cup.

 

Just browsing through NewsNow to see if there’s any other stories I can use for today. One headline is for an article titled “there reasons why Liverpool should avoid James Maddison transfer”. No need to click on that, those reasons are obvious. 1. His haircut 2. His face 3. The price. If you want you could also throw in the constant diving.

 

Finally, England played tonight. I know this because I saw posts on social media of their fans acting like knobs. They lost. I know this because I saw that Henderson was trending and that only happens during England games if they haven’t played well and they need a scapegoat.

 

Turns out they lost to the Czechs, which is great because it saddens me how shit the Czechs have become since their mid 90s heyday.

 

I also read that Sterling won a penalty in much the same way as Mané did last week but the reaction to that one was completely different for some reason. “Used his professionalism” “felt the contact and went down”. Be interesting to hear Shearer’s take on it given the hypocritical bollocks he came out with last week.

 

Tell you what’s hilarious though - England’s back five. Pickford, Trippier, Keane, Maguire and Rose. Fucking hell, that’s grim. I quite like Trippier, he’s a good full back but he’s not fit to lace Trent’s boots and the others are fucking garbage. It’s mad that Keane is even in the squad, let alone the team. Even Everton fans will tell you that their defence is fucking woeful, yet Southgate is picking their keeper and centre half. Keep up the good work, Gareth.

 

....and that was the week that was

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I did like Maddison's tweet to the S*n the other day in his defence. 

 

Also, Southgate is a joke. I couldn't give a fuck about England but that back 4 would look ok if he played Trent, Gomez and Chillwell. 

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4 hours ago, tlw content said:

Klopp continually calling City the nest in the world is mind games because it's not true. 

Eggzactly. Did he say it in a tweet? 

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11 hours ago, DaveTucker said:

I did like Maddison's tweet to the S*n the other day in his defence. 

 

Also, Southgate is a joke. I couldn't give a fuck about England but that back 4 would look ok if he played Trent, Gomez and Chillwell. 

I think we will see some if not all of them tomorrow night 

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