Had they gotten anything from this it would have been a travesty of epic proportions. The absolute shower of cunts. In all my years of going to Anfield I’ve never seen anything like this. And that’s quite the statement when you consider that I’ve seen Mourinho’s Chelsea, Simeone’s Atletico Madrid and Lampard’s Everton. What Newcastle did took it beyond anything I’ve seen before, so for them to lose the way they did was as big a display of football karma as you’ll find.
I read today that the time we won the corner that led to the winner came at exactly the same number of seconds over the stoppage time that Nick Pope wasted by feigning injury. To the exact fucking second. I mean, if that’s true then maybe the football gods intervened on our behalf. No-one wants to see the kind of shit Newcastle pulled in this game.
Well, I say that, but it’s not really true is it? Some people don’t mind it, seemingly. It’s incredible the amount of knobheads trying to justify what they did. It’s even more incredible the amount of knobheads who are complaining that Andre Marriner played over the five recommended minutes of stoppage time.
To deal with the first point. Most of the people spouting nonsense about how “time wasting is part of football” can’t have watched this game and are just making a generic point. We know it’s part of football. We know players feigning injury to take the sting out of a game happens a lot and is generally just accepted for what it is. This wasn’t that though.
This was happening virtually every single time the ball went out of play following one of our attacks. It started happening in the second minute for fucks sake when Pope went down with no-one near him. I knew he was faking it when he took the goal kick immediately after. If you had a genuine problem you’d have someone else take that particular goal kick until you knew you were ok.
And that was just the start, as it continued, repeatedly, over and over and over. Anyone trying to say this was normal just can’t have been watching. It wasn’t normal, it was to an extent that we’ve never seen before.
The reaction of the Anfield crowd was like nothing I can remember towards an opponent. The booing as Newcastle left the pitch was deafening. Has that ever happened before? The crowd were just genuinely fucking disgusted. The fact we won is great because it means no-one can say this is sour grapes now. We didn’t react like that because of the result, we reacted the way we did out of sheer disgust and anger for what Newcastle’s players did throughout that ninety (eight) minutes.
As for Marriner not blowing up when the five minutes were up, there’s a lot to unpack there. Most refs would have done but that doesn’t make Marriner wrong. Far from it. Credit to him for not letting them waste stoppage time the way they’d wasted large chunks of the ninety. He added on the time Pope wasted by faking injury (92 seconds or so I think I read) and he also added on a bit extra for the fucking around with goal kicks and the delaying of our corner when one of their fans threw on a ball they’d been holding onto (to waste time).
So Marriner did his job and anyone criticising him playing over the five minutes simply doesn’t have a fucking clue. Yes Jamie O’Hara, that means you, you thick fuck. Imagine being in a duo where Jason Cundy comes across as the smart one. Fucking hell.
For one thing, the number on the board is “a minimum of” and is not a set in stone number. It’s up to the ref to decide, and when there are stoppages in stoppage time it’s his job to add it on. Marriner did. If he deserves criticism for anything it’s for not getting a grip of what they were up to, but I might be in a minority here because I don’t think it’s his fault.
If you’re a ref and a player goes down claiming to be injured, what do you do? You might be fairly sure they’re taking the piss, but there’s always the chance that one on of those occasions the cunt might actually be hurt, and if as a ref you ignore it then you’re in big trouble. Marriner wasn’t taken in by what they were up to, he didn’t fall for any of it. He just couldn’t really do much about it.
A player would go down, he’d go over to see what was up and then usually he told them to get up. After Joelinton tried it for the seventh time (yes, I was counting) Marriner just ignored him and played on. He could have done that earlier, but I understand why he didn't. It's also worth mentioning that he wasn’t calling for the physio to come on every five minutes, he was telling them to get on with it. The problem is that every time it happened, it killed our momentum and got everyone riled up. It’s so hard to build up a head of steam when this is constantly happening, but Andre Marriner isn’t the villain here. That cunt Eddie Howe is.
He should be the one getting pelters for this. No-one else. As much of a disgrace as Joelinton was, he’s only doing what his manager is telling him to do. Same with that goofy cunt Pope and all the other dopes who kept doing it. This is Eddie Howe’s responsibility, but no-one says shit about him because he’s English and has a reputation for being Mr Nice Guy. He used to be, then he took a job with the Saudi's. He’s a cunt. Fuck Eddie Howe. Fucking Evertonian prick.
It’s so satisfying being able to write all this knowing that we won the game. Imagine how we’d be feeling after this if they’d shithoused their way to a result. My rage would be off the fucking scale. It’s bad enough now even though we took the points. I’m still genuinely angry about it.
It’s probably a good thing in one sense, because it’s deflecting away from the concerns I have about how we’re playing. I suppose I need to address that now because I can’t keep ranting about Not so Nice Guy Eddie and his shower of twats.
We’re got issues. We knew this after we lost at Old Trafford. The 9-0 over Bournemouth might have convinced some that we were back on track but I said I needed to see more and that Newcastle would be a much better test of where we’re at. Well the answer is that we’re still very much in the same kind of form we saw in th opening three games. We’re not playing well.
That being said, we were good in spells in this game and you can’t fault the way the lads kept going and won this through sheer force of will really. That’s a positive, as is how we played for much of the second half.
I didn’t like the first half at all. The start was ok but it fizzled out after 10 minutes and then we fell behind to a goal we should not be conceding. Great finish by Isak who looked very dangerous in the limited opportunity he had to shine. I’m just glad Saint Maximin wasn’t fit to play because I don’t think we’d have won this game if we’d have both of them to deal with.
All the shenanigans aside, just from a football point of view I think Newcastle did pretty well and maybe if they’d concentrated more on trying to play instead of wasting time they might have fared better. They defended us pretty comfortably and looked a threat when they tried to attack. They should have backed themselves and tried to win the game instead of doing what they did.
For one horrible moment it looked as though they’d gone 2-0 up. Isak ran clear and completely bamboozled Robbo before lashing into the top corner. Brilliant finish, but the flag went up immediately. I had a good view of that though and wasn’t convinced it was offside. You could tell it was really close so we had to sweat while VAR checked. Thankfully it went out way, because we weren’t coming back from 2-0 down.
We had struggled to break them down all night up to that point. We had some isolated moments where we threatened but mostly it was too slow, too predictable, and too easy for them to defend. We weren’t getting Mo the ball in any kind of dangerous positions. It was all into his feet rather than in space for him to run in behind. He got no change whatever out of Targett or Burn. On the other side Diaz wasn’t faring much better although he did have the best chance of the half when Bobby’s slide rule pass put him in but he shot over.
Bobby had some good contributions when he was able to find space between the lines and get turned. That’s where we need to see him. Not coming too deep and picking the ball up in areas where if he loses it we’re in trouble. That still happened a few times but overall this was another good showing from him.
He scored too. Nice finish it was, but when you see that move and how easy we made it look, it just makes it all the more frustrating that we weren’t able to do it more often. Fabinho beat their press and found Harvey in space (he was brilliant at finding little pockets all night and getting himself turned and running at them) and for one of the few times all night w were then able to get a ball in behind for Mo to itch onto. He got there ahead of the defender and rolled it back to Bobby who did the rest. Game on again now.
I’ll be honest, at half time I didn’t think we’d come back. It really had a bad feeling about it and the confidence I usually have in us coming back just wasn’t there. When we equalised though that changed everything and I was convinced we’d go on to win. We had started to build up a head of stem and in the five or so minutes before Bobby’s goal we had looked dangerous.
Now we were flying. The crowd were into it, the players suddenly found another gear and you could smell the second goal coming. And then Newcastle just kept stopping the game. Killing our momentum. Taking the crowd out of it. Everyone was just so fucking frustrated by it and while we still continued putting some decent moves together, it’s just so hard when you can’t find any flow because of all the stoppages.
It felt like the goal was not going to come but I do have to say that Klopp’s changes made a difference. Kostas replaced Robbo, Carvalho came on for Hendo and Trent made way for Milner. Robbo’s performance was ok, Hendo was meh and Trent was poor. Not sure what’s happening with him at the moment but I suspect it’s fitness related. He seems leggy, but then he’s not alone. Fabinho isn’t himself yet either for example.
The subs all gave us something though and that midfield three of Fabinho, Carvalho and Elliott may well be a glimpse into the not so distant future. Harvey is going to have a spot nailed down by the end of the season the way he’s going, and while we don’t know what position his mate is going to settle into yet, he’s looked good wherever he’s played, including midfield.
Those two kids are really special talents. Harvey does things that most players can’t. Not glaringly obvious things, it’s more subtle little things. Little movements, the way he releases a pass at exactly the right moment or the way he’ll manoeuvre the position of the ball to give himself a better angle. His body shape when he receives the ball too. Just little things but they all scream out “world class”. He could be really fucking good. Only thing lacking is pace.
We were really pushing for the winner but the shooting chances were falling to the wrong players. Fabinho had a couple of strikes and even Gomez tried his luck from the edge of the box with a ridiculously ambitious scissor volley. Don’t ever do that again, Joe.
It looked like our last chance had gone when Pope claimed a high ball and then hit the deck for 90 seconds. We’d done that far too often, it looked like catching practice for him at times as we put up stupid little floaty crosses that he gobbled up. Our set-pieces hadn’t threatened all night either as a Newcastle head got on the end of everything.
Sometimes Virgil wasn’t attacking the ball, he was lurking on the edge of the box just to keep that nine foot cunt Dan Burn out of the mix. We never looked like scoring from a corner all night until we did. At the perfect time.
Tell you what though, Mo deserves all the credit in the world for that way he fought for those headers and prevented Newcastle from being able to clear it. Great stuff from him and then a sharp finish from Carvalho that sent Anfield wild. And I mean wild. That goal celebration was right up with anything I can remember.
Part relief, because the poor start we’ve made had been about to get worse. Part elation just because its a last gasp winner and they’re always great. But mostly just because of the “fucking have that you cunts” element to it.
Our bench reflected the mood around the ground. Look at the reactions. In among the joyous celebrations you’ve also got some just letting the Newcastle bench have it. Nunez stood on his seat screaming “FUCK YOU” at their bench was great. One of the twats had thrown a bottle at our bench when the goal went in. He needs charging for that shit.
Others were kicking off too and you can see little Vitor having to be dragged away by Ray Haughan. Then you’ve got Kornmayor just “shoo’ing” them away, which was hilarious. Thiago is front and centre giving it loads too. Then there’s Carvalho sitting down and stretching his legs as though he’s got cramp. It’s just great. The whole thing is fucking boss and I can’t enough of it.
It was a great moment that we should enjoy, but it shouldn’t detract from the obvious fact that we’ve still got some way to go until we’re us again. What we saw in this game was probably just a taster for what Lampard, Pickford and Coady have in store for us this weekend. I dread to think what shit they’ll be pulling, but we need to score first to nullify it.
Get the first goal and we’ll win that game easily. Don’t get it and we’re in for another long, uncomfortable, infuriating game.
Nunez is back though so that’s good. Hopefully he’ll be on the bench, because that’s where he belongs currently. He looked great as a sub and shite when he started. He’s missed three games for his stupidity and in the last couple Bobby has looked like he’s coming into some form. So to me it’s a no brainer that you start with Bobby on Saturday and then use Nunez after an hour.
Hendo is probably going to miss it which is a blow as he’s usually fucking immense against Everton. I’d expect Milner to probably get the nod but maybe Curtis gets a chance now he’s fit again. Milner is the logical one but personally I like the comfort blanket of having him on the bench.
We need to beat those fucking bums this weekend. First and foremost to get ourselves up the table, but also because I can’t cope with the possibility that we might give them some points that might prove crucial to them come the end of the season. Come on Reds, fucking flush these turds.
Star man is Harvey. Easy decision.
Team: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold (Milner), Gomez, Van Dijk, Robertson (Kostas); Fabinho, Ellliott, Henderson (Carvalho); Salah, Firmino, Diaz:
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