A Few Thoughts from the Match: Leicester City 2 Liverpool 3

[jimmycase]

Clemence deffo the best we've had. Ray had it all, remember the ref roger taylor once applauding and mouthing 'good save' to him after he made a brilliant reflex save against Burnley at Anfield. Fuck me, the world would go in meltdown if a ref did that today.

 

Then Id go Brucie. Very athletic, made some mistakes so would get panned today. Reina was good for his first 2 to 3 years, made his fair share sof mistakes too. Tommy Lawrence doesnt get the recognition he deserves either. You dont play as Liverpool's keeper for years winning 2 league titles and an FA Cup for nothing.

[stringvest]

The only thing Clemence couldn't do was kick straight.  The number of long goal kicks that would find touch would have Jonny Wikinson envious.  

[Red74]

There seems to be some sort of link between us having our last great keeper and us last winning the league.

 

Good job we're a club and fan base who've stuck to the ideals of what led to our dominance (and it was dominance) of this league and Europe. I'd hate it if we ever got to the stage where failure is seen as success.

[Chip Butty]

The only thing Clemence couldn't do was kick straight.  The number of long goal kicks that would find touch would have Jonny Wikinson envious.  

 

Evidently there was a competition between him and Zico on who could curl the better looking ball into the Kemlyn road and sparko any un-alert fan. 

[Jockey]

Man City won two league titles with Joe Hart. I'm better than him.

[Trumo]

The only thing Clemence couldn't do was kick straight.  The number of long goal kicks that would find touch would have Jonny Wikinson envious.  

 

There's a Bob Paisley anecdote about Clemence's goal kicks. Apparently, when it was a bit windy, Clemence used to look up at the flags atop the Kemlyn before taking goal kicks. Paisley noticed and thought Clemence was over-thinking things and becoming anxious. So before the next home game, Paisley asked for the flags to be removed from the flagpoles. With that frame of reference gone, Clemence's goal kicks improved immeasurably. I'm not sure if the anecdote is 100% right but that's the gist of it.

[Brownie]

Reina was one of the top three keepers in the league for a few years.

 

He's still better than all of our keepers now.

Is he shite.

 

Reina was boss for a few years but he was a complete liability by the end.

[suzy]

There's a Bob Paisley anecdote about Clemence's goal kicks. Apparently, when it was a bit windy, Clemence used to look up at the flags atop the Kemlyn before taking goal kicks. Paisley noticed and thought Clemence was over-thinking things and becoming anxious. So before the next home game, Paisley asked for the flags to be removed from the flagpoles. With that frame of reference gone, Clemence's goal kicks improved immeasurably. I'm not sure if the anecdote is 100% right but that's the gist of it.

Great story! I'd love that to be true. Clemence was the best -Paisley wasn't bad either!

[jimmycase]

There's a Bob Paisley anecdote about Clemence's goal kicks. Apparently, when it was a bit windy, Clemence used to look up at the flags atop the Kemlyn before taking goal kicks. Paisley noticed and thought Clemence was over-thinking things and becoming anxious. So before the next home game, Paisley asked for the flags to be removed from the flagpoles. With that frame of reference gone, Clemence's goal kicks improved immeasurably. I'm not sure if the anecdote is 100% right but that's the gist of it.

 

Hehe. It was because Ray was a left footed kicker but dropped the ball from his right hand so he was always kicking across the ball. Most keepers are right handed, right foot kickers but nowadays, most keepers will throw the ball in front of them and kick it dead from the ground. They dont 'drop' kick it as often as Ray's time due to the back pass rule and not allowed to pick it up from a teammate.

[dave u]

100% on the officials?

 

Do you think they score if we have Neuer in goal? Really? Oblak? De Gea? Courtois? 

 

He is a soft, nervy, timid keeper that doesn't even command the six yard box, let alone the 18 yard box. If he's too short, or too weak, then they are further reasons to fuck him off.

 

It just happens too much.

 

Obviously, he isn't helped by having a steaming heap of shite infront of him, but then they could argue the same about him. 

 

Him, Lovren and Moreno weren't good enough three years and yet they're still fixtures in the team. We aren't winning anything with these clowns.

 

No question about it, they aren't getting that ball either with Okazaki hanging off their left arm.

 

The rest of your post is all worthy of discussion, but blaming Mignolet for that first goal is just daft in my opinion.

[Ipplfc]

Point 4 hahahaha

My point. In truth we haven't got one decent fuckn defender at the club

[3 Stacks]

Gomez has potential but I'd rather see him get games at CB than right back.

 

I think he's been absolutely dreadful, both at right back and in the centre. That said, there are only a handful of central defenders per generation that look even decent at 20 years old, so I'm not super bothered.

 

He does seem like he has the raw ability at least, unlike someone like Flanagan

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Another thing worth noting, Leicester's first shouldn't have stood of course, but it's just as well Okazaki scored it as Mignolet would certainly have been red carded for holding him back.

In fairness, by that point he probably just assumed that holding is allowed now.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

No question about it, they aren't getting that ball either with Okazaki hanging off their left arm.

 

The rest of your post is all worthy of discussion, but blaming Mignolet for that first goal is just daft in my opinion.

I'm not sure I'd blame Mignolet for Vardy being left completely unmarked 8 yards oit either.

[Jairzinho]

Is he shite.

 

Reina was boss for a few years but he was a complete liability by the end.

Have you actually watched him play since leaving us?

[Brownie]

Have you actually watched him play since leaving us?

Yes, not as regularly as when he was here though, obviously.

 

If we took that approach to other players we’ve sold we’d end up buying a few back. What matters most is what they do in a red shirt, or in Pepe’s case, a green shirt.

 

He was woeful towards the end.

[VladimirIlyich]

Have you actually watched him play since leaving us?

Napoli are top of Serie A after about 6 games with Reina in goal. I can only assume he's doing something right.

[Jairzinho]

Napoli are top of Serie A after about 6 games with Reina in goal. I can only assume he's doing something right.

 

He's not as good as he was here during his three or four really good years, but he's still considerably better than Mignolet and Karius.

[Jockey]

Reina may be better than both - but, he was terrible in his last season here (probably more). Pointless argument - the Reina that was sold was not better than Mignolet. 

[Jairzinho]

Sorry for troubling you.

[Jockey]

Sorry for troubling you.

 

It's okay. Just don't do it again! 

[johnsusername]

Vardy is a diving c**t.

 

Salah is THE BUSINESS.

[The Woolster]

Didn't see the game, but it's weird to see some posters state that Mignolet had a fine game, and others state that he had a shocker. This means either (a) a whole bunch of people on here are incredibly biased when it comes to player performances, or ( b  ) a lot of people simply have no idea how to judge player performances. 

 

A lot from column a, a lot from column b

[TheHowieLama]

A lot from column a, a lot from column b

 

Many in both columns.

[Grinch]

I still can't believe anyone is defending Mignolet's performance at the weekend.  It was up there with the worst of David James's performances.