Watford (H) - Sat 2nd Apr 2022 (12:30pm)

[Trumo]

The return after the international break sees Watford visit for a lunchtime kick-off. The game earlier in the season was also a Saturday lunchtime kick-off after an international break, and we didn’t fare too badly in that one. Of course, Watford had again replaced their manager (a running theme with the clubs involved in the Z-Cars derby) and were hoping for a new manager bounce. Claudio Ranieri’s team never got going, and Danny Rose at left back put in one of the worst displays I’ve seen by a professional footballer. I’m not sure he’s even played since that game. Maybe the managers (plural) after Ranieri just didn’t fancy him. They’ve got Hodgson in the hotseat now, and of course he’s someone who has worked for their owners before, as he had a stint as Udinese coach in 2001. Anyway:

 

Moxie. Accuracy. Strength. Skill. Intelligence. Verve. Electricity. Work-rate. Audacity. Style. Power. Shooting boots.

 

I don’t ask for much.

 

As I said above, the game earlier in the season was one of our most dominant displays of the season. We completely wiped the floor with them, with Sadio getting the opener after a brilliant pass from Mo. Bobby bagged himself a hat-trick of tap-ins, and Mo got in on the act with a goal of the season contender every bit as thrilling as the sheer genius he’d produced against Man City just a couple of weeks earlier. Watford had only just bounced back from The Championship, and looked like a team several levels below Liverpool.

 

The last times the sides met at Anfield was in December 2019 in our last fixture before the squad jetted off to Qatar for the Club World Cup. It wasn’t a vintage performance but we bagged the 3 points thanks to goals in each half from Mo to secure a 2-0 win.

 

The first week of September 1985 saw the sides meet at Anfield and, despite an early goal from Watford’s Colin West, Liverpool ran out comfortable 3-1 winners thanks to a penalty equaliser from Neal and further goals from Skippy and Rushie. The Watford side that day contained a future Liverpool legend, but Barnesy could do nothing to stem the Red tide. Liverpool were quite inconsistent under Kenny who had taken a player-manager role after Joe Fagan had relinquished it in tragic circumstances following Heysel. That image of Joe stepping off the plane says a million words, as a jovial man who had served the game and the club with distinction, and who’d looked at the game as something to be enjoyed, was broken by the harrowing events of that night in Belgium where hooligans ran amok. Later in the season when Kenny picked himself, the team recovered its previous strength and would go on to claim a league and cup double. Better Liverpool sides than that one had not managed that feat. For all the success of later years, none have managed it since. This Watford game took place during a period when the Football League and the TV companies were at loggerheads, and there was no televised football. Here’s a match report.

 

 

September 1985 saw the year’s biggest box office draw suitably atop the box office. The year 1985 itself is of significance too. Back to the Future is simply one of the greatest films of the decade, with a cracking concept delivered in the most entertaining way possible. For me it is still Robert Zemeckis’ best film as a director, and turned TV sitcom star Michael J. Fox into a movie star. And to think it was Eric Stoltz that was initially cast as Marty McFly. It didn’t work and he was replaced. It packs in so much humour as McFly tries to find a way back to his own time from 1955 while having to make sure that his future parents actually get together. His mother Lorraine (Lea Thompson) is a flirty and slightly rebellious all-American girl who clearly has a crush on Marty, and his father is the weedy George (Crispin Glover) who can never stand up to the incessant bullying of Biff (Thomas F. Wilson), nor muster up the courage to ask Lorraine out. The film brought Christopher Lloyd mainstream success as the eccentric Doctor Emmett Brown who delivered a time machine using a flux capacitor, calculating the optimal speed as 88mph, and harnessing the power of 1.21 gigawatts of electricity to punch a hole in time. The film also turned the DeLorean into popular poster art, and played about with the origins of Chuck Berry’s ‘Johnny B. Goode’. Fucking great film.

 

 

The game against Watford is a chance for us to claim top spot in the league, at least prior to City’s game, and means we could possibly go into the match against City the following weekend in a great position. First things first though, and the focus, attitude and application must all be right for the Watford game, whatever side Klopp puts out. The media will want to portray the game as some sort of statement to ramp up the hype for the City game. We just need to make it about the 3 points and nothing more. That’s the mentality for all our league games. Let the fans ponder the permutations and think ahead.

[an tha]

Hopefully this international shite that is going on at moment won't fuck us up too much for this and we can put out our strongest team and get some rhythm going at the start of what is going to be an incredible run of massive games.

 

A fucking international shite break just ahead of the climax of the season - fucking clowns.

[Creator Supreme]

0-3 (Owl, Faced, Twat)

[Harry's Lad]

Get in there and hammer them, up the goal difference and show the old cunt exactly what a formidable opponent looks like.

[Fowlers God]

1-0/ 8-2 or 12-0

 

dont care just bring home the 3 points

[Pete]

Twat 'em. 3 points. Move on. 

[Bjornebye]

Not particularly fond of Watford either way. Can’t stand the owl. This however is the only game I want them to lose for the rest of the season. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

In the spirit of Brecht's Der Kaukasiche Kreidekreis, the points should go to whoever will make best use of them. Watford are probably fucked, whatever happens at the weekend, but those points could serve us well in toppling the oil cheats. Natural justice demands that we win.

 

Just get these beat, Reds.

[diamondjoe]

Just fucking launch it!!

[Bjornebye]

On 27/03/2022 at 23:09, Trumo said:

The return after the international break sees Watford visit for a lunchtime kick-off. The game earlier in the season was also a Saturday lunchtime kick-off after an international break, and we didn’t fare too badly in that one. Of course, Watford had again replaced their manager (a running theme with the clubs involved in the Z-Cars derby) and were hoping for a new manager bounce. Claudio Ranieri’s team never got going, and Danny Rose at left back put in one of the worst displays I’ve seen by a professional footballer. I’m not sure he’s even played since that game. Maybe the managers (plural) after Ranieri just didn’t fancy him. They’ve got Hodgson in the hotseat now, and of course he’s someone who has worked for their owners before, as he had a stint as Udinese coach in 2001. Anyway:

 

Moxie. Accuracy. Strength. Skill. Intelligence. Verve. Electricity. Work-rate. Audacity. Style. Power. Shooting boots.

 

I don’t ask for much.

 

As I said above, the game earlier in the season was one of our most dominant displays of the season. We completely wiped the floor with them, with Sadio getting the opener after a brilliant pass from Mo. Bobby bagged himself a hat-trick of tap-ins, and Mo got in on the act with a goal of the season contender every bit as thrilling as the sheer genius he’d produced against Man City just a couple of weeks earlier. Watford had only just bounced back from The Championship, and looked like a team several levels below Liverpool.

 

The last times the sides met at Anfield was in December 2019 in our last fixture before the squad jetted off to Qatar for the Club World Cup. It wasn’t a vintage performance but we bagged the 3 points thanks to goals in each half from Mo to secure a 2-0 win.

 

The first week of September 1985 saw the sides meet at Anfield and, despite an early goal from Watford’s Colin West, Liverpool ran out comfortable 3-1 winners thanks to a penalty equaliser from Neal and further goals from Skippy and Rushie. The Watford side that day contained a future Liverpool legend, but Barnesy could do nothing to stem the Red tide. Liverpool were quite inconsistent under Kenny who had taken a player-manager role after Joe Fagan had relinquished it in tragic circumstances following Heysel. That image of Joe stepping off the plane says a million words, as a jovial man who had served the game and the club with distinction, and who’d looked at the game as something to be enjoyed, was broken by the harrowing events of that night in Belgium where hooligans ran amok. Later in the season when Kenny picked himself, the team recovered its previous strength and would go on to claim a league and cup double. Better Liverpool sides than that one had not managed that feat. For all the success of later years, none have managed it since. This Watford game took place during a period when the Football League and the TV companies were at loggerheads, and there was no televised football. Here’s a match report.

 

 

September 1985 saw the year’s biggest box office draw suitably atop the box office. The year 1985 itself is of significance too. Back to the Future is simply one of the greatest films of the decade, with a cracking concept delivered in the most entertaining way possible. For me it is still Robert Zemeckis’ best film as a director, and turned TV sitcom star Michael J. Fox into a movie star. And to think it was Eric Stoltz that was initially cast as Marty McFly. It didn’t work and he was replaced. It packs in so much humour as McFly tries to find a way back to his own time from 1955 while having to make sure that his future parents actually get together. His mother Lorraine (Lea Thompson) is a flirty and slightly rebellious all-American girl who clearly has a crush on Marty, and his father is the weedy George (Crispin Glover) who can never stand up to the incessant bullying of Biff (Thomas F. Wilson), nor muster up the courage to ask Lorraine out. The film brought Christopher Lloyd mainstream success as the eccentric Doctor Emmett Brown who delivered a time machine using a flux capacitor, calculating the optimal speed as 88mph, and harnessing the power of 1.21 gigawatts of electricity to punch a hole in time. The film also turned the DeLorean into popular poster art, and played about with the origins of Chuck Berry’s ‘Johnny B. Goode’. Fucking great film.

 

 

The game against Watford is a chance for us to claim top spot in the league, at least prior to City’s game, and means we could possibly go into the match against City the following weekend in a great position. First things first though, and the focus, attitude and application must all be right for the Watford game, whatever side Klopp puts out. The media will want to portray the game as some sort of statement to ramp up the hype for the City game. We just need to make it about the 3 points and nothing more. That’s the mentality for all our league games. Let the fans ponder the permutations and think ahead.

 

 

[Reckoner]

Has it really only been a week and a half? God I miss proper football. Can’t wait for this game and for the rest of the season. 

[Bjornebye]

12 minutes ago, Reckoner said:

Has it really only been a week and a half? God I miss proper football. Can’t wait for this game and for the rest of the season. 

Same. Still shitting myself. The next few weeks are huge. 

[Reckoner]

7 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Same. Still shitting myself. The next few weeks are huge. 

I’m bricking it. Can’t even look at the fixture list without getting a head ache.

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, Reckoner said:

I’m bricking it. Can’t even look at the fixture list without getting a head ache.

I know it won't be an easy at all but thank fuck we got Benfica and not Atletico. FUCK THAT. Even Bayern I could cope with in-between the domestic ties but Atletico would drain us completely. 

[an tha]

As stomach churning and nerve shredding as next few weeks are likely (and frankly hopefully will be) it is fucking great to be involved at the sharp end again.

 

 

[manwiththestick]

Every time I stress about the games coming up I think about my family and friends who support Everton and all becomes dandy.

[A_S]

You couldn't ask for a much more ideal fixture to get the team back into a groove before an enormous month. Hopefully Mo unleashes a bit of frustration on these again.  

[Reckoner]

Roy Hodgson pre match presser just in.

 

[Bobby Hundreds]

April... fucking April! 

 

I can't 

[Harry Squatter]

Hopefully Diaz and Salah are angry about not qualifying for the world cup and take it out on Watford.

[TheDrowningMan]

Hodgson is doing all he can to inspire Watford to beat the odds:

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/roy-hodgson-liverpool-watford-23559095

 

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The tables don't lie. The teams at the bottom are there because up to now they've not been able to do well enough to get to the top and the ones at the top are obviously good because that's where they are. So every time you play a team like Liverpool, away from home, you know that the odds are stacked against us and that doesn't matter whether you're just below them in the table or whether you're a long way below them in the table.

 

There's no secret to how good they are or why they're good. The quality of their players, the quality of their work on the field - we know all of those things. All we can do is hope that we're able to produce on the day the sort of performance that will get us a result. Of course we go there very clearly as underdogs.

[A_S]

This game could not start soon enough. This break has seemed like forever!

[Pureblood]

22 minutes ago, A_S said:

This game could not start soon enough. This break has seemed like forever!

Luckily there has been some light relief on the GF.

[Bruce Spanner]

20 hours ago, Reckoner said:

I’m bricking it. Can’t even look at the fixture list without getting a hard on

 

Yup, me too!

 

If you're bricking it this late in the season, and on so many fronts, it means we're fucking good, bring on any of these chumps.

[dockers_strike]

Looking forward to this because I thought I might have to miss it and, it seems an age since I was at Anfield. I love the place and after all this time, just walking into the stadium makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, then some more singing YNWA.

 

There are few games I get nervous or apprehensive about. It's mainly European games because the oppos arent our usual ones.

 

Bring it on. Our destiny beckons us.