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I was one of the lucky 2000 last night, my name came out of the ballot. It was a special night on so many levels. I have done very little since March, I have taken lockdown and COVID-19 very, very seriously. Not only for me, but because I'm not a selfish prick and I have my mum to think of, who has incurable (but not terminal) cancer. I have spent much of the last 9 months welded to the couch in my front room working from home. The last time I did anything of note, apart from a walk around Lincoln in September when visiting a friend, was go to Anfield for the Atletico Madrid game. it was my first game as a season ticket holder in my own name for me - I've had a season ticket for 15 years but it was always in dad's name. I took advantage of the amnesty this summer to get it changed over to me once and for all. So to finally get the chance to go again after long 9 months was a huge lift for me. I was actually feeling really nervous beforehand, not the usual excitement, but when I got to the ground it was fine. The club laid on free parking so I parked on the official car park at Vernon Sangster. There was a walkway up to the ground from there where you were corralled through to the main stand. Firstly, you had to show your ticket and photo ID. The next person you came to asked if you had filled in your health declaration form (I had, at about 4pm because I had forgotten about it and the club didn't send a reminder out) and the final person verified your seasie number and name. When you get a ticket, when these measures are on at that point you're stuck in the ground at that point, you can't walk through past the Kop to go to a chippy or anything. You need to go into the ground. You use Google Pay to access your ticket, press "display code" and put your phone into the space you would your ticket. Worked first time, no problems, very impressed. When you get inside, if you're not going to the toilet or the kiosk, you go straight to your seat. There were huge spaces between people and it felt really safe. It was only the usual people kicking off at being told to sit down. I'm personally not arsed about 2000 people being able to stand if they wish but rules is rules and it is what it is. As for the performance, wow. So confident and assured. Wolves are no mugs, they are a proper pain to play against but we put it one of our best performances of the season. Midfield completely bossed the game, all of the front three carried a threat and Firmino's link up play continues to improve. Maybe he's coming out of his big dip in form which has haunted him for the last 12 months or so. It was just a good night all round. And it's really, really good to have been there and I am already envious of the people who will get to go to the Spurs game.

Forgot to mention this in the report, but Clive Tyldsley and Ally McCoist are sound.

They've just put me on a trial involving the blood of 40 RAWK virgins.

Red shite! Red shite! Exaggerate! Exaggerate!

I got ambulanced nto hospital, full breathing gear, I'm really shitting myself

Tough crowd you lot haha... Anyway.. Can't find the birdseye view for gini's goal, hope this is ok.. Kelleher.. Curtis's pass.. I usually watch the games on my iMac then just fire up the screen recording app for the goal replays. Its ok at the moment for BT and amazon but the broadcasters are finding ways to cut the stream the moment you start recording, i.e sky.

It'd be nice to meet either of those 2 bellends and ask them their thoughts on Liverpool face to face. I'm guessing that the bile and rhetoric would be reined in somewhat when there is a chance of getting a smack off an offended fan. The very worst of internet warriors with the nastiest imaginations. The best thing about them is that you know that they hurt so much inside, and it keeps on hurting and hurting ...

I bet you think that’s pretty clever, don’t you boy?

So hard to regale Matip or Fabinho above Neco or Kelleher, or Robbo. Just absolute love for Klopp for mentoring this whole squad. It's staggering at times. But I run out of superlatives for Robbo. He's relentless, he leads by example, he is technically faultless, he is tactically faultless, he is physically faultless, he is mentally faultless, it's quite frankly absurd how he is clearly the best left back I've possibly ever seen in the world. Name me a better one.

He loves the telly

Get well soon @Carvalho Diablo

"In this week's episode, the Daveks are closing in on Doctor Boo..."

He obviously wont say a fucking thing about it when they do exactly the same next week will he the fucking drip.

m0e basically asking @Caramacto spend the next month breaking up last night's game into gifs. A tall ask, but he better not disappoint us.

Members of the GF walk into hospital demanding to see Carvalho Diablo. "Sorry sir do you have his real name?" "Fuck kind of question is that?"

I've run out of rep, and of superlatives as well. It's just so enjoyable to watch the best team in the world go about their business. Doesn't seem to matter who's missing, the replacements step up, and the regulars adjust to make up for any possible short-comings. Not the toughest run of matches possible, perhaps, but by my reckoning they've lost once since losing VVD (8-2-1), given up six goals in those eleven matches while scoring 22, given up 2 goals only once, and kept six clean sheets. Brilliant.

Was a good friends funeral today, we’re having a zoom wake tonight. These are the flowers he had today...

People who use steroids but won't trust the vaccine for Covid I literally know a lad who gets his jabs done in a moody gym but is firmly against the vaccine

I couldn't stand by and do nothing

Repped. I was once barred from a pub for shitting myself two nights in a row. I was embarrassed as a six year old, when I soiled myself and was sent home in a pair of Bionic Woman knickers from lost property, but would have been glad of them on those occasions.

Surely Shaqiri has to start in............... midget land. you know............midget land, because he is short in height. you know short.

My 9 year old nephew is always banging on about his favourite YouTubers; to a man, I'd happily trap them in a plummeting lift. He walked in one day proudly sporting a new top, which was apparently "merch" from some annoying American lad. I was more ashamed than the time he shat himself in Asda.

I'm with you on Coady. I think people romanticise him coming here because he's a scouser and he came through our youth team. If this wasn't the case I doubt anybody would be advocating signing him?

I was actually quite emotional when the cameras went on the crowd for the Bobby song. Noticed one bloke sat down though, probably that miserable Agent Provocateur.

This thread has died RIP

Full test has confirmed I’m positive. Will now have to work from home even though I hate working from home. I have cold like symptoms and bad chest like symptoms, but nothing worse than I normally get at this time of year. Still have my sense of taste and my temperature is low. Hopefully this is as bad as it gets.

I think the scientific term is 'shite'- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9025989/Swedens-Covid-infection-rate-soars-Britain-Germany-Spain.html

Thanks for sharing that with us, terrific post ! It puts a smile on every face here I’m sure.

You need to say what you really feel mate.

Scouser ? What colour is his fucking wheelie bin ?

Couple of Bobby nutmegs suggested the confidence was coming back.

Fuck me, I'd really love to punch the lights out of that pair catcher in the rye and dave kelly.

davek, what a life to lead. We’re all laughing at you. Sad, mental bastard.

His ability to step forward with the ball when you think to yourself he's boxed in, is brilliant. His passion & desire is top notch too. As for last night, just so good. I was thinking last night that all these kids in the team must have really lowered the average age of the starting XI, but it didn't really. Was surprised to see Kelleher is 22! He's got years to learn under Allison though, so all good. Jones' ability on the ball is brilliant. I think he still has a tendency to take a touch too many but he will get better at that. I missed the first ten minutes, so didn't see Neco's booking, but what I saw he was great. He's had a tough beginning to first team football and he'll make other mistakes, but he'll grow from those. These last two games, against quality opposition, he's really stood up & delivered though. Future is bright.

Excellent noise from the supporters. Must make a world of difference to the players. Brilliant.

Felt like there was more staff there than fans. It was really good. Fans were definitely sat a lot closer than I thought they would be though. There were no empty rows. I had someone one seat to the left on the row front of me in the main stand. There were two seats between people on rows. If someone wants to go out for a piss or something to eat them they’re sliding past you like any normal game. Everyone around me kept their masks on. I’ve seen a few comments about people dropping them or taking them off on the telly but I honestly think they’re few a far between. I thought putting the majority of the fans in the kop was a stupid idea at first because it’s hard to see the other end of the pitch and I didn’t want to get VAR’d celebrating but on reflection it was a good decision. Those 1500 fans or whatever in one stand can get the chants and songs going. It creates the atmosphere to give us a bit of an advantage if there is any. You wouldn’t get that with everyone spread out around the ground. There was a renewed sense of togetherness I thought. Plenty of different people were starting songs and nobody was left hanging looking like a tit. I was looking over at the Kop and the majority were standing for the first 30 mins and then they started the tannoy and the stewards going around getting everyone to sit down. I just thought fuck off you boring twats. There were a few moments where it goes completely silent and if you want to try to bodybag a player with some witty abuse they will definitely hear you. I considered shouting to Klopp I fucking love you Jurgen and also telling Coady when he drifted out toward the main stand he was a woolly back cheating twat but shit out on both occasions. I pictured my voice breaking and it being a massive fail.

The last time we played against some Dutch cunts away in Europe was back in mid-October 1995/96 in the Evans era. The opponents? Brondby. The score? 0-0. We were tepid in that first leg and the expectation was that our attack would put Brondby to the sword back at Anfield. Someone's put the entire game up on Youtube, the masochist. Not an unreasonable assumption given how Fowler and Collymore had been tearing it up in the league, McManaman in brilliant form behind them, Barnes pulling the strings in midfield, plus Jones and McAteer providing ample width from left and right wing-back respectively. It didn't pan out that way, and we just never got going, losing to a header from a corner in the return leg. That return leg came during a spell that lasted for over a month where we didn't win a game. We managed to get beaten by Keegan's Newcastle twice, fluffed our lines at Middlesbrough, and even lost a derby at Anfield. We did get our shit together after all that, embarking on an excellent run in the league and FA Cup. That run included dominant wins over Arsenal and the Mancs at Anfield, thrashing Leeds twice, and pretty much culminated in that amazing 4-3 game against Newcastle. I loved watching us play during that period. Top of the charts for 4 weeks back then was the risible 'Fairground' by Simply Red. Heavily sampling 'Give It Up' by The Goodmen, it gave Mick Hucknell and the others (I bet even their mothers don't know their names!) another chart hit. It's one of life's unexplained mysteries how a pasty ginger pube-headed Manc wine bar act ever got a reputation for pulling fit birds. Seeing his picture nowadays, he looks like they dug up his corpse and just drag it around like in 'Weekend at Bernie's'. This game against Midtjylland is the definition of a dead rubber. They are already out of Europe and we've already topped the group. I've no idea if they'll bother going strong for this one as, pride aside, there is nothing in it for them. I'm almost certain that Klopp will ring the changes, resting everybody apart from fringe first-teamers. Certainly the likes of Gini could do with a rest, as he's been starting every game recently. I'd expect Adrian, Zorba, Taki, Naby and Big Div to be involved, and the rest will be youngsters. The most importantl thing to take from this game is that there are no further injuries.

It's not just us to be fair - Patrick Bamford's disallowed goal for Leeds against Crystal Palace was probably the worst VAR decision of all time, in any sport.

Assuming VAR is here to stay, then offside should be looked at only to see if the striker is obviously offside. No lines, multiple checks, obscure parts of the body. If it's not immediately obvious he's offside then he gets the benefit of the doubt.

Only because you knew it was nearly finished , a bit like when the dentist asks whether you want to gargle the rinse stuff.

This is probably the only good thing about there being no fans. This is why he's a legend, and this is why we miss him when he isn't on the pitch.