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Turned new year here 24 minutes ago. 2020 fuck off. Love to you and yours, eternally! Next year couldn’t be anymore fucked than this, so I wish you better, more, time and the hope that what was lost this year is multiplied by a number bigger than the human mind can conceive and repaid forever. I, you, we, them deserve better. In peace, love and happiness, ’Bruce’

We all know the last year has been difficult. Some challenging times for all of us and downright horrific experiences for a few members of this little community. It’s not been all bad though, for me the first lockdown in particular provided a chance to spend quality time with the family, something I’ve not always been the best at. The lovely weather meant my daily walks with the wife, exploring our local area, were a foundation for one of the happier periods of our nearly two decades relationship. Family games of cards after home cooked meals became really important to me, especially if I won. I also took some small steps towards redeeming myself on here after previous misdemeanours. Still some way to go, I take nothing for granted, but this place has become ever more important to me, which increases the sense of shame towards my previous incarnation around these parts. Oh yes, a mention for No.19 in the unmentionable. Glad I could share it with all of you. This intro ended up being a bit longer than I intended but what are your positive memories or reflections on what has been the most unusual of years? Happy New Year.

Like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. Not much to be happy about this year except for the obvious triumph. Hope next year is a normal year with good things for everyone on here. Genuine best wishes. Mike.

Meh. My lot aren’t a ‘walking family’ but I felt compelled to do it during the lockdown as it was one of the only means of getting the kids out of the house. Much more fun was having water fights on the front and BBQ’s in the garden. The home schooling was great at first but by the time the summer holidays rolled around it had got to the stage where it was a chore and wasn’t enjoyable for anyone involved. Big shout out to all the teachers on here. Legit heroes. Lost a couple of family members, with only one allowed a proper funeral/wake. Although it wasn’t nice losing my great uncle, the ability to catch up with the rest of my family actually turned out to be a positive. Mad year. Took the kids to London for a couple of days when everything opened up again briefly and did some touristy type stuff. That’s turning into a bit of a tradition and hopefully next year we’ll be able to catch a West End show. I think they’d love that. I’ve spoken about my health on here before but this year has been OK with hardly any progression. Long may that continue. The whole Covid shit hasn’t helped my missus on the long road back from her nervous breakdown/serious mental health shit, nor has the fact she’s piled loads of weight on. It’s just given her something else to be depressed about. We have had a nice Christmas though and I’m hoping it’s a corner turned and we’re starting a big health kick on the 2nd of January (Tomorrow is one of the kid’s birthdays and takeaway Chinese has been chosen). My one wish for the new year is to have her back to her old self. Sounds stupid but I just want my girlfriend back. Another league title and European Cup wouldn’t go amiss either, provided we’re allowed to have a fucking big party in town afterwards. Another thing I’m desperate for is the Dwayne Johnson diamond painting to get through Canadian customs unscathed and take its place on NP’s wall. I’ve managed to drone on more than Blog Wanker here. Fuck sake.

I had my son Eli in February and he is already walking. More impressive than that is that he has managed to block the toilet on a couple of occasions. I often work in my pants (underwear to you northerners). No one in my family got Covid.

My brother has spent the last few years avoiding family contact. This has meant me dealing with my mum crying at every birthday, mother's day and Christmas. This year he finally caved and chatted on the phone with her, and the relief was immense.

The first 2 months of lockdown over here coincided with some beautiful dry warm weather. We live out in the country with lots of little roads and laneways so were able to go out walking every day with the dog as i was working from home and the Mrs job closed down due to Covid. Really got to appreciate the landscape and nature. Looking back it was a lovely peaceful time spent together that we wouldn't normally have got.

It's been one of the most difficult years of my life and mentally very draining from a few personal problems I don't want to get specific about, coupled with nearly dying from Covid (and all the paranoia about having more clots in the aftermath, which is beginning to subside now). It's made me more resilient, as getting through bad shit generally does. Everyone's had it rough, some more than others but I've learned all you can do is keep getting up in the morning and get on with things, nothing stays the same forever.

Mrs TheBitch moved in to mine during the first lockdown and she hasn’t moved out, shit this is the positive thread? All jokes aside she is the best thing to happen to me, and that is the only good thing to come from this shit tip of a year.

A lot of negative memories as it's easily been the worst year of my life. It started well as my father in law paid for a family holiday to Morocco which was a great break and somewhere we had wanted to go for a couple of years. After promising my daughter for 4 years that we would go to Paris we went in the first week in March and she absolutely loved it. It was nice seeing her happy as she hasn't had the best of times recently. Some of my mates have been really helpful and supportive this year and have helped get through a lot of dark days.

Mad how such an amazing player gets so much grief off his own fans. Owen, Fowler, Rush all missed tons of chances.

Obviously number 19 but also the monumental 50th birthday piss up I had back in February. Other than those, just being alive is enough for me.

I have only one memory now....Dec 30,2020 approximately 2240 Central Standard Time THE ROCK IS HOME!

Completely intact and even more splendid and quite frankly take your breath away. It took me 15 minutes to open as it was packaged like you would the Mona Lisa and rightfully so. I can tell you I was nervous, shaking as I finally removed philly’s masterpiece as interpreted by cake cunt lady, and there was Dwayne Johnson sparkling at me. I’ve already had my morning coffee with Dwayne. Special Thanks to @Captain Turdseye for seeing that it made here to the frozen colonial outpost where it will warm my heart for the rest of my years.

Right, I have no idea how this got it's name and maybe people know it as something else but here goes. Where i used to live there was a town estate of houses best described as terraced but with front gardens. These house had a downstairs toilet adjacent to the front door and had a little window just over head height. At about chest height there was a cistern overflow pipe sticking out of the exterior wall. As kids we would hang around and look for lights coming on in the toilet, someone using it obviously, so we would go up and scream/shout into the overflow pipe which would amplify and echo like fuck in the toilet scaring the shit (possibly literally) out of whoever was in there. Hilarious at the time.

When god created heaven and earth, she started with rainbows.

I saw a couple of fellas in the pub wearing rainbow headbands. I thought they looked ridiculous and told them as much but after I got talking to them it turned out they were really nice lads. Now I go over to their house and they give me loads of beer and ketamine and let me stay over if I nod off.

We had a fuck load of chances to win it. We gave that performance 20 times last season but took our chances. As for injuries being an excuse, well, yeah it is but it’s also fairly valid. I’d be surprised if any other team in the league could lose so many players and still be top. Alisson Trent Van Dijk Matip Gomez Fabinho (from midfield) Thiago Keita Salah Mane Jota If missing those players for significant number of games isn’t a valid excuse for dropping points, I’m not sure if there is any valid excuse. That’s a league winning side in its own right. I’m not saying ‘fuck it, let’s say it’s okay just because we’ve had injuries’, but I’m saying that the reaction to some lacklustre draws should be tempered by the fact that we have had a genuine injury crisis and we are still top of the table

I thought it was pretty lacklustre and didn't really hit the highs of the 'Wipes'. It was an odd mix of American and British topics and I think in going so high budget with so many stars it just lost the impact of Brooker sat in his lounge swearing at the TV.

We’re top of the league without playing well, a fuckload of injuries, and var fucking us over at every opportunity. I’m not unhappy.

Been waiting to get my life back properly since 2012, so that, whenever and however it comes. Whether it will be this year or not, as soon as COVID allows I intend to: Most likely be able to get a part-time job and/or consider finishing my degree as a full-time student, maybe even back at a brick Uni. Visit mates and family. Get the fuck out of Dorset for a while and see more of the UK. Travel abroad. Brother, Mum and I agreed during lockdown 1 we’d go to Lisbon together when we’re able to as none of us have been before. Get pissed in a bar with mates rather than at home on my own. Meet the new nurse in my hospital team in the flesh who sent me a video of herself singing ‘Kiss Me’ by Sixpence None The Richer, topless in the bath after we matched on Tinder, before I made the link and told her. I’ve had the below exchange primed and ready to uncork since April. “Is it okay if I examine your chest please Ben?” ”Only fair, I’ve examined yours”.

I'm a couple of hours away from the end of isolating. Been a pretty grim ten days, though I realise it could have been a lot worse. The most stressful times were in the middle of the night, when you can't help but think of the worst. I think i read that at Day 7 if you haven't improved then you'll easily go downhill. Felt pretty good today, although got a bit breathless getting a shower this morning (first time I've felt breathless), and the tight chest comes and goes (it's here now). Will feel weird stepping outside the house tomorrow, but looking forward to going for a walk around the block. The figures are scary - it's almost as if the virus is accelerating its efforts the closer we get to the vaccine.

Goodbye and good riddance 2020 you absolute thundercunt, may your kind never visit us again. I'll raise a glass to the good health and happiness to all on here and your loved ones at midnight and wish you all an infinitely better 2021.

Amen to that. Fuck new year too. The kids are self isolating in their rooms and we can't have karaoke. Thinking about all of the poor bastards who've got it really shitty tonight. Big luvs. Stouffer. X

Salah is one of our best ever players and history will treat him as such, wonderful player.

Elizabeth Montgomery (Bewitched)

Haha. Superb.

From a purely selfish point of view I have got to spend time with family that was otherwise impossible, we won the unmentionable after 30 years, I have the house and garden in great nick and I don’t personally know anyone that was seriously ill or worse from Covid. There have been some shitty moments of course were I thought my head could go here but overall I will look back with fond memories * *Once the end of this shit is near and this isn't just the beginning.

Alcohol consumption is practically zero and I’m thinking of keeping it that way

So this is what it feels like when doves cry

I’m not at the knicker wetting stage yet for a number of reasons. Frustrating as it is dropping points against shite like Fulham, Newcastle, Brighton, West Brom and Everton. We’ve been incredibly spoilt the last two seasons accumulating nearly 200 points. That is a freakish amount and unsustainable in the long term. Even our best teams over the years weren’t operating at that level. We have been very unlucky this season with injuries. Even if the Mancs win their game in hand we are still top I believe. We are still in the Champions league unlike them. We have recent experience of being in a close title race. Unlike them. We have a world class manager. Unlike them. Thiago even in that brief cameo looks sublime. It’s not as bad as is being made out on here tonight. We do need to sign a centre back though. If we don’t then yeah I’m all in on the hysterical fanny bus. Not quite there yet though.

Magdalena Perlinska.

There have been a lot of questionable choices made over these last 2 games, and they've not worked out for the better. There's an ordinariness about the performances that can't just be put down to the absence of the leader at the back or the chopping and changing in defence. Complacency might be a factor. Tiredness might be a factor. Loss of form might be a factor. My suspicion is that Klopp and his coaching staff are reigning in the intensity to try and aid the overall durability of the squad. It's a long-term outlook that is hindering us in the short term because, as Pep Lijnders put it, "intensity is our identity." I keep reading on the FF about how we are by far the best team and the rest are ordinary/lucky etc. We've been just as ordinary as the others in a lot of games this season, so we can't assume that we'll just click up another couple of gears and start to streak away once more. By all means be cautious about how close things are, but don't go full-on meltdown and start describing us as a pub team either.

Most of the best films I’ve seen this year were released over fifty years ago.

I've been doing great at staying out of the pub.

I've mentioned my Grandaughter being born in the other thread and thats my year's highlight but I got a video call from my closest friend and fellow red who'd had Coronavirus and then a massive stroke and I am glad to say he's on the mend. He can't form his words again yet and is very frustrated by this, but just the fact he's still around and on the road to recovery is a massive plus and I hope 2021 is the year we can get together again and have a good old chinwag about footy and politics. It's the things and people especially, you take for granted that you appreciate the most when there is a chance of losing them.

Just a guess

The Black Lives Matter movement finally gained a bit of traction. Over the years we've seen black people being murdered by Police, leading to a few days of protest before the news cycle moves on and everyone forgets what people were angry about. Rinse and repeat. This time, more people and organisations seem to have cottoned on to the idea that racism is pervasive and shit and that it's time to do something about that.

Not a smarmy face as such but I've just seen this stupid looking prick in the Echo. I would say he needs to be punished by severe means of punishment and then again and again and so on.

This is a huge gripe of mine at the moment. We’re not struggling because of refs but we’re constantly on the wrong end of shitty little ‘fouls’ when we regularly see Mane being manhandled and getting nothing. I know it drives Jurgen mad as he’s always hopping up and down on the touchline when it happens, he got booked for it in the West Brom game.

She? Would never have been able to decide on the colours.

We went to St Mary's in August 2019 for our first away game of last season, and came away with all 3 points thanks to two well-taken goals from Sadio and Bobby. Ings reduced the arrears for the Saints late on thanks to a (characteristic) mistake from Adrian in goal - the keeper totally oblivious to the fact he is shit on the ball, passing it straight to the former Liverpool man to rebound the ball into the net. It was to be the first of a catalogue of errors from the Spanish keeper over the course of the season. Our first ever win at St Mary's came in January 2003. We had gone 11 games without a win in the league at this point, with all sorts of defensive catastrophies (Dudek's spill to gift Forlan a goal) and utterly shit results (a goalless draw at home to, and then defeat at, a dreadful Sunderland side). Heskey claimed the only goal with a header from a free kick, but the win was merely papering over a few sizeable cracks. As was the League Cup run that would end with us claiming the trophy by beating the Mancs 2-0 in Cardiff a month or so later. The Heskey goal is around 7:45 in this vid. The early noughties were the era of manufactured bands on reality shows. They gave rise to probably the biggest British girl band of the decade, Girl's Aloud. They released "Sound of the Underground" as their debut single, hitting the number one spot just before the new year and staying there for 4 weeks. It isn't actually that bad a song (they had better) and they were fuckable, which is basically all you need from a girl band. We go into this Southampton game off the back of two poor results and two very mediocre performances. I think Klopp and his coaches have dialled back on the intensity to help cope with the injury situation, but the problem is we look dysfunctional without that intensity. We could get a game like the Palace one just as easily as we could get a game like the [insert any crap away performance] one. At this point, who can be sure which Liverpool team will turn up? Our midfield options have increased with the return of several players from injury but we are still short at centre back. If the club have to bring forward their summer plans for defensive reinforcement to January, then do it. Two of our 3 main options are out for the season, and the third is in and out through injury all the time so we can't plan around him. Anyway, back to the game, and I'm hoping we can bring some control, precision and clinical ruthlessness to our play and get 2021 off to a good start.

This was outside here last week...

Mad that a player who has got so many goals and is capable of great things is so absolutely shite at finishing chances.