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  1. Monday Apr 5: You can tell West Brom won at the weekend as Allardyce was on Talksport breakfast this morning telling everyone how he masterminded it. You can set your watch by him. Any time the Baggies have a good result he’ll be on, Monday morning, talking about how ‘he’ did it. I was in the car so I caught most of it and he’s amazing. He’s a total parody of himself these days. He says that they identified the Chelsea keeper as a weak point because he always does mad things. The lack of respect for an opposition player was staggering. I’m sure these kind of things are pointed out in team meetings but how many managers would actually come out and say it just to make themselves look clever, especially when the keeper didn't even do anything wrong? Honestly, I think he’s the only one. Not even Mourinho would single out an opposing player like that. The best thing about Fat Sam though is how he can take credit for wins and pass on the blame for losses. They’ve lost loads of games since he went there but he put that down to “players not putting away their chances”. Because obviously his gameplan was flawless. He’s one of a kind. Thankfully. Meanwhile, we’ve got Real Madrid tomorrow! How cool is that? It’s shit that fans aren’t going to be at either game, but springtime, big European nights against the top sides, this is what we live for. It’s not the same because we can’t go, I know that, but it’s still the most excited I’ve been about footy since…. actually since Atletico a year ago I think. Defo the most excited I've been for a game this season anyway. I’m genuinely looking forward to tomorrow night. Tuesday Apr 6: Real 3 L 1 Well fucking hell. Wasn’t that a massive damp squib? Remind me never to look forward to any game without fans there ever again. It just isn’t the same. It's awful, especially when we lose. I’m not saying no fans is the sole cause for what’s happening to us but it definitely makes it less enjoyable to watch these games. I’m at the end of my tether with it now and just don’t know how many more of these games I can sit through, especially when we're playing like such fucking losers. This was fucking abysmal. I can’t believe we performed like that in such a massively important game. Every single player was shite. Every one. No exceptions. That’s what has really shaken me here. Even players that we can always hang our hats on, the likes of Fabinho, Gini and Robbo, they were shite too. Everyone was shite. Klopp was shite too. He got the team wrong by picking Keita then he took him off three minutes before half time, creating a story and putting an unfair spotlight on Naby (he was shite, but no worse than anyone else), and our tactical approach to the game just seemed wrong from the start. Why were we playing so slow? Why defend with the high line when we weren’t pressing them? Whose idea was it to let Toni Kroos have as long as he wanted to pick out balls over the top? I just feel really deflated after this because we’re a shambles right now and we can’t keep blaming injuries. Other than the centre backs and Hendo we basically had everyone available tonight. Klopp said post match that the goals didn’t concern him as they were mistakes and mistakes can happen. It was how we played that was the worry for him. I agree 100% with that. We’re going out there with our 6th and 7th choice central defenders so being vulnerable in that area is almost to be expected. The first goal I can live with completely because Nat Phillips is playing against Real Madrid in a Champions League quarter final. He isn’t supposed to be here. I have nothing but love for Nat Phillips. This isn’t his fault. The second goal is a brain fart from Trent, who was also partly responsible for the first and third goals too. Alisson was shite on the third. But like Klopp said, I can live with all of that as long as we’re playing well and creating chances. Remember when we used to score three or four to compensate for those mad games when we gave away a load of stupid goals? We just don’t have that in our locker anymore. Fuck Real Madrid though, the arrogant, entitled cunts. This was supposed to be the night when we shoved it right up their arses for what happened in Kiev. If we’d played them last season or the season before it would have been carnage and we’d have utterly humiliated them. Instead, we get to play them when we’re in this fucking sorry state, and we humiliated ourselves. The ref can go fuck himself too, falling for so much of their shit but not giving our lads (especially Sadio) anything when they were fouled. The booking for Trent when he didn't even touch that Vinicius bellend was outrageous (although that was more the fault of the linesman than ref). Usually I’d be the first one banging the drum about how it isn’t over and we can turn it around in the second leg. Not. A. Fucking. Chance. Anfield with no fans isn’t Anfield. It's a field. The only thing left to hope for now is that someone can stop City from winning it. Wednesday Apr 7: Speaking of City, just catching up on their game from last night. I hadn’t seen the disallowed Dortmund goal until now but I did see Sancho’s tweet saying the ref “needs checking”. He’ll surely be in trouble for that but having now seen the incident he’s got a point. We know European refs are always trigger happy with the whole ‘foot up’ thing but this was taking the piss. The kid Bellingham did nothing wrong at all and it’s a disgrace that VAR didn’t overturn that. The worst part of this wasn't City winning, it was seeing Haaland and Foden cosying up to eachother at full time, hands over their mouths whispering like teenage girls. The two most punchable faces on the planet and they'll be teaming up soon as I'm now 100% convinced Haaland is joining City. You could just tell. He'll score 50 goals a season playing in that team. As for tonight, PSG and Bayern were involved in a cracker but I didn’t watch any of it as I can’t face it. It’s probably 50% about empty stadiums and 50% the Reds sucking away any enthusiasm I have for watching any footy whatsoever. Hopefully Bayern turn this one around in the second leg as they’re the best hope of stopping City winning it. Meanwhile, what the fuck is going on with all this racist shit? Every week now we have footballers being subjected to racist abuse on social media. Today LFC had to put out a statement after Trent and Naby were on the receiving end. The other day it was Callum Robinson after he scored two against Chelsea. Rashford has been getting it all season and the list goes on and on. It’s just fucking weird. Obviously these cunts have always been out there but they are just so brazen about this shit now. Loads of them aren’t even doing it under the mask of anonymity, they’re doing it from their own account with their own name on. And fuck all gets done about it. I remember someone got sent down not so long ago for this kind of thing, and there have been others who have lost their jobs because of sick stuff they've said or done. So how come it’s happening more then ever? Just expose the fuckers and ruin their lives. The likes of Twitter and Instagram could stop this if they wanted to but they don’t seem to give a fuck. Watch how quickly they act when someone posts a video of a Premier League goal though. Racism = ok. Copyright breach = delete & ban. Thursday Apr 8: Lots of talk about this Konate lad from Leipzig. Given that for about four months the only teams we’ve looked like we could score against are Arsenal and Leipzig, I’ll be honest, I wouldn’t be touching any of their players with a shitty stick. If they make our forwards look dangerous then that’s a massive fucking red flag, surely? Not sure I like the rumblings apparently coming out of the club concerning Sadio’s slump. The Athletic have done a typically long, in depth piece on what different sources at the club are thinking and there’s some bollocks about how this stems back to Guardiola’s throwaway line last season about “sometimes he’s diving”. The implication being that refs have been influenced by that and this is why Sadio is getting fuck all from them. What a crock of shit. I hope that’s not what people inside the club are thinking because that’s proper Man City behaviour that. Any time something doesn’t go their way they’d be pointing the finger at Liverpool because they were utterly obsessed. We better not start with that shit. There’s not a chance in hell that the ref the other night wasn’t giving Sadio free kicks because of something Guardiola said well over a year ago (and subsequently apologised for). It’s certainly true that refs have had it in for him though. He’s been criticised for not going down when fouled and then he’s been criticised for going down when apparently not fouled. One source at the club said "He can’t win" and the comments made by Michael Owen were apparently referenced in the article, suggesting that Sadio is aware of it. I’m not having it that this is the reason why he’s completely forgotten how to play football though. There’s way more to it than that because there’s no way he’s that mentally fragile that he’d allow refs to torpedo his form like that. Having said that, getting all this out in the public domain does maybe put refs under some pressure the next time he's brought down in the box and they want to wave it away. But let's be honest here, the horse is long gone and closing the stable door now is a fucking waste of time. The time to have made a huge stink about unfair treatment from refs was after Goodison. We just accepted it and we've been a punchbag for officials ever since. Friday Apr 9: I just thought of something. Where the fuck is Ben Davies? I’d completely forgotten about him because of the international break but as far as I’m aware he hasn’t even been on the bench lately has he? He’s gonna be a modern day Frank McGarvey. I only know McGarvey was a Liverpool player because he was in my Panini sticker album, and even then he was wearing a St Mirren kit. If Ben Davies is in any Panini album he’s probably in his Preston shirt. McGarvey left us to join Celtic without playing a game. There's every chance Davies will go the same route. The u23s lost 3-2 at City tonight. I don’t think I’ve watched a full game of theirs all season because there’s just no point. There isn’t one player in the regular line up that has any hope of making it here, even though I did enjoy watching Cain and Clarkson play when they were in the u18s. It might just be me, but u18 footy is boss and u23 footy is dull as fuck. It feels like all the best kids we have are in the u18 set up, while there are players like Woodburn, Moyes and Gallagher in the 23s who are just treading water until they are released. And we’ve got about a hundred keepers, most of whom I’ve seen play a few times but there’s one fucker I’ve never seen play any games yet somehow he keeps getting named on the bench for Champions League games. Just who in the blue hell is “H. Davies”??? We’ve got Villa tomorrow. I have no idea what’s going to happen because that Arsenal game last week has thrown me. That’s the outlier here. We looked good in that game and it’s muddied the water because it made me think we’d turned the corner. Then the Madrid game happened and I’m back to just having no idea what we are anymore. If I had to bet on it, I think I’d pick us to lose. But then that would be seven straight losses at ‘Anfield’ (I don’t even like calling it that without fans) and statistically the odds against that must be pretty big. Playing the odds would mean a win, so how come I can see us toiling away and losing to one of only two or three shots Villa have? Hopefully I’m worrying over nothing because if we do win this one it does set us up nicely for a run at getting fourth. It’s hard not to be shaken by that horror show the other night though. and that was the week that was…..
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  2. Only eight more weekends and then this is over. Who knows, we might yet salvage something from this complete catastrophe of a season. A couple of weeks ago it had an 8th or 9th place vibe about it but as shite as we are, others are in the same boat. And that boat may as well be named the Titanic as everyone seems to be sinking fast. Everyone below third is shite. I still think Chelsea are probably the least shite, but losing 5-2 at home to West Brom probably flies in the face of that. Are they as untrustworthy as us? They might be. They hadn’t conceded for 12 hours but then shipped five to one of the lowest scoring teams in the league. That result was one nobody could have seen coming. Nobody except for Sam Allardyce that is. It went exactly how he drew it up on his tactics board apparently. At least that’s what he told Talksport on Monday morning. No-one blows their own trumpet quite like Allardyce. He actually said that they targeted Mendy because they’d studied him and he is prone to doing mad things. How much of a cunt do you have to be to publicly shame an opposition player like that? It’s not as if Mendy played any part in this defeat for Chelsea either. It defo wasn’t on him. Chelsea actually scored first when Pulisic reacted quickest after Alonso’s free-kick came back off the post, but Thiago Silva saw red soon after. Tuchel went mad at the time but honestly, how can they possibly have any complaints there? He lunged in and caught the lad after he’d got his shot away, and David Coote really had no choice but to give him a second booking. Chelsea were complaining but if he hadn’t produced a second yellow for that, West Brom would have been complaining and they’d have had a much bigger grievance than Chelsea had. The game then turned on its head. Partly because of the sending off, partly because of a freak injury situation. Ivanovic came on to replace an injured Baggie, and 12 minutes later he too had to go off injured. His replacement was Callum Robinson and he was the most influential player in the second half. Not really sure how a manager can say that was all part of his plan, but if anyone can, Fat Sam can. Before the Callum Robinson show began though we had big drama in first half stoppage time when Pereira scored twice in a couple of minutes. First he equalised with a cool finish from a long ball over the top. Mendy had started to come but knew he wasn’t getting there, and he ended up in no man’s land. Allardyce was pretty smug about that but that goal was on the centre backs, not the keeper. Still, anything to suit the ‘tactical genius’ narrative eh? Then, with Chelsea all over the place, he fired in a low shot to give West Brom a half time lead. He’s a good player that Pereira. I just don’t think he’s consistent. If he was he’d be playing for a better team than West Brom, but when he’s on he’s quality. Had Chelsea still had eleven men I’d have fancied them to turn it around, but losing Thiago Silva and then two goals in such a short space of time gave them a mountain to climb. And they couldn’t climb it. In fairness West Brom were sensational at times in the second half. The goals they scored were ridiculously good for what is basically an alehouse team. Robinson made it 3-1 with a gorgeous volley after a sweeping move. Most players would have lashed at it but he just guided it with his sidefoot right into the top corner. Fucking brilliant goal. All the FIFA virgins who were creaming themselves over that shitty rabona from Lamela the other week won’t have a clue how good this goal was, but it was glorious. Diagne then finished off another length of the field move full of dummies and back heels, and although Chelsea pulled one back through Mount and briefly threatened a comeback, Robinson wrapped it up with another lovely finish to cap off an amazing day. The funny thing is, every goal he’s ever scored in the top flight is against Chelsea. Five goals, all against Chelsea. Usually it’s us on the end of weird anomalies like that. Kevin Lisbie anyone? Dwight Gayle? Lots of talk afterwards about West Brom playing like Brazil. It’s the stock comment we all make whenever a team plays exciting football but I think that’s a comparison that needs retiring now as there’s absolutely nothing magical about Brazil anymore. They used to be the benchmark for flair, skill and dazzling football, but nowadays they’re no different to anyone else. There’s fuck all magical about a team that’s picking players from Everton. Final point on this game. Chelsea won the XG count, which shows just what a fucking crock of shite that is. Pisses me off that it’s somehow made it’s way into mainstream analysis of games now. Man City beat Leicester. Didn’t watch any of it and don’t care who scored, but I did hear that there was a five minute spell when Leicester had 0% possession, which is almost impossible to do. Reverse Rodgeball. Moving on. I knew Chris Wilder had been sacked but I had no idea who replaced him. Paul Heckinbottom. Never heard of the cunt, but apparently he was Leeds boss before Bielsa. They went head to head in the Yorkshire derby on Friday night and Bielsa came out on top. Harrison had a tap in to make it 1-0 following nice play by Raphinha. He almost doubled their lead soon after but the keeper made a good save. In the build up to that a Leeds player got fucking wiped right out by a two footed lunge from Baldock, who gave himself a concussion in the process. He tried to come back on but he was all over the place and they were forced to sub him. You have to wonder why 1) he wasn’t sent off for the two footed tackle and 2) how the Blades medical staff didn’t know he had a concussion. It was 1-1 in first half stoppage time when Osborn arrived at the back post and just about converted. It initially looked like a Leeds defender had blocked it on the line but goal-line technology intervened and gave the goal. It was actually miles over the line but the original angle was deceptive. Jagielka put through his own net to give Leeds the win. 7th own goal of his career, the Evertonian cunt. Southampton came from 2-0 down to beat Burnley on Sunday. Cracking game this one, astonishingly. Even more astonishing, Burnley actually got a penalty. Incredible scenes. The ref didn’t give it initially because it’s Burnley and they weren’t at Anfield, but after being told to take a look at it he eventually got it right and saw that Walker-Peters just scythed down Eric Pieters after he crossed the ball. How he didn’t see that to begin with though, fuck knows. Wood emphatically blasted in the pen to make it 1-0. He had earlier gone close with a toe poke from the edge of the box. I love that. You don’t see anywhere near enough toeys in the modern game but it’s a good way of catching out the keeper. Fraser Forster actually did well to react and turn it round the post. Vydra made it 2-0 with a route one goal. Hoof forward by Ben Mee, nice flick by Wood and a thumping finish by Vydra. Armstrong started the comeback and Ings equalised with a beautifully taken goal. Just superbly done. He celebrated too even though Burnley is his old team. I think that’s crept in since fans have been missing. Players don’t want to celebrate in front of the fans they used to play for but in empty stadiums all bets are off. Southampton absolutely blitzed Burnley after that and Nick Pope was in the kind of form we only usually see from him at Anfield. He was keeping the scores level almost by himself but eventually he was beaten by Redmond and the Saints picked up a rare win. They did need a really acrobatic save from Forster to deny Wood though. He moves pretty well for a big Frankenstein looking twat with bolts in his neck. Newcastle snatched a late draw at home to Spurs but they’re right in the thigh of that dogfight at the bottom. If Fulham could ever find a way to convert performances into results then Newcastle would be fucked. This was a big point for them though. They led with a first half goal from Linton. Nice to see big Joe getting a rare goal. Fourth goal in 62 games. Kane managed half that total in four minutes to turn it around and put Spurs ahead. They should have made the game safe in the second half but didn’t take their chances and got caught late by an equaliser by on loan Arsenal man Willock. A good day for Newcastle attackers called Joe. Sunderland are looking good for promotion so hopefully next season there’ll be a return of the North East derby game in the Championship. I want them to go down but I was happy for them to pick up that point on Sunday as it did us a favour. We made up two points on Spurs and Everton this week, and three on Chelsea and Leicester. But fucking West Ham are now somehow in a top four spot. If that’s still the case when the season ends then us, Spurs, Chelsea, Arsenal and even Everton would all be justified in sacking the manager and using “finished below David Moyes” as the justification for it. Fulham had such a great chance to pile the pressure on Newcastle but they blew it by losing to Villa, for home Grealish was still missing. Villa’s record without their star man is shite and this really should have been a game where Fulham made a statement. As usual, they played pretty well and deserved more than they got. There’s no way they’re the third worst team in this league, but if you can’t get results then this is what happens. Villa were awarded a penalty that was over-ruled after the ref checked on the screen. Good that. Can’t blame him for the initial decision as it looked like a pen, but the replays showed that Lemina got the ball and the right decision was made. For every one of these though there are ten shit ones. Mitrovic took advantage of a Mings mistake to open the scoring but Trezeguet equalised from a Mings cross and then made it 2-1 soon after. Watkins wrapped it up from close range with a couple of minutes left. Scott ‘Scotty’ Parker’s body language concerned me. He seems more concerned with looking like a Burtons poster on that touchline. He’s stood there, posing like a statue while his team are shipping stupid goals. Show a bit of that Dunkirk spirit, Squadron Leader Parker. Elsewhere, the Mancs just about beat Brighton and look to be on course to be the worst second placed team since… actually since Mourinho somehow got them 2nd a few years ago when they were at least as bad as they are now. Onto Monday now and Everton’s abysmal home form continued as they conceded a late equaliser to Palace. Their home record of late isn’t much better than ours, and we’ve lost six on the bounce. Rodriguez opened the scoring with his right foot. He’s been out for a long time but scoring with the foot he only uses for standing on? It's like he’s come back a new man. Or woman, if you believe that WhatsApp message that was doing the rounds last week! Batshuayi equalised very late on but it was no more than Palace deserved as they had their chances. If Everton weren’t Everton they’d be miles ahead of us by now but they can’t even beat us at being shit. What was with the weird Palace away kit? Never seen that one before. Navy with the red stripe down the centre. Palace Saint Germain. See what I did there? That’s worth two quid a month of anyone’s money, surely? Finally, as already mentioned West Ham won to go into the top four. They beat Wolves 3-2 with Lingard once again proving to be their talisman. He’s had a massive impact there hasn’t he? The prick. He ran half the length of the field to open the scoring and then he was heavily involved in the second, scored by Fornals, and the third, scored by Bowen. They did their best to blow it as goals from Dendoncker (after sensational play by Traore) and Fabio Silva made it interesting but the Hammers held on to leapfrog us, Spurs and Chelsea and go fourth. If anything sums up this completely fucked up, mental season, it’s Moyes slithering his way into the top four.
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