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  1. Saturday May 22: Wow, as far as tributes go this one is pretty spectacular by Klopp. “Gini Wijnaldum. An LFC legend now and forever. What this person – this wonderful, joyful, selfless person – has done for our team and club I cannot sum up in words in truth because my English is not good enough. “He is an architect of our success. We have built this Liverpool on his legs, lungs, brain and his huge, beautiful heart. “If – and it is still is if – he goes, he does so knowing we as his teammates are eternally grateful for having this special human being come into our lives. I love him and he will always be family.” I’m intrigued by the ‘and it is still if’ part though. Why add that if it is definite that he’s leaving? I feel a bit like Lloyd Christmas here, but is he telling us there’s still a chance? Meanwhile, “Hamez” has taken the last couple of Everton games off due to ‘fatigue’ and posted this picture on his instagram, causing something of a fume with our neighbours. The irony in this is off the fucking scale. They signed him due to his social media clout, they bragged about him having more instagram followers than LFC, they embraced all these new fans from Colombia, and now they’re crying about the ‘content’ he’s putting out. It’s that content that got him all those followers, so you live by the smartphone you die by the smartphone. Losers. Sunday May 23: L 2 Palace 0. Third. Haha fucking hell. The rest of the league should be looking at that and wondering just how the fuck that happened, because we were dead and buried a couple of months ago. What a dog turd of a season though. Man City won the league without being anything special, but all of us who were meant to be challenging them fell massively short. People actually think United are City’s closest challengers when really they’re a million miles off. If they’d had to deal with what we did they’d have been relegated. Chelsea had to deal with Frank Lampard, Spurs and Arsenal are just a hot mess and even Leicester, one of the non-big six teams that should have taken advantage, well they choked like dogs in the run in for the second year running. What does any of this mean for next season? Honestly, I don’t think any of it means shit because this year was a complete outlier and none of what happened is relevant because these circumstances will never be repeated. Next season everyone starts with a clean slate and as of right now I’m not worried about City being ‘uncatchable’. That may change depending on who they buy though, because they are a couple of top quality players away from being out of reach I think, especially as we aren’t going to be competing for those players. I’m talking Kane, Sancho, Mbappe, Haaland, Grealish etc Now more than ever we need Edwards and Klopp to be the smartest people in the room Monday May 24: The kids lose the Youth Cup final to Villa. No complaints, they got fucking battered in the first half and were lucky to only be 2-0 down. The second half was better and they had opportunities to take the game to extra time but couldn’t take them. The only one who impressed even a little bit was James Norris. I thought all the others were below par and the ones who you would have been looking to step up were the most disappointing. Koumetio, Balagizi and Musialowski did nothing. That being said, it fucking stinks that this was a one off final played at Villa Park. That shit just isn’t right. Either have it two legs (as it always used to be) or play at a neutral ground. We had this a couple of years ago too when we had to play away at City. It’s shit, but it’s like virtually every other change made to the game in recent years. None of it makes anything better. Meanwhile, it looks like Konate is close to a done deal and some reports say we’re paying more than his buy out clause just so we can pay in instalments rather than the whole lot up front. Makes sense as £40m is a big slice of the budget considering we need to strengthen in midfield and up top as well. Is the money going to be there for what we need? And if it’s not, then I want to know which cunt wouldn’t sanction the contract for Gini? There won’t be a permanent deal for Kabak though. I knew there wouldn’t be as it’s been pretty obvious for a while that he was not high on the list of targets. I think he may well have been good enough for us if the circumstances were different, but it’s not the right time for him. He did a top job though and can leave with his head held high. He’s played a lot of games in Germany but he’s still a kid and coming into the situation he found here was really not easy. He wasn’t perfect but he did what we needed him to. Maybe in a couple of years we’ll revisit it and if we do I’d be happy to see him back here as he seemed like a good lad as well as a promising player. Obviously they prefer Konate but I don’t know what that actually means for our spending. We could have had Kabak for £18m and freed up funds for other positions, but instead we’re paying £35m or whatever it is on Konate. Does that mean we’ve got more money to spend than people think, or did we just prioritise centre back over other positions? Tuesday May 25: Happy ‘sorry but I’m really not arsed about Istanbul Day’. Seen all the clips on social media, just skimmed over them all. Fair play anyone who still likes the trip down memory lane but I’m all Istanbul’d out now, especially with Chelsea and City preparing for a final this weekend. It didn’t annoy me though as it has in the past. It would have if we’d finished 5th, but because the season ended up being ok it didn’t seem too desperate. Nothing worse than when you’re shit and you have Istanbul thrown in your face. Meanwhile, Southgate bottles naming his squad and includes half a dozen or so extra players who will be cut next week. Just prolonging the suffering for some of those lads who know they aren’t getting in. Like Trent, if reports are to be believed. I just can't see Southgate being brave enough to make that call. Can’t remember if I mentioned this last week or not and can’t be arsed checking back to see if I did, so I’ll just say it again. Last week I had Talksport on in the car a few times and the talk was usually about the England squad. I heard four different pundits picking their squad and not one of them had Trent in it. Not even Martin Keown, who may not be everyone’s cup of tea but he’s not thick. But even he has bought into this weird bullshit about Trent somehow not being in England’s top three right backs. Never mind right backs, he’s one of their top three players!! They don’t deserve him. I really wish he was Scottish. Staying with full backs, although this one doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Trent, I thought these quotes from Alberto Moreno were quite interesting today. “To this day I don’t understand why I got so, so much criticism, when the whole team didn’t play well. The finger was pointed at one player and …” Moreno shrugs. “I don’t think that’s OK. People blame you. Only you. It was like I lost the final. It’s hard. You can’t get it out of your head. You look at the paper, at social media – I don’t usually pay much attention to social media because it’s all so false – and read things. ‘Alberto, Alberto, Alberto, Alberto.’ I’ll go to my grave not understanding why I got all the blame.' This may surprise you a little, but I mostly agree with him. The whole team was shite that night and Klopp didn’t cover himself in glory either with his inaction when the game was getting away from us. We didn’t lose because of Moreno, but what he seems to be unable to grasp is that until his brain farts we were well in control of that game. He turned the tide against us and then nobody was able to swim against it. So while what he says is mostly true, I’d think a lot more of him if he owned his own shit, because he’s a likeable lad other than that. Wednesday May 26: I don’t know exactly what has happened at the Hillsborough trial as quite frankly reading about it just makes me angry and depressed so I try not to follow it too closely. Basically though it has been stopped before it went to a jury, which means that 96 people were ruled to be unlawfully killed and fuck all has been done about it. None of those responsible were dealt with by the law because the system - and the whole country for that matter - is fucked and stacked in favour of rich cunts and freemasons. Is anyone remotely surprised by this though? I could not have any more respect, admiration and sympathy for those who have fought so hard for justice and I feel just so fucking sad and angry for them. But I’m not the least bit surprised. Nobody was ever going to be held to account because the establishment looks after its own. Always has, always will, and nothing will change because the good people of this country keep voting for the cunts no matter what they do. It's like all these calls for an inquest into the government’s handling of Covid and all the unnecessary deaths. Even if there was an enquiry where it was proven that Johnson and his cronies took bets on how many people they could kill by their actions, they’d still win the next election because there is literally nothing they could do that would stop the people of England voting them in. That’s the world - or the country - we live in. A jury of regular people may well have done something, but a judge? Get the fuck outta here. Remember the other cunt judge they put in charge of the inquest back in the day and the first thing he said was a quip about “Liverpool fans being late again”. I absolutely despise this country and wish I’d been born somewhere else. I’m not sure where like, as most of the world is just as fucked up as here. New Zealand seems sound though. Thursday May 27: Woke up this morning to the news that United lost the Europa Final on pens last night. Nice. Even better, Moreno scored one of the pens and then absolutely obliterated United on instagram afterwards. Funny as fuck, I saw it this morning and watched it about half a dozen times and it got funnier each time. “Manchester United… GET OUT” hahahaha he was always a really funny lad to be fair. Meanwhile, Mbappe took to social media to show off his new tattoo…. Friday May 28: Konate is done. I have no idea what to expect. Maybe he’ll kick on and become one of the best in the world or maybe he’ll be another sicknote like Matip and Gomez. We needed to sign another defender though and if this is who they wanted above all others (which apparently he is) then I guess I’m happy enough with that. The suggestion from James Pearce is that we won’t be replacing Gini though. I mean, I suppose you could argue that Thiago was signed to replace Gini and that’s fair enough, but whatever way you try to dress it up we’re still a midfielder light now because we can’t count on Keita to give us anything. Then there’s the increasing number of injuries Hendo is picking up, Milner is another year older and Ox isn’t exactly reliable either. So that leaves Thiago, Fabinho and Curtis. We need another, it’s blatantly obvious. I’d go and get Ward-Prowse as he looks like a perfect fit for us and is ready to make a step up. Of course I’d prefer Grealish but the talk is that City are in for him. I’d be sick if that happened. I’d love him here but we don’t have the money to make Villa sell. He’s worth far more to them than he is to anyone else, but this talk of City looking at Kane and/or Grealish for huge money is a little disturbing. As much as they’ve taken the piss out of FFP with their spending, the one thing they haven’t done is gone massive on fees in the way that United have. If City start pulling that shit by signing £100m players then everyone else may as well forget about it. I won’t be watching that Champions League final tomorrow and I just hope Chelsea can stop those cunts from getting their hands on our trophy. I’ve got no love for Chelsea but I fucking despise City so there’s no dilemma here. Saturday May 29: Would usually post the diary today but thought I’d hold off a day so I can cover the CL Final. I didn't watch but I tuned in without a couple of minutes left and watched stoppage time and then some of the celebrations. Chelsea winning was the lesser of two evils by far, but I did think I’d be more sickened by it than I actually was. Weirdly, it didn’t bother me at all seeing them win and celebrate. I didn’t begrudge them it. There isn’t one Chelsea player I’ve got any kind of dislike for and although Tuchel seems like a fucking weirdo I can’t say he bothers me too much. Can’t stand their fans of course, but fair play to Tuchel and his players for ruining Noel Gallagher’s birthday. Tuchel has Guardiola’s number doesn’t he? This wasn’t even that difficult for Chelsea, they just completely nullified City once again and only gave up one shot on target. Guardiola shit the bed and tried to be too clever again and that’s a huge flaw of his his. In the biggest games he out-thinks himself every time. Not only did he not start with a striker, he decided he’d also leave out a holding midfielder too. Rodri starts virtually every game but he was benched for this. It’s amazing how often Guardiola shoots himself in the foot when the pressure is on. He’s spent the last ten years or so with every possible advantage he could have and he still can’t win a European Cup without Messi. Bald fraud. Chelsea have been a consistent force in this competition and they’ve earned the right to win it. They’ve got scars, they’ve been to finals, lost in semis generally just been a big player for the best part of 20 years. City have no more right to winning it than Spurs would have had when they faced us. They haven’t earned it, they don’t have the scars. Now they’ve been in a final and lost that gives them more right in future, but the other thing to consider here is that the cunts shouldn’t have even been in it as they were thrown out for cheating. So all in all the last week has been pretty good. We secured a top three finish, we’ve made a new signing, United lost the Europa League and were trolled by Alberto Moreno and now City and the Gallagher’s are left crying their hearts out. Considering where this season looked to be headed that’s a pretty reasonable outcome all in all. …. and that was the week that was.
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  2. So that’s it for another year then. Is it me or has final day been shite for years now? There doesn’t seem to be much drama at either end of the table. Even the other year when the title race went down to the last day everyone knew that City would beat Brighton so there was never the possibility of any real drama, and the relegation spots seem to be getting decided earlier each year too. This was shite really. The only thing of any consequence up for grabs were third and fourth. That was interesting and had some drama due to Leicester and Chelsea both failing to to take care of business, unlike the Mighty Reds (yeah we’re mighty again now). I expected that I’d feel sorry for Leicester if they missed out, but I actually don’t. They were given two penalties against Spurs, had the lead twice, and still somehow managed to lose to a team with nothing to play for. They completely bottled it but it’s probably not a bad thing for them really. They won the FA Cup so it’s been a memorable season for them and let’s be honest here, Brendan is abysmal in Europe so the Champions League was probably biting off more than they could chew. Maybe the Europa League will be better for them, and I don’t mean that in a condescending way either. They could actually win that if Brendan doesn’t get in his own way. You can argue that Leicester deserved top four but the season is 38 games and they finished where they finished. Had they beaten Spurs they'd have been in, but they didn't. Maybe they deserved it ahead of Chelsea who ended the season with Jorginho as their top scorer on seven goals (all pens). That’s fucking scandalous given how much they’ve spent on forwards, but let's not forget that they had to overcome being managed by Lampard for over half a season so overall they’ve done well. We overcame all kinds of shit too so I don’t think anyone can dispute our right to be in there. It does seem a bit sly on Leicester that they’ve spent virtually the whole of the last two seasons in the top four and then dropped out on the final day both times, but the season lasts for 38 games, not 37, and they didn't learn the lesson from last year. Their game with Spurs was pretty wild. They led through a Vardy pen after he’d been tripped by Alderweireld. Somehow Anthony Taylor failed to spot that and needed VAR to correct him. He’s going to the Euros though. Our best ref, apparently. Jeez. Vardy scored the pen and Leicester were briefly third. That changed when we took the lead in our game. Then Kane scored his customary goal which won him the Golden Boot and things got complicated. Leicester were fifth but Chelsea were losing at Villa courtesy of a fluke by Traore, which kicked the ball onto his standing foot and it lopped into the top corner. We were in great shape but Leicester and Chelsea’s fates were in the balance. Leicester were given a second penalty, and this one was a fucking joke. Blatant dive by Vardy yet this time Taylor gave it and VAR backed him up. So yeah, that baldy manc fuck got both penalty decisions wrong. Vardy converted again and Leicester were back up to fourth. There was more penalty drama, this time at Villa Park when Traore was clipped by Jorginho and El Ghazi made it 2-0. Chelsea were in big trouble now but Chilwell’s goal put them back up to fourth on goal difference. Leicester needed a goal but ended up conceding one instead when Schmeichel punched into his own net. It was a brutal day for him as he’d earlier let Kane’s volley go through his legs, but that second goal gets disallowed more often than not as he was definitely impeded. It got worse for Leicester when they got done on the break and Kane set up Bale to make it 3-2. Again, that usually gets disallowed as the ball bounced up and hit Kane’s hand. Not deliberate, completely unavoidable and I don’t want to see goals disallowed for that, but isn’t that the rule? If the ball hits the hand of the goalscorer or the player who plays the final pass to the goalscorer, it doesn’t count. So I’m not sure how this was allowed, but given the two penalties they were awarded Leicester don’t have too much grounds for complaint. Bale rubbed further salt in the wounds deep into stoppage time as Spurs secured their spot in the Europa Conference for next season. Better them than us, that’s all I can say. Kane was player of the year and it isn’t even close. He was the top scorer, he had the most assists and he was playing in a dogshit team under a negative manager for most of the season. Yet Ruben Dias is probably going to win it just so chin strokers can show how ‘clever’ they are by not going for the obvious. I couldn’t even pick the cunt out in a line up but that’s because I avoid City games as much as possible. So you can argue that makes me unqualified to pass opinion on him and that’s fair. Doesn’t mean I’m wrong though. The reasons given as to why he’s been the best player this season just don’t stand up at all. This ‘transformational’ shite I keep hearing about makes me laugh. Has he improved City at the back and made them a real force again? That’s what I keep hearing, but it’s based on one impressive spell during the season when they barely conceded a goal. The big picture tells a different story. Last season 81 points and 35 conceded. This season 86 points and 32 conceded. Well that’s me convinced. Don’t forget that this time last year we were told that losing Laporte was the reason they didn’t win the league. Yet for most of this season he couldn’t get in ahead of John Stones. So yeah, that was bollocks, just like this Dias love in. They had Fernandinho and Garcia playing centre back last season and conceded only three more than they did with the great Dias. Dias hasn’t ‘transformed’ anything. He’s come in and played well and been better than their other centre backs. It’s not a high bar he had to leap over though is it? Put him in the team of the year and you’ll get absolutely no argument from me (unless it’s at the expense of Nat Phillips in which case we’re going toe to toe) but pick him as the best player in the country this season and that’s taking it way too far. People who pick Dias over Kane as Player of the Year are footy hipsters who just want to show they’re more ‘thoughtful’ than the rest of us. The same cunts who would tell you how Michael Carrick was the most influential midfielder of his generation or that David Silva is the best foreign import. Harry Kane is Player of the Year. You don’t have to like it but it is what it is. Moving on. West Ham ended a good season with another positive result to secure a sixth placed finish. Minamino was inches away from giving the Saints the lead after a swift counter attack. I like him a lot but there’s no way he’s ever going to establish himself with us and hopefully Southampton want to keep him. Maybe we can include him in a deal for my boy Ward-Prowse. That miss was crucial as Fornals bagged a quick brace and that was that for Southampton. Rice added another late on and Moyes is going to be in Europe next season. Not for long, obviously, but it’s always funny seeing him doing better than Everton. His old club, Manchester United (still funny whenever I think about that and the ‘Chosen One’ banner) ended with a win over sorry Wolves despite resting all their first team ahead of the Europa League Final, which they hilariously lost to Albert the Moron’s Villarreal. So I have nothing to say about this other than Wolves have had a fucking diabolical season and Nuno Holy Spirit’s time had clearly come. That’s a tasty looking job for any ambitious manager though. Lots of good players and the Jorge Mendes connection which gives you access to the entire pool of Portuguese players as well as a load of Brazilians. The downside is you have to see Conor Coady every day. Leeds ended a great season back in the big time with a win over West Brom at Elland Road. Nice for the Leeds fans to finally get to see their team playing. Imagine the fun they’d have had this season if they’d been allowed in. They’re one of the few sets of supporters who genuinely missed out by not being able to watch their team play. Rodrigo is ending the season well and he scored again before Phillips doubled their lead. My boy Patrick made it 3-0 from the spot with his 17th league goal of the season. Fucking boss him. Love watching him, the elegant bastard. Hal Robson-Kanu bagged a late consolation which was his 5th goal of the season. Mad that, the first time I heard the cunt’s name mentioned was when he scored against us a week ago. How’s he managed three goals prior to that? Hopefully this is the last we see of West Brom for a while. It’s bd enough Norwich and Watford are coming back up but if Brentford can do it as well as least that makes it a bit less boring. Arsenal managed to sneak up the table and finish 8th with a late flurry. As Arsenal as it gets that. As soon as the pressure was off and everyone stopped giving a fuck about them, they put a few wins together and back doored their way into the top half. Pepe scored his 15th of the season to put them ahead against Brighton. Sounds impressive, but I’m assuming at least ten of those goals were in the Europa League as I’ve bene watching MOTD all season for these runs ups and I’m fairly sure he’s done fuck all. He added another to make it 2-0 but that isn’t really important. The real takeaway here is Arsenal were playing music after the goals. Not just any music, they were playing that “Rule the Arsenal” song. They’re utterly fucking shameless aren’t they? They don’t get it at it all. They should be fucking embarrassed at how shit they are but instead they carry on acting like they’re at the top of the league, overly celebrating goals and playing music when they score. I’m so offended by Arsenal and their lack of standards. The mad thing is, as shit as they are they couldn’t find a place for Joe Willock, who always looked good whenever I saw him and has been fucking boss at Newcastle. He scored for the seventh game in a row to set the Geordies on their way to victory at Fulham. They want to sign him permanently but Arsenal would be mad to let him go given the dogshit they regularly send out in their first team every week. Then again, word is Arsenal are skint so maybe they’ll need to sell. Will Mike Ashley stump up the cash to buy him though? Fabian Schar wrapped it up from the spot. Might be the most stylish penalty I’ve seen all season that. Very nice. Newcastle finished 12th, despite being without most of their best attacking players for much of the season. That Steve Bruce though eh? What a fucking bum. Mighty Newcastle deserve so much better than him, what with their impressive history and track record of regularly finishing higher than 12th. Sheffield United ended the season with a win. Not sure what that means and whether they’ve avoided any unwanted records. They did fuck up my Dad’s accy though as he’d foolishly included Burnley. Never bet on Burnley when they’re already safe. Rookie mistake that. McGoldrick got the only goal of the game and a good one it was too. I like him, he’s probably my favourite shit player. Eight goals for him this year, which would make him top scorer at Chelsea. Yes, that was another shot at Timo Walcott and why not? I was right about him so I’m going to milk that for as long as I can. The Blades should come straight back up if they keep their squad together. Brewster will tear up the Championship and with fans back in Bramall Lane they’ll be a completely different proposition to this season. Last and very much least. Everton. Fucking losers. I haven’t been right about much this season but one thing I’ve been consistent about is that Everton are fucking shit and would finish around 10th. They finished exactly 10th. Because they’re fucking shit and I kept telling you that. If we’d finished below them it would have been the most shameful season in our history. That’s how shit they are. They shamed themselves on the final day by losing 5-0 to City. Not sure why they bent over when the title was already won. Old habits die hard I guess. Half that team will have had a semi on while they formed that guard of honour for the Champions. Honestly, they make me fucking sick the pathetic cunts. Over the last five years there are less than a handful of teams that have spent more than Everton yet somehow they can keep being shit without any kind of scrutiny. It just shows how little interest anyone outside of County Road has in them. They’re fucking irrelevant. Even all those millions of new Colombian fans they accrued when they signed the Instagram Kid have fucked them off. Every year it’s the same. They spend a load of cash, boast about winning the transfer window, fantasise about a new stadium that’s never going to be built and talk of power shifts. This year they took it even further and flooded the charts with 80s cup final songs just because they won four games. They’re like a cartoon fucking moron. Wile. E. Coyote or Tom from Tom & Jerry. They never learn. Just the same fucking stupid mistakes year upon year that make them look ridiculous. It’s actually staggering that this can happen to them so often and at no point do they ever take a step back and think “you know what, let’s not get ahead of ourselves this time as we always end up with egg on our faces”. De Bruyne put City ahead early and Jesus added another after Michael Keane attempted to dribble past four City players. Really Michael? Really? As deluded as their fucking fanbase. That Richarlison cunt won a penalty when he got clear of Footballer of the Year Dias and was crudely brought down. Of course he made a huge meal of it by rolling around screaming, hoping to get the City man sent off. He failed. Yellow card only. Sigurdsson missed the pen, which begs the question what’s the fucking point of him? Literally the only thing he does is take pens and set-pieces, and if he can’t do that then they may as well just put an Everton shirt on a scarecrow and stick it out there in midfield. Although that would be unfair on commentators who would struggle to tell the difference between that and Tom Davies. Heaviest defeat of Ancelotti’s managerial career, second worst league position of his career (the worst was also at Everton) and yet he’s under zero pressure and he’s one of the highest paid managers in the world. Aguero came off the bench and accepted a gift from Davies to sign off with a goal. Holgate’s defending on that was hilarious. Aguero then bagged another with a brilliant header to make it 5-0. There were rumours that Holgate and Big Dunc came to blows afterwards. Given that Holgate is still breathing I’m assuming that’s bullshit. Aguero did an interview in English afterwards. Fair play, it’s only taken eight years. Guardiola turned on the crocodile tears when talking about how much he loves Aguero. He’s such an insincere weird fucking cunt. He dropped an ‘F’ bomb on Match of the Day too, which pissed me right off. Klopp can do that and it’s charming and funny. This bad fuck is just a bad try hard. Why was he swearing? At the notion that City’s achievements are just down to money. He’s right, it isn’t just money and he’s a really great fucking coach. But sorry, you don’t get to complain about that when you’re breaking every rule in the book just to be able to spend more money than everyone else. Fuck Guardiola. Fuck Man City. Fuck Everton. Fuck this season. Player of the Season 1 Kane 2 Grealish 3 Bamford (and I’ll fight each and every one of you who disagrees) Manager of the Season Bielsa, by a fucking mile, with an honourable mention to Graham Potter. Flop of the Season Everton Wish he played for us: 1 Harry Kane 2 Jack Grealish 3 Mason Greenwood Cunt of the Season 1 Richarlison 2 Pickford 3 Guardiola / Bruno Fernandez Goal of the Season 1 Alisson at West Brom 2 Firmino at Palace 3 Salah at West Ham Goal of the Season (non LFC) Any one of my boy Bamford’s. The Jason Puncheon ‘My Boy’ Award Patrick Bamford The Massive Cunts XI Pickford, Walker, Mina, Maguire, Digne; Allan, Fernandez, Rodriguez; Son, Richarlison (c), Iheanacho.
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