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City are, as you would expect, a technically accomplished team - but fuck me, the heart, desire, and sheer will to not get beaten from our lads is something else.

They’re an incredible side they really are Klopp has worked miracles keeping up with them, he would have won a skip full of trophies but for a state sponsored cheating institution.

Sat with the missus having a coffee and had the following conversation: her: did you say you’ve got work to do today? me: yeah, few bits I needed to finish. Her: why don’t you do that now, pass the time. me: *shakes head*. Nah. *involuntary flicking of thumb against my other thumb.* her: *looks at me sideways* me: you don’t understand what today is about. It’s 99% about waiting, doing meaningless things I don’t have to think about, and feeling slightly sick. Then it’s 1% about not enjoying the thing you’ve spent all day waiting for until it’s over. me: I can feel my organs.

God gave Jürgen Klopp to us Gave Jürgen Klopp to us Gave Jürgen Klopp to Liverpool.

Lack of pace was the main problem that showed up today. De Bruyne just ran off the back of Fabinho and Thiago far too easily, then has the quality to play killer balls through the line.

So we drew against the best team in world football, at their own ground, to stay 1 point behind them... And people think we need to be replacing players?!

Firstly, solid point. A draw was probably a fair result but if a team did deserve to win, it was them. We showed great spirit to come back twice. Everton and United are only tricky because of the history of those games. I am worried about Spurs. They are a dangerous animal. Looking at the three away games, I amn't overly concerned - Newcasle will be safe and Sothampton and Villa are midtable - I would be shocked if it isn't 9 points. Looking at City, the only two nasty games are West Ham and Wolves. I think City will win all their games but decent chance they don't. They didn't drop any points in 2014 and 2019 so playing the odds they do eventually drop something. Any top team can have a bad day. Richards is a gobshite. Hillarious that he is beside players like Souness, Keane (and Neville to be fair) and he is going on about great teams. I personally wouldn't put the current team in the category of our 70s and 80s team right now, but I might do when Jurgen leaves. Are the current City great? Again, I would argue no. They have never won in Europe, even if you could make a case that they are every bit as dominant domestically as our 70s/80s teams or the Mancs under Ferguson. Our currrent lads have done that. If we win a Cup treble this year, does that make us a better team than City if they marginally win the league? Then we would have been two times Champions of Europe. I think our 70/80s team edges it over United's late 90s team with City leading the pack just ahead of our current side, Arsenal in the early 00s and Revie's Leeds. It's all marginal though. What I do feel is that it would be a real shame if Jurgen leaves with only one title to his name, though I suspect City fans would probably say the same if Pep doesn't win in Europe. In my opinion, Jurgen is arguably our greatest manager. To have us where he has is frankly incredible. Carragher is a terrible pundit when it comes to us. He's completely emotive because he's talking like either an excited hyena or a sulky knobhead depending on how it's going for us. Throw in that he feels the need not to be seen as biased towards us and he over compensates towards our opponents. Souness manages it perfectly.

He’s about 3 IQ points away from being special needs, you can tell his fellow pundits simply don’t respect him, Neville especially

Don’t think that’s fair or realistic. Fabinho had a rare off day against one of the most expensively assembled sides in history. Our midfield is good enough in 99% of games. I’m sure we’ll bring in a new midfielder in the summer, but we wouldn’t still be alive in the league and European Cup if it was so bad currently.

It's like playing the warlocks of quarth, like they've got about 28 players on the pitch. Like the ball boy and Klopp turn into city players when you're not looking, then you look at your Mrs on the couch and she's a fucking city player too.

No. They ARE quite good - where have you been for the past few years? The defeatism and quivering fear on here has been pathetic. We've been under par for a few weeks, at least, and we're still in it and we scored twice against them and could have scored another. Not bad for the supposedly awful performance some have seen. I bet their fans are quoting this forum by the page, laughing their arses off at the teary pessimism of it all. Keep it up, maybe they'll die laughing.

Klopp's got to earn his wages with this ht team talk. Stop fucking panicking every time we get the ball. Pass better, run faster, stop being so fucking stupid.

City fans look properly up for this, they've all arrived at the stadium early.

Fuck off, sky. A great example of the shitness of modern footy they are so guilty of being massively a part of.

This is the worst Utd team I've seen in over 30 years full of entitled twats with egos the size of their debt, whoever takes over in the summer has a huge fucking job on his hands and will need plenty of time which I'm not sure they will get . It really is glorious sit back and enjoy lads .

He should be banned from all Car Phone Warehouses for 10 years for that slap.

All rise!

Fuck off you skin on roaster nonce.

Lads in the concourse had it at right speed - the one in ground is then 200mph!

Henderson played alright. But that little bit in the first half when it got pulled back to him on the edge of the area and he dinked a little pass that was practically impossible to make anyway out of play really did my head in. Do what De Bruyne did. Have a shot. A deflection could take it anywhere. Or it could land at the feet of one of our attackers. Or we could get a corner and create something from that. It was just a total waste.

Richards is such a tit. Saying Liverpool cannot be called a great team if they only win one PL title and a CL?! What when your club is the main opposition, is buying the PL every season and attempting the same in the CL with an unlimited budget? When the only club stopping another being acknowledged as great is one that's a bunch of oil fucking cheats? Tit.

Their first is the 2nd time in successive games against them that Matip has stuck out a body part and deflected the ball past Alli for a city goal for De Bruyne. He really needs to stop fucking doing it and either let the keeper have a good sight of the ball hit at him or, make sure he gets a proper block on it. Neville said on comentary some games back that Schmeichel always told him not to try and block the ball possibly deflecting it somewhere he couldnt reach, let it come through and leave it to him to save it.

Even accepting that he gave a nothing free kick, which he let them take quickly from the wrong spot to get the opener; and the non-award of a blatantly obvious goal kick, even accounting for those, Taylor wasn’t a problem today, and VAR didn’t fuck us over when there was a couple of times that it could (the offside Sterling goal and the Fabinho yellow card).

We were excellent in the first half against Palace and Benfica, but don’t remember us playing well for a full 90 minutes in 2022.

De Bruyne coming across really well in that interview. He's far too classy for those gobshites.

Also, frankly, we out tactical fouled them by a huge margin today. Taylor wasn't good as usual, but he somewhat let us get away with stuff.

Stream died, then returned with coverage that didn't have Neville, Tyler, and Carragher. Celebrated it almost as loudly as when we scored.

The ref is far down the list of reasons for us having conceded. All of our problems has been our own doing, nothing to do with the ref.

Never seen a cook your own breakfast buffet before.

Dunno if I've said it before, but if Nick Pope doesn't call his car "the Popemobile" he deserves to be relegated.

Fuck that. Band of Gold's on.

Fucking massive isn't it this. Can honestly see any result here. They could twat us badly with our high risk/reward style of play - we do give up a few chances even to shite teams and these have of course loads of quality to punish us. But could also see us twatting them with a blast like we hit them with in the European Cup at Anfield. My gut feel is though it could end up tight and cagey - they may feel with the easy run in they have that a draw is a decent result and back themselves to win all their remaining games. An odd goal either way, a moment of magic or luck is likely to decide this....or of course a fucking shite decision from the incompetent clowns officiating.... It's massive, it is likely to be stomach churning and nerve shreddding - but hey this is what it is all about - think about all those years we had to sit and watch the mancs/arsenal or chelsea then these cheats battling for the title in these massive games, whilst we were nowhere - this is what it is all about. Into these, redmen.

I like Jack White a lot. James Dean Bradfield is hugely underrated. I used to like The Edge - he was like the anti guitar hero...no shredding, no fancy playing but created his own sonic soundscape with the delay and the minimalist approach...but sadly he and his band turned into an absolute pile of shite about 20 years ago and never recovered. Johnny Marr is boss. I really enjoy Carrie Brownstein's playing from Sleater-Kinney and her band mate Corin Tucker.. The thing with Sleater-Kinney as a guitar band is the way the two guitarists play off each other. There is no bass guitar but there is basslines, which Corin Tucker played through a harmonizer when she wasn’t playing the trademark rhythms. Annie Clark (St. Vincent) is someone i admire too. Kim Deal may be known more for Bass playing - but she does it brilliantly IMO and is an underrated player on both bass and lead/rhythm...I love her off kilter style. Jonny Greenwood is genius, very very versatile... Others include - PJ Harvey, Thurston Moore, Black Francis, Nick Zinner, Prince, Graham Coxon, Will Sergeant and John Squire.

I sang this to Downtown

Daughter asked for dumplings the other day, I think she means the Chinese ones… Not on my watch!

Nah I genuinely have no ill-feeling to him at all, I'm indifferent. My granddad filled that role for me and filled it brilliantly. He could fix anything, picked me up from school when I was sick, always came to sports day with a bottle of juice, and when he worked in the railway used to stand outside the signal box in Garston every morning and wave to me when I was on the way past going to school. All my happiest childhood memories involve him.

Dunno, I thought City looked 99% reliant on De Bruyne running hard, and he's got form for getting an injury when he's redlining. Pep will likely be thinking he needs KDB for the league and CL.

Thiago had a really good game, Fabinho was shocking in the first half, very good in the second. Would have been nice to play with a third CM, but he lives in Paris now.

I will fucking take that. Much better second half. I’m off me head, op yesterday codeine and beer. Thought the worst first half. We’ll in reds, I kind of suppose.

Yes, the forwards have been rooting around in bins. Seems slightly bizarre to be blaming Salah and Mane for that half. Compare their service to City's. Fabinho hasn't completed a pass yet, Trent has spent most of the half about 20 yards out of position, and Henderson might as well not be on the pitch.

We surely can't play any worse than this in the 2nd half. We are scared to death of these. We are playing with fear which you simply cannot do against the top sides.

Or stop voting Tory, crazy I know.

A lot of our fans downplay Guardiola’s managerial skill. We’ve seen a lot of managers get sent packing from City, Chelsea and United in the last 5 years. He is very fortunate to have the amount of money he has, but he’s also an outstanding football manager. He realised after the European cup Quarter final that trying to directly take us on, even when he had the better players, was a fools errand. Since then he’s decided, “Well if Silva and De Bruyne have the ball, that means Liverpool don’t.”

Ronaldo is an entitled twat, I’d be furious if he smashed my phone, think how much stuff we have on phones now! As for the team, as someone else said the only time you want them to win they never do.

My favourite song of all time by a country mile.

My first game at Anfield was against Leicester on 28th August 1971. I was 12 and my dad paid 50p each to go in The Anfield Road End. Fast forward 50 years or so and it was my turn to take him to game to celebrate his 88th birthday. Spookily it was also against Leicester. This time in the Main Stand at £45 a pop. Really enjoyed the game, the performance and the result. I also managed to buy a copy of the ‘71 programme and to frame it with the latest programme and the photo attached. Anyway, that’s it. Cheers