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Monday May 9: That fucking little weird baldy bastard was talking about us again yesterday. Unprompted too. He was asked about their game and he went off about how everyone in this country wants Liverpool to win and are against City. Fucking hell, you can’t actually be any more wrong than he is right now. Even United fans are rooting for City. Literally nobody other than us wants us to win. If everyone is against City, how come there aren’t any songs about them? Pretty much every set of fans we come up against have songs about us (Palace are probably the only ones who don’t bother with that shit) and most of them are still singing about when we didn’t win the league eight fucking years ago! He also thinks the media want us to win. I reckon he’s right, most of them do because the quadruple is a bigger story than anything City can do, and because the big clubs like us, United, Arsenal and even Chelsea now all move the needle when it comes to getting clicks, selling papers, TV subscriptions etc. Is it better for Sky and BT if Liverpool are more successful than City? Hell yeah it is. Why is he crying about it though? This is what he signed up for when he got on board the sports washing project at an artificially inflated small club (relatively speaking). He’s just talking through his arse again. It’s nothing new, I mean a few days ago he said with a straight face that City’s owners have told him they’re doing everything by the book and that he believed them. I mean this is a fella who has a history of cheating even before he joined up with the sports washers so at this point he’s basically as trustworthy as Boris Johnson. He just lies all the time and is rarely challenged on it. Thank fuck for Nick Harris on twitter though, who seems to be on a mission to get under the skins of City fans on a daily basis by pointing out their cheating ways. He’s fucking great that fella, we should all be grateful to him for fighting a fight that very few others in the media want any part of. Klopp pissed himself laughing when he was asked about all of this and his answer was a lot more dignified and classy than mine would have been. He pretty much said that all managers say daft things after games and he used it as an opportunity to backtrack some of what he himself said about Spurs yesterday. It feels like Guardiola is trying to stoke the flames to create a bitter rivalry but Klopp is just pouring cold water on it. Much as I’d like to see him put the little bald weirdo in his box, I like this better. City need a rivalry with us to make themselves relevant because nobody gives a fuck about their ‘achievements’. That eats away at them. Pricks. Klopp is denying them that by continually refusing to bite. Meanwhile, I’ve finally started watching Sunderland til I Die on Netflix today and fuck me it’s grim. I sort of knew about bits and pieces of what went on there because of my Mackem brother in law but watching this is utterly depressing. The poor bastards. Seeing what those fans have gone though just puts everything into perspective. We drew with Spurs and might have to settle for second place and maybe a European Cup to go with two domestic ones. None of us even give the League Cup we won a second thought anymore but for fans of most teams that would be the greatest achievement in their history. Sunderland went 12 months without even winning a home game! I love all this fly on the wall stuff as you see just how incompetent loads of people in football actually are. There’s a bit in this when Sunderland are about to start their first season in the Championship and the head of recruitment has compiled a list of potential loan signings for the chief exec to look at, and he looks at it and says, incredulously, “why am I seeing Ibrahimovic on this list? Do you think we’ve suddenly come into a load of money?” Imagine them calling Zlatan and asking him if he fancies coming to play alongside James Vaughan in the Championship! There was also a bit where their chief scout ruled out a potential signing because he was wearing gloves when it wasn’t cold. Not gonna lie, I have to admire that level of old school pedantry. Seriously though, when I used to cover the ressies for the Echo sometimes I’d be sat in the director’s box surrounded by scouts, and you’d hear the conversations they’d be having and it was a massive eye opener. You assume these fellas know what they’re doing and are looking at things that us fans don’t really see, but they aren’t. Some of the absolute bollocks I heard some of them saying was mad. It’s the easiest job in the world. Purely about who you know and not what you know. Or at least it used to be, in fairness it’s changed a hell of a lot now with all the data nerds involved. But lower down the leagues where they still do it old school, honestly it’s a complete farce. Anyway, speaking of Sunderland, they beat Sheffield Wednesday tonight to reach the playoff final. Made up for them, partly for my brother-in-law and also because watching that show really highlighted how bad they’ve had it. Plus they have to deal with those Newcastle fucking wankers on their doorstep. Hopefully they beat Wycombe and get promotion, but my brother-in-law has now cancelled a holiday so he can go to Wembley, which is a big mistake. He’s seen them play at Wembley eight times and they’ve lost every single one. He’s a jinx. Tuesday May 10: Villa 1 L 2. Not great, very edgy, don’t care. I’ll take those 3 points and happily forget all about this one. It was never a night for boosting the goal average, just getting the points was going to be difficult enough but we did it and I’m delighted. Villa’s crowd and players put more effort into this than they have any game in months, but that goes with the territory now doesn’t it? All these knobheads want to be the ones to end our title bid and if these Villa pricks had done it we’d never hear the end of it. They’d defo have a song about Gerrard fucking us over. Thankfully it never happened. Tell you what’s really weird, when I look at Stevie the Villa manager I feel absolutely nothing. I have no affection for him at all, but I don’t have any negative feelings either. It’s weird because I love Stevie, but just not at the moment. I don’t wish him well there at all but I don’t root against him either, I’m just completely not arsed about him anymore because of where he ended up. I’ve said before that I don’t want him to be a future Liverpool manager because I don’t think he’ll ever be good enough and I’d hate him to fail here. Nothing I’ve seen at Villa makes me think differently. He talks a great game and looks the part but Villa haven’t been very good have they? The only bad thing about tonight was Fabinho’s injury, which hopefully isn’t too bad but at this stage of the season even a minor injury is a big deal as it means missing three or four games. As long as he’s back for Real Madrid I’ll settle for that. If he isn’t then that’s a massive blow for us as he’s a big game monster. Meanwhile, he’s talking about us again. And one again it’s completely inaccurate and lacking in any kind of reality. It’s irritating that no-one ever pulls him on this crap. He compared City’s spending now with what we did in the 70s and 80s. I mean, we weren’t even the biggest spenders during that period and anything we did spend was down to selling players for big money or just a natural result of our success. City probably spent more than us even then. They blew a million quid on some jabroni named Steve Daley who I don’t ever remember even seeing play. This cunt knows EXACTLY what City are doing and why it’s completely different to what we did or are doing now, but he’s part of the whole sports washing project. In fact, he’s more than that, he’s basically driving the bus now. At least that worm Eddie Howe just says “I’m just a football manager”. This fucker is doing all of their PR for them. Biggest cunt in football. Wednesday May 11: Well that’s that then. Wolves were pretty much my last hope and although they gave it a go and didn’t roll over, they decided to give Prince Harry the fucking run of the stadium and he single handedly destroyed them. And us. We can’t win the title now, it’s gone. Even if West Ham beat City we need to beat Southampton about 15-0 to have any chance, because City will run all over those Villa losers on the final day. Not gonna lie, I’m pretty gutted. I know I’ve said for months that if we don’t win it I’ll look back at that Leicester game as the moment that cost us, but now that it’s happened I don’t really feel that way. I do think that’s by far the worst result we had all season but if you finish on 90+ plus points you deserve to be winning the title and looking back at the odd game where it wasn’t perfect just seems churlish. This team have been incredible and I’m not going to pick holes in anything they’ve done. The problem here is twofold. Firstly, City are just cheating year on year and being allowed to do it. Even this Haaland deal. You’ve got pundits and media talking about the bargain fee, completely overlooking the fact they’re paying the agent (who is dead) £40m or something. I don’t believe the reported salary for one second either. Last summer Chelsea went for him and balked at the agent fee and the 750k a week wage demands. Yet City can get the deal done. Wonder why? It’s sickening that we’re having to compete with this because you need to be virtually perfect to keep pace. And you also need to take at least four points from the two games with City. We didn’t do that and that’s the difference between first and second. The demands are fucking ridiculous though because you’re competing with some juiced up cheating fuck. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. We’re the cyclist finishing second to Lance Armstrong. The other thing that came into play this season is the officiating. I said that we needed to be almost perfect to stay with them, but you also need more than that. You need unbiased officials too and unfortunately that’s not always the case. When it’s as tight as this and neither team are dropping hardly any points, every major decision in games is crucial. We were robbed of two points at Spurs while City benefited from the two single worst handball decisions / non decisions of the season. They were given a scandalous pen at home to Wolves in a tight game and then Everton were denied the most blatant of handballs late on at Goodison. Ultimately mistakes like that decide titles. I say mistakes but they weren’t mistakes. They were deliberate decisions because VAR sees these incidents from every conceivable angle and slowed right down. You can’t make ‘mistakes’ when you’ve got access to that. What makes it all the more fishy is that on the two most egregious of those occasions (Spurs for us and Everton for them) the VAR was Chris Kavanagh, from Manchester. It fucking stinks, we’re playing against a loaded deck and performing miracles to even be competing. Tonight is really demoralising. Thursday May 12: Arsenal hahahaha! The fucking losers. Giving away a penalty and then having a man sent off just after is peak “big game Arsenal”. I knew Spurs would beat them because there’s no comparison between the two teams at the moment. I knew Spurs would be a tough game for us last weekend but if we had been playing Arsenal I’d have expected us to twat them. They’re not very good. Spurs aren’t brilliant either but they’re much better than Arsenal. Arteta took the result with his usual good grace. “I can’t say what I think or I will be suspended”. He had numerous other whines too which prompted Antonio Conte to say “He complains a lot and needs to stop, it’s not good” which for some reason is just fucking hilarious. He also said “He (Arteta) said he doesn’t lie. What happened in January?” That was a reference to Arsenal getting the North London derby called off due to a Covid outbreak. Big fan of this beef, it could be great fun watching it over the next couple of years. Needless to say I’m “Team Conte” on this one. Friday May 13: City unveil an Aguero statue and it’s pretty vulgar, as you’d expect. It doesn’t even look like him and they’ve not gone with the traditional bronze most statues are made of. It got me thinking though. If I could go back in time and change that moment, meaning City didn’t win the title and have their “greatest ever Premier League moment”, would I do it? The consequence of that would be an extra title for United but even worse, we would be robbed of that glorious sight of Phil Jones and his confused face when news filtered through of what happened at the Etihad. The truth is, I don’t know if I’d change it or not. Right now I feel like I would, but that’s just the current sense of injustice in me talking. It feels like a waste that Aguero is only ever going to be thought of as a City player. He was too big to have spent so much of his career with them. I know he won loads, but a player of his standing should have been at Real or Barca. By the time he ended up at the Nou Camp he was washed up, and then he had that heart problem that forced his retirement. As I say, it’s a waste. Meanwhile, Ronaldo is the PL Player of the Month after scoring five goals. Gabriel Jesus also scored five, so City once again got to play their “why is everyone against us” card, particularly as City won all of their games, United only won one. Does that diminish what Ronaldo did though? Not for me. I reckon I could score five playing in that City team, but I wouldn’t even get a touch of the ball if I was in that United clown show so on that basis Ronaldo fully deserves this I’d say. Jesus filled his boots in big wins as City beat up on bums. Ronaldo was actually playing on a team worse than most of those bums City were spanking. Scoring five goals in that terrible team is an achievement he should be proud of. Like when Mourinho said the second place with United was one of his finest accomplishments. We all laughed at that but when you see how shit they actually are, he was right. Meanwhile, Klopp says Fab is definitely going to be fit for the CL Final so that’s a relief. We’ll miss him tomorrow and while I’m not worried about Hendo filling in for him, I do have concerns about which Keita is going to turn up. It always feels like when he starts that I’m looking at the clock expecting him to be subbed on 65 minutes. I’m sure that’s not always the case, it just feels like it. I reckon we might see something mad off the bench tomorrow, like Harvey or Ox. Sadio is still being linked with Bayern. I’m not worried about this as I don’t think we’re stupid enough to let him leave, but you do have to wonder why this hasn’t been sorted yet. We know with Mo there’s problems with the salary, but what’s the hold up with Sadio? Tell you what stinks, when this rumour was first reported on twitter, Mo’s cunt of an agent liked it. In what world is that even remotely acceptable conduct? I’m getting sick of this shit now. If they can’t agree terms then fine, but this childish shit his agent keeps pulling needs to stop. Tit. ….and that was the week that was