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Apple Podcasts giving a transcript these days. @Paul outburst captured perfectly.

She is saying that people have been on the streets calling for opposition to the Israeli oppression of Palestinians. And if people want to see this on a global scale, then they can expect to see more incidents like the one at Sydney Mall. It's clearly dangerous racist scaremongering.

it was ‘words, actions and behaviour's’. Like, for example, using an event, attributing it to ‘Islamic extremism’ and falsely, and dangerously, trying to conflate that event with the peaceful marches attended by hundreds of thousands if not millions of people from all faiths religions and background with false quotes about a ‘call for global intifada’, as a false forewarning about the dangers of these peaceful marches. Horrible, dangerous racist.

I think we should prioritise every single game until the end of the season.

This conflates Jews with Israel. The fact that Israel gets a free pass on a lot is linked to nothing more than geopolitical strategy, not victim status. An ally in the region, largely due to being in opposition to Iran, much like Saudi Arabia. They may as well be black Quakers. Asking why a group have been discriminated against, and aiming the spotlight at the group themselves. Well, just transpose that with, for instance, anti-Irish sentiment, and perhaps you'll see why that's a troubling viewpoint.

Just listened to this with my lunch (cheese sarnie and a yoghurt in case anyone is interested) and to reiterate a point I made after the Arsenal pod back in February, I appreciate the podcast more after a defeat than a win, and I feel pretty certain I'm not the only one. As a Red, you've got so many bad thoughts/emotions swirling through your body and you want to know if others feel the same and how they're coping/rationalising the pain - in part you get that through talking with you mates and in part you get that from listening to three fellas you don't know try and make sense of it all between themselves, and that always helps - so please Dave and the lads, always do post-defeat pods even if, quite understandably, you're not in the mood to do so. Also, please always litter than with fuming rants about Pep Guardiola - well in Paul! Onto the team itself - I 100% agree that what we've seen in the past two games has been a collective mental breakdown, in part brought on by the natural stress of being in a title race but also in part brought by the pressure of knowing this is the last chance to be champions under Klopp. We've felt it as fans pretty much ever since the manager made his announcement that he was leaving and it's now got to the players, and the trigger for that was most definitely the 2-2 draw at Old Trafford last week. I was in the away end and it really struck me hard how gutted the players looked at the final whistle. Diaz collapsed onto the turf while others stood around looking like they'd just seen their dog been hit by a car - a mixture of shock and despair which immediately told me something had gone in their heads. They clearly recognised not beating United was a big opportunity blown and that carried into Thursday which, in turn, carried into Sunday. I'm simply not having anyone say these players don't care - if anything they care too much, and that's the problem; they've tensed up under the pressure of winning this title for Klopp which has led to anxiety and ultimately a total failure to do the basic fundamentals - pass, press, cross, shoot - correctly. Saying that, there's also their utterly infuriating knack of starting games slowing and conceding the first goal, which, really, has been a problem ever since the tail-end of the 2021-22 season and for which the manager and coaching staff have to take a large share of the blame. I'm sure they prepare the team for every game but for too long now there has been a failure in that preparation, whether that be in training, or how the players are told to rest and recuperate, or in the final message they get before going onto the pitch - who knows, but something has definitely not been right for too long now. Equally, I agree with those who say the players have to take responsibility for their own performances and make sure they're 'on it' from the start of all games. All in all what we've seen for the best part of two years now in regards to how we start games has not been good enough and it needs to change. In regards to the title - yes, we're still in this and there could well be more twist and turns but personally I think yesterday was it for us. As said by the lads on the pod; once you get behind Man City in a title race, and especially at this stage of the season, it's near impossible to catch them. We've seen how this movie ends twice and the trilogy is upon us, sadly. Simply no way, given the team's physical as well as mental shape, that we're winning our remaining six games, which is what we'd need to do to stand any chance of being champions. Like Dave, I see Fulham on Sunday as a massive banana skin, and even if we don't slip up then we will somewhere else. Praying to God it's not Goodison. All in all, this is such a sad state of affairs to find ourselves in. Like Chris said on the post-Atalanta pod - everything changed when Klopp made his announcement, and while the reasons for that were understandable, that doesn't stop me/others wishing he had not said anything and simply walked in the summer. That would have meant no sudden dropping of mood, no distracting chat about who replaces him (and subsequent, further despair when Alonso ruled himself out of the running) and no rising anxiety, in the stands and on the pitch, which led to Anfield being an utterly rotten place to be yesterday. My worst day there since the Gerrard-slip game almost exactly 10 years ago. I'm gutted and, like Paul, massively pissed off with seeing the cheats prosper again. They've stolen glory for us and they're fans barely give a fuck about any of it. It's disgusting and, well, sad.

Dave's talk of this all being part of the narrative is a lovely idea. If this was a Hollywood movie this would definitely be the part where everything looks bleak and hopeless for the protagonists. In the movie Klopp and the players would at about this point learn some important life lesson which would help them finish the movie triumphant.. There would be a joyful final scene in which they paraded the premier league trophy through the streets of Liverpool in front of millions of happy fans and then one final still of Klopp rising his fist in triumph to the crowd (with maybe a brief cut scene to chief antagonist Pep Guardiola miserably watching the scenes on TV at City's training ground and then turning his fury on Howard Webb who stands quivering in front of his desk, demanding to know how Webb's PGMOL gimps allowed this to happen). Unfortunately, as we've seen before, the Premier League doesn't seem to do happy Hollywood endings. The only lessons ever learned are bleak ones. The bad guys always win and never face any consequences for their actions. This all just seems to be shaping up to be another really shitty ending in which, even if we somehow sort ourselves out again and win all our remaining games, City just mechanically tick off win after win while friendly officials step in to help out if things are ever in danger of getting a bit dicey for them Football is really shit sometimes. Thanks for the pod. I feel pretty much the same. Not angry, just disappointed. This hasn't happened through lack of effort or desire, but the pressure has definitely got to most of the players. Sometimes strengths become weaknesses if not used wisely, and passion and desire just seem to have turned into desperation in the past week for this club.

Shouts for Neil Warnock on GOT. End of days stuff. My sides hurt from laughing.

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It's not his fault he's got short arms.

The thing that is always the hardest for me is just reading the list of names and ages. We lost a mate there, I was 19, he was 20, I was just luckier than him, getting there 10 mins or so earlier - another mate who I was with on the same day has also passed away since, he was never the same again and lost his life to drink. I look through the list and see how many people who died who were around our age. We hadn't started our lives, they never got to have them. This wasn't a few unfortunate old people caught up in something a bit out of hand, these were people in the peak of life, destroyed for nothing more than football fans being thought of as a sub-human.

Israelis are not all jews and not all jews are Israeli. Not sure how Israeli voting patterns can be used to excuse comments about the "victimhood" of people over the course of hundreds of years. Riley's a fucking idiot by the way. "I wasn't using prejudice to assign blame for an unfolding tragedy before knowing all the facts, I was just deflecting attention from said tragedy to fearmonger about potential tragedies that I actually would (potentially) care about". Great, that's all absolutely fine and perfectly normal then... edit: and totally believable, of course.

Remembrance of the disaster was the theme at church yesterday so my son asked what happened. I explained, then he asked what happened to the police officers who presided over it. The look on his face when I said "nothing" was heartbreaking. Even now, innocence is being lost. RIP.

May the 97 RIP YNWA 35 years ago today and Justice is still denied. They will never be Forgotten

It goes from bad to worse as a second home defeat in four days has put the Reds right up against it now in the title race. Arsenal's defeat softens the blow somewhat but City are the big winners this weekend and now sit top. We've seen how this movie ends. TLW Editor Dave Usher is joined by Paul Natton and John Gallagher to try to make sense of it all. View full article

I have noticed a big amount of our shots are blocked every game, so I wanted to look into it and try and find a reason for why this is. The fact is that so far this season 28,46% of our shots in the league have been blocked. Do we take too many shots when a pass could have been a better option? Do teams defend better against us or do their players sacrifice more against us than other teams? Do we get too narrow in our play, something that leads to the opposition being able to crowd our players and its own box? Do we need to be more direct to catch our opponents off balance and with more space? Do we need to attack more out wide and create more cut backs? Do we need to switch play more often to create space and better goal scoring opportunities? Or what is the reason for this? The stats so far this season show that we are the team who by far takes the most shots. 1. Liverpool - 650 shots 2. Man City - 596 shots 3. Arsenal - 535 shots 4. Tottenham - 490 shots 5. Brighton - 482 shots 6. Aston Villa - 462 shots 7. Newcastle - 450 shots 7. Bournemouth - 450 shots 9. Man Utd - 449 shots 10. Fulham - 448 shots When it comes to shots blocked this is how its looked like in all our games in the league this season, we have had 8 shots or more blocked in 10 of our 32 games already, that is a really high number, the only time we have blocked more than 8 shots ourselves was against Tottenham when we got two red cards. To make it easier I will put our blocked shots first both for home and away games: 13/08: Chelsea away: 5-2 19/08: Bournemouth home: 8-1 27/08: Newcastle away: 2-4 (Van Dijk sent off after 28 minutes) 03/09: Aston Villa home: 3-0 16/09: Wolves away: 3-2 24/09: West Ham home: 7-3 30/09: Tottenham away: 3-12 (Jones sent off after 26 minutes, Jota after 69 min) 08/10: Brighton away: 5-6 21/10: Everton home: 11-1 29/10: Nottingham home: 4-4 05/11: Luton away: 6-1 12/11: Brentford home: 3-4 25/11: Man City away: 2-7 03/12: Fulham home: 6-3 06/12: Sheff Utd away: 2-2 09/12: Crystal P away: 5-2 17/12: Man Utd home: 13-1 23/12: Arsenal home: 4-5 26/12: Burnley away: 3-1 01/01: Newcastle home: 12-1 21/01: Bournmouth away: 4-6 31/01: Chelsea home: 9-0 04/02: Arsenal away: 2-5 (Konate sent off 88th minute) 10/02: Burnley home: 9-1 17/02: Brentford away: 2-2 21/02: Luton home: 8-6 02/03: Nottingham away: 11-3 10/03: Man City home: 4-2 31/03: Brighton home: 10-2 04/04: Sheff Utd home: 5-0 07/04: Man Utd away: 9-2 14/04: Crystal P home: 5-2 Total blocked shots: 185 - 91 I will look at the numbers for City and Arsenal as well, to check if there is any relevance to all this, maybe there is not.

I don’t understand how anyone can justify just a two point deduction for financial cheating, it’s less points taken away than one win will give you. its like living in a reality where spending more money than you have on players does not matter and those players don’t give you an advantage. Its farcical really.

A wank, I think.

I don’t think there’s an ‘anti Rachel Riley’ agenda. Her words actions and behaviours speak for themselves. Shes a massive, hypocritical racist who used an event to fit her agenda. ‘This is what global intifada which is called for on our streets’ looks like. Bullshit. Scaremongering. She’s a nasty nasty piece of work

Racist gobshite.

Just for Riley’s information. Faraz Tahir. Muslim. Security guard at the Australian mall stabbing. Killed trying to save lives.

I didn’t say it was mathematically gone. It still isn’t. But it’s gone. If you can’t see that, I can’t help you.

Come on mate, it's a fucking miracle we've got as far as we have this season. And it's been down to pure determination and mentality. We've come from behind so often and had a shit load of injuries and mostly to key players in the team. I don't think there's a doubt there's a change in klopp from what we can see. It started with his pre match press conferences being a bit lighter. But as time has gone on, you can see in his reaction to games, some of his intensity has gone. Which is natural I think. Is it possible then that's the same when he's with the players. Well I'd say so. Does it rub off on players? Well it's almost impossible to know. What we do know is klopp has been a wonderful motivator (amongst other things) during his time here. If that's diminished, well maybe what we're seeing now is just how good these players will be without klopp and a little window into next season. There's more to it than all that for me though - in fact I'd say the injuries have played a bigger part, if these returning players had just been back a couple of weeks earlier, I think it might have made all the difference. We've seen since the international break a bit of a drop off in those players who'd done brilliantly for a couple of months, endo, Gomez, quansah, Bradley, kelleher and we just don't have these returning players back to match sharpness in time, with really only robbo looking that way and he's been back for 2 months. Now we're behind city and in this type of form, it's a story we've seen before where they just go off and win what's left in front of them. But hopefully we can dig in, get some sharpness back into the legs of Trent and Jota particularly but Dom too, and see if we can win that final 6 and at least force city to the line.

It's just not an intelligent team. Matip, Gini, Fabio, Firmino et al had nous. Not enough of them with it now.

Loved Paul’s ‘Pep’ rant!

I've just got the one. I call him Tiny. He's my newt.

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Sky calling it a Sticky Toffee Drubbing. Not bad for them.

God I can't stand this Chelsea team. All Instagram type cunts. Hope they only score ten.

I've got two pet Newts I've had for 19 years and I resent that slur on their behalf.

2000/1 I even get a good night kiss tonight She’s raging

I know it might be a bit revolutionary, but I would pick the best team available for every game we play, and stop disappearing up our own arseholes worrying about what might happen in four games time.

The way it was and should still be.

Do you deny it?

Fair play

Apparently it's something to do with a mentally ill white man murdering women in Australia.

She absolutely reeks of a middle England High School girl scorned. Probably went on a school trip to Paris hoping and praying to get ridden by Chad Cholmondly-Chopper, the Captain of the Rugby team, who laughed at her as she was screaming "Pllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaase, you can even cum in my eyes". Then, after 3 cans of Top Deck let Peter Crump, the dullest, ugliest lad on the trip, finger her and woke up feeling disgusted with herself and the world. When she got home, she got her shit together, pulled up every nasty strand and fibre of her being up from her bootlaces after a lecture from her Tory parents about 'making her own way in the world and Conservatism as we know it being about ruthlessness and standing on your own two feet Elizabeth' and then decided that she was never, ever going to feel like that again and dedicate her life's work to being absolutely fucking horrible to as many people as possible. She's probably followed the life of Peter Crump, has a picture of him as a screensaver and uses that memory to spur her on to incredible feats of abhorrence to people like him, probably after ruining his life completely. The poor cunt is probably to this day wondering why every time he goes to Aldi that his debit card gets rejected. She's likely got a carved wooden plaque on the wall of her office that says "The only fingering that gets done in England is by me". The fucking useless, shit at life, bland, plain neurotic, unattractive at 40 odd idiot.

Not really seen anything positive of him since AFCON bar his cameo at Brentford, he looks weak as piss. Spends the entire game losing the ball more times than anyone in our squad, does absolutely nothing to help out defensively and gets pocketed by average fullbacks like Tyrick fucking Mitchell. Is it Tyrick or Tyrone? Ah who gives a fuck. Undoubtedly a legend, but for his and our own good.....this summer is the right time to move on.

What I have learned from this thread: Hotdogs and Coke: bad Pies and Bovril: good,

If Arsenal are still in it so are fucking we

Mrs HL started making her own sourdough a couple of weeks ago. This is the second loaf of a twin batch baked today.

One of the easiest tastiest veggie scrans around this one. Halloumi cut in half, smeared with crunchy chilli oil/sauce wrapped in tinfoil. Bung it on a roasting tray surrounded by small spuds, sliced onion, mushrooms, toms, and courgette tossed in salt n pepper and a teaspoon of oil. Bake in oven for 30 minutes.

Fucking bellend.

I was right that Paul would set the right tone. Straight off the bat he nails it and at the same time explains perfectly that other reds are entitled to feel any emotion they want. That's not me being smug btw, great stuff again lads, loved the Little gag at the end although in an hour the truth behind that joke will start annoying me.

When it matters? I guess it's not mattered in the last 29 years then.

Out of rep unfortunately, every word is spot on. I think there needs to be a little bit perspective here, especially considering where we were last season. I did not even dream of a title challenge but here we are, somehow, in a title challenge in mid April. The VAR decisions, injuries have all taken a toll on the team unfortunately. Less than 2 months ago, we were playing a bunch of kids in a major cup final FFS! Arsenal have been there or thereabouts for a couple of years and despite spending £100m on Rice, they are destined to end the season potless. Again. If Klopp is not leaving in the summer I think the perspective will be clearer but the emotions around that has sucked everyone in. Title is gone for me but I hope to fuck the players have some energy left for the next few games. Most of them look shattered, playing through tired, injured bodies and I have no idea how they are going to lift themselves. I hope they do. Somehow,

Yes, e/w on him and Fleetwood. Not bad for me. My backing of golfers, usually consigns them to a free weekend.