Chris

Best game – 7-0 obvi. Worst game – 5-2 vs Real Madrid. Soul destroying. Best goal scored – Mac Allister vs Fulham Worst goal scored – Can't remember Best goal conceded – Can't remember Worst goal conceded – The Joel OG vs Spurs. Killer. Player of 2023 – Alisson Most improved player of 2023 – Joe Gomez Best young player of 2023 – Harvey Elliott Most disappointing player of 2023 – Darwin Nunez Biggest overall disappointment of 2023 – Jordan Henderson Predicted best player of 2024 – Mo Salah All teams Player of the year – Bellingham Young player of the year – Bellingham Game of the year – Probably that Chelsea City 4-4 Goal of the year – Garnacho vs the blues, prob. Player you hate the most – Silva Player you’d love Liverpool to sign – Saka

Brilliant. Love it how an old video of the footy not only takes you back but revives the full memory of what you were doing at the time, where you were, who you were with and where you were at in life. Nothing like it.

Totally agree about that cunt Scott Williams. Thought he was a smug, silly cunt even before today and that's just cemented it. Called him out on Twitter about it and it sent up the Gammon version of the bat symbol and they all came wading in at me.

So his goals per minute in those 12 games? Zero goals per minute. No-one's trying to "do him dirty". That's your problem right there. Seeing every criticism as some sort of unjust attack on him when it's perfectly valid. People are just pointing out stuff to rebuff your ridiculous Trumpian doubling down on being dead wrong about him in the face of all evidence. And then clinging to the exception that proves the rule as if it's some kind of validation for you. Your preoccupation with being proven right supersedes any rational judgement you have in almost all cases. Ok, so fair enough, there were some long droughts for top strikers, I was dead wrong about that. But perhaps the reason I (and probably very few people) can't pluck them out is because they weren't an essential question as part of broader questions about a bloke who should be entering his prime years, is the club record signing, and has one of the worst chance conversion rates going. For Shearer, Kane, Rooney, etc; they were remarkable, freakish barren spells for players who made their nut as centre forwards scoring record amounts of goals for their clubs and country. Not someone who's got five (while being offside 16 times) despite being involved in all but one of our 19 league games this season and has three goals in games he's started, despite having about 20 of the types of chances top forwards dream of. And hitting the word work instead of finding the corners is not unlucky, it's indicative. It's about precision and instinct in key moments. No-one says Michael van Gerwen is unlucky when he hits the wire when going for double 16, or Ronnie O'Sullivan is unlucky when he skims the knuckle on a tough pot. They're so great because it goes inside the wire/pocket more often than players who aren't as good. But you won't have that because it's "doing me boy dirty." I look forward to repeating this argument after the next 12 games when he's probably got another 2 goals to his name, if we're lucky. If he goes on to prove me dead wrong and grabs ten there'll be no-one happier than me.

I remember when I moved to the states and we were deciding where to get a quick bite. I said I'd never had Chipotle (and pronounced it Chip-ottle to rhyme with bottle) She's never let me live it down.

I'm not sure whether this is a compliment or a diss!

Torres was absolutely shit for Chelsea. Forlan was a joke for United for the most part, until he got that double against us at Anfield. I'll give you the others. Apart from the International football ones, because it's shite.

He's being ridiculous yet again with his attempts to conflate CROY-SUNT and PA-REE. Paris with an 's' is the universally-accepted pronunciation anywhere in the English speaking world. This is specific to place names. We aren't taught to pronounce place names in the native tongue. We either have our own words for them (Germany and Deutschland) or we have Anglicised phonetic pronunciations of them (like Paris instead of Paree or France instead of Fronce). That's just the way it is. For foods native to the country of origin, the custom is to use the pronunciation of item. Croissant, quiche, coq au vin, crepes, tarte tatin, bourguignon. No-one sounds like a knobhead for doing so. Him pronouncing it croy-sunt is like calling pizza pizz-a. I'm passed being mildly exasperated about it now and I'm fully enraged.

He started six of the eight league games he went scoreless, played another 90 against West Ham in the cup. So that's seven of the 12 scoreless he started in. But his goals per minutes are still great, according to his Dad on the podcast. I'm gonna need a little bit more than an "I seem to recall" when it comes to other top strikers in top, high-scoring teams having 12 game scoreless streaks too. I don't remember that happening. It didn't happen to the best of them.

Feel better soon mate. If it's any consolation, I've felt loads better this afternoon after another rough morning.

Bernt Leno assaulting the ball boy in the Fulham vs Bournemouth game. What a prick!

Quite simply, the best Liverpool player I've seen.

I would absolutely love to go to the Boxing Day Test at the MCG. One of the great games at one of the great, global, sporting cathedrals.

Well, I've been feeling like ass since I flew back to the States from home last week. Seems to be something you have to accept if you're going to participate in air travel these days. I didn't see the point in doing the test (even though I suspected it) before because whether it was Covid or not I didn't see the difference, I was sick, it sucked, I was clearly contagious, so I stayed out of everyone's way. My symptoms changed today. Hot flushes, headache, nausea. I'd already ruled myself out of going to the in-laws (which got me in the doghouse), so I just did the test out of curiosity. Yep. Covid. Another Christmas in the trenches.

Just reading through the Ian Rush thread brought this back to mind. One of the best things ever to happen in footy. Just absolutely brilliant. a

Listened to the pod again today – I was in and out of a sickness induced stupor first time around and I'm one of those 2x listeners on pods I'm not on – and Dan playing down Trent's pass as wind-assisted cracked me up. What a guy.

Boy do I feel like shit about being upset with Jurgen over his comments on the atmosphere in the week. We've had some truly great men represent the club. Kenny, Shanks, Bob... he's on a par with any of them.

Yet another reason why I always go in for the hug. Even if it's the shake-hug.

nice post. I suppose it also comes down to the fact Mo was still very much finding his feet as a player into his mid 20s where as Rushy probably had more than 100 of his goals by then. Incredible longevity. Mo has a chance to play at the top level for longer than Rush did, but probably not with us. Hope I’m wrong. Cant believe there are people saying we should cash in on him. And what? Buy another Nunez, Gakpo or Diaz. We’re whiffing on big signings at the moment and I don’t have any faith that selling Mo would lead to automatically getting a new younger Mo. Fuck that. Anyway. This is about Rushie. What a man.

So you've gone from none of the animals to, like, all of them?

Because an air fryer is essentially a convection oven? EDIT: This has already been pointed out.

If you're gonna criticise the crowd on Wednesday, you better fucking make sure your team are ready to fly out of the traps three days later and at the very least match the intensity of the opposition.

Just lately, in light of Salah's achievement in reaching 200, it's really come into focus just how phenomenal Rushie's goalscoring exploits were. After everything Mo's done he'd need to another 75 percent of his current tally to get to Rush. How the fuck did he do it? Be so prolific for so long.