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Even if there was a double-touch, surely it's against the 'spirit of the game' to punish a player for slipping? I remember it happening in the 2004 League Cup final (can't remember what happened yesterday etc) and I'm pretty sure it was explained away, correctly in my opinion, on the basis that the rule isn't there to cover this kind of event. I wouldn't give odds on that explanation being pedalled if the roles were reversed.

The last time Liverpool clinched the title at Anfield, against QPR in 1990, the match was on RTÉ and we recorded it. I must have watched the last few minutes of that game hundreds of times in the years that followed. Even now, the memory of ripple that went around the ground to announce that Norwich had equalised against Villa, after being 3-1 down, is one that brings a smile to my face. If it happens in that manner this year, I will be there. 14-year-old me can't believe it.

Do you sense malice in the reaction? I have a theory that the derangement is more informed by schadefreude at Liverpool's woes throughout most of the Premier League era. While 'the Premier League era' is often a frustrating concept for us with its implication of football only starting in 1992, I think it is useful in delineating the time before broadcast media, and more recently social media, usurped the print media as the repository of the narrative for the game. And throughout the period, football fans up and down the country could look at Liverpool as a sadder shower of sacks than they were, It really crystallised during the 2014 title run when I watched Arsenal fans in the forums I frequented lose their collective goddamn minds at the prospect of Liverpool winning the title, all long before AFTV. Then along came Klopp, and here we are, It's still pathetic, but at least it ain't based on hostility to everything Scouse. Although I may be overthinking it and it's simple bigotry.

Proper ISS Pro vibes to those names:

Nah, to 'everton' is to hope Liverpool lose even if it's a bad result for Everton. I hope Man Utd win tomorrow because it will be a good result for Liverpool.

Oh ye of little faith,

The benefit is that your head has fallen off, lid. And if you think your head has not fallen off, that shows your head has fallen off. Lid.

I've gone for Fulham in the spirit of look-what-you-could-have-won.

If you have a Champions League wage bill and you don't make the Champions League, you're gonna lose money. Football's business model is that of the madhouse.

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb - Brendan Behan

Perhaps evening kickoffs really do matter, because the successive home games against Wolves and Newcastle might as well have been played on opposite sides of the Moon (insert Darwin reference from Dave here).

"We've won the League, we'll win the Cup in about 20 years time".

People ridicule the likes of Troopz and his ilk for their apocalyptic take on Arsenal's fortunes. I wonder what the reaction would be if he said "one game at a time fam, this isn''t over yet blud'. Based on this thread, he would be hailed as a voice of reason.

If you think shooting up a bar advances any cause for freedom, you need your head examined.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die - Mel Brooks