Red Sun Rising

(my mum still isn't having Lallana, in case you're wondering). I was - she's hard to please your Mum!

And through seven games there’s everything to suggest the Reds might be involved in it.

"If he were anything other than Dutch that would have been creepy as fuck."" japanese wife wants to know why i'm laughing out loud, where to begin!?

I read somewhere that we've scored more goals in 2016 than any other Prem team, Surpised me a little. Good report & analysis.

he thinks so, even pays for the opportunity

I watched the game again and there were plenty of positives. Klopp must be getting sick of saying it and no one seems to be taking it on board but without a pre-season this is pretty much what he expected. The big plus for me is there will be no drama in the summer, no bedding in period for a new manager, no getting to know the players blah blah and i suspect no major squad overhaul this time around. All that is being done now in front of our eyes. one or two signings he can trust from the get go is what i expect, and we will hit the ground running in August. Its the very reason Spurs are going like a train.

so united it is, that'll do me

excellent stuff

(on that note, get Danny Ward back now as he’s been ace for Aberdeen and is already better than Bogdan) "Liverpool have recalled the goalkeeper Danny Ward from his loan spell at Aberdeen after impressing while in Scotland. "Grauniad. Nice to see Klopps paid up to read the match reports!

"Then something happened that got the crowd back into it. One of their players decided to drop to the floor and feign injury to waste time and disrupt the flow of the game. While he was down, a chant started on the Kop. Then more and more joined in with it, and suddenly the ground was noisy and raucous. It felt like West Brom’s shithousery united the Kop. We couldn't lose to these cunts." Just quoted this in the game thread. This is interesting, Klopp's not just trying to fix the players, he's trying to fix the 45k in the stadium, fucking loon and we are beyond lucky to have him.

It’s almost as though he’s never even been away as his performance in the hour he played was just fucking filthy. nail on head.

Since taking over Liverpool have been defeated only once in 10 games under Klopp yet the German showed his perfectionism when considering whether this constituted a good start. “Sometimes I would like to change my personality but I can’t forget this fucking loss against Crystal Palace, if we won this then I would say OK,” That's pure Shankly

happy to be looking forward to match reports again. MoM Klopp indeed. Just watched the NBC interview in the match thread and the remarkable thing for me is how many things in the performance he's not happy about, reminds me of Bob Paisley in that respect.

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spot on apart from the Owen thing - wtf.

we've done it in the past few seasons so I hear where you are coming from, but after only 3 weeks, I'm struggling to imagine a team managed by Klopp choking anything other than the opposition.

thanks Woo, much as I'm glad the club acted fast in this situation, Brendan's team that year made me smile, made me love the game. No hard feelings to the man, did his best. as always, any obituary in management isn't complete until the new guy gets his feet under the table

"Presumably the players knew that their manager’s job was on the line" I think the issue was more that he was dead man walking and the players knew it, maybe have known for a while. Take it a step further and It's not beyond the realm of possibility that they'd had enough of him and were playing accordingly. I'm sure Gerrard's next book will update us.

it's really really ugly all around, he's lost the crowd and the players, there's only one fix.

Sitting in the ANA lounge in Tokyo waiting for a flight to Bangkok and getting some very fuuny looks after the snorting gin & tonic down your nose laugh out loud last paragraph

which bit is the rejoicing bit?

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nice one John, thats more like it.

That last paragraph is so far removed from how I feel and think - the absence of joy in what has been done and the deep suspicion of the man who is responsible - yikes. and it was Twain not Wilde

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