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Click bait headlines for the s*n on the radio. Typical knuckledragger stuff catering to the outraged masses who would still want the season cancelled even if it were their team that was 25 points clear with 75% of the season played. Right. Watch, if the season gets voided, how many start shouting for a relaxation of the lockdown. Probably the same morons who’ve been breaking the rules every weekend since it was enforced.

Caught this on radio city earlier today, apparently if FIFA/UEFA decide to make changes such as 5 substitutes then that’s changing the rules during a season and should therefore void the season. Y’see it would give teams with massive squads, like City and those at the top of the league, a huge advantage over those with smaller squads, like Burnley for instance and would skew results in their favour(???). Of course the season should be voided anyway as the pandemic has reduced football to a meaningless side issue and it would benefit only a tiny minority for it to continue in any shape or form. No prizes for guessing who the contributor supported.

Triggers brush.......

What a shame. I really liked Robbo, wasn’t only a player, but was a fan of ours too. Genuine, proper fella. Sad. R.I.P. Michael.

I’ve had two of them today fuming that: - a) the FAPL are so far up our arse that they’ll put people’s lives at risk to ensure we win the title or b) we should do the honourable and moral thing and make the FAPL’s life easier by telling them we are withdrawing from this seasons title race. It’s the right thing to do. Accompanying these observations were the backup facts that if it was City, it’d been called off weeks ago, had we not insisted in playing Atletico, fewer people would’ve died. Also, every other league in Europe are voiding their seasons so we should too.(?) They’re starting to fray around the edges I think.

They forget, we don’t have morals, they are the only club in the world with morals, they have been spouting that for years and years and years and ye.............zzzzzzz

They’ll probably claim Ballotelli was an influence on him.

Loved Alonso and thought he might have been more influential for us had he stayed, but the Barry incident with Rafa, and the effect that H&G had in our best players leaving put paid to that. Molby though was different Class. Fabulous player at a great time for us.

Death threats, if true and from LFC supporters are never right, but there’ll always be keyboard shithouses who think it’s big and hard to do that. The best thing that can be said about Karius (and Mignolet before him to a degree) is that as far as goalkeepers are concerned, you should always get the best you can and not persevere with dross. Their performances brought about Alisson’s arrival, so every cloud and all that........

They have Sir Kenny Dalglish to call on if they had wanted to know how shit like this might go down. There are plenty of supporters groups, the Captain, and pretty much any season ticket holder all of who could’ve give the owners some idea of what their intent might have reaped. They have all their telephone numbers pretty much. Makes you wonder who thought this might have been even the remotest of good ideas.

Biggest own goal ever. A backtrack now would probably look even worse, unless it was stated the “furlough” in American terms might be construed differently and 100% wages were from the club solely. Jesus H Christ.

Well Joe, its oft been said that the League is a marathon and not a sprint (and I’m not talking chocolate bars or cans of pop Joe!) so let’s say we assume that it is a marathon hey? If so it would be that the pack, led by Man City, would be at the 18 mile mark of the 26+ miles, and Liverpool are at the 25 mile point and still going strong, way ahead of the others. Does that make it any easier to understand why your suggestion is as thick as you are? Not that being on the staff at relegation threatened West Ham has skewed your judgement hey?

If a game is more than 75% completed and is abandoned, isn’t there some rule that says the result stands? We’re 75% through 38 games. Just saying.

This. Sky seem to have cornered the market on those who begrudge our club anything. Thankfully the rest of the media is all Pro-Liverpool. What?..

You’ll be able to figure out what peole will be doing in 9 months time when there’s a baby boom! At least the Everton wives should be safe for a while, every cloud eh?

Can see Euro2020 being delayed for a year, so Premier League suspended until after the peak of the outbreak (we’re in the delay period currently, so probably 4-6 weeks?) has passed and then reconvened to run late and through into the summer. I don’t think it’ll be scrapped, but nothing would surprise me to be honest.

He cost us the first goal in extra time when better finishing in the first 90 minutes would’ve seen us through. I’m not defending him, he’s a second choice for a reason, but as well as we played overall, we were shown up for not having the ruthlessness needed up front against top quality teams, and it’s that which needs addressing. We already have the best goalkeeper in the world in our squad.

“Everton aren’t we.” “Born not manufactured.” “Chosen.” I’m so, so thankful I wasn’t, you complete hoop.

Any other keeper is a downgrade on Alisson, so we should accept that first and foremost. However, the shot that Willian scored from and the one against Bournemouth that cannoned off Adrian for a corner, we’re both hit straight at him. He had his fists straight out in front of him for the Bournemouth one. If he can do that, then should be able to grab the ball into his chest, it’s basic goalkeeping. It seems loads of continental keepers do the punching thing rather than trying to catch the ball and I can’t figure out why, as the ball does move around and the fists are a smaller target and so it must be harder to accurately make contact with the ball to knock it away. Of course the solution is to not allow the opposition to take the shot in the first place.

Hardest game of the season this. Because it’s the next one. We’ll give it a good go, win ,lose or draw. That’s enough.

Fixed that for you.

It was a “clever” shove, if it can be described as that, as Wilson waited until Gomez was checking to play the ball before he shoved him. So Gomez lost his balance and that twat Tierney probably saw it as a nudge and no more from where he was. The thing is Mané did similar against Norwich recently and their CB threw himself over (as all Norwich’s players had been doing) and the ref ignored that too. I suppose you win some and you lose some, but VAR is supposed to be able to sort it out isn’t it?

Yet another game where we had over 70% possession (75% according to the BBC) and yet that scramble in our box near the end could’ve seen us being pegged back. Thankfully, we were able to see the game out and had Mane’s shot hit the post and gone in, it would’ve been a truer reflection of the game. We all know that we’re not playing anywhere near our best level, and haven’t done for some time, but we’re still going to win the league. Ideally, we’ll snap into it against Atletico on Wednesday, dump them out of the CL, then go on to twat the two blueshites and win the title against Palace at home. This season is not allowing us to think too far ahead though. Teams are setting up to frustrate us and rely on goals on the break, just at a time when our brilliant defence has stuttered and when Alisson has picked up an injury, so primarily, we need to get our defence back on track, today wasn’t too bad mostly and how that joke Tierney missed the shove on Gomez I don’t know. Our build up play has become more deliberate, but that doesn’t catch teams out, as Virgils ball to Mané did for the second goal, and if we’re going to see more negative tactics against us, then I’d like to see Gomez and Virgil carry the ball more to commit the opposition to have to come out at them which will make spaces for us to exploit. Lawrenson and Hansen used to do that back in the day and perhaps we could learn a little from those days. Also, whoever we have in midfield or up front, they should be encouraged to take more shots, as Mané did when he hit the post. It’s the old saying that if you don’t buy a ticket, you don’t win the lottery. Possession is one thing but unless you actually do something with it, then what’s the point? As I said earlier, thankfully we held out for the win, and getting the next 9 points might still prove to be more nerve wracking than we’d like it to be, but we will get there eventually. Getting behind the team will really help them, and more importantly, it’ll help us. Next.

Another disappointing game, we really look out of sorts and haven’t really played well since Leicester away. When things went against us at Watford and Chelsea we didn’t seem to have the ability to give ourselves a slap and say “Come on!”. Maybe we need to get a bit more ruthless? For instance, that run by Barclay? He wouldn’t have got past the centre circle had it been City. Even Chelsea, despite their recent tail off, they were ankle tapping and holding, standard Chelsea things, but we don’t seem to do that, certainly not as much as other teams do. I’m not condoning the “darker arts”, or applauding what City and Chelsea et al do, but we get bullied too much at times I think. Atlético’s shithousery proved that, and no doubt they will try to do it again in the return. We’ve come a long way being as we are, which is fabulous, but I think now and again, we need to show we won’t be taken for mugs by teams who will try it on to disrupt us with foul play.

I’m up at 5 in the morning, so fuck this, I’m off to bed. Next.