Liverpool Thread 2013/14 (continued)

[Pam]

Had Red Fred paid out to everyone betting on United for the 2013/14 title yet?

He actually paid back all the bets that people had made on that shite to win the league as he 'felt sorry' for them.

No joke.

I just googled it. What an utter twat. I hope he goes bust one day and ends up in prison for betting irregularities.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I hope he goes bust one day.

Don't hold your breath.

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

Just read this in rawk, they're mental. Imagine if we did another aguero situation on Sunday.

I have arrived here from the future. I wanted to post the BBC Article I read on this beautiful Monday morning May 12.


Reds March to Miracle Title Win

The dust has settled from a miraculous day of football and we're still coming to terms with the events that transpired yesterday. Liverpool Football Club are the champions of the Premier League 13/14. Steven Gerrard hoisted the trophy above his head on an day where Liverpool, a team fond of reminding us that miracles can indeed happen, reminded us again why we love this game. A tearful Brendan Rodgers was interviewed shortly after the final whistle. The Liverpool manager was quite literally lost for words, having written off his team's chances in his post-match interview after the Crystal Palace game. In the end he managed to utter one word before joining his players in celebration. "Unbelievable"

Indeed no description is more apt for what occurred in a frantic ten minutes of football.

The afternoon at Anfield started with a proud set of Liverpool supporters greeting the team coach as they have done for a number of weeks. This was originally viewed as a way supporting the players despite losing their grip on the title, rather than a defiant last stand. A similar vibe reverberated inside the ground as Liverpool fans sung proudly of their players and their manager. The atmosphere couldn't extend to the players performance as the Liverpool players looked slow and sluggish, perhaps fatigued from a long season using a small squad and feeling a morale hangover from Crystal Palace. The home fans were silenced when Newcastle's Loic Remy gave the away side the lead from a corner on the 22nd minute. However Liverpool's Luis Suarez leveled the scores from a free kick at the edge of the box just shy of Half Time.

There was a contrasting atmosphere at the Etihad. The City fans were strangely subdued from the nervy weight of expectation. The players themselves were uncharacteristically lack luster not really carving out a clear cut chance in the first half against a stubborn West Ham defense. Nerves seemed to set in for the City players in the second half as they forced balls into the box and the fans grunted and sighed at every mistimed tackle, every poorly placed pass. On the 81st minute Vincent Kompany was yellow carded for going through the back of Andy Carroll to win a header. The free kick was given forty yards out, to the right of Man City's box. Stuart Downing hovered over the ball, shaped to hit an in-swinger. He floated one in. The Etihad held its breath. Andy Carroll met the ball ten yards out with a ferocious header that beat Joe Hart at the inside of the post.

The loudest cheer came, not from the West Ham fans, but from Liverpool fans. The Liverpool defenders passed it along the back line with no real urgency when Anfield erupted. There was a collective glance from red shirt to red shirt. Brendan Rodgers signaled something to Steven Gerrard and then Steven Gerrard had a word with his players. The cheers of the Liverpool fans didn't stop, they kept the same level of noise in an atmosphere unheard at Anfield since the days of the standing Kop. Then came the onslaught. Newcastle had to endure wave after wave of attack as Liverpool went to a gear not found previously in the game. On the 85th minute Martin Skrtel put a glancing header a yard wide of the far post and on the 87th Krul made a fantastic low save from a Daniel Sturridge effort. It went into stoppage time and it looked like it just wasn't to be Liverpool's day.

Amid all the noise somehow Anfield found another level. Something had happened.

At the Etihad, City are throwing everything at West Ham. They push everyone forward for a corner then West Ham break. Kevin Nolan drives into the City half and sends a cross field ball to Andy Carroll who springs from his own half. He's onside. He's one on one. Joe Hart comes out to him and makes himself big. But Andy Carroll stays cool, he toe pokes the ball from twenty yards past Joe Hart and it smashes into the top of the net to make it 2-0.

Again Rodgers relays the information to his players. They're into the last minutes, the dying embers of the game. The Liverpool fans sing their hearts out trying to suck the ball in the net. But they can't. Somebody on the pitch has to do it. Raheem Sterling runs down the line. He sends a dangerous ball into the six yard box. Newcastle clear. It comes to Suarez. He tries to beat his man but Newcastle hoof it away. Steven Gerrard picks it up on the halfway line and drives forward. He's looking for a pass, looking for a run to float it in, but the Liverpool fans shout "shoot."

Steven Gerrard obliges

He smashes the ball into the top corner from thirty five yards. Anfield goes ballistic. Grown men are in tears. Steven Gerrard is visibly shaking with emotion but he tries to keep calm. He tells his troops to get back into shape. Liverpool reorganize. Newcastle send a ball in right from the kick off but Liverpool clear. They send another and another but Liverpool still manage. Anfield is begging for the whistle to arrive. Brendan Rodgers is giving the fourth official an earful. Martin Skrtel lumps one up the field and Luis Suarez gives chase. Newcastle are caught here. Anfield stand up off their chairs in expectancy. Luis Suarez is the coolest man in the pitch as he slots it past Krul to make it 3-1. Anfield can barely contain itself. The final whistle goes and is somehow heard beneath the wall of noise. Liverpool fans flood the pitch in pure ecstasy. Most Liverpool fans are red faced shell-shocked and in tears.

What the actual fuck is it with them?

Liverpool manager was quite literally lost for words,

That will never happen,this fucker has a portrait of himself in every room at home.

Only so he never forgets what a twat looks like.

 

[bluethrunthru]

What the actual fuck is it with them?

Liverpool manager was quite literally lost for words,

That will never happen,this fucker has a portrait of himself in every room at home.

Only so he never forgets what a twat looks like.

Funny thing is in all their deluded fantasies Andy Carroll features as the player that is going to do for us. Why?I thought they hated the twat?

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

That will never happen,this fucker has a portrait of himself in every room at home.

Only so he never forgets what a twat looks like.

Funny thing is in all their deluded fantasies Andy Carroll features as the player that is going to do for us. Why?I thought they hated the twat?

Apparently, old Andy can't wait to help out the manager that didn't give him a fucking chance when he was at dipperpool. Makes sense.

 

[dario2739]

Only so he never forgets what a twat looks like.

Funny thing is in all their deluded fantasies Andy Carroll features as the player that is going to do for us. Why?I thought they hated the twat?

Apparently, old Andy can't wait to help out the manager that didn't give him a fucking chance when he was at dipperpool. Makes sense.

And all those dippers forever on Talkshite saying he wasn't good enough for them!

 

[mscenterh750]

Yellow ticker on SSN says, the righteous ones want to sign lallana before the world cup starts.

I thought they never spend a penny!.

 

[foetus]

Yellow ticker on SSN says, the righteous ones want to sign lallana before the world cup starts.

I thought they never spend a penny!.

It's not 'oil money' so it doesn't count as spending.

 

[bluemonkey71]

I have 3 envelopes in front of me. Inside are the names of people that will let the club down.

Brendan, why is your name in the envelope?

 

[mscenterh750]

Yellow ticker on SSN says, the righteous ones want to sign lallana before the world cup starts.

I thought they never spend a penny!.

It's not 'oil money' so it doesn't count as spending.

Must've scraped together all the dipper dole money.