crazyg
Well-Known Member
It's looking increasingly likely that, including this season, Liverpool will still be only 35.3 miles from holding he Premier League trophy!
(Source: Google Earth maps)
(Source: Google Earth maps)
This isn't going to start flattening out until the end of May at the earliest. Then it's going to need 4 weeks for the players to get back to full fitness. So the end of June is absolutely the most optimistic opportunity to restart the season. I'd say there's a 75-80% chance the season is over.
Discovered something earlier. The company that owns AS Roma is American and one of the main people in that company is called Thomas DiBenedetto. He's a partner in FSG, Liverpool's owner, and was chairman at Roma for a while after the takeover in 2011. The current chairman at Roma is Italian-American James Pallotta. He has no overt connection to FSG but he is a Bostonian and is friendly with the FSG people. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/fsg-viewing-liverpools-champions-league-14538417
The other two owners are Michael Ruane, another Bostonian who is big in real estate and Richard D'Amore, from - you guessed it - Boston.
Liverpool beat Roma in a high-scoring CL Semi Final in 2017/18. They also got Salah from there. Interesting.
This isn't going to start flattening out until the end of May at the earliest. Then it's going to need 4 weeks for the players to get back to full fitness. So the end of June is absolutely the most optimistic opportunity to restart the season. I'd say there's a 75-80% chance the season is over.
I'm actually going to defend the dippers on this point and blame uefa/TV. The dips were leggy as fuck and had been for a couple of weeks as klopps kick and rush long ball tactics were finally starting to take their toll on his miraculously fit squad. I think they would have gladly accepted postponement of this fixture.
They were presumably awaiting guidance from the Government at that point. I think it’s a bit shitty to put this on Liverpool. Not the time for petty point-scoring.but once it wasn't postponed, both them and Atletico had an option to make it at least a game without fans, but they both wanted fans. Guess Liverpool wanted it much more, you know the famous european nights. They deliberately caused a huge risk to public health for a possible gain of winning the football match.
They were presumably awaiting guidance from the Government at that point. I think it’s a bit shitty to put this on Liverpool. Not the time for petty point-scoring.