Liverpool Thread - 2021/22

[the blue panther]

haha, i know what you mean.

I'm not a fan of any of those lines of thought. IF we scored, then you might have reacted tenfold and scored 2/3 more. And by the way, IF we hadn't missed sitters in some of the prior games we would have won by many points etc etc etc.

It does illustrate the fine margins of title races tho. It's not unreasonable to say that IF JS hadn't made that clearance, that the title race may have gone differently.

But 'if's' don't quite cut it because at the end of the day, no one cares :) and its not logical to blame a loss on one moment when its a accumulation of many moments.

Exactly -well said.

 

[mexico1970]

The irony of this. We don’t matter, yet he pens a 4 paragraph rant about us. Fucking idiot.

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Re: Man City - the Lisbon Lyons, the Porto Pussycats, the Bernabeu Bottlers​

« Reply #25732 on: Today at 10:34:21 am »

Quote from: El Lobo on Today at 09:48:13 am

On both sides of the coin it all comes down to no one caring about city.

For other fans, even for their most hated local rivals, it doesn't matter at all that city win the league, because every person bar the abu dhabi twitter bots know why they win the league, and know the day the sheikhs ride into the sunset that city won't even exist. It's so, so easy to dismiss. They're a complete irrelevance.

And for city it's that desperation for people to care, to be hated or respected in the way we are. But it's never going to happen. They could win the next 20 leagues and no one will care because everyone knows what its built on. When Chelsea got their money, they kind of became a supercharged version of themselves - it all kind of fitted. City have even more money, but they've just become a completely different entity, unrecognizable from what they really are. And a really strange entity at that, with a brilliant but uncomfortable man at the helm.

When I see Pep talking about Colin Bell or Mike Sumerbee I just laugh. There isn't a single chance he knew or cared for Man City's history prior to them offering him wheelbarrows full of cash. It's so false and akward. But admitting what they are - what they really are - is even more unpleasant. They'll never, ever have any respect because they'll never matter.

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Quote from: Nobby Reserve on March 7, 2019, 02:16:00 pm

When we win on Sunday (And we will) this fucknut will blow a bollock with rage.

 

[bluejon]

The irony of this. We don’t matter, yet he pens a 4 paragraph rant about us. Fucking idiot.

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Re: Man City - the Lisbon Lyons, the Porto Pussycats, the Bernabeu Bottlers​

« Reply #25732 on: Today at 10:34:21 am »

Quote from: El Lobo on Today at 09:48:13 am

On both sides of the coin it all comes down to no one caring about city.

For other fans, even for their most hated local rivals, it doesn't matter at all that city win the league, because every person bar the abu dhabi twitter bots know why they win the league, and know the day the sheikhs ride into the sunset that city won't even exist. It's so, so easy to dismiss. They're a complete irrelevance.

And for city it's that desperation for people to care, to be hated or respected in the way we are. But it's never going to happen. They could win the next 20 leagues and no one will care because everyone knows what its built on. When Chelsea got their money, they kind of became a supercharged version of themselves - it all kind of fitted. City have even more money, but they've just become a completely different entity, unrecognizable from what they really are. And a really strange entity at that, with a brilliant but uncomfortable man at the helm.

When I see Pep talking about Colin Bell or Mike Sumerbee I just laugh. There isn't a single chance he knew or cared for Man City's history prior to them offering him wheelbarrows full of cash. It's so false and akward. But admitting what they are - what they really are - is even more unpleasant. They'll never, ever have any respect because they'll never matter.

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Quote from: Nobby Reserve on March 7, 2019, 02:16:00 pm

like an ex who constantly messages you to tell you that she's over you. we've really hurt them it seems.

 

[mac]

One thing you notice about Liverpool is they have a lot more strength in depth now, they can have Jota or Firminho on the bench and send them on and change a game. Will be interesting to see if they cash in on either Mane or Salah and then refresh the squad with a few more players.

I reckon at least one is off
They are not paying all that money out on wages for 3 striker's to sit on the bench
Whether it's Salah or Mane one will be going .

 

[RayCTID]

So please explain with 20 minutes to go why they didn’t have a go ????? I can understand keeping it tight for 65/70 minutes but to not even have a go was fooking shameful..............honestly if the saints board no what’s good for them then they should fire him ASAP ...........if not then don’t expect a thing but relegation if he hangs around for a while next term

Read the second bit. Southampton had set themselves up for not getting beat heavily and if they had a real go they would of gotten ripped apart. They did to us at the Etihad and got a point (including having a penalty ruled out by VAR)

 

[LongsightM13]

like an ex who constantly messages you to tell you that she's over you. we've really hurt them it seems.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Tony Evans off his meds and back on the white lightning again?

Much as I despise Evans. He 100 per cent accurate about the Hillsborough disaster in that article and the politicians involvment.

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

Apologies for the long post. Not sure if this article was a piss take or serious:

Opinion: This is why Liverpool fans boo the national anthem and this is what would stop it (The Independent)

The contrast between Boris Johnson and Jurgen Klopp could not be starker. The Liverpool manager would make a great statesman. He is honest, takes responsibility, cares about people in worse situations than himself and does his best to contribute to a wider society.

The prime minister is the polar opposite.

When Klopp talks politics, it makes sense. When Johnson pontificates about football, it’s more of the same bluster that has characterised his entire career. On Monday, according to certain sections of the media, Johnson “slapped down” Klopp because the 54-year-old suggested it might be worth at least exploring the reasons why Liverpool fans booed the national anthem and the Queen’s grandson before the FA Cup final on Saturday. A spokesman said the prime minister disagreed with Klopp and called the behaviour of the supporters a “great shame”. It takes some fairly deranged spin to see this as a slap-down. Klopp probably hasn’t even noticed that he’s supposed to have been put in his place.

Like Klopp and Johnson, those who booed the anthem and those who were angered by the jeering are unlikely to find common ground. Will there ever be a time when Liverpool supporters embrace the patriotic experience?

The prime minister’s spokesman talked about shame, an emotion Johnson knows little about. He hasn’t any. Or empathy. The Spectator’s attack on Merseyside when under the 57-year-old’s editorship in 2004 is well known. The editorial column said that the people of Liverpool “see themselves whenever possible as victims, and resent their victim status; yet at the same time they wallow in it”. The article went on to repeat lies about Hillsborough.

What is less well known is Johnson’s supposed mea culpa in the next edition of The Spectator. Headlined “What I should say sorry for”, the piece was written from “a cold, damp three-star hotel in Liverpool” after the old Etonian was ordered to travel north to apologise by Michael Howard, who was then the leader of the Conservative Party (and a Liverpool fan, much to the embarrassment of many Kopites).

“Operation Scouse-grovel”, as the author describes it, is as obscene as the previous editorial. Johnson doubled down. He wrote: “Whatever its mistakes of facts and taste, for which I am sorry, last week’s leading article made a good point: about bogus sentiment, self-pity, risk, and our refusal to see that we may sometimes be the authors of our misfortunes.”

Almost every week Liverpool supporters hear the echo of the words of the man who holds the highest political office in the UK. “You killed your own fans.” “Always the victims.” “The Sun was right, you’re murderers.”

Is there a more “bogus sentiment” than becoming emotional about a national anthem? The royal family are the cornerstone of the class system. The idolisation of a dynastic institution that is completely distanced from ordinary people is bewildering for a large proportion of Liverpool supporters, especially those who have a close-up view of the growing poverty in the UK. The Fans Supporting Foodbanks initiative was founded outside Goodison Park and Anfield – it often gets overlooked that Evertonians are on the receiving end of anti-Scouse invective, too. Supporters of club after club come to Merseyside and rejoice in songs that mock poverty. Some Chelsea fans were chanting about hunger on Saturday. The Liverpool end booed institutional, inherited privilege. Guess which one the nation was outraged by? That was two days before the governor of the Bank of England warned of “apocalyptic” rises in food prices.

Hunger is at the centre of the historic perception of the people of Liverpool. The port, once known as “Torytown” and “the second city of the empire”, first fell out of step with the rest of England after the Potato Famine in the 1840s. Millions of starving Irish landed on the banks of the Mersey. Many stayed. The “othering” of Liverpool stretches back to the mid-19th century.

What does this have to do with football? A lot. The word “Scouse” is an insult that was reappropriated by those it was used against. In the poorest areas of Liverpool a century ago, the malnourished residents – who were the children of immigrants and who mainly identified as Irish – relied on soup kitchens and cheap street vendors for food. What they were served was Scouse, a watery stew. Scouser was a pejorative term used to mock the poorest. When “Feed the Scousers”, echoes around stadiums it is expressing a deep folk memory that is imbued with anti-migrant and anti-Irish sentiment. Those chanting it may not be conscious of the history, but the driving forces for their behaviour can be traced back down many decades. Nowhere else is poverty sneered at in this way by outsiders. No one sings “Feed the Geordies” or “Feed the Mancs” even though other places have much more deprived areas. No wonder citizens of Liverpool are triggered by the chants.

In these circumstances, it is hard to make a case for Scousers to do anything more than boo the national anthem. And then we get to Hillsborough. Britain should still be in a state of uproar about the 1989 disaster that led to the deaths of 97 people. Senior policemen and high-level politicians lied about what happened, covered up the mistakes of officials and threw the blame at innocent supporters. The national press, by and large, amplified the establishment narrative or failed to provide adequate scrutiny of the authorities. A substantial percentage of the British public still will not accept the findings of the longest, most exhaustive inquests in the country’s history. To cap it all, the policemen responsible for the mass death and the cover-up were acquitted of any wrongdoing – even after some of those individuals admitted their culpability in legal settings. Now the biggest miscarriage of justice in the nation’s history is being reduced to football banter. What a country. Play that anthem again so we can all join in.

The FA got off lightly, too. The ruling body held a semi-final at a ground that did not have a safety certificate. Tottenham Hotspur fans had a near miss eight years earlier on the same Leppings Lane terraces where the carnage occurred in 1989. For those whining that Abide With Me was disrupted, the FA did nothing to abide with the bereaved and survivors of an avoidable catastrophe at one of their showpiece games.

The events of the weekend illustrated just how toxic the attitudes towards Hillsborough have become. Family members of the dead were abused heavily on social media by trolls who used Saturday’s events as an excuse to harass those who have fought, in vain, for justice. And we don’t want to hear any complaints about Scousers not showing respect. The booing is a cry for justice, for equality, a howl against hunger and poverty. It is depressing that so many in Britain cannot hear that. Klopp heard it. Johnson never will.

Fucking hell, what a load of one-eyed bollocks!

1840s?! Do me a favour! What next, yeah Italians may have died in '85 but don't you remember the Roman conquest of Britain in AD 43 and what Emperor Claudius did to the inhabitants of Portus Segantiorum?!

Sanctimonious pricks!

 

[mexico1970]

Fucking hell, what a load of one-eyed bollocks!

1840s?! Do me a favour! What next, yeah Italians may have died in '85 but don't you remember the Roman conquest of Britain in AD 43 and what Emperor Claudius did to the inhabitants Portus Segantiorum?!

Sanctimonious pricks!

Not one sign of their culpability, ashamed of nothing.

LFC marks 34th anniversary of Heysel Stadium disaster

Liverpool FC remembers the 39 football fans who lost their lives at Heysel Stadium in Belgium on this day 34 years ago.

www.liverpoolfc.com

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Interesting new narative from Jurgen Krap yesterday on the BBC Sport website where he is quoted in an interview as saying that they only lost the title in 2019 - not by a point; goal difference; lack of ventolin - but by 11 millimetres. Harking back to the great goal line clearance by John Stones, who saved a goal for us. He's absolutely pathetic.
It was a save - like a goal keeping save; a great tackle; whatever!
So, there you have it - the cultists have found the way to get extra sympathy for the narrowest failure. Another great runners-up performance. It should be engraved on their losers medals accordingly, "Best ever runners-up performance - only 11mm short of a league win 2018/19."
Bless.

No mention of the missed pen by Mahrez in the 86th minute of the first match which finished 0-0.