Liverpool Thread - 2022/23

[chesterbells]

If this is correct I'm amazed it hadn't been investigated

"According to a source close to the club, of 35 players 22 are asthmatic – 63% of the squad, over five times higher than the 12% UK average. "

It has been. Doesn’t make for very satisfactory listening though, to put it mildly.

BBC Radio 4 - More or Less: Behind the Stats, Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory

We debunk spurious rumours that Liverpool FC use asthma medication to enhance performance

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[bondsman]

Don't forget Hendo.

And Milly

 

[dario2739]

Flew to Dublin yesterday morning for a gig. The plane was full of United and Liverpool supporters. Every fucker who has mentioned football here has either said they support Liverpool or United, too.

Was in Dublin a few weeks back (staying up the coast in Skerries) – only saw one Rag shirt being worn the whole ten days I was there... but I saw one City shirt too! Few Spurs shirts too surprisingly.
Liverpool seems far and away the best supported team over there now - there's even an official Liverpool store in Dublin centre.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

It has been. Doesn’t make for very satisfactory listening though, to put it mildly.

BBC Radio 4 - More or Less: Behind the Stats, Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory

We debunk spurious rumours that Liverpool FC use asthma medication to enhance performance

www.bbc.co.uk

To be fair, the claim was made on some obscure blog, and I've never seen any source that doesn't go back to that original unsubstantiated claim. The more interesting one was the claim of caffeine usage, which isn't against the rules, but results in a cycle of on and off years.

Having said that, that BBC thing is just so desperate to defend Liverpool that it makes you think it might be true. My favourite bit was "they'd also get picked up in an anti-doping test." Because we all know how frequent they are in football, right? Also, if the sort of small doses that asthma sufferers usually take in a standard inhaler wouldn't cause any sort of improvement in performance in non-asthmatic individuals, why do they need an therapeutic use exemption at all?

 

[117 M34]

To be fair, the claim was made on some obscure blog, and I've never seen any source that doesn't go back to that original unsubstantiated claim. The more interesting one was the claim of caffeine usage, which isn't against the rules, but results in a cycle of on and off years.

Having said that, that BBC thing is just so desperate to defend Liverpool that it makes you think it might be true. My favourite bit was "they'd also get picked up in an anti-doping test." Because we all know how frequent they are in football, right? Also, if the sort of small doses that asthma sufferers usually take in a standard inhaler wouldn't cause any sort of improvement in performance in non-asthmatic individuals, why do they need an therapeutic use exemption at all?

Why would you need to cycle off caffeine?
All teams use energy gels, which contain caffeine.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Why would you need to cycle off caffeine?
All teams use energy gels, which contain caffeine.

I've got no idea. Just repeating something I read. But presumably it's about how much a team is using it. When I was a kid, caffeine was banned above a certain level, so there was presumably a reason (and a reason that the ban was lifted that definitely didn't coincide with Red Bull sponsoring loads of sports).

For the record, obviously Liverpool wouldn't be the only team using legal performance supplements. The backroom staff wouldn't be doing their jobs if they didn't.

 

[VOOMER]

Dunno mate the bloke I was sat next to showed me his season ticket.

For Connacht?

 

[chesterbells]

To be fair, the claim was made on some obscure blog, and I've never seen any source that doesn't go back to that original unsubstantiated claim. The more interesting one was the claim of caffeine usage, which isn't against the rules, but results in a cycle of on and off years.

Having said that, that BBC thing is just so desperate to defend Liverpool that it makes you think it might be true. My favourite bit was "they'd also get picked up in an anti-doping test." Because we all know how frequent they are in football, right? Also, if the sort of small doses that asthma sufferers usually take in a standard inhaler wouldn't cause any sort of improvement in performance in non-asthmatic individuals, why do they need an therapeutic use exemption at all?

Yeah, not a million miles from my views too. (I’ve tried to link you on to my original post about it on p300 of the Media thread but can’t get it to work)

 

[AlfGreyruinedmyday]

Was in Dublin a few weeks back (staying up the coast in Skerries) – only saw one Rag shirt being worn the whole ten days I was there... but I saw one City shirt too! Few Spurs shirts too surprisingly.
Liverpool seems far and away the best supported team over there now - there's even an official Liverpool store in Dublin centre.

Must make the Garda's life easier. All delinquents in one place.

 

[cheekybids]

Was in Dublin a few weeks back (staying up the coast in Skerries) – only saw one Rag shirt being worn the whole ten days I was there... but I saw one City shirt too! Few Spurs shirts too surprisingly.
Liverpool seems far and away the best supported team over there now - there's even an official Liverpool store in Dublin centre.

Only natural for a club created by a Tory Mason who had just evicted the local catholic team.