Manchester City vs Liverpool pre-match thread (continued)

[Marvin]

Re: Manchester City vs Liverpool pre-match thread

My odds:

Liverpool win: 33%
Draw: 50%
City win: 17%

I think that's reasonable. Therefore we have a 2 in 3 chance of a very happy and successful weekend

 

[Ancient Citizen]

Re: Liverpool Thread 2013/14 (continued)

"unleash the crowd". What a fucking weapon.

What on earth is all this hysterical shit about 'The crowd' being pivotal for the Dippers? I've been reading, and hearing, off some of them that 'It will get to us' and that the Kop is very intimidating when in full roar.
Fuck off, do they really, really think that all our players will be shitting themselves away at the sound of a few hubcap robbers and doley's screaming their nads off, and that nobody else on earth has fans that can hold a candle to theirs, as they are 'Li'pool, La.'
It should be a great match, both teams are firing, and I for one can't pick the winner now, but if we lose it will have sweet fuck all to do with their support, our players have faced far more vocal fans than these. This mythical 'Kop factor' did not help them over the last 20 odd years too well did it?
Anfield is in no way whatsoever any different to Villa Park, Goodison, Craven Cottage, White Hart lane, or anywhere else, but repeat a lie often enough and the deluded will accept it as fact.

 

[dcj]

Re: Manchester City vs Liverpool pre-match thread

its pretty simple

using the deaths of 96 people as a motivation vehicle to win a fucking football match is distasteful in the extreme, i'm not being over reactionary when i say if i was a family member i would be livid

I've been thinking this all along and I'd hazard a guess that a lot of those families don't want anything to do with football after what happened to their loved ones. Also considering the anniversary I'd have thought Brendans claim that LFC "will unleash the crowd" isn't really a well thought out quote.

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

Re: Manchester City vs Liverpool pre-match thread

Maybe it's just me, but if I had lost a loved one in the Hillsborough tragedy, I would find the phrase 'unleash the crowd' quite tactless and ill-judged, given that that was precisely what the South Yorkshire police did that fateful afternoon when they opened the Leppings Lane End gates to cause the disaster in the first place.

EDIT - just seen your post dcj - so maybe it isn't just me after all.

 

[andyhinch]

Re: Manchester City vs Liverpool pre-match thread

How many did they beat us by, I lost count.

 

[squirtyflower]

Re: Manchester City vs Liverpool pre-match thread

its pretty simple

using the deaths of 96 people as a motivation vehicle to win a fucking football match is distasteful in the extreme, i'm not being over reactionary when i say if i was a family member i would be livid

I've been thinking this all along and I'd hazard a guess that a lot of those families don't want anything to do with football after what happened to their loved ones. Also considering the anniversary I'd have thought Brendans claim that LFC "will unleash the crowd" isn't really a well thought out quote.

Brenda in 'David Brent' gaff, who'd have thought it?

 

[TheMalteseCross]

Re: Manchester City vs Liverpool pre-match thread

Liverpool have had a very impressive run of form and solid consistent performances, albeit, not as good a run of form as City, but tomorrow they face a different proposition - a side that has rubbed shoulders this season with elite company such as Bayern Munich and Barcelona, and over six hours of football has not looked any way out of its depth, with the ability to cause damage in an instant with moments of genius and inspiration from anywhere on the pitch.

Tomorrow we will see just how a side that has been exposed to and 'developed' against absolutely top class footballing sides in the testing environments of the Camp Nou and Allianz, overcome one that has in the main established a reputation against 'lesser' outfits of English football. There is only one outcome.

 

[HolisticJim]

Liverpool love-in

It's stomach churningly sickening isn't it.

Merson and Redknapp both said on sky sports that if Liverpool win the title is theirs!
How??? They will be one point in front with 5 games to play and one of those against Chelsea (games in hand considered).

And Rogers's coming out and saying their player development model is better than our buying of players! Well I'm sure we're all sorry that City invested in the premier league and made it more competitive.

Fookin winds me right up and I hope to god we smash the shit out of them tomorrow!

 

[gungho-tactics]

Re: Manchester City vs Liverpool pre-match thread

Can we win the game for the Hillsborough victims ? Or is only Liverpool allowed to do that ?

 

[AustinBlue]

Re: Manchester City vs Liverpool pre-match thread

All the talk about history does make me laugh it is something that is nowhere near as big in any other sport and you don't hear in other facets in life!

Do lib dems talk about glad stones dominance in the Victorian times.

Do the bay city rollers claim to be bigger than one direction?

Do pan am ex employees argue with Ex BOAC employees about whose bigger?

Do labour go on about Blair being bigger than Cameron and having more history ?

Etc etc

Liverpool are like spandau ballet, Walkmans, maggie thatcher, vol au vents and mullets they were big in the 80's but are now part of history

True. I've bought a ticket to the world. But now I've come back again. Why do I find it hard to write the next line? I want the truth to be told.