I wrote this when fixtures were announced ...
This week was clearly giving LiVARpool advantage over us ... we are made to play with less time in between our games but not just that ... the teams playing us are coming with extra days rest both Wolves and Sheffield United (then they’d get tired playing us over 90 mins) and then they go on to play LiVARpool with a day less than them AND on top having played us ... but before they play us, they both get an extra day rest over us ... so we were squeezed from all sides, not just the time between games but also who we are playing gets an extra day each ... and lo and behold it’s the reverse for LiVARpool as not only they get an extra day over who they’re playing but also who they’re playing would have just played us over 90 mins with a day less than LiVARpool before facing them ...
Even the conspiracy theory writers wouldn’t have planned it this well for them, even half of it and it’s a theory but this is just something else!
26/12 - LiVARpool play and Sheff Utd play
27/12 - We play Wolves
29/12 - We play Sheff Utd (who get 1 extra day rest over us), LiVARpool play Wolves (who get 1 less day rest AND have just played us over 90 mins)
01/01 - We play Everton (again one day less recovery than LiVARpool get)
02/01 - LiVARpool play Sheff Utd (again, who get one less day rest than scousers AND having just played us over 90 mins as well)
So we play 3 games over 6 days
LiVARpool play 3 games over 8 days
We get 1 day and 2 days between games
LiVAPpool get 2 days and 3 days in between
We play two opponents who get 1 day more rest than us before playing us
LiVARpool play two opponents who get 1 day less than them before playing them (and on top for both of them, their previous game just before playing the scousers would be a tough 90 mins against us)
When you actually put it on paper like this and see the difference, no wonder Pep is going crazy in press conference every time this subject is brought up ...
Oh and I’m surprised where are all those headlines about can’t allow one team to runaway with the league and it’s not competitive enough this season and we’re becoming like Germany or Spain ... all those headlines we saw last two seasons exactly around this time ...