Klopp, Comparisons to Spurs and Starting Afresh
When one hears the terms ‘spineless’, ‘bottlers’ and ‘fucking hilarious’, the only thing that could and should immediately spring to mind is the universal sign for ‘slap yourself in the face, kick yourself in the crotch’ style comedy… Tottenham Hotspur. The token orange in your Christmas stocking, a milk-less bowl of own brand cereal, the last seat on the bus next to *that* guy in the unexplainable blood stained trench coat. You get my point. Spurs and unrelenting disappointment go …
Liverpool Fans Are Boss At The Blame Game
It’s natural for football fans to lash out after a defeat, you lose all sense of rational thought and blaming an official or an opposition player often makes the bitter pill of a loss easier to swallow. It’s like you need some closure from the game, you’ve lost, blame someone and move on till you face them next time, and if you're gracious you’ll admit your team was outclassed and on the day the better team won. But those are special …
Milner's role has changed at Liverpool - for the better
When James Milner’s arrival was announced almost half a year ago, there was a general acceptance that both Liverpool and Milner had struck an excellent deal, at the expense of Manchester City who had lost both an excellent player who was immensely loved by the fans, but crucially a player who both made up the home-grown quota and was of sufficient quality to play with City’s array of international stars.
Milner had spoken at Manchester City about how he wanted …
Fan Fiction - Understanding The Anfield Atmosphere
The current debate over the lack of atmosphere at Anfield has reignited a tiresome argument about the validity of the support offered by different types of fans. Frankly, it’s an extremely tedious contretemps, and it merely highlights the depressing reality that some pugnacious elements of our fan base seem to revel more in petty discord and doltish in-fighting than they do in the actual supporting lark. Each of us, surely, has our own way to be a fan. None is …
Sakho - The Parisian titan's injury couldn't be crueller
rIt has been clear to Liverpool fans for a while that Mamadou Sakho is an absolute titan of a man. He shows a passion for the club that scousers can identify with, but more than that he is the complete modern centre-half. He is comfortable getting tight on strikers, stepping up and defending on his massive front foot, but he is also a fantastic defender in the box, never caught out of position and a fully committed header of the …
Should Liverpool Replace Simon Mignolet?
The average sandwich
Liverpool have many recurring problems that previous management failed to address. As a team we're grossly misbalanced. Many frailties have been overlooked. We're buying potential and not supporting them with talented players, instead we're heaping the pressure on their shoulders and asking them to do something special. Average, functional players sandwiched in-between potential.
We're in a position at the moment in which every other week we as fans are debating about why a position in the team …
No Divine Right To The Top Four, But That's Okay
Jurgen Klopp tried his best to blow away his statement on fans leaving early on Sunday evening. Little did he know that he had addressed an elephant in the room that's been sitting there since he arrived, waiting for the bubble to burst.
A fair portion of our fan base remains stuck in the euphoria of 2005 and the depression of the title that never was. We cling on to the hopes that we will get a new Gerrard and …
Klopp, Atmosphere and Fans Leaving Early
"The goal was on 82 minutes - 12 minutes to go - and I saw many people leaving the stadium. I felt pretty alone in that moment. Between 82 and 94 minutes, you can make 8 goals if you want and we have to work for it."
Jurgen Klopp has only been here for a month and he's already felt it necessary to mention the elephant in the room: the atmosphere at Anfield.
It's a big game of Cluedo when …
Liverpool and the lack of quality goals conceded
I know it sounds like an odd title. Of course any goal conceded is a bad goal but my disappointment and anger subsides when a goal is of good quality. The sort that annoys you even more because you can't even moan it's that good. You're left speechless and quietly impressed by it. The type of goal that leaves you looking at your mate and shrugging.
Liverpool have a knack these days of conceding soft goals. Firstly, these goals are …
Why it's so obvious that Sturridge has no place at Liverpool
There's a heated debate raging throughout Liverpool fandom at the moment. Now that Jurgen Klopp is here, you could easily make the mistake of thinking that we had put our differences behind us. Don't be silly! There's always something bubbling under the surface. That's part of the beauty of being a football fan. Where a ball is kicked (and even when it's not) there are inevitably discussions, arguments, controversies or as it's more commonly disguised as; banter. The current "banter" …