Bert Trautmanns neck brace wrote:
And so it goes.
Much as I like supporting the best team, sometimes I miss those days when before a match we presumed that we would easily stick 3 or 4 past some supposedly weak opposition, only to get beaten by a scruffy goal in the last minute, and then beat the top of the league next week .
I think the excitement of not knowing what will happen is better than the boring certainty of yet another routine victory.
I am not complaining, another championship will be welcomed, but it is not exciting.
I get you on that, it's lacking that unpredictable quality and is more "when are we going to win this" each game, but in mitigation i would say that some (most) of the football is objectively exciting, the manner of unpicking locks, the movement of the players, seemingly innocuous balls that form the basis for eviscerating a defence - i'm appreciating that kind of thing more than i did before, how well we are positioned, how well the opposition play against it. Maybe i just wasn't as aware of it before.
Plus there's no longer the "we're going to get a fucking tubbing" feeling, that then comes to be, which is nice.
Danny's Studs wrote:
I kinda hear you Bert but absence makes the heart...and all that.
I am just genuinely enjoying the football we play. I'm not that bright, clearly, but liverpool in the 80's, un*ted in the 90's, arsenal early 2000 all had a unique style and brand of footy. I feel Pep and his teams at City are close to having that kind of stamp on the league. A title this season would help my point.
commentary on one of the recent games went on about the triangles and chasing the ball down as soon as it is lost, and that Ederson is basically a sweeper in a team of midfielders, although his passing ability obliterates the concept of a goalise being tied to long ball, hoof and hope. not quite the pressing game that klopp plays. everyone is good with their feet and it's that weird intensity to it of tapping it around then seeing the moment and bang. like a metronome attached to a bomb.
this season liverpool have had the defensive issues we did last season (cripples galore and midfielders standing in), but we've not been lucky with injury either and, despite the slow start, we've turned into an absolute juggernaut. It's been a weird season mind.
Bicester Blue wrote:
Bert Trautmanns neck brace wrote:
What have we to look forward to?
Who will come?
Who do we need to come?
Who will go?
Will we be able to go?
Will Eufa be disbanded and all its executives be charged with corruption?
Will Sergio be fit for long enough.?
Will Liverpool demand a public enquiry as to why KDB was player of the year?
Will we resign Berti?
Will some more members come back to this site? I thought an 11 year hiatus was probably long enough...
Ask me again at Easter.
Ha! just a short break