Since we scraped by in the carling cup final to scenes of huge celebrations and I finally calmed down about how bad we played I decided the rest of the seaosn really didn't matter, simply put we were successful and were in europe but had no chance of bettering that. Since then I've not bothered with results and you know the entertainment factor is far higher, take blackburn for example. I could see how someone could have a coronary watching our keepers faff about but for me it was hilarious. You see the result really didn't matter. I can't predict what on earth we'll do from one week to the next, how we'll play or who will play. I can't tell if kenny is being serious, deluded or ignorant in his interviews. AND I'M LOVING IT. Amazingly in the run up to the FA cups semi final, a game we really want and need to win by all accounts, I find myself indifferent to the great debates going on here. I think i'm goign to have a great day this staurday cos I've no clue what team we'll play and as a result have great excitement about who'll turn up and what on earth they'll get up to in wembley. A win is great, A draw is fine and if we lose i think I'll be laughing at whomever just plain messes up. Jones cuold thrown a hat trick in and it would be comical. My attitude is whatever happens happens and i think I'm really going to enjoy things as a result. Some of you guys really ought to try it.
I really don't find us entertaining at the moment. The unpredictability and comedy that our underperforming team brings isn't fun, what is fun is being in the top 4 and CL and hammering teams like Real 4 nil and the buzz that brings. I sure as hell don't get a buzz from seeing us scrape past Blackburn to climb to 8th...
With everyone complaining about Kenny's post match interview, god knows how Man City fans feel after last night haha.
well red, i'm afraid i've news for you. the next two years will be no fun for you. honeslty a lot of guys support city and chelsea for the thing you call fun... me i stick with my team as do you of course. That blackbrun game had drama, comedy, random ref decisions, moments of madness, and a big finale.. i think we got our monies worth and had it been blackbrun to win late on i'd still say we got entertained. as for city.... as a "nuetral" i find them utterly hilarious and its like watching amateur hour at the muppet theatre, you knwo the guys not good enough to get on the show even.. UItd losing was funny too, that softened a few coughs i can tell you.
I guess we get our entertainment from different things then, I watch football to see my team play as a team and to play some great football. I am a football fan at the end of the day. If I wanted to see comedy I'd see a comedy show, if I want drama I'll go to the theatre. I get where you're coming from with the fatalistic attitude approach but it will never be a justifiable substitute for seeing our team play well and the real entertainment that brings.
^^ this. I can see MITO approach can work for some for some of the time. Especially in moments of great tension or stress when events are outside their control. we all have the "dont care attitude and lets have some fun no matter what may" as it helps self preservation and avoid us all having strokes and heart attacks. But MITO will soon get back into the normal groove and be anxious about results like most of us
Well, we're all different, but I would never say any game didn't matter. All are important from the point of view of pride of performance, building of team morale, development of tactics etc. Is there any difference between finishing 8th or 9th? For me, yes.
There's nothing better than being nervous and excited before a big game, being on the edge of your seat the whole match and cheering and booing every single decision that is made and that pure joy when your team finally scores the big goal. I must admit in the last few games I've been feeling like you MITO, when Jones pushed over Yakubu I burst out laughing. But what I said above is why we watch football and there is no better feeling than that. And I'll certainly be on the edge of my seat the whole 90 minutes on Saturday and I wouldn't have it any other way
It'll work long enough to get me past this season and prevent any coronary seizures in the process (sorry to anyone reading who may know or be the perosn who actually had one) One carling cup final was enough for me. If you can't infleunece anyhting going on when you can't make yourself sick about it can you? ergo I choose to laugh at reina, squirming on the bench as two of our other clowns either get se3nt off or thorw goals in. I'm going to ignore gerrard lazily walking about whiel the other 10men try to match everton. and no matter what happenes I'll appluade the efforts whether it be andy carroll falling voer the ball or luiz squarez being poleaxed by a passing mayfly. I can't wait to see what tim cahill does on a big stage agaisnt us... it cuold be highly amusing.
Umm! I thought at first that I should try and answer this in a fatherly and sage-like fashion. Then I thought BULLSHIT - tell it as you see it! I don't totally agree with any of the above posters. I would love to see my team play wonderful football, score fantastic goals and win. However, that is an aspiration. We are not a wonderful team. We are a collection of individual players and coaches with their own particular skill sets who are trying to become a wonderful team. That process is long and painful. But it's only by that process and the heartache and passion that accompanies it that our team will improve. In short its football! So Red, if you want to see the best football being played at the moment, go and support Barcelona as they are the nearest side to perfection presently. You know that makes sense according to your post so why not do it? - THOUGHT NOT! MITO, Your words belie the emotions that run underneath them. It might help with the frustration in the short term but YOU know it's not the truth. Lads, we have had a nightmare of a season for reasons that have been well documented on these pages. The fact that we are all still here (most of us) testifies that there is something beyond results that binds us to LFC. Something that lies deep within our hearts that we can only struggle to identify. As a club we have had years of glory and not a little tragedy. IF Kipling was right then we must understand that our passion will identify itself in many ways. I was taught early (when we were in Div 2) that, if you were prepared to relish the delight of winning then you also had to accept the pain of defeat. Over the last few years, when the club we love came so near to non-existence that pain has become almost tangible. However, now we have a new dawn and we are starting to move forward again. In terms of Everest, we have just left base camp. It's not going to be easy so let's enjoy the ride. YNWA
Because you'd forgotten all about how well we played in the semi-final. Well, that was a few weeks before so had probably been wiped from your memory completely. Perhaps the huge celebrations were representative of what the trophy actually meant, after all the media coverage about not winning anything since 2006, blah blah blah, and that pressure is why the performance didn't make you shoot your load. I'm going to try to take that attitude to fickle fans when we can't tell from one week to the next what they'll say, whether they're deluded, serious or ignorant in their posts, who they'll decide is a flop or a success or how they'll judge a season in which we won a title and played some amazingly ENTERTAINING football after being minutes from administration such a short time ago.
Fordeck, Don't twist my post! I never said I want to see the best football played at the moment, What I want is to see the best football from Liverpool, that's what gives me entertainment; the red men playing well and performing as a team. AS it stands I find it difficult watching us, so many mistakes and so little teamwork and cohesion, I was just saying I don't find it entertaining to see us make mistakes. I will still support LFC nonetheless, that would go without saying
Fordeck I am trained by the special forces to feel whatever emotion i choose to feel. Ergo i have chosen not to be at all frustrated and just laugh at every incident that befalls LFC for the next two months. This mindset served me well on tuesday i can tell you. muppet... the second semi final leg we played badly and city put out a weakened team as well so we scraped through... no doubt once boredom sets in around july 5th i'll be in preseoasn mode and will flip the switch back to demanding performances even in preseason games but right now its all gravey... I pay my moeny to be entertained. I actaully watched LFC on sky and put barca v getafe on a live stream on at the same time (the missus was not impressed) frnakly i mostly ignored the tappy tappy football barca played as they cruised to a 4-0 win (which is kinda boring you must admit red, it may be what you want but be careful what you wish for ) and watched the LFC game unfold in all its crappy ways. blackbrun were dirt, was expecting more from them but they were just awful, we crusied to a 2-0 lead and all was good, then flanagan start messing about and then doni gets sent off... it was comical, the ref started waving random cards about and suddenly we're defneding like made and yak misses with a terrible pen as well... you couldn't make this stuff up! Loved it all. I particulalry loved seeing reina's eyeborws and suarez swearing like a trooper as he hid his mouth behind his jacket collar... god that was funny. then jones pulled quite a stunt... i think you have to be pretty special to drop a catch like that Add bellamy running his mouth and then managing to play the worst game i've seen form anyone bar adam this year as he did so? class. You guys can cry about it... I think its entertainment in a world gone mad.
Red. I didn't twist your words I used them in a tangential way to describe that what you wish for will not be achieved over-night and that we must endure/enjoy the process. I did offer you the chance to change allegiance but then answered that question for you (as you have confirmed).
