I just watched that. First time I've seen any of that since getting back from the game. Still have to pinch myself that Liverpool are delighted to have beaten a top four team today. 19 goals conceded? Bloody hell, we've been good this season.
Didn't do enough to score however goals can prove difficult to score when the opposition are allowed to do whatever they please to defend their own goal.
Gutted about todays result. I think in a certain other league kevini friendlino would be getting his financials investigated but we were also poor up top today. Most of our crosses go absolutely nowhere and you can see the moment when pelles head drops and he pretty much stops being a threat. After that point our players seem happy just to mill about the box hoping someone does something. Oh well on to next week ay
Still think Brendan Rodgers should have kept his nose out of what we put in our programme, but (in the cold light of day) should we have been the bigger person and put a small piece in about Adam and Rickie due to their contributions in the lower league?. Not a popular thought I know.
Amazingly, Jamie Carragher on Sky managed to spin it so that it wasn't even handball. Something like, he made himself big when he was in the area and the ball hit his chest , then the ball hit his hand by which time he was outside his area and couldn't get his hand out of the way. Now, I'd expect that from him but Thierry Henry actually agreed with him. So, no handball, no sending off and all is well in the world.
Thought the whole coverage yesterday was poor. We were at home and above them in the table but it was all about Liverpool. Commentary was at times bordering on patronising and biased towards the visitors.
I agree about the Sky coverage but at least they got all the decisions right on MOTD2. First penalty not a pen, second one definitely a pen, Fonte on Sterling not a pen, and Mignolet should have had a straight red. Jenas wanted to give a pen for that as well which would have been nice but a bit weird.
I really want to know why the PGMOL appointed Friend to this game. A top referee should have been appointed i.e. Clattenburg, Oliver or Dean.
You know how I pleaded that hate was a silly emotion to have, and that all this stuff was just pantomime? I really hate LFC today.
The thing that really gets my goat is this arrogant presumption from their side (manager and fans) that it's almost like the natural order has reestablished itself - they'll push on to get third and we'll drift down to eighth. The worst part is that we somehow appear to have tapped into our own insecurities and are believing them too. Look, I saw nothing at all to suggest that they were better than us in the slightest. Quite the opposite. Bar a couple of hideous refereeing decisions they'd be 7 points behind us now. A stroke of luck and Elia would have buried a couple of chances too, even without Mr Friend putting his contacts in. Yet a heavily ref-influenced bad result seems to have given us our small club mentality back. Well here's a thing. Last time I checked, we were still above Liverpool in the league, with matches against the likes of Palace, Burnley and QPR coming up - teams that with a fair wind, and going by this season, we should beat. We may not do, in which case the doom-mongering is fair. But how many times have we heard that "the bubble has burst" and then come back with a streak of wins? I think it's time to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves down, and go again. COYR.
