How the **** do you know? Don't be going off some ****ty photo from 6 years ago on LinkedIn We're both old rough arse Scousers
nah i'm just being argumentative I understand you just want yourself to hire coaches who play attractive football. I do find it curious though, were you happy with rafa cause i still maintain he plays mourinhoball. It's all about being solid first and keeping a good shape even when attacking in which case i would have to disagree with your tune.
This'll bore everyone else. Grammar Nerd Alert - Look Away Now I don't use semi-colons much, as I don't think they're necessary very often. A semi-colon links two related clauses that could otherwise stand by themselves as separate sentences. The line "it's not necessary to sacrifice this in order to win" isn't a great sentence on its own as it lacks a specific object. That's my excuse anyway.
It's a bit dangerous on here for a Pool fan to criticise Rafa because of Istanbul, but what the hell. I like Rafa as a person, he bought into the club and the city and genuinely wanted the best for us, I believe. We had plenty of good attacking moments with him as well, but I did think he was rather a cold, tactical manager. Houllier was too negative also, but he got us back competing again after a spell in the doldrums. I'll support my team no matter what, but my initial point was about what makes me happy - and negative football doesn't do it for me.
Perfectly entitled to your opinion, and i am sure no one will have a go, as you are clearly older you have other team performances to place over those. I only have those that you have listed and the pure joy i felt on those nights was unforgetable. (I never ran around boasting to people i was just unashamedly happy.) The Gerrard goal v olympiacos, the gerrard goal against against west ham in the cup final. I cannot tell you how we played in those games (spend a lot of big games behind a pillow ) but i knowhow i felt. Really does all tie to what you said earlier about what gives you enjoyment and we are all allowed to be different - i think Honestly though which game brought you more happiness 2005 where we didnt really deserve to win but did or 2007 where we did clearly deserve to win but lost?
Rafa really had some extraordinary football,remember his last good season which if howard webb didnt bottle it as he later suggested this year on sky might have made him legendary win the cl,fa cup amd liverpools first preniership in 4 years Anyways you were beating united home and away,sweeping real madrid 4 0
then you should start supporting real madrid and should have ditched liverpool years ago . I will let you start supporting chelsea now though if you like
I'm with you in what you're saying but that's because what you are saying was true for me at the time too. However, with age things change. I'd love us to win things but I'd much rather enjoy 40+ games a season than one day. Each to their own though.
they scored a lot of goals but were still very functional. It's like defining Mourinho who outscored most teams in 2004 - 2006 as entertaining even though he played boring efficient football. Hell even mourinho played attacking football in our title winning season (well until spurs killed us and he reverted to type). Rafa is and will always be a functional tactician
they had exciting players (well 3 to be precise), Torres who they could just play a long ball over, Steve G (as much as it pains me) and Xabi alonso. Everyone else was functional. In fact it's ironic that you say they were entertaining, they racked up some big wins but drew too many games because they weren't exciting enough (i must admit i didn't watch too much football back then so i could be wrong)
Other factors obviously come into it. For the drama of a one-off occasion Istanbul would be hard to beat, wouldn't it? I'm not sure it's fair to say we didn't deserve it, though I wish we'd won in real time rather than penalties. Having said that, I enjoyed the Dortmund game last season more, if I'm honest, though obviously the significance of 2005 was greater. There are many reasons why one-off games might be special, I'm just thinking of the overall playing philosophy. Even Mourinho's teams accidentally come up with an attacking performance now and again, but it's more the exception than the rule.
Think you're older than me (35) aren't you? Didn't mean it in a "when I were a lad" patronising way. Just a generalisation of what happens. Of course everyone is different.
