A team which was supposed to be one of the best that ever existed . The invincibles and favourites for the real treble has finally run out of luck and is falling away like a pack of cards. Convincingly destroyed in the premiership by Watford. 3-0 Deservedly dumped out of the FA cup by Chelsea. 2-0 Dumped out of the Champions League losing 3-2 at home. Klopp finally losing his cloak of good sportsman. Moaning and crying that they came to defend instead of congratulating his opponents.Why oh why did they come here to defend a 1-0 lead and not play an attacking game? Simeone must be pissing himself laughing. Trust the RS to turn winning their first premiership title (in 30 years) season into an anti climax.
It's difficult to win a treble. That's why it's only been done once by an English team. The greatest team in English football history.
Liverpool have won two trebles, but the point that this Liverpool team have been preposterously over-hyped is not wrong. We've been poor since beating Leicester, with the possible exception of when we played you and were diddled out of giving a proper hammering by a bent ref and your friend this season, VAR. The attitude towards the FA Cup was unjustifiably arrogant, though it was good to dump the BS out with a team of toddlers. Still, any Liverpool fan would have taken winning the league by Easter (pandemic allowing) at the start of the season, given that City ARE an awesome team, and 97 points last season still didn't beat them. Good luck with the rest of the season. Surprising how quickly you get used to regarding finishing fifth as being some sort of progress. But not for thirty years, I'm sure.
Couple of points Donga. City were an awesome team, they no longer are. We haven't accepted fifth, or finished there. If the season had actually been completed I'd have been confident of third and a trophy, but we'll probably never know. Next season though? See you there.
As you’ve been waiting a full 30 years for that progress to occur we can understand your gloating but also how you’ve got used to being fifth for most of that time. Only a few weeks ago the sycophants in the media and lots of the fanbase had already bestowed the crown of the best premiership team ever to this RS team. After a couple of weeks of reality what we see is a team that is better than the others but unexceptional compared to the very best sides that graced the premiership since its inception. This side is more Leicester than the United, Arsenal, Chelsea and City of their glorious eras.
I'd actually agree with some of that (though I'm hard put to think of many that had only dropped 5 points after 31 games, let alone got 97 points and finished second, if indeed they ever got 97 points at all), but to compare Liverpool to United's treble team, Ancelotti's Chelsea, City last season, or Arsenal's Invincibles as some in the media did (Michael Owen springs to mind) was daft. They're far from Liverpool's 77 team, the 84 side or, indeed, even the '73 team. But look, during the last seven seasons, for reasons best known to you, you've been such an infrequent visitor to these parts compared to your former eagerness to comment so frequently on every issue Liverpool-related, that perhaps you think every Liverpool fan at all the time has been trumpeting these 'greatest team ever' claims. They (we) haven't. But it has been an incredible league season by anybody's measurement, and Leicester? 81 points? We got 16 points more than that last season and still didn't win it. But good luck to them. And to you too. Good to see you back. I'm sure you'll stick around longer this time when Ole runs into a brick wall after another ten games. Perhaps.
That's the spirit! Keep looking for that final piece of the jigsaw. Next season you'll go on a run, turn a corner and make the breakthrough. The Mirror, the Mail, The Express and the BBC can't all be wrong (again, after they cum in their kecks after Ole fluked that PSG win with a dodgy VAR decision and was suddenly worth a permanent contract). Keep him at the wheel.
Well I was being sarcy but yeah, all of that. Especially the Express bit. (does that paper still exist?)
You probably haven't noticed that I have posted on this board although not as frequently as in the past. Make it 11 games but Ole cannot be worse than his predecessors. Like all successful teams we need the right manager, the right players and the right system and team spirit. I've said here from the time that SAF retired that we will suffer a bumpy period. Ok much worse than anyone anticipated. But sooner or later someone will get it right probably more by luck than by design. Shame that that first premiership title that was coming your way is now gone and it is going to be >30 yrs. I had come to accept it but I wouldn't have wished the current circumstances. Some things are infinitely more important than football.
Some things are definitely more important than sport, and you'll be relieved that Greg Clarke and the FA are talking about curtailing the league, not cancelling it. But as the first concerns for you and Diego have obviously been about the country's welfare, and not other more opportunistic motivations, I'm sure you will be pleased with that when you realise the implications.