Match Day Thread Premier League, Cups & Euro Watch

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I think you're spot on. There must be a big market for negative news about football. I'd have thought football fans would be desperate for as many positive reports and interviews as they could read. There's no football atm, don't fans want to know when it's coming back rather than read excuses/reasons and more attempts at stopping it from being played. I don't get it.

 

As Liverpool fans, there is only one potential news story that will be considered positive and that's the league resuming
#twomorewins
#onemorewinifitsvsmancity

 

Next week, WBA are set to vote to finish the season. That's despite them being guaranteed champions if the season is cut short. Class from them

 

I don't think there's a 'Liverpool fans' shared view on this. From what I've read there are lots of differing opinions on the rest of the season.

We can agree that sport is non-essential but for lots of people their good mental health relies on it. After the lockdown psychologists and psychiatrists will be inundated. Sport returning means we are on the way to getting back to normal. Who doesn't want that. If football and sport can't make a comeback or even attempt it, then as a society we're in real trouble. For these reasons I want to read stories of sports setting dates for returns and seeing sportsmen eager to get back, while also fully understanding some will be scared. Again, if there isn't a collective will from sports to return, society will change beyond recognition.

 

I was talking purely football and Liverpool fans, nothing else

 

I got a bit carried away. Lack of anything else to do atm

 

We’re going to be living with this virus for quite a while, we need to get back to some sort of normality, while still shielding those that need it.

 

Your spot on here lad, football is a massive part of some peoples lives.

It wasn't that long ago that my life revolved around football. Relationship=****e, work=****e, mental health=****e, but there was always the match to look forward to.

Europe during the week and the league of a weekend. Kept me going more than I'd like to admit.

Funny thing but at my lowest i could pull on my liverpool shirt walk down the pub and be surrounded by friends I'd never met. For 90 minutes regardless of who we where, we all wanted the same thing, simple and pure.

I've said it before and I'll say it again regardless of what's going on I your life, your football club are with you through good and bad.

 

Just watched the highlights of the final v Wham on BBC. ****ing great game.

 

Very, very well said. We all need to feel we belong to something and while most have strong family ties and relationships, some don't. Feeling a part of something massive like Liverpool football club may be it for them. Regardless of whether it's one of the main things in your life or not, the collective experience is unmatched. The emotional connection and sense of belonging is psychologically very valuable.

 

I can only speak for myself, but I suspect I speak for most LFC supporters in saying that the joy of watching/listening/talking about LFC is a hugely
important part of life. Its something that's part of us every day of our lives. Like right now, where we haven't played a game for 2 months or so and we
can't wait for the next game.

 

Yes you are speaking for me there

The current trend or whatever it is to hate watch another team is bizarre. I swear some hate us more than they love their own team, what a way to live.

 

Good to hear Michael Keane endorsing a return to playing #tobes

 

they've now taken the extreme step of infesting 2 of the own players .!

 

Infesting? Sounds painful!

 

It is but when you're desperate almost anything goes .

 

It's always a shame to hear about young people having depression or anxiety. The more that speak out about it, the less stigma is attached to it. Just because you earn big money doesn't mean you don't have the same afflictions as those that earn a lot less. I think we sometimes forget this when we see players acting like prima donnas.

He mentioned about being excited to get back to playing which was good to see. Both player's and fan's mental health is being tested while there is no football. It's good to see an example of a player wanting to get back to work. The media has largely been ignoring them. We've seen an abundance of negativity, unwillingness to adapt and lack of desire to find solutions to sort football out. In fact that side of football that's being pushed - the individuals being given the spotlight in the media - has shown football as being a microcosm for the rest of society; problem focused instead of solution focused. This isn't the real situation at all, just the one that's being presented. We live in a country where solutions seem to be frowned upon and mocked and where unwillingness to adapt is praised. All the 'let's just cancel football and pretend the season never happened ..... let's not try and get back ...' calls are viewed as praiseworthy while those desperately looking for solutions and ways to move forward are ridiculed. We've seen an abundance of weak mentality - Harry Kane's 'enough is enough' for example and an active desire to create more problems rather than solutions both in football and in our society in general. At times like this, it does nothing for morale and worse than that, it actively seeks to take away hope. Don't let it.

 

https://www.liverpool.com/liverpool-fc-news/features/liverpool-news-premier-league-meeting-18312860

 

Premier League clubs approve return to contact training in another boost for Project Restart

https://www.skysports.com/football/...training-in-another-boost-for-project-restart