Match Day Thread Premier League, Cups & Euro Watch

Neither does being critical all the time. It only leads to frustration in a situation that you have no control over.
Sometimes people blur the lines between hope and expectations.
We'd all like to see the club make the moves that we feel are best, but demanding that others do what one expects of them can come across as a form of entitlement. What you call defending the club's mistakes can just be an acceptance that the world doesn't always work the way we want it to, so we make the best of it as it is.
Constantly being critical is not a good way of being, for either party. It's disastrous in personal relationships.
Personally, I just try to get behind the team, no matter what the situation - of course I think I'd do some things differently, but I realised long ago the world doesn't want to dance to my tune.

 

yes I know you are right.

it is a lot of venting I'll admit and yes it gets repetitive.

 

Of course, and we can all do it.
And it's a fairly safe place to do it in, without the repercussions that happen if we do it in real life.
I get seriously riled about politics, injustice and inequality, but I think I can handle LFC not being quite where I want them to be.
I've had enough practice.

 

You're a natural analyst. You like to foresee what could go wrong.

Lots of discussions on here come down to the old optimist/pessimist argument. Pessimists have a tendency to say they are realists. The only 'problematic' way to be is an unrealistic optimist; unable to see or mitigate for danger. I'd say, on the continuum, most people on here are realists with varying degrees of pessimism and optimism. In the end, we all want the same thing - a successful Liverpool - which also, actually, can look different to different people.

 

Dribs would say naturist

 

A French one.

 

Dno, think some like it when we’re unsuccessful as allows them to have a good moan… not that I’ll mention any names.

On a totally unrelated topic, anyone seen wishi around recently

 

After an almost bizarre season, a few of our better stats:
Alisson saved more 'expected goals' than any keeper in Europe.

We were the 2nd-least time wasting team in the league (behind city, Newcastle most time wasting team)

We conceded zero goals from corners, the only PL team to do so.

 

some marvellous news

https://www.thisisanfield.com/2023/...buying-back-historic-melwood-training-ground/

in a massive vote of commitment to women's football the club are seeking to buy back the historic melwood training ground and continue it's work with the fowler foundation for kids and base the women's team there.

absolutely class to think melwood will be part of Liverpool on and ongoing basis again

 

The only downside is of course thinking about how much money was wasted in selling it and then buying it back (presumably for more)...

 

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it's like them buying ugarte to replace fernandez and now preparing to buy ugarte's replacement.

Chelsea are on a train wreak and they have got to be charged for ffp and slapped with transfer ban to calm that owner down.

 

Nah. Funny watching them spend **** load of money on even more playing and just compounding the issue then having to try flog some of them

 

I think it was sold to Carragher and Fowler, something along the lines of both having football foundations that would join together as one. Not sure what has actually happened on the site but it would surely be an amicable arrangement putting it back in LFC hands.

 

Sevilla v Roma has just descended into a farce in the final minutes of injury time in extra time. Pathetic…

 

No, it was in the article.

It was sold for 10mil for housing and planning granted but they just leased it off the company.
The fowler foundation was only using a small part.

The company didn't ever start building and seem quite happy to flip it back.

The womens team won't use the full set up either so the fowler academy will still be able to use what it is using

 

Sevilla win yet another Europa league.

 

the nive thing is mourinho is sickened.

the bad thing is how awful the game was and how poor talyor was as ref.

he was as usual selfishly determined not to send anyone off so players got away with absolute murder all 140minutes. unless the opened their mouths to him.

he then managed to force a retake on Seville best pen taker to win the thing so became the centre of the result anyway.

a game threatened to break out for 10mins in second half but quickly was snuffed out by cynical coaches

 

It was good to see cynicism not being rewarded. Mourinho and his team (players, coaches) set out to disturb Sevilla’s rhythm by constant fouling, complaining for extra retribution whenever they got a foul, time wasting and every trick in the book. Sevilla fully deserved the win. Not a great watch but justice was done in the end.

 

I hope Mourinho doesn't return to the Prem......sick of his BS