Liverpool appreciation thread

[Bianchi on Ice]

brilliant that...i do chuckle

[Wooders]

We do have a lot to thank them for - in a high pressure time of the season they hogged the limelight with all their fanfair and hyperbole of being champs after all these years - taking the pressure of us and heaping it on themselves allowing us to quietly get on with the job in hand

[Hazy2]

They have come second to gods own team , and to be fair booted the scum out of the champs league so all in all, Well done !

That said, I would like to place on record, Fuck em. Horrible fans who can now shut the fuck up !

[Clowncrete]

At the end of the day, the blame for them collapsing also falls on the fan's shoulders a bit, not just Brenda's or Stevie Starfish's. It's the fans who queued up singing "we're gonna win the league" outside the stadium. It's the fans who turned this from a simple title challenge to something related to Hillesborough and Brenda fell for it and started spouting nonsense as well. Their fans went quiet when Shirtl scored the own goal. The pressure on the players must have been immense. It turned from just go and play to do it for the 96 and all that.

[Ted Hughes]

If it was purely down to football, I would compliment them on a good season, playing some excellent football & pushing us all the way.

I don't hide the fact that I've never liked them, but plenty of City fans have no problem with them, & they had no problem with us, or so the pretence went.

This is the first time since the 70's we have been involved in a title run v Liverpool & from their owner, whinging about us, their ex CEO planting stories saying how ffp is designed to stop us 'cheating', their manager disrespecting us & whinging about money, saying refs favoured us etc, their mates in the media constantly trying to further their cause, a decent % of their fans plaguing the media with complaints about us, & finally, the whole fucking lot of them booing our team for 90 mins on the day where our club showed nothing but total respect for them.

HAVE IT YOU BUNCH OF TWO FACED CUNTS, HAVE IT.

Forgot to say: UP THE ARSE, SIDEWAYS.

[Piccsnumberoneblue]

If it was purely down to football, I would compliment them on a good season, playing some excellent football & pushing us all the way.

I don't hide the fact that I've never liked them, but plenty of City fans have no problem with them, & they had no problem with us, or so the pretence went.

This is the first time since the 70's we have been involved in a title run v Liverpool & from their owner, whinging about us, their ex CEO planting stories saying how ffp is designed to stop us 'cheating', their manager disrespecting us & whinging about money, saying refs favoured us etc, their mates in the media constantly trying to further their cause, a decent % of their fans plaguing the media with complaints about us, & finally, the whole fucking lot of them booing our team for 90 mins on the day where our club showed nothing but total respect for them.

HAVE IT YOU BUNCH OF TWO FACED CUNTS, HAVE IT.

Forgot to say: UP THE ARSE, SIDEWAYS.

I think that covers it

[Benjay]

I was one of those who didn't have an issue with them until this season. I thought winning the league would be sweeter for beating them but its not and why should it be? Its about City and only City and I just love the fact we have done it. Rodgers totally misread this season and allowed his fans to get totally carried away. Had he taken the Pellers approach then we might not all be thinking what complete twats they are. Well some of us!

[patrickblue]

I thought this was rather amusing.

[Peter Doherty (AGAIG)]

Always despised the fuckers, and despise them even more now.

[Blue Since 76]

If it was purely down to football, I would compliment them on a good season, playing some excellent football & pushing us all the way.

I don't hide the fact that I've never liked them, but plenty of City fans have no problem with them, & they had no problem with us, or so the pretence went.

This is the first time since the 70's we have been involved in a title run v Liverpool & from their owner, whinging about us, their ex CEO planting stories saying how ffp is designed to stop us 'cheating', their manager disrespecting us & whinging about money, saying refs favoured us etc, their mates in the media constantly trying to further their cause, a decent % of their fans plaguing the media with complaints about us, & finally, the whole fucking lot of them booing our team for 90 mins on the day where our club showed nothing but total respect for them.

HAVE IT YOU BUNCH OF TWO FACED CUNTS, HAVE IT.

Forgot to say: UP THE ARSE, SIDEWAYS.

I was only 5 in '77, so by the time I really got into football, they were in a different league to us, often literally. I'd therefore never really had a problem, especially as the rags hated them so much, so them winning something was often as good as it got.

But this season, they've aggravated me more and more as the season has gone on. The booing when we played them was pathetic and something I've only seen Stoke's anti-football fans do, but I'd forgotten it was on the back of the Hillsborough memorial bits. I think even the rags gave us credit for the impeccable behaviour at swamp, so for their fans to behave as they did before, during and after the game was a disgrace.

In fact, having reminded me of that, I'm going to repeat what a rag said to me yesterday (offensive remark alert): Not only did we beat them on points, goal difference, goals scored and goals conceded, we also showed them how to get on a pitch safely.

I hope they finish below Everton again next season and fail FFP whilst they're at it.

[walshawblue]

The bin dippers trophy

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[Dameerto]

I'm one of the people that didn't have a problem with them (the fans) until this season, but the memory of them booing our players after our fans observed the silence impeccably at Anfield will stay with me. No class whatsoever.

[lets all have a disco]

IN A BIT BRENDAN.

[Clowncrete]

A vicious article on stevie me. Sensationalist but I agree with it somewhat:

http://www.sundayworld.com/sport/opinion/roy-curtis/why-stevie-g-is-most-self-obsessed-footballer-of-his-generation#.U3KCFxGcIiw.facebook

Why Stevie G is most self-obsessed footballer of his generation
Tuesday 13th May 2014
● ROY CURTISBy Roy Curtis

AS Liverpool buckled this past fortnight, the scale of the surrender to sentiment and the Great Myth of Steven Gerrard became apparent.

Essentially the leader who went AWOL at the decisive hour, who could offer only blubbering sobs when his troops needed direction, who abandoned his post in the heat of battle, somehow emerged with a Purple Heart pinned to his tear-stained chest.

Even the Fourth Estate chose to raise the white flag to the fairy story of Stevie G when the Football Writers’ Association arrived at the absurd conclusion that here was the second-best performer in the Premier League over the past nine months.

Straight faces were maintained at their London hooley as they deemed Gerrard’s body of work superior to Eden Hazard and, quite preposterously, Yaya Toure, the peerless touchstone against whom every midfield portfolio must be measured.

Distil the difference between Manchester City and Liverpool down to its essence, investigate why the former lifted the title on Sunday as the latter wallowed in a river of misery, and it is impossible to walk away from a pair of damning conclusions.

Firstly, the team that the Kop, in its ravenous hunger for a new age of prosperity, chose to prematurely deem soldiers of destiny, cannot defend: Liverpool leaked 23 goals more than Chelsea, 12 more than City, seven more, even, than a hapless Manchester United.

Secondly, in terms of leadership and inspiration at critical junctures from its midfield talisman, the contribution of Toure – one which goes way beyond his stunning 20 league goals input – dwarfs that of Gerrard, renders it a nothing.

These two flaws fatally merged at Crystal Palace when Gerrard, deemed Europe’s pre-eminent controlling midfielder by his manager, became the very opposite, a vision of disorganised chaos, as the Eagles landed three killer blows.

This is not to say that Gerrard had a poor season, not at all. But to deem him among the brightest stars in the season’s constellation is simply a work of fiction, a sop to saccharine-induced nostalgia.

It says much for the Englishman’s genius for self-promotion that he would garner more first preference votes than the transcendent Ivorian in the Player of the Year poll conducted by those who scribble about the game on a daily basis.

Here is a triumph of mush over substance, the creation of the greatest fable since the days of Aesop.

Perhaps the writers, like Gerrard himself against Chelsea in what has emerged as the defining image of the season and a treasure trove for parody, had suffered a cataclysmic, collective and concussive slip that had scrambled their senses.

Liverpool fans tend to rewrite history when it comes to the player who did just about everything in his power to board the Chelsea express in 2004 (Google his quotes from that time) until thuggish threats to his family persuaded him to step back.

And in the process Gerrard has become half man, half folk-ballad.

Second-best in England this season? He wasn’t even remotely close to being second best at his own club.

In truth, he ranked somewhere between the fourth and eighth most valuable player at Liverpool.

Unquestionably adrift of Luis Suarez, Daniel Sturridge and Raheem Sterling, any honest internal poll would have him jostling with Jordan Henderson, Philippe Coutinho and Simon Mignolet for the minor placings in a thrilling year of rebirth.

Gerrard was not in the top 20 performers in England.

Of those who can loosely be termed midfielders, he trailed Toure, Hazard, David Silva, Willian, Fernandinho, Adam Lallana, Santi Cazorla and, perhaps, Henderson. Aaron Ramsey in his three months of fitness was a vividly more stellar figure.

Those who observed Gerrard’s comically inept display against Aston Villa at Anfield in January could only assume Brendan Rodgers had spent the evening socialising with the ghosts of Hunter S Thompson, Oliver Reed and George Best when he recently deemed Gerrard “the best in European football in a controlling role”.

Where was the control when he keeled over like a bullet-ridden Bambi against Chelsea?

If that was a cruel taunt from the heavens, there was no outside influence as Liverpool blew that three-goal lead at Palace last week.

A holding midfielder of substance – a Keane, a Vieira, – would have stood up in the face of such impertinence from the underclasses, would have stamped their authority on the south London turf and crushed any hint of a proletariat uprising.

Gerrard – all General MacArthur in his public utterances before the game – merely dissolved into the night.

The man who has shamelessly played to the Sky Sports lens these past few weeks was suddenly pushing the camera away, railing against the very intrusions he had not only invited, but demanded after each decisive Liverpool step forward.

It is true he enjoyed a memorable afternoon as City were downed, but would that helter-skelter contest have followed the same storyline had the immense Toure not been ambushed by injury in the early minutes?

If Rodgers in that earlier quote was referring to his skipper’s capacity to “control” the perceptions surrounding him then perhaps he had a point.

Gerrard is England’s captain and he is peerless at one aspect of the modern game: Feeding the Great Myth.

Whether it is through tears or fist-pumping rallying cries or the smitten, innocent-in-love badge kissing, he creates the illusion of being the ultimate team-player.

In truth, Gerrard is a credible rival to Cristiano Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimovich for the title of most self-obsessed footballer of his generation.

Yet so many fall for the great delusion of Stevie G, the unbending one-club man.

Whether it is turning on the tear-taps or morphing into Russell Crowe after the victory over City when gathering his players in a post-match huddle for his mortifying Gladiator speech, his genius is to cultivate this image as Liverpool’s bastion.

He is the selfless hero, the fearless superintendent, the upholder of standards, the solid Scouser, the forever loyal Red, the man who will keep the darkness at bay.

The only problem is when the truth intrudes upon the narrative.

Like when night fell for Liverpool supporters on Sunday as City – despite being stripped of their world-class striker for most of the season – were crowned champions for the second time in three seasons.

Led by Toure, a midfield player from a different continent to Gerrard by birth; and a different planet when it comes to leadership and achievement.

[Hutch's Shoulder]

Woo, I hope he's not visiting Liverpool any time soon .......

[mr_nool]

That's probably the most pretentious piece on football I've ever read.
What a fucking bore!

[nottsblue]

Bit ott but a lot of truth there.

Don't care for Stevie myself, whether club or country

[Ted Hughes]

Bit ott but a lot of truth there.

Don't care for Stevie myself, whether club or country

The only problem with it imo, is it forgets Beckham.

The so called 'golden generation' of England players, should actually have been seriously fucking good, but cunts like those two holding a competition to see who could hit the most spectacular 40 yard pass, set the tone for the whole fucking bunch of them in that team.

A team in which Paul Scholes had to play on the fucking wing, ending in him retiring, whilst those two cunts plus fat Frank chose their positions. Scholes would have liked a few players to pass the ball to & play football, but the two Captains & national heroes had other ideas.

You could see the wanker Gerrard doing it when he fucked up v Chelsea; every pass a glory ball trying to redeem himself. Me me me, same as Beckham. Cunt.

[Moonchesteri]

https://vine.co/v/M6MtJ3gTePl

Hahaa this is brilliant!!

[Wooders]

The only problem with it imo, is it forgets Beckham. The so called 'golden generation' of England players, should actually have been seriously fucking good, but cunts like those two holding a competition to see who could hit the most spectacular 40 yard pass, set the tone for the whole fucking bunch of them in that team. A team in which Paul Scholes had to play on the fucking wing, ending in him retiring, whilst those two cunts plus fat Frank chose their positions. Scholes would have liked a few players to pass the ball to & play football, but the two Captains & national heroes had other ideas. You could see the wanker Gerrard doing it when he fucked up v Chelsea; every pass a glory ball trying to redeem himself. Me me me, same as Beckham. Cunt.

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