ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3

[Dancing Pat]

This beaut of a post from one of them. Not even a tiny hint of irony either.

 

[Del-boy]

I’d take winning a cup on pens over losing any day of the week to be fair..

 

[Everton1654]

Always been a bottle job Mahrez

 

[Ron Swanson]

TBH, two weeks ago if you had this scenario final day of the season you'd choose it.

Liverpool blew it against Spurs, of all teams.

City will beat Villa by 2 or 3.

Tbf, spurs did a number on city too.

 

[davek]

Tbf, spurs did a number on city too.

Yes, but Liverpool cracked on the run in.

 

[GroovyAsh]

It's crap though isn't it? We're in a relegation battle and they're winning more trophies. Defo an argument to be made for us having the worst rivalry in world football apart from Espanyol against Barcelona.

They've not got the SportPesa cup though. Money can't buy that (you need 50 tokens collected from boxes of Sugar Puffs).

In all seriousness, I'd love to see us win any trophy, but I'd rather be a Blue and see us winning 1 than a Kopite and seeing 20.

Nothing is forever, at some point, they’ll get sick of Klopp, one or two players get older or demand a move, they get a raft of injuries due to playing too many games. Suddenly everyone smells blood and figures them out.

As we saw with Evertons season there is not a lot seperating the bottom 10 in the league. A few wins is the difference between getting relegated and being mid table.

I would not put it past any of the teams in the top half to get relegated in the next 10 years. We went from being comfortable in mid table to a relegation fight within 2 months. We’re almost out of it and it’s good experience but if it can happen to us it can happen to any club.

However, there is the thing of them now being too big to fail. Even in their really terrible era, they only went 8th. They're media darlings, so they'll never be allowed to truly fail. Just look at the Mancs and Arsenal. They've both been terrible in recent years, but they're never allowed to drop into actual danger. They make too much money for the league.

How come when any one else wins the FA Cup there’s one article on them, yet when Liverpool win it it’s wall to wall everywhere about how they’ve redefined the game because they won a couple of penalty shoot outs in two finals they were second best in

I’d love Madrid to wipe their eye, genuinely not sure how the media would cope

The media love them, probably because they're sick of covering City. But the media's always loved them because they buy into their myths. I don't buy the thing about them being "2nd best" though - nobody remembers who was the 'best' if you lost the final. History is written by the victors, always has been. United were not the best team in 1999, not by a long shot, but nobody remembers that Bayern were so much better, just that United sent on their super-sub and won.

 

[wandyr79]

I’d take winning a cup on pens over losing any day of the week to be fair..

Yes, every single person on here would but personally, I would also accept that there was a bit of luck involved.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Always been a bottle job Mahrez

It was a decent pen, high and hit hard but the keeper pulled off a good save, just lucky he went the right way and got enough on it.

Just feels like that might be a turning point. That goes in and it’s title done. The scab vermin just won’t be killed off.

 

[John BCN]

This is so preposterous it actually made me laugh. Second in the "Pantheon of Greats" after 1 League title and 1 Champions League. No respect for their own Paisley and Shankly, let alone Clough, Kendall, Guardiola et al.

 

[Lobster Johnson]

This is so preposterous it actually made me laugh. Second in the "Pantheon of Greats" after 1 League title and 1 Champions League. No respect for their own Paisley and Shankly, let alone Clough, Kendall, Guardiola et al. View attachment 165758

Who's written that absolute jarg?

 

[Ron Swanson]

Just read a big thing in the guardian about klopp winning ‘all the trophies’ available in the English top flight. Conveniently forgetting the community shield and europa league which he failed at.

 

[John BCN]

Who's written that absolute jarg?

Jason Burt - he's their chief football correspondent so he clearly knows his stuff ?

 

[Lobster Johnson]

This is so preposterous it actually made me laugh. Second in the "Pantheon of Greats" after 1 League title and 1 Champions League. No respect for their own Paisley and Shankly, let alone Clough, Kendall, Guardiola et al. View attachment 165758

Arsene Wenger, Bertie Mee, Matt Busby and probably some more to add to your list, too.

It reminds me of when Ian Rush was on course to be the first man to score in every round of the FA cup. Except he wasn't because 12 people had done it before "but it was ages ago so it doesn't count"

 

[John BCN]

Just read a big thing in the guardian about klopp winning ‘all the trophies’ available in the English top flight. Conveniently forgetting the community shield and europa league which he failed at.

Also something about "Trent" being youngest player to win the werld famous "Big Six" trophies.

I know we should probably be worrying more about Thursday night but...

 

[abcdef]

This is so preposterous it actually made me laugh. Second in the "Pantheon of Greats" after 1 League title and 1 Champions League. No respect for their own Paisley and Shankly, let alone Clough, Kendall, Guardiola et al. View attachment 165758

Thus proving Pep Guardiola's assertion that the media are all massive Kopites to be 100% correct.