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

[Fuleco]

They'll get beat easily.

Their playing one of the top sides in Europe thats jam packed with quality players and a great manager, their playing awful and are missing their main goalscoring threat, plus their talismanic captains legs couldn't carry him away from a house fire. Their defence is comically bad most of the time and tonight it's up against some of the finest attacking talents in the world, it's going to be like watching some 1940s Hollywood slapstick.

Just sit back and enjoy the carnage.

You've just described exactly why they are going to win! :-(

 

[Dithering Dougie]

You've just described exactly why they are going to win! :-(

I can't help you if you won't help yourself.

 

[Prevenger17]

They'll get beat easily.

Their playing one of the top sides in Europe thats jam packed with quality players and a great manager, their playing awful and are missing their main goalscoring threat, plus their talismanic captains legs couldn't carry him away from a house fire. Their defence is comically bad most of the time and tonight it's up against some of the finest attacking talents in the world, it's going to be like watching some 1940s Hollywood slapstick.

Just sit back and enjoy the carnage.

I hope you're right, Dougie. I keep veering between sticking my neck out and proclaiming that Anfield will be hit with the footballing equivalent of a nuke, and fearing that Liverpool will somehow pull it off under their magical European fairy lamps or whatever it is they call their floodlights.

On a slight sidenote to this evening's entertainment, I found a thread started about Alex Ferguson on RAWK.

It is interesting given the huge amount of time at Manchester United how those fans see him. They respect what he has done, of course, who wouldn't? But he doesn't seem to have massive support. You'd think a man that turned around the fortunes of that club would have his name sung to the rafters every single week.

There's certainly something strange about the lack of "affection" their fans have for him.Sure they respect and adore what he has achieved but oddly enough they don't see him a messiah type figure that he would be seen at other clubs.

It's almost as if they think cultish, hyper-zealous worship of the past is par for the course at any club.

 

[MikeH72]

They'll get beat easily.

Their playing one of the top sides in Europe thats jam packed with quality players and a great manager, their playing awful and are missing their main goalscoring threat, plus their talismanic captains legs couldn't carry him away from a house fire. Their defence is comically bad most of the time and tonight it's up against some of the finest attacking talents in the world, it's going to be like watching some 1940s Hollywood slapstick.

Just sit back and enjoy the carnage.

That all makes sense. But in the wonderful world of Liverpool, logic doesn't apply. In the last few days they've managed to win a game in which they were completely battered because their opponents gifted them 2 own goals. In recent times they've won the CL with a team that finished below an Everton side including Gary Naysmith, Pistone, Marcus Bent and Kevin Kilbane. Liverpool don't make sense. Don't rule anything out tonight

 

[ste d' indica]

I hope you're right, Dougie. I keep veering between sticking my neck out and proclaiming that Anfield will be hit with the footballing equivalent of a nuke, and fearing that Liverpool will somehow pull it off under their magical European fairy lamps or whatever it is they call their floodlights.

On a slight sidenote to this evening's entertainment, I found a thread started about Alex Ferguson on RAWK.






It's almost as if they think cultish, hyper-zealous worship of the past is par for the course at any club.

"they don't see him a messiah type figure that he would be seen at other clubs"

The defence rests your honour.

Nutters.

 

[Kankurette]

Oh RAWK.

Of course. We get The Times and yesterday's "the game" pullout on the weekends football took the biscuit. QPR v Liverpool took the cover and the first two complete inside pages - three separate articles. Eulogising on Raheem Stirling's inspirational role in the game, how he bossed the second half "if he ever got the run of the ball with Liverpool on the front foot, then the havoc he could wreak would be truly terrifying". I thought at first our match report been left out completely but found one column on page 10....six lousy PARAGRAPHS. Id hesitate to call it a match report as Tony Barrett, the ex Echo RS reporter managed to merely make some weak, clumsy analogy between Ross Barkley and Joe Cole. Oh... and Leighton Baines only rated a lousy 6 off him while Im complaining. Theyd probably say these things even themselves out over a season...the usual mitigation. Don't hurt yer bleedin' selves, like.

This would be the same Liverpool who only won because of two own goals, then. Against one of the worst teams in the EPL.

I hope they get spanked by Real Madrid tonight, just because of that. Jammy sods.

 

[Jacob]

Random Rodgers Rambles : 'The Anfield Bugle' 22/10/14 (edited)
Brendan Rodgers urges players to 'grab their chance' at entering Anfield folklore....

“These are the types of games that are talked about for years and years,” Rodgers said. “Steven Gerrard’s two goals he scored in that last game against Real are still talked about. “The players will go into the game to get a result for the team and what can come from that is legendary status.“We are are a very young side. There were only two teams in the Premier League that were younger than us last season - one was Aston Villa, who almost got relegated, and Cardiff, who did. That tells me how well the young players did.
Liverpool’s frailties at the back were exposed by QPR last weekend but Rodgers believes facing Real could actually suit his players better.
“The focus gets put on the defence and the keeper, but for us we have to win, lose and perform as a team. It’s about the collective,”
“It’s a game Mario is keen to perform in,” Rodgers added. “He was in the positions to miss at the weekend.
Rodgers said.“But now we’ve got technical opponents who like to get it wide, pass the ball into the box and play on the counter so it’s a different style and for many of our players it will probably suit them more.”

 

[KevMirallas]

It's effing unbearable today. I'm preparing for them to get something out of it, because logic completely goes out the window usually when it comes to that lot, but I don't think I could be fully prepared for the backlash.

Just imagine it FFS.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Random Rodgers Rambles : 'The Anfield Bugle' 22/10/14 (edited)
Brendan Rodgers urges players to 'grab their chance' at entering Anfield folklore....

“These are the types of games that are talked about for years and years,” Rodgers said. “Steven Gerrard’s two goals he scored in that last game against Real are still talked about. “The players will go into the game to get a result for the team and what can come from that is legendary status.“We are are a very young side. There were only two teams in the Premier League that were younger than us last season - one was Aston Villa, who almost got relegated, and Cardiff, who did. That tells me how well the young players did.
Liverpool’s frailties at the back were exposed by QPR last weekend but Rodgers believes facing Real could actually suit his players better.
“The focus gets put on the defence and the keeper, but for us we have to win, lose and perform as a team. It’s about the collective,”
“It’s a game Mario is keen to perform in,” Rodgers added. “He was in the positions to miss at the weekend.
Rodgers said.“But now we’ve got technical opponents who like to get it wide, pass the ball into the box and play on the counter so it’s a different style and for many of our players it will probably suit them more.”

Why doesn't he just poke his bum out of his shirt instead of flashing his nashers at these pressers,I'm sure we'd all make more sense out of his bottom parps than what he comes out with!

 

[ste d' indica]

Random Rodgers Rambles : 'The Anfield Bugle' 22/10/14 (edited)
Brendan Rodgers urges players to 'grab their chance' at entering Anfield folklore....

“These are the types of games that are talked about for years and years,” Rodgers said. “Steven Gerrard’s two goals he scored in that last game against Real are still talked about. “The players will go into the game to get a result for the team and what can come from that is legendary status.“We are are a very young side. There were only two teams in the Premier League that were younger than us last season - one was Aston Villa, who almost got relegated, and Cardiff, who did. That tells me how well the young players did.
Liverpool’s frailties at the back were exposed by QPR last weekend but Rodgers believes facing Real could actually suit his players better.
“The focus gets put on the defence and the keeper, but for us we have to win, lose and perform as a team. It’s about the collective,”
“It’s a game Mario is keen to perform in,” Rodgers added. “He was in the positions to miss at the weekend.
Rodgers said.“But now we’ve got technical opponents who like to get it wide, pass the ball into the box and play on the counter so it’s a different style and for many of our players it will probably suit them more.”

"I haven't spent 100s of millions to comfortably beat minnows of the PL, for heavens sake man, don't you know anything about football? Our performances are reserved for the elite, the teams that we consider worthy of playing on the hallowed turf, under the magical lights with the ghosts of legends watching on in beatific magnificence... wibble wibble wibble...."

 

[Ihaters]

Random Rodgers Rambles : 'The Anfield Bugle' 22/10/14 (edited)
Brendan Rodgers urges players to 'grab their chance' at entering Anfield folklore....

“These are the types of games that are talked about for years and years,” Rodgers said. “Steven Gerrard’s two goals he scored in that last game against Real are still talked about. “The players will go into the game to get a result for the team and what can come from that is legendary status.“We are are a very young side. There were only two teams in the Premier League that were younger than us last season - one was Aston Villa, who almost got relegated, and Cardiff, who did. That tells me how well the young players did.
Liverpool’s frailties at the back were exposed by QPR last weekend but Rodgers believes facing Real could actually suit his players better.
“The focus gets put on the defence and the keeper, but for us we have to win, lose and perform as a team. It’s about the collective,”
“It’s a game Mario is keen to perform in,” Rodgers added. “He was in the positions to miss at the weekend.
Rodgers said.“But now we’ve got technical opponents who like to get it wide, pass the ball into the box and play on the counter so it’s a different style and for many of our players it will probably suit them more.”

Didn't realize they won the young first team league?? Trophies everywhere.

As for the second bit, i'm going to go ahead and suggest there are actually no players, for which playing against Real Madrid would suit them more than playing against QPR.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Ronaldo is going in dry.

Once he's wiped his tool on the penalty spot in front of the Hill of Piss, he's going to tag in Benzema, once he's finished James will have a bash.

Bukkake will ensue for 90 minutes.

 

[Ihaters]

Lock em all in a bathroom, with a certain, disabled, olympian in the room next door armed with a minigun I say.
Although with over a hundred billion local Liverpudlians supporting them it would have to be a big bathroom, and more importantly... Mr P would need a lot of ammo. I'm sure there would be plenty of volunteers to help out though.

 

[glorydaze]

Tonight will show the fruition of all of Brenda's tactical and purchasing prowess.


4-0 to Madrid

 

[Dithering Dougie]

Tonight will show the fruition of all of Brenda's tactical and purchasing prowess.


4-0 to Madrid

It's like you and me have got vision and the rest of the forum is wearing bifocals!