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

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I find some of the reaction of Liverpool fans on here to be hilarious!

Getting their backs up over the game as they think that there was some sort of moral victory had but also attacking (pun intended) the author as they feel that he is criticising their club unfairly.

The problem is that the point of the article is being missed- if a moral victory was achieved with a weakened side then imagine what might have happened with Liverpool's full team- an actual result, one that counts towards your points total.

Referencing the result at Anfield isnt enough either as there are a plethora of instances where teams give much improved performances after being well beaten in an earlier leg.

The author is right in his assertion- Rodgers fielded a weakened team like a petulant child in a " can win, wont try" manner. The famous old Italian saying comes to mind- "better to live a day as a wolf than a life as a sheep"

Liverpool fans cried out for champs league football and now they are happy playing a weakened team and waving a white flag at one of the top stadiums in Europe against the champions- bizarre logic.
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Actually, it's the reaction of a few bitter rival fans like you that's hilarious.

Liverpool played appallingly at the weekend so, rather than hope that the team would miraculously play ten times better against Real Madrid than they did against Newcastle United, the manager made several changes. Those changes were effective, and Liverpool played well.

Granted, they didn't threaten to score often but they did give themselves a good chance of getting some sort of result against a Real Madrid team that had won 3-0 against them a couple of weeks ago and 3-1 against Barcelona since then.

Your problem, and the problem that the other bitter individuals castigating Brendan Rodgers here also have, is that Liverpool didn't get smashed out of the park playing the newer players that people like you have written off already.

So, instead you write rubbish like this. Laughable, isn't it?
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Deary me, some of them are getting very defensive over this
 
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/05/luis-suarez-chelsea-liverpool-jose-mourinho

Liverpool play Chelsea at Anfield again on Saturday for the first time since that crucial encounter in April and Suárez recalls how Steven Gerrard was so distraught about the slip that let in Demba Ba for the opening goal that he was unable to travel to the Professional Footballers’ Association dinner that night.

“If I had been in Stevie’s shoes, I don’t know if I would have been able to carry on playing,” the Barcelona striker recalls. “Emotionally, it must have been very, very hard.

“In the previous weeks, so much had been said about him, the expectation had built so much, the talk had been about him leading Liverpool, his club, to a first title in over 20 years, on the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, in which his cousin had died, and then that happens. The captain, the former youth-teamer, the one-club man, a Scouser born and bred, and he was the unlucky one to make a crucial mistake.

“He still hadn’t won the league title. Stevie had started to believe, we all had. And now it had been virtually taken away from him and like that, with him slipping against Chelsea. I’m convinced that if Chelsea had not scored like that, they would not have scored at all. And once you are a goal down against them, it’s virtually impossible.”

Suárez’s book, released on Thursday, reveals that he made the mistake of starting to think Liverpool had virtually won the league, asking one of their coaches whether there was anything special planned at the end of the season, and hearing other players openly talking about it.

lollollol
 
davek said:
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/05/luis-suarez-chelsea-liverpool-jose-mourinho

Liverpool play Chelsea at Anfield again on Saturday for the first time since that crucial encounter in April and Suárez recalls how Steven Gerrard was so distraught about the slip that let in Demba Ba for the opening goal that he was unable to travel to the Professional Footballers’ Association dinner that night.

“If I had been in Stevie’s shoes, I don’t know if I would have been able to carry on playing,” the Barcelona striker recalls. “Emotionally, it must have been very, very hard.

“In the previous weeks, so much had been said about him, the expectation had built so much, the talk had been about him leading Liverpool, his club, to a first title in over 20 years, on the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, in which his cousin had died, and then that happens. The captain, the former youth-teamer, the one-club man, a Scouser born and bred, and he was the unlucky one to make a crucial mistake.

“He still hadn’t won the league title. Stevie had started to believe, we all had. And now it had been virtually taken away from him and like that, with him slipping against Chelsea. I’m convinced that if Chelsea had not scored like that, they would not have scored at all. And once you are a goal down against them, it’s virtually impossible.”

Suárez’s book, released on Thursday, reveals that he made the mistake of starting to think Liverpool had virtually won the league, asking one of their coaches whether there was anything special planned at the end of the season, and hearing other players openly talking about it.

lollollol
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I need a good door stop. That book'll do for that.
 
davek said:
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/05/luis-suarez-chelsea-liverpool-jose-mourinho

Liverpool play Chelsea at Anfield again on Saturday for the first time since that crucial encounter in April and Suárez recalls how Steven Gerrard was so distraught about the slip that let in Demba Ba for the opening goal that he was unable to travel to the Professional Footballers’ Association dinner that night.

“If I had been in Stevie’s shoes, I don’t know if I would have been able to carry on playing,” the Barcelona striker recalls. “Emotionally, it must have been very, very hard.

“In the previous weeks, so much had been said about him, the expectation had built so much, the talk had been about him leading Liverpool, his club, to a first title in over 20 years, on the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, in which his cousin had died, and then that happens. The captain, the former youth-teamer, the one-club man, a Scouser born and bred, and he was the unlucky one to make a crucial mistake.

“He still hadn’t won the league title. Stevie had started to believe, we all had. And now it had been virtually taken away from him and like that, with him slipping against Chelsea. I’m convinced that if Chelsea had not scored like that, they would not have scored at all. And once you are a goal down against them, it’s virtually impossible.”

Suárez’s book, released on Thursday, reveals that he made the mistake of starting to think Liverpool had virtually won the league, asking one of their coaches whether there was anything special planned at the end of the season, and hearing other players openly talking about it.

lollollol
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Yes ratboy, YES!!
 
Waffle waffle... Gary is a figure I respect, he has been a top player, but he has never been a manager so he does not know what you’re up against with planning and training ... It was far from throwing in the white towel. ... Waffle waffle
 
Despite the racism and biting and trying to deliberately injure other players and diving and being an all round tit, I'm actually starting to like loveable old Luis.
 
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