The last hurrah of Aldo. Or how I learnt to stop gobbling knobs and learn to love the asterisk. Match Day 8*: 15 July
Effing robbed. Just watching Bournemouth cack their kecks against City. I sympathise as I feel personally affected by it. Not just the soiling yourself, but also the fact that if Bournemouth go down then it’s a double whammy. Them mancs with their oil money are getting closer, and Bournemouth look to be going down – who’ll buy our Curtis and Harvey when they turn out to be flash in the pan rubbish for exorbitant values? Look at little Eddie Howe’s little face – I feel his sadness. And who did this, that effing Raheem Stirling with a clinical dink over the keeper. Some may say it’s a talented bit of skill to do that after beating 3 men and then being taken down by Purple Faki (how did I get Nathan mixed up with Big Purps? Who’d a thunk it?) just as he was lofting it over the advancing keeper to score the goal of the season but I think he just fluked it, the little chancer. Imaging losing the league to a flukey goal. And there’s no VAR now to stop cheats like him prospering – I think they’re going to have to bring it back for the last game of the season to make sure we win, I mean to makes sure that fair play wins, ahem. And he then goes on to dedicate it to kittens and sick kids, and Dame Vera Lynn. Grrrr, that’s ours YMCA YMCA YMCA. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I saw we had a banner for her too. It’s not fair!
Arsenal away today. Steve McMahon is sharpening his studs. I hate them , robbing us of the league and getting presented the trophy on our turf. He’s well surly. I think he wants redemption for taking his foot of the gas and losing that game by telling us all to concentrate and not doing it himself. Better not tell him though or he might belt me one. Good news is that Arsenal are decimated with Chinese fru. It’s so bad that they have to provide a team from ex-players. In defence they have Seaman, Winterburn, Dixon, Adams, Bould and that bitter bloo (but he doesn’t ever mention it, the effing nugget) Keown. That Merson and Kevin Campbell up front. Bloody hell another bloo. Boooooo! And they only gone and cloned Alan Ball in his white boots – like he’ll be any good. They’ve got that Anelka and Michael Thomas on as well – so a few ex-reds so we should be ok (wink wink).
It’s like a team of James Milner (before the speziale brau ran out) playing against that defence. They’re all in their 50s and 60s and stuff and still we can’t get past them. They make Van Dijk look like he’s only world class because the standard of defender has dropped that much that an average-ish player can look brilliant, which is as far from the truth as possible as he is the greatest ever. I tell you, I keep shooting and nothing but Seaman coming out on top. Can I lob Seaman? Nope. Can I blast Seaman? Only onto his body. The only time in the first half that I embarrass him is when I take a shot and mess up his long hair – damn you Seaman! And Alan Ball is making Steve McMahon look like a right mug – in fact he’s making a midfield of Naby Keita and James Milner look like the most embarrassing midfield to ever challenge for a title! I don’t know what’s going on here. It’s almost like we’ve been on performance enhancing drugs before the league got suspended and without them we’re useless.
Kenny is absolutely furious. He’s coughing and spluttering – not because of the chinese fru – thankfully for that there are still no symptoms, but because of rage. He tells me to get more shots on targets – apparently there’s a lad up a traffic light outside who is shooting with Seaman more effectively. I’m riled up – I could push Kenny in a fountain right now. Stevie Gee tells us to all calm down and plays a bit of lady in red for us all to calm down on his ghetto blaster. And that’s another thing, if he’s the best English midfielder of his generation, why can’t he hold a candle to Alan Ball? It’s all going terribly wrong. But voice of reason as ever comes from super sub Big Raze who has been drafted in for the last few games. We only need a point lads and we’re drawing. Kenny says that if we stick Raze on, then half the pitch will be taken up and they won’t be able to get through. Nice one! Draw it out, get the point and take home the trophy!
Kevin Campbell is marauding away but fortunately Big Raze is up to the job, and like an inflatable castle, Campbell just bounces off him. This is looking good. Even King Kenny is looking calm again. With about 10 minutes to go, Merson is having a word with Big Raze. It’s getting really emotional. Merson is telling Big Raze that he’s got to stop drinking or it’ll kill him. Big Raze is blubbering away and his heads not on the game. But we’ve used all 5 subs already. McMahon and Stevie Gee are calming everyone down. We can do this redmen. Get the party stated redmen. All of a sudden little Bobby Firminho (how would Werner get in over him? What a non-signing that’ll turn out to be) puts me clear with a minute to go, but I trap it like Romelu Lukaku and it goes shooting back. McMahon puts up one finger and tells us all that is all we have to concentrate for! Nice one – time to win the league lads! But McMahon allows Alan Ball to rob him because he’s too busy gesturing. A pin point pass to Michael Thomas who saunters past the stricken whale like body of Blubbery Raze an he slots it in. Noooooooooooooooooo!
The final whistle goes, and that dirty cheating Kevin Campbell with a big beam on my face asks if I have heard the news. What news? Everton have slipped into 5th place and with City not looking to qualify this year, they’re in the Champions League spots.
This day can get no worse. Starting to think that they should have voided the season. Still 6 points in hand and 2 games to go, what else could go wrong?
Liverpool: GD +39 Points 85
Etihad Scoundrels: GD +44 Points 79