Pre-match stats On all three occasions Liverpool had beatenEverton in an FA Cup semi-final before this season, the Reds went on to lose the final. Only three teams have previously won the League Cup and FA Cup in the same season:Arsenal in 92/93, Liverpool in 00/01 and Chelsea in 06/07. Liverpool could become the first team to [...]
Or ‘why the British have to stop worrying and learn to love the Europeans.’ By James Keen (aka subscriber Jimtheoracle) “The third season is fatal” So said the great Bela Guttmann, winner as coach of consecutive European cups with Benfica in the early 1960s, giving Eusebio his debut in the process. He believed strongly that [...]
Perhaps a problem with any temporary managerial appointment is that even when it’s made permanent, it doesn’t feel as secure as it would if someone had been the sole target, headhunted especially for the task. There’s always a sense of second choice, hanging in the air. I have never for one moment felt Kenny Dalglish [...]
Starting XIs and overall shapes In the light of the forthcoming FA Cup Final, not unexpectedly Dalglish made wholesale changes to his starting team. There were nine new faces following the previous league match, with only Shelvey and Henderson keeping their places. But the formation was the same – once again, as so often this [...]
Pre-match stats These two sides mustered 16 shots on target between them in the reverse fixture which ended as a 1-1 draw. Only Wolves (6) have picked up fewer points than Liverpool (12) in 2012. Liverpool have only won three of their last 15 Premier League matches, losing nine in that run. Norwich have won [...]
Liverpool face Fulham in their penultimate fixture at Anfield and it will be interesting to see who Dalglish includes in the side with the not-so-small matter of the FA Cup final against Chelsea taking place just four days after we host Martin Jol’s team. The Cottagers secured a 1-0 victory at Craven Cottage in December, [...]
by TTT Subscriber ‘Macattack’. ‘The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that encapsulates the concept that an event is a surprise (to the observer) and has a major impact. After the fact, the event is rationalised by hindsight. Such events, considered extreme outliers, collectively play vastly larger roles than regular occurrences.’ (A particularly [...]
There are just two more Premier League games to play before we head off to Wembley for the third time this season, and next up for the Reds is a trip to Norfolk to face Paul Lambert’s Norwich City (5.30pm kick off UK time) on Saturday evening. The two clubs shared the spoils in the [...]
By Simon Steers. A definition of culture: The behaviours and beliefs of a particular group. So much of what Liverpool stands for is down to one man’s vision: when Bill Shankly came to the club in 1959, he set about a revolution that defines everything the club stands for today. A staunch socialist, Shankly set [...]
by TTT subscriber, Lee Mooney. This season, for me at least, will be remembered as one where Liverpool missed opportunities, learned valuable lessons and posed a number of questions that’ll need answering (ideally sooner rather than later), such as: Why have we squandered so many clear-cut chances to score? Do the things that ‘matter’ in [...]
