The Key Position?
The most important player in any football team? I grew up believing it was the centre-forward (the fact that I played there may have somewhat cemented this belief).
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Who Said You Had To ‘Understand’?
There’s also an alternative where Torres stays on, improves, plays a blinder, but the team lose; what would it have been blamed on then? As at Wigan, Gerrard played in central midfield, so it couldn’t have been that. But there would no-doubt be some ‘simple’ explanation proffered.
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Reds Back on Track, Steve Bruce Deflated
It’s not been a particularly enjoyable season – one I’ve found hard to deal with on a number of levels. It’s been a campaign with too many defeats (after two seasons of barely being beat), but were the Reds now to finish 4th and win the Europa League it would certainly represent success; even if it wouldn’t satiate the ultimate dreams we harboured last August.
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Rock, Paper, Scissors
Even now, people haven’t fully wised up to the change in English football in the last handful of years; if Arsenal can buck the trend, then that would be great for the game, but it would be an exception to the “rule of the mega-squad”; in the summer, Chelsea, City and United will all spend big to exert their might.
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Tough and Rumble
Well, if Liverpool didn’t know they were in a battle for 4th, they do now; indeed, too literally so this weekend. After the utter nonsense last season, the Blackburn game was always going to be a bigger deal than usual. Add that the Reds took to the field only after Manchester City and Spurs had already won, and it was a fixture on a knife-edge.
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Cutting Edge
If you go to a club that is in the top four; that has an unbeaten home record (including victories in various competitions against Man United, Chelsea and Arsenal – twice); that has had an extra 48 hours rest; and that has a starting XI that cost twice as much to assemble, and get a draw, then that, by any stretch of the imagination, is a good result.
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Youthful Promise
If you ever want to see the perfect example of how media reporting of football has changed in the past 40 years, consider the following.
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Derby Day Delight
One thing really bothered me earlier in the season: accusations from some quarters that Liverpool lacked character. This didn’t tally with what I believed to be the case. Last season, time and time again, the Reds showed incredible character to rescue lost causes, and lose so few games.
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Success Starts at the Back
Whisper it quietly, but Liverpool could be six games into a very important run of form. An eight point deficit to fourth place is now down to one, and it’s another week closer to the major attacking threats of Torres, Benayoun and Johnson returning. With every passing month, another top-four challenger falls away; as happens every year. People worrying about the threat of Birmingham has been made to look premature.
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End to the ‘Perfect Storm’ in Sight?
A few weeks back, Liverpool were eight points off 4th place. Now the gap is down to four. Lost in all the drama of an FA cup shock (which, let’s face it, happened to Shankly, Paisley and Dalglish, and to Alex Ferguson as recently as this month) was that the Reds are closing in on the top four.
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