Despatches From A Decade
This is an unedited version of the piece www.liverpoolfc.tv commissioned on the past decade.
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A New Beginning?
I loathe the kind of ‘punditry’ that says, just six months on from a 2nd-placed finish, that Liverpool have never looked further away from landing the title. It’s so bereft of logic it’s laughable. It’s pure nonsense.
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Respect A European Master
Only four men in the history of European football have more victories in the European Cup/Champions League than Rafa Benítez. Victory against Debrecen was his 50th in the competition.
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Strange Days Indeed
The 13 players City used cost £162.5m; the 14 Liverpool used cost £71.4m. That’s well below half of the visitor’s line up. It shows how Liverpool are already well behind City in terms of squad strength, due to the fact that their spending has not been as a result of selling good players first.
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Evolution of Liverpool’s Strongest XI
Despite all the problems this season, the biggest ray of hope remains the chance to see a fully fit strongest XI take to the field.
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Criticism Is Easy
Incredibly, signing Fernando Torres is now being redefined as a ‘no brainer’, whereas at the time many doubts were voiced and eyebrows raised about a player who was not believed to be a prolific goalscorer, moving to a new country. So even that masterstroke gets downgraded to a decision a monkey could have made. Well, no wonder you can criticise a manager, if you’re making it up as you go along.
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Class is Permanent, Form Is Temporary
Lest some ex-stars forget, one of the oldest Liverpool FC adages is that ‘form is temporary, class is permanent’.
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Time For Understanding
Well, I can’t think of many more bizarre and depressing conclusions to a game than that. The Fulham fixture was the penultimate match in a run of eleven games with now fewer than eight away, and only three at home. Only two of the past seven games have been at Anfield. So it was a [...]
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Reds Resurgent, Red Devils Defeated
Usually after a game, I can write about the issues surrounding what took place as soon as it’s finished, or if I’ve been present, once I’ve got home. At the very least, I can make notes, even if, at worst, only in my head.
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