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Bujakaa said:
As I understand from that post not having club trained HG might hurt?
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Which giving the likes of Trent AA/ Ovie Ejaria/ Ben Woodburn/ Cam Brannigan/ Harry Wilson et all is a bizarre thing to stress over.

We have the most productive academy of anyone given the ultimate goal is first team players and the amount that have progressed to that level under Klopp and been given their debuts under him. With an equaly strong bunch coming through from the U-16's and U-18's since they've redefined the approach and slimmed down to quality over quantity.

Added to the English continent of vets that are as strong if not stronger than anywhere else, the home grown quota is well covered.

The football club is as strong and healthy from top to bottom as it has been in decades.
 
Average Joe said:
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Thoughts Scouse!?
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I'm privileged to live in the best City in the World that has absolutely everything you could ever wish for. :).

Laughing at quite a few of those, particularly the point on Adidas trainees. I don't discriminate on race, sexuality, gender, religion. Doesn't **** me. But yer trabs? **** YEAH! What's on yer feet. THAT matters!!!!!

Soz. It's a Scouse thing. Lol.
 
*****. It's been fun, but it's game over lads.

First Lilly Savage said to give the title to Chelsea already. In December.

Now, the brown paper bag collecting, tax fiddling genius extraordinaire and one time (alleged) football manager Harry (Trophy's? Who cares about stinking trophies! I'm a wheeling dealing loveable Cockney geezer me!) Redknapp has spoken. And L'pool aren't even finishing top 4!

https://www.joe.co.uk/sport/harry-redknapp-thinks-liverpool-will-miss-out-on-the-top-four/104593

Time to sack this season off.
 
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Scouseinthehouse said:
The football club is as strong and healthy from top to bottom as it has been in decades.
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Probably the most I’ve enjoyed us on and off the pitch in my life-time. Born in ’92 so sadly missed the 70s and 80s, although my dad has made sure I’ve also got the knowledge of them decades.
 
Tezzz said:
Probably the most I’ve enjoyed us on and off the pitch in my life-time. Born in ’92 so sadly missed the 70s and 80s, although my dad has made sure I’ve also got the knowledge of them decades.
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100th anniversary year. One of my favourite Wembley's '92. Lashed it down. Game wasn't up to much like but just a mad party with the Sunderland lads. Real friendly Cup Final that.
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
100th anniversary year. One of my favourite Wembley's '92. Lashed it down. Game wasn't up to much like but just a mad party with the Sunderland lads. Real friendly Cup Final that.
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Didn't even see that I was born later in the year!!
 
Tezzz said:
Didn't even see that I was born later in the year!!
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LOL. Soz mate.

On the plus side, now you're working at the ground, you'll get to see our first league title in your lifetime hoisted aloft live at some point the second half of this season!
 
Brian Reade ‏@BrianReade 2h2 hours ago
Phil Scraton also turned down a New Year's OBE because "I could not accept an honour tied in name to the British Empire. " Legend.

Hillsborough campaigner Phil Scraton refuses OBE - BBC News

LEGEND is right Brian. How Aspinall and Hicks could accept theirs after 27 years disgrace (25 at the time) stretching from the very highest reaches of Her Majesty's Government, through Her Majesty's Judiciary, Her Majesty's Coroners Office, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary et all is utterly beyond me. I couldn't begin to understand the pain of their respective losses which I have the utmost sympathy for. Along with all they've contributed to the ongoing fight for justice this last 27 years. But they both should hang their heads at accepting ANYTHING from the British Establishment that has caused so much needless hurt.




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Scouseinthehouse said:
LOL. Soz mate.

On the plus side, now you're working at the ground, you'll get to see our first league title in your lifetime hoisted aloft live at some point the second half of this season!
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Just wondering what opposition fans will use against Liverpool when they can't use the 'living in the past' and 'next year is our year' lines....
 
Tomorrows game has an even bigger complexion on it than when you earmarked it as pivotal to the Championship when the fixtures came out the summer. Back then, you had this down as the main game the first half of the year we could pull back ground on City. Them being top. L'pool as they are 5 or 6 points behind. What nobody factored in was this stupendous 13 game run from Chelsea to have them in the envisaganed City position. Which now makes this a 'DAREN'T lose!' every bit as much as it's still a 'MUST win!' Presuming Chelsea beat West Brom earlier in the afternoon, they'll be 9 and 10 points ahead of L'pool and City respectively. NOBODY wants that gap at half way. So the fear factor comes into play. But then a draw serves neither club in the 'Chelsea having already won' scenario. Puts an extra edge to a game that didn't need one with all the subplots.

Naturally very confident of a win. You're confident of that most any game these special Reds play. Not least at Anfield where they're 32 days removed from a year unbeaten. (23 games and counting.). In that run, among the 16 wins and 58 goals scored (18 conceded/ 10 Clean Sheets), was a 3-0 hiding of City that was every bit as good as L'pool's earlier 4-1 win at the Ethiad. In so doing keeping alive City's absolutely abysmal record at Anfield. In the PL era, they've won just ONCE (2-1 back in 2003) to go alongside 15 loses and 6 draws. With some real big doings along the way. Heck, they've only ever won 12 other times outside of that 2003 game at LFC, the previous being back in 1981. With everything else from 1956 on back! (It's the Holidays. I'm now BEYOND bored. So I'm looking a lot of **** up!). Then there's Klopp unbeaten in 3 games against City. (Unless you want to count a penalty shoot-out defeat the League Cup Final.). With an excellent record of 3 wins and a draw (which he won this time on penalty's) to Peps 4 wins (1 piece of silverware each) in head-to-heads with Guardiola. All with nothing like Munich's resources.

So with all that you'd be a complete fool of a betting man not to be placing your money on another L'pool victory. Even more so with City's patchy form. (Although it should be noted both sides are coming in off the back of three straight wins since their respective mini-blips.).

But then there's the glaring elephant in the room in the form of City's cerebral, stylishly bespoke leader. He's the only opposition manager that really scares the living **** out of me. When he gets it right at City, and he most assuredly will, combined with the resources there it's frightening to think just how dominant they could well become. They already have the deepest and most talented squad in the league for me. Albeit one that needs work and adjustments going forward. And contrary to a lot of recent media and fan bunkum, Pep is by far and away the top coach/ manager working in England outside of the crazy German IMHO. So he levels EVERYTHING out tomorrow. You just don't know what you'll get being as he's balls out there innovative to tactically surprise you when you least expect it.

I hope he doesn't go cautious through that fear of losing. I know L'pool most certainly won't as Jürgen only knows how to play one way. To win! But then it's Pep Guardiola, who in his own way redefined Michels 'total football' ideals and, like his opponent on the opposite bench tomorrow, dragged it into the modern age and took it on another level and then some! So I can't really see him being pragmatic. (Although that has been his MO against Klopp in Germany. Sitting in and going long to counteract. And they were going longer at Hull last time out rather than playing out from the back. You just never know with Guardiola.). Which should all hopefully lead to a fantastic, attacking, goal laden feast of football entertainment to round out an absolutely awesome year of L'pool football that promises SO much more in 2017.

Very confident as always of a L'pool win. But it's tinged with caution out of the utmost respect for the the quality of the opposition and the Spanish coaching genius masterminding it all.

I felt at the start of the season we had to finish above City to win it all. With absolutely no disrespect to Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham, intended, I still feel that way. So it's IMPERATIVE we keep our unbeaten winning run going in the crucial top 4/6 mini-league head-to-head that will doubtless decide those places and get the jump back on them tomorrow tea-time.

Now if West Brom could only regain their legs after being run ragged Tuesday first off that would be MOST appreciated .....

Up the Fortress Anfield Reds!
 
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Tomorrow is a real baptism of fire for Klavan. How will he deal with the pace of Aguero and runners from midfield with actual pace. Him and Lovren are gonna have to be on point for me, as I see us scoring without a problem.
 
I'm sat here reflecting on what an absolutely brilliant 2016 it's been for the Reds. Some absolutely spell binding, heart stopping attacking footie that's been taken on another level and then some this season to the VERY serious, real title challenge we're now deeply embroiled in. Two, albeit unsuccessful, Cup Final day outs. All you want as a fan. Some absolutely brilliant trips away in Europe. Another benefit of Europa League football that trumps the Champs League from a purely fan perspective. Going to some gorgeous, boss places you normally wouldn't. Bordeaux and Sion where fantastic trips the group. (Sick I missed Kazan and the now legendary local tradition of 'snorting gin' .... AKA 'man tears' as it's your eyes it comes back out of!). Augsburg was a really quaint, lovely place topped off with an awesome stop over down the road in Munich. Villareal was nice but completely dead. But staying in Valencia more than made up for that! (As Valencia makes anything at anytime! Haha.). Battering Utd in front of all of Europe in the single biggest one-off games the two clubs have ever contested outside of the finals was two never to be forgotten experiences. And then there was Dortmund and our mutual shared Kloppo love-in with our friends there. As always given our friendship with BVB, even before the current manager, the friendliest and most hospitable place to visit any year. And a place more in love with their team and their ex, now our, manager then even we are if that were possible lol. The away game was special in itself, but the return at Anfield and what followed to well arguably the greatest ever game in the arl places rich history .....

I don't need to tell you how epically magicall that comeback was. The memory's still send shivers down your spine. From the mad welcoming of the coaches, through the awesomely brilliantly shared silence/ mosaic/ YNWA in remembrance of our dead pre-match. (Which was even more respectfully shared with many of our BVB friends stopping over for the service the following day.). To the absolutely awesome, rip roaring roller coaster of emotions game that followed. To hear genuine World class players like Reus, who play in from of 80 odd thousand every other week, say they'd never heard noise like that last half hour in their lives with Tuchel saying it was like everyone in the stadium not only believed but KNEW the win was coming and played their part in making it so..... Yeah, money can't buy respect like that.

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I didn't think that could be beaten on the pitch but then some lil' fella' from some far flung African Nation found the absolute cruelest, Evil way to ruin an Everton Christmas and spark the single maddest celebration I've ever been apart of. And we've had more than most over the years to pick from. Just a mad cacophony of arms and legs and fella's fair necking other fella's and hugging the life out of them in unbridled ecstasy. It doesn't get ANY better than what happened a couple of Mondays back.

Gets better and better every time you watch it!

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All with the best potentially yet to come in 2017 as the German Scouser (hopefully) finally brings the title back to Englands most successful club after WAY too long a wait.

You'd think that would be more than enough for a decades worth of year highlights with all thats happened at LFC in 2016.

But it ALL pails into insignificance compared to the single greatest victory in our history that came mid-morning back on the 27 April. I've wrote more than enough on these here pages on something I always find so hard to talk about even now. Save to say when those 6 woman and 3 men returned their unanimous verdict to unequivocally clear my City's and our collective disgracefully tarnished name after 27 LONG years I can't begin to tell you ..... Complete shear relief of having that weight lifted. To be able to hold your head up high after having a jury of your peers completely exonerate you as they dug through the endless layers of the coverup to find the truth we've always known, to not have the horrible slur that you killed your own hanging over you from the rest of the Country so taken in by all the heinous lies of the smear campaign to make you SO proud to come from this great City that doesn't back down from a fight from what we know to be true for our own .....

When the foreman answered unanimously to the Judge to those 14 questions on 96 needlessly taken lives .....

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..... THAT is without question my highlight of 2016.

The battle for justice may still be ongoing, but the TRUTH is FINALLY in the books. We know more than most that the old Shankly adage said in jest is just that. Football, sport, pails into complete insignificance when it comes to actual human life. Football most assuredly ISN'T more important than that.

And nothing going forward in what's fixing to be a REAL special year for Liverpool Football Club, no Cup success, no long awaited PL title, NOTHING, can top the single best highlight of this or any other year.

UP THE POOL! MIGHTY REDS!
 
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dilakh2 said:
Tomorrow is a real baptism of fire for Klavan. How will he deal with the pace of Aguero and runners from midfield with actual pace. Him and Lovren are gonna have to be on point for me, as I see us scoring without a problem.
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Falls on the whole team my friend. If City don't have the ball, they can't give him it to do any damage!

Time to get the ground rocking and return to some REAL 'Rock & Roll footie.' Kloppo style! ;).
 
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