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It’s a funny feeling to be sat, as we have been since November, still double points clear and coasting to one of the easiest titles of all our 20. (In terms of no title challengers all season to speak of. The games have been the furthest from easy as always in the Worlds toughest league.). Having just battled our way to yet another win in the mongrels Cup Final. Ruining their pitiful little lives until the next time we meet. Bouncing into work in a City we own. Yet again …..

Yet I’m left as absolutely fuming this AM, as I was last night.😡🤬

Yesterdays admin-

Title Countdown:
22 wins down/ 7 to go.
73 points down/ 19 to go.

Current PL unbeaten run:
P 26 W 19 D 7 F 63 A 26 CS: 10
4 Straight Wins/ 1 Straight CS.

Current unbeaten home PL run:
P 13 W 11 D 2 F 30 A 10 CS: 5
5 Straight Wins/ 1 Straight CS.

Fuming at the single worst, most biased, officiating display I can ever remember. And man alive is the bar set low! Before the game, you are thinking at least the officiating can’t be any worse than Goodison. Which Sam Barrott, and that continued L’pool hting bleep Tierney, apparently took as a personal affront ….. The criminal assaults on AllyMac and Darwin were bad enough. But all game long our boys were pulled, dragged and kicked all over the park. With absolutely F all given by an official that flatly refused to acknowledge any offence against anyone in Red. But woe betide anyone even question the ineptness like Jota after he’d been dragged down by his neck for what seemed the 30th time. Straight yellow card. The Ev captain’s disgusting leg breaker, who even Duncan Ferguson …… DUNCAN FERGUSON!!!!!, called it outright assault on AllyMac, when he wasn’t even tackling him as he HE had control of the ball (‘Great Derby challenge’ what Moyes? It wasn’t even a TACKLE!)- No issue. Token booking! That PROPER danger Jordan Pickford trying to do to Darwin what he did to van Dijk ….. Not even a free kick. But let’s book Darwin for rolling back on the pitch to show up your complete incompetence! 40 notes my seasie works out at per game. 40 notes to have yet another game ruined by stunning, historical incompetence that is kettling heads at the match game in, game out. Last night in the most biased officiating display I’ve honestly ever seen in my 45 years since my first game. A game where Everton were blatantly allowed to do things Liverpool weren’t.

Fuming doesn’t begin to cover it. And this comes from a supporter of a team that battled their backsides off and won the game! 🤬🤬🤬🤬

Trent and Curtis hugging the life out of each other at the end ….. there, needed that brilliant memory to calm me down. 😊 The Scousers in our team! And I hope you don’t have to be off the same streets as those two brilliant Reds to appreciate that moment together as one with them last night.

Outstanding display from Curtis. Outstanding display from Diaz. Outstanding leadership from Virgil to see us home. Typical Derby were we refused to be outfought, did our job, and sent them back to their County Road hovels knowing they’d just been beat by the Champions. One of the quitest the Blues have ever been at Anfield. I noted yesterday the apathy among them expecting a hiding and they certainly were mooted like that.

I LOVED the banner proclaiming ‘We Made This City!’ Perfect to stare back down at them. YNWA before the game was as passionate as that’s been in a LONG time. And the let off when Jota scored ….. that’s as loud and as mad as it’s been for years. The Kop floor was literally vibrating and moving under your feet again.

Excellent night ruined yet again by base ineptness from those in charge. But let’s not let them ruin just how majestic this team is and just how much better than everyone else in England we are. 12 points better. 24 on the board. It’s getting closer and closer to the inevitable it’s been all season long.

8 more massive battles to be won Reds and then the summer long party can commence in earnest!

Oh, before I forget, that’s 63 straight years we’ve finished top 8. But absolute humongous whoppers will tell you we’ll be mid-table without Mo and big Virg. Mid-table …… We’ve never finished low enough the past 63 years to even see that over our shoulders!

Up the ‘We Made This City’, PGMOL beating, best in class Redmen!
 
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'Spurs at home then. Just like '82, '83 (WHL. But still 'clinched' it against 'Spurs. Lost but Utd got beat too), and '88.

Never an Everton peno BTW. Outside the box and dived. Yet another VAR disgrace.

Bur honestly, just like Arsenal with Odegaard playing basketball at ours, I couldn't give a flying .....

*Sings …..

‘CAMPIONE, CAMPIONE, CAMPIONE LIV-ER-POOL!’,
 
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Funny game this when you can be starting your work week, after a defeat, with L’pool in an even better position than last Monday.

Yesterday’s admin-

Title Countdown:
22 wins down/ 7 to go.
73 points down/ 19 to go.

Yesterday felt like Watford in ‘19/‘20 when we finally lost our first game of the season with the league well won. Nobody was remotely A.

Yeah, you don’t like to see L’pool lose games of football like. But when you’re just waiting for what’s been inevitable since last November, confirmation of L’pool’s 20th league title, it leads to a really laid back atmosphere at the game as you know you can more than afford to throw one of them in on the this last 8 game title procession. Everything before sets up being sound with defeats like that.

You go from having a really good day out, in glorious weather, at what is, along with Brentford, the friendliest away in the league. With some boss watering holes that don’t mind away fans at all. To AllyMacs belter opener. Which lead to the best our end has been anywhere for the next 9 minutes. The let offs this past week when we’ve scored against the Ev and yesterday have been awesome. To the best team in the land by a Country mile, uncharacteristically falling apart with woeful defending to have the game done by half-time. But nobody remotely bothered as the defeat means absolutely NOTHING in the grand scheme of things. That’s why you have worked SO hard for the past 7/8 months since Forest to be on such a phenomenal run of 26 unbeaten in the league. (19 wins .). And 17 straight away games. (10 wins.). That form is RIGHT up there among some of the all time best in this football clubs storied history. ANY season. And has them still sat a ridiculous 4 games clear of every other team with just 7 to play. It affords you throwing ‘one of them’ in. And it doesn’t spoil your day out the match one iota. Back in the boozer Putney Bridge after the game, it didn’t take more than a half hour for the songs about winning the league/ Manchester handing it over et al to be belted out as the game was forgotten as everyone soaked in the gorgeous afternoon weather. Which lead to a totally relaxed train home.

Well done Fulham. You could make a case that L’pool deserved a point for their second half improvement. The stats would bear that out. But Fulham didn’t deserve to not take all three points in their pursuit of Europe so all credit to them. Disappointing to end our sensational run like that. But meh, it’s just delaying the inevitable.

Nothing to get worked up about. Nothing to over analyse and chat S on the manager laughably calling him and his players ‘arrogant’ et al as I’ve been reading this AM. Nothing to be nervous about. Just another week where L’pool came out on top, thanks indirectly to Everton, after we beat them first, to the ultimate end goal.

Chill out. Enjoy the continued good weather. And bounce into your week knowing the Reds are almost there to the biggest summer party we’ve been allowed to have in decades!

All about enjoying what this ridiculously great football team we are privileged to have at this point and counting down to them winning the biggest prize of all once more.

If you aren’t doing that, you are doing it TOTALLY wrong!

Up the ‘Not A, we’re winning the league lad’ Reds!
 
Yanno’, Richard Hughes just might be a more deadly negotiator than Don Edwards. Seriously!

It’s easy to see why he was the man who Michael headhunted and hand picked upon his return to the football club to follow in his legendary footsteps. His latest protege is proving to be a mirror image of himself.

Walking into a gig where you immediately inherit the gigantic problem of facing losing not only your three best players, but the three best players bar none in the World at what they do in their respective positions, is a major headache for the most experienced of negotiators. Whilst also having to identify and hire a successor to one of this storied football clubs greatest ever managers. And then go out and identify, assemble and hire said new managers staff. Oh, along with identifying, assembling and hiring all the holes left across the fitness/ medical/ analytical et al departments who left with Jurgen. Oh yeah, whilst still having to, among all this massive club upheaval, quickly formulate a summer transfer strategy, working with a completely new staff and system, for not only the window he walked into. But the following one about to come that is fixing to be the clubs biggest in years. Through which he went out and agreed a superb deal for the glaring, biggest hole of all. A top bracket number 6. Until Zubimendi turned out to be a humongous liar and S all over everyone. To have to do all that, after only starting the gig July 1, a little over a month before the season started, and tick ALL the boxes in flying colours bar the three major resigning’s, which were always going to be protracted and take the whole season to get the right deals for the club, is testament to just what an outstanding job he’s done to date.

But to hold his nerve all season long, in the highest of high stakes games of very public poker, and NOT fold when up against a bleep of an agent like Ramy Abbas, to now come out with such an outstanding deal for the football club for a man who may well go down as our greatest ever player when its all said and done, must be making Don Edwards beam with more pride than anyone this AM. I know I couldn’t be prouder and safe in the knowledge that we have one of the best in the business overseeing the football side of things under Michaels tutelage.

To read the room SO well from the outset and know Mo, Trent and big Virg would continue giving there all and not let their performance levels drop, and any contract negotiations not effect the end goal of Liverpool climbing back to the summit of English football, gave him that initial wiggle room to stand firm on the clubs valuation of all three. And to now have the end result of retaining Mohammed Salah’s services, on what is widely being reported as the same basic wage, for a player coming off his best ever season, but with greatly increased bonus incentives for a player who is as single minded as any I’ve ever seen in reaching personal and team objectives to be the best player ever and win everything with his club that he possibly can, is frankly phenomenal business. I never expected Mo to leave. But I wasn’t sure we’d ultimately come to an agreement when his value is at the highest it’s ever been and he could have armed FAR more away from Liverpool than still here. To get him for another two years at least (I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s an option for a third), on the same basic money, is testimony to the ice cold negotiator Hughes is proving himself to be. Whilst many of the loudest voices were screaming all year to ‘Pay Mo what he wants!’, Hughes sat tight and never blinked to get the right deal for the football club and retain the best player in the PL.

And I’ve no doubt it will be similar for Virgil. I still personally believe Trent will stay. But if he does decided to leave, I’ll have no doubts Hughes has had the right contract offer on the table all year long and won’t have any doubt at all that he didn’t do everything he realistically should have to keep him. And in that scenario, to come out with 2 out of 3 extended, along with a first season Championship after identifying and assembling the perfect coaching team to succeed a legend, would make Richard Hughes first year one of the best any Sporting Director has ever had. Let alone a new one with absolutely no preparation time for the massive club upheaval he had to fix.

And anyone that remotely thinks we are going to the trouble of extending and hopefully rewarding Mo and co to the highest levels we ever have, without having a major summer and adding major additions, is completely deluding themselves and not accepting the reality of the situation. And heck knows how low you must think of Mo Salah and Virgil, if not Trent, if you think they’d all commit here without being assured of the major additions to come in.

On and off the pitch, Liverpool Football Club has NEVER been in as good hands as it currently is.

And together, as one, we are fixing to enter a new era of dominance on the domestic and European game.

If you aren’t as relaxed and excited as you possibly could be by the prospects going forward for LFC, this really is the wrong club and wrong sport for you.
 
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