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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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2 more wins. 2 more wins to kick-off what’s fixing to be the biggest party this City has ever seen. 😍

Yesterdays admin-

Title Countdown:
23 wins down/ 6 to go.
76 points down/ 16 to go.

Current unbeaten home PL run:
P 14 W 12 D 2 F 32 A 11 CS: 5
6 Straight Wins.

Never mind the last 5 years PL Champions total wins/ points average as it’s taken from, the seasons ‘Title Countdown’ should now read 2 wins/ 6 points to go. 2 more wins needed to clinch the title with 4 games to spare. A humongous 13 points clear. A time for every Liverpudlian to not have a care in the World as we buzz off our phenomenal football team.

And yet …..

As I caught up with things on line last night, you’d think we were United down the bottom, coming off another embarrassing doing, and NOT the best side in the Country by a considerable distance having just won again to bring the tittle that little bit closer. 🤦‍♂️ One of the most repeated things from the on-line sheep appears to be that we are in terrible form and it’s only our first half of the season that is seeing us home. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Let’s dispel that nonsense …..

In 2025, we have the best form of any PL side through 15 games. And when you compare the start of the season though Christmas, to January up until now, there really isn’t much of any difference at all-
2024
August to the end of the year-
P 17 W 13 D 3 L 1 F 40 A 17 PTS 42 CS: 7
2025
January through present-
P 15 W 10 D 4 L 1 F 34 A 14 PTS 34 CS: 6

Win the next 2, and it’s 1 win from being an identical record! But we are in horrendous form and are lucky we were so good early! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Moral: Ask the question yourself instead of repeating the white noise bunkum aimed to unsettle you on-line.

And why in the World do people get so bent out of shape with performances in a title run-in? 🤷‍♂️ You don’t get anything extra for style yanno’. I’ve been exceptionally fortunate enough to see my team lift the league 6 times in the flesh. And the amount of games we didn’t play great in, but did enough to make sure we got the points, was often. ALL that matters in a run-in is putting more points on the board than the teams below you. And this gang of superb Reds consistently do that to levels nobody in the PL can remotely come close to matching. As we’ve deciphered above with having the best form in the Country this calendar year. Yet people are vainly trying to spin that into some sort of negative that will do for us next season! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Funny game that. L’pool were super the first-half and should have gone in 2/3 up. Then it was like someone turned the off switch at half-time and L’pool were proper abysmal for 40 minutes. Then Virgil gifts them an equalizer that had been coming, and suddenly the power is switched back on and we have 5 exhilarating minutes that could have had us 1 or 2 in front again before the captains winner. 5 minutes that set us apart from any other club on and off the pitch. Arsenal fans for one would have been heading for the exits at 1-1. Narking to anyone who would listen. We just ramped the atmosphere up to its highest. And the mentality monsters in red responded in kind with the match winning moment. Neigh, the TITLE winning moment everyone has so craved.

Over the past few games, the let offs at the match have been epic! It proper went off Jota’s winner the Derby. The 10 minutes or whatever it was after AllyMacs belter at Fulham, until they leveled, was the best r end has been all season long. Anywhere. And yesterday, the noise and belief that we would win after West Ham equalized was a joy to be a part of. I’m sure the Kop roof lifted when the big man bagged the winner. PROPER let off that makes EVERYTHING worth while. Moments and memories that money just can’t buy that last a lifetime. Why you make the sacrifices you do to support them. The very essence of what being a supporter is ALL about.

And the manager and players knew it too as they, for the first time, proper let it all pour out the final whistle and celebrated like they’d just won the league. Just imagine how even more special it will be when it is finally confirmed? 😍 Then Palace when we get to share with them what was so cruelly denied us under Jurgen in ‘19/‘20. 😍😍

Another superb day out at the match watching the best in class find a way to win the football weekend yet again.

Kudos to West Ham for the perfect silence. Greatly appreciated. To then sing about people being out of work and social deprivation, not so much.

Up the ‘It’s SO close, we can now touch it!’ special, SPECIAL Redmen!

JFT97. 🙏 ❤️ YNWA.
 
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Worst day of the year. Every year.

As I prepare to reconnect with the best friends anyone could ever wish to have later to see us through the saddest of days, together, I’m mindful that the trivialities of the current craving to finally clinch the title is put into stark perspective. As today reminds us what’s truly important in life. Life itself.

God rest those so needlessly taken from us 36 years ago today.

God continue to watch over those still fortunate enough to still be here dealing.

JFT97 🙏❤️ YNWA
 
Bar some absolute PROPER gobS in our end, yesterday was yet another belter day out with one of the best gang of Reds in our storied history.

Yesterdays admin-

Title Countdown:
24 wins down/ 5 to go.
79 points down/ 13 to go.

Current PL unbeaten run:
P 2 W 2 D F 3 A 1 CS: 1
2 Straight Wins/ 1 Straight CS.

Let’s start with the absolute meffs that should know FAR better. And many, in what was for a short time out and out civil war by us, were unbelievably older, seen it all, regular match going Scousers.

Every club has its own culture. These are not a group of predetermined edicts, or some wrenched-out marketing slogan, but something that evolves over time. Passed down from generation to generation. An unwritten fan code that sets how you support the club apart from anyone else.

Liverpool fans act a certain way because of history, because of custom and because of an adherence to a perceived right way of doing things. The club should take a direction from that and never the other way around. We don’t follow the generic norm of other clubs. We like to be different. We have our own individual songs that others copy. Not the other way around. We dress differently to most anyone else and set style trends and cultures different to everyone bar the club that is our fiercest rival. But ironically the one as alike to us as a fanbase as any other. United. We are European in our outlook and the most non-English crowd in England. With politics underpinning most all our fan culture. Of which we are never shy of standing up for anyone or anything politically at the match when we believe they have been wronged. I could go on and on but we are uniquely different as a fanbase to anyone else in most every facet and pride ourselves on that. And we’ve always been good at both passing our unwritten code of conduct at the game down to each passing generation. And self policing ourselves if anyone ever gets out of line.

Yesterday was as proud as I could be for the first half hour in particular as our end was in full on party mode with song after song after song. Old and current as we went deep into the back catalogue. As good as it’s been anywhere all season long. And then a man who just happened to take us to within 1 game of all our hopes and dreams, with his first ever left footed goal that most natural left footers couldn’t strike as well, came on as a sub in the 71st minute, and that pride turned to outright disgust as a sizeable portion broke every unwritten L’pool supporter ‘rule’ going and embarrassed the living P out of everyone else. 🤬

One thing we NEVER, EVER do is boo during a game. That’s as wool as wool gets. Even under Hodgson there was never any booing during games. Give them it after if needed. But during the game you are there to SUPPORT the team. Booing is the complete antipathy of that. And you most certainly, never, EVER boo a player in a Red shirt. Thats Evertonian behaviour and then some. The reaction and venom to Trent coming on was as stunningly surprising from some as it was annoying. And it was quickly drowned out in both applause and song for him. Along with the ugliest of ugly scenes of lads fronting each other up and punches being exchanged at the Scouse ‘code’ being broken. And then when he bags the winner, those same bleeps are then celebrating like mad. Completely and utterly missing the irony of their PROPER wool behaviour. I actually expected this at home. And Heaven forbid it happens next Sunday or else a day of the ultimate celebration will turn VERY ugly, VERY quick. But to have it happen among the core away support was just jaw droopingly embarrassing.

You may not like the fact Trent may be leaving this football club. And we’ve always had a very strange relationship with our own who have left the City to better themselves. Even the Beatles of all Liverpudlians got it for leaving the City. We just think we are the best in the World from the Worlds best City and why would you ever want to be anywhere else? But whilst he is still under our employ, giving absolutely everything he has to the cause, as he has all season long, you don’t F shame us all by booing and abusing one of our own. ‘If’ he goes, give hm it when he returns with Madrid. No issue with that. That’s the way it should be. But whilst he, or anyone else in Red come to that, is at our club representing us, either support them or keep yer grids shut! If you can’t do either, stay the F away from our games the last 5! We’ve a massive Scouse party to attend starting from next Sunday that will see us right through the summer and beyond. And we don’t need that spoiling by absolute bleeps causing the very ugly infighting we saw yesterday at Leicester.

1 game from the ultimate glory after another terrifically hard earned victory. Credit to Leicester who finally decided to turn up and go down giving their everything. But earned it was as L’pool created chance after chance after chance. With the Leicester goalie man-of-the-match. In what was sweltering conditions through the game. I had a personal first yesterday in my 45 years match going support ….. I was sick in a ground. 🤦‍♂️Sunstroke just hit, everything went dizzy, and I had to move and 🤮before water brought me back round. Not my finest moment. But man was it hot during the match with that beating down on you. And the one man who has taken us to within 1 game of eutopia …..

‘ ….. The Scouser in our team!’

One more week of being on 19 English big ones. Then the party of all our lives can truly begin!

Up the 'team everyone else wants to be', MIGHTY Reds!
 
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