Get the bleep in!!!!!!!
And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is why we are Champions. And that is why the best team in this league, will retain this league!
Todays admin-
Title Defence Countdown:
2 wins down/ 25 to go.
6 points down/ 83 to go.
Current PL unbeaten run:
P 3 W 2 D 1 F 8 A 5
2 Straight Wins.
Current unbeaten away PL run:
P 1 W 1 F 3 A 2
1 Straight Win.
So much to unpack, and it’s so different a perspective reviewing a game from watching on the small screen as opposed to not seeing the whole picture live. So let’s do this by half’s.
FIRST HALF.
As expected, Newcastle were whipped up into a frenzy with their proper weird supporters, proper weird, totally unjustified, venom toward us. They were all over us the first half hour. Helped by Simon Hooper getting caught up in the emotion and completely favouring the home side in every challenge. Absolute joke he booked Ryan for our first tattle. After letting Joelinton, and that horrible, snide bleep Trippier late on Wirtz, go unpunished. Add in Konate, who is becoming a SERIOUS liability with his head patently not here. He needs gone before next Monday as much as Guehi needs to come the other way! But we dug in and rode it out with Jones (bar his miss the end of the half), and Ryan superb in forming a defensive shield. With big Dom doing a sterling job at right full. Then an absolute belter from Ryan shut the soft blerts up and changed the game. F off Gordon you horrible, snide
Well worth ‘getting stuck in’ first half aye lads? Silly C!
Perfect away first half display. Like an old school Euro away. Although I have to say, it was really poor from us to not let them score when they were playing well. Proper unsettled them as squad that. F Scouse bleeps!
….. Isn’t that how it goes aye lads?
SECOND HALF.
As opposed to the first, L’pool fire out of the gate to go 2 up and kill the game with the sweetest of goal-scorers. Delicious irony that. Newcastles dream partnership has now destroyed them and will be a Red one by the end of the week. Then it flips again with Newcastle finding an extra gear of adrenaline to come back. L’pool just can’t get a handle on control, Newcastle are brilliant. But L’po dig deep with Jones and Ryan again everywhere and excellent in their commitment and work rate for the cause. And then, just as it appeared we’d thrown 2 points away, step forward Rio for a boys own PL debut. Absolutely sensational way to end a chaotic, brilliant, heart stopping game of togger.
Classic, scruffy away performance in hostile territory that you need to win leagues. You find a way,
ANY way, to win!
MOTM- Curtis. The Scouser in our team!
Arsenal, City et al will have looked at tonight, a mammoth task at the best of times, intensified with the Isak situation, and thought we’d drop points. Only to turn off demoralised. The fight and mentality in this group is why they are Champions.
Nothing left to say bar the songs of the night …..
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Hand him Over, Hand him Iver, Hand him over New-cas-tle!’
‘Isak’s right, your fans are S!!!!!’
Bring on Arsenal! If anyone thinks that was an atmosphere tonight, wait until Sunday when the professional supporters show you how it’s done!
Up Arne Slots mighty Red Army of
CHAMPIONS!
Proper weird way to live your life and follow a football team as special as this but hey ho. Each to their own. To everyone else, the context of everything makes the first two games of our title defence a brilliant experience. The context of it being the start of the season. With no team ever being in full rhythm/ full fitness until at least 5-10 games in. The context of having not only 4 new players in the starting XI, but missing two of the PL’s top midfielders each of the first two weeks in AllyMac and big Dom. The context of the opener being one massive emotional rollercoaster to get through that was far more about remembering and dealing with our loss than it ever was about a mere game of football. And a game of football against one of the hardest working sides in the PL who never stop at that. To pick themselves up off the floor, after being dragged back, to go again and find a way to win was beyond special. And then the context of going to one of the hardest places to win in the league, at the best of times., last night, which was even more feral and wild than normal, with all the Isak stuff, and to pick themselves up again after being dragged back, to yet again find a way to win …… That’s why we are CHAMPIONS!
Frankfurt and Maraeille be moody. Think we’ll defo do a night in Nimes/ Montpellier or Cologne or similar for both those two to break it up. And Milan’s the most un-Italian of Italian City’s and rather dull. But then the San Siro remains, Cardiff’s Millennium stadium aside, my favourite stadium in Europe to visit. Oh yeah, and ISTANBUL! 
