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Because his outburst after Leeds has made him undroppable without the threat of him narking to the media and creating more unrest.
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Because his outburst after Leeds has made him undroppable without the threat of him narking to the media and creating more unrest.
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He would offer more than Salah atm. Even if it was from a defensive point of view. And most likely attacking tbh.
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What Salah does, is hold the width and create space as he always has two men on him. Because of who he is and the threat he carries to produce something. Which becomes three or four men when he’s in the box. His pace has gone. And he’s that predictable that he’ll cut inside and lose it. But he does give good balance to the side so there is that.
It won’t go beyond this summer though.
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Man that one smarts. We didn’t deserve to win overall. But we defo didn’t deserve to lose. Losing to them. In that self-inflicted manner. That one REALLY smarts.
Yesterdays admin-
Title Defence Countdown:
11 wins down/ 13 to go. (Adjusted from pre-season target of 27 wins.).
39 points down/ 39 to go. (Adjusted from pre-season target of 89 points.).
The first half is a horribly dull affair. L’pool are frustratingly passive. City have all the possession but are totally sterile and toothless with it. Liverpool up the tempo second-half and deservedly take the lead. They should be out of sight by this point given the glaring chances missed. When City equalise, despite riding their luck for the majority of the second-half through which L’pool should have buried them, they deserve to be level. Down to L’pool becoming frustratingly passive again encouraging City on. L’pool then proceed to self-inflictingly throw the game away when the goalkeeper completely loses his head. Which had been a thing with him all second-half. The City ‘keeper then makes one of the finest saves you’ll ever see to deny L’pool what would have been a fair draw. And the game is rounded out by more absolute madness from the goalie. That costs the Reds arguably their best player this season this coming Wednesday night when the officials fail to use an ounce of common sense and understanding of the actual game.
A proper frustrating game that encapsulates a proper frustrating season. Good, bad and utterly ridiculous through the 90 mins. Some of it on the manager. Some of it not. Some of it on the players. Some of it not. But a season where every little thing that could go wrong, out of our control, has.
Let’s start with Arne. As he’s on-line Public Enemy #1-
The manager can’t legislate for his goalkeeper losing his head. He was very lucky he didn’t take Marmoush out earlier in the second-half. His bizarre, ridiculous decision to fly out like that on a player going nowhere the penalty was bad enough and ultimately cost us the game. Just what the heck he was doing spending most all injury-time in their half, which cost us big Dom through that farce, only he could tell you?
The manager can’t legislate for players missing glorious chance after glorious chance. Nor can he legislate for terrible officiating that saw Guehi somehow stay on. Whilst Dom now sits a game for little different. Except his denial of a goal scoring opportunity comes when the ball is in the actual bleeping net! Not sure how much more clear an opportunity you can have than actually scoring!!!!!
And he can’t be blamed for the natural thing most teams do, not least when two top sides play each other, and not least when one has been struggling all year like we have, to drop back and defend a late lead. Something we’ve had to change the style of play to stem the bad run of Autumn losses and have got used to doing. It was frustrating and annoying as all heck. But that’s not a tactical thing per se to drop off again. It’s a natural mentality thing if you add the context of everything. Just where we are this year.
What he can do is be far better in his substitutions. As limited as they are. The gulf of Guardiola’s riches to bring on compared to Arne’s realistic 2/3 players was massive. Reijnders, Foden and Gonzalez alone don’t even come on! We end up, game in, game out, with goosed players after 80 or so minutes having to play all the time. Who continually come up short in injury time down to a combination of having very little option to change and rotate. And them having a truncated pre-season down to tragedy they are still trying to catch-up on. Thats not an excuse. That’s just factual reality. But regardless, he HAD to use them better yesterday and didn’t. Curtis should have been on earlier. The brilliant Kerkez ran himself into the ground and it was begging out for AndyRobbo. It was crying out for Enrico to replace the largely ineffective Salah or Gakpo. (Mo’s phenomenal ball for Ekitike’s woefully missed header aside.). Although we are now in a horrid situation where taking Mo off is nigh on impossible no matter how bad he is after the Leeds outburst. The moment Arne does, and Mo goes cry A the media again, we are back to square one with that entitled nonsense.
And he can be more pro-active in first-half’s. There were, as in many games recently, a lot of positives to take from that second half and the intensity and attacking flair we played with. But it’s beyond frustrating to see that continually happen after first-half’s of games we look unprepared and disinterested in. I get the logic behind conserving energy the first-half of games when we are so depleted and lads are having to go the full 90 over and over. But there has to be more balance between halves.
Kudos to Konate, Kerkez and big Dom. Who were all excellent and at the level L’pool vs City demands. The other 8 players, not least the abysmal Alisson, Gakpo and Salah, not so much.
City got away with one yesterday. Liverpool were their own worst enemy, yet again, in allowing that to happen in a game we should have been out of sight through. With a Worldie free-kick that deserved to win any game. But didn’t. Again.
L’pool vs City is one of them and often a coin flip. But the frustration after yesterday really smarts this AM. Sunderland is now a must win. The scope for a draw has gone after yesterday. The top 5 is nowhere near done with 39 points still on the board and a league as poor as this/ everyone still to play each other. Not least ourselves with Brentford, Chelsea, the Ev, Utd, Villa et al still to play. But the margin for error is becoming slimmer and slimmer.
Be better Liverpool. Every last one of you.
A last point, whilst II remember, as bouncing as what the atmosphere was (Everyone was just stunned frustrated at he end rather than mad), the booing of Guehi was proper mad and out of order. It wasn’t his fault we never went back in for him. Unbecoming of us that.
Up the frustrating, own worst enemy, Reds.
Yesterdays admin-
Title Defence Countdown:
11 wins down/ 13 to go. (Adjusted from pre-season target of 27 wins.).
39 points down/ 39 to go. (Adjusted from pre-season target of 89 points.).
The first half is a horribly dull affair. L’pool are frustratingly passive. City have all the possession but are totally sterile and toothless with it. Liverpool up the tempo second-half and deservedly take the lead. They should be out of sight by this point given the glaring chances missed. When City equalise, despite riding their luck for the majority of the second-half through which L’pool should have buried them, they deserve to be level. Down to L’pool becoming frustratingly passive again encouraging City on. L’pool then proceed to self-inflictingly throw the game away when the goalkeeper completely loses his head. Which had been a thing with him all second-half. The City ‘keeper then makes one of the finest saves you’ll ever see to deny L’pool what would have been a fair draw. And the game is rounded out by more absolute madness from the goalie. That costs the Reds arguably their best player this season this coming Wednesday night when the officials fail to use an ounce of common sense and understanding of the actual game.
A proper frustrating game that encapsulates a proper frustrating season. Good, bad and utterly ridiculous through the 90 mins. Some of it on the manager. Some of it not. Some of it on the players. Some of it not. But a season where every little thing that could go wrong, out of our control, has.
Let’s start with Arne. As he’s on-line Public Enemy #1-
The manager can’t legislate for his goalkeeper losing his head. He was very lucky he didn’t take Marmoush out earlier in the second-half. His bizarre, ridiculous decision to fly out like that on a player going nowhere the penalty was bad enough and ultimately cost us the game. Just what the heck he was doing spending most all injury-time in their half, which cost us big Dom through that farce, only he could tell you?
The manager can’t legislate for players missing glorious chance after glorious chance. Nor can he legislate for terrible officiating that saw Guehi somehow stay on. Whilst Dom now sits a game for little different. Except his denial of a goal scoring opportunity comes when the ball is in the actual bleeping net! Not sure how much more clear an opportunity you can have than actually scoring!!!!!
And he can’t be blamed for the natural thing most teams do, not least when two top sides play each other, and not least when one has been struggling all year like we have, to drop back and defend a late lead. Something we’ve had to change the style of play to stem the bad run of Autumn losses and have got used to doing. It was frustrating and annoying as all heck. But that’s not a tactical thing per se to drop off again. It’s a natural mentality thing if you add the context of everything. Just where we are this year.
What he can do is be far better in his substitutions. As limited as they are. The gulf of Guardiola’s riches to bring on compared to Arne’s realistic 2/3 players was massive. Reijnders, Foden and Gonzalez alone don’t even come on! We end up, game in, game out, with goosed players after 80 or so minutes having to play all the time. Who continually come up short in injury time down to a combination of having very little option to change and rotate. And them having a truncated pre-season down to tragedy they are still trying to catch-up on. Thats not an excuse. That’s just factual reality. But regardless, he HAD to use them better yesterday and didn’t. Curtis should have been on earlier. The brilliant Kerkez ran himself into the ground and it was begging out for AndyRobbo. It was crying out for Enrico to replace the largely ineffective Salah or Gakpo. (Mo’s phenomenal ball for Ekitike’s woefully missed header aside.). Although we are now in a horrid situation where taking Mo off is nigh on impossible no matter how bad he is after the Leeds outburst. The moment Arne does, and Mo goes cry A the media again, we are back to square one with that entitled nonsense.
And he can be more pro-active in first-half’s. There were, as in many games recently, a lot of positives to take from that second half and the intensity and attacking flair we played with. But it’s beyond frustrating to see that continually happen after first-half’s of games we look unprepared and disinterested in. I get the logic behind conserving energy the first-half of games when we are so depleted and lads are having to go the full 90 over and over. But there has to be more balance between halves.
Kudos to Konate, Kerkez and big Dom. Who were all excellent and at the level L’pool vs City demands. The other 8 players, not least the abysmal Alisson, Gakpo and Salah, not so much.
City got away with one yesterday. Liverpool were their own worst enemy, yet again, in allowing that to happen in a game we should have been out of sight through. With a Worldie free-kick that deserved to win any game. But didn’t. Again.
L’pool vs City is one of them and often a coin flip. But the frustration after yesterday really smarts this AM. Sunderland is now a must win. The scope for a draw has gone after yesterday. The top 5 is nowhere near done with 39 points still on the board and a league as poor as this/ everyone still to play each other. Not least ourselves with Brentford, Chelsea, the Ev, Utd, Villa et al still to play. But the margin for error is becoming slimmer and slimmer.
Be better Liverpool. Every last one of you.
A last point, whilst II remember, as bouncing as what the atmosphere was (Everyone was just stunned frustrated at he end rather than mad), the booing of Guehi was proper mad and out of order. It wasn’t his fault we never went back in for him. Unbecoming of us that.
Up the frustrating, own worst enemy, Reds.
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Just after 2 AM when I got him and into bed this morning. Writing these musings after a little over 4 hours kip. But when the Champions put in a Champion performance like that, I think I’ll be good on adrenaline taking me through the day.
Todays admin-
Title Defence Countdown:
12 wins down/ 12 to go. (Adjusted from pre-season target of 27 wins.).
42 points down/ 37 to go. (Adjusted from pre-season target of 89 points.).
2 defeats in last 18 matches.
P 18 W 10 D 6 L 2 F 37 A 16 CS: 8
Currently 6th in the PL.
Finished 3rd Europe/ Automatic last 16 with home advantage 2nd.
4th Round FA Cup.
Bar being freezing cold, as it always seems to be at Sunderland (Roker Park used to be the coldest ground the Country bar none when it whipped on off the North Sea that open away terrace), and getting absolutely drenched, that was a belter night out where the Reds finally put in a complete, 90 minute plus performance worthy of Champions. Liverpool wanted it more. Liverpool were first to everything. Liverpool were composed and utterly dominant in possession. Liverpool were rabid out of it. And the last unbeaten home record, in horrid conditions, didn’t stand a chance. With a team that works as hard as anyone, outworked in their own house by the Champion Reds.
Not that it hasn’t been building. There’s been many positive signs, even incrementally, that have been steadily increasing in duration through games for a while now. Which has all noticeably ramped up since Arsenal. They’ve just not been able to consistently put it together for full halves as the co text of this season, emotionally and physically, playing catch-up since the summer, trying to heel, has continued to dog them. But yesterday the Champions FINALLY said ‘F this S!’ And put in a performance worthy of what they are.
And now they should be taking that confidence forward with absolute NOtHING to fear at Forest. And Brighton. And the Ev. And Villa.
But then I was told we were finishing below half-way earlier this week on here so ignore the above and the minimal gap to being back in the top 5.
Two many good individual performances to mention. With the two CH’s especially dominant. Wirtz just continues to show there’s nobody better, playing at a higher level, in the PL currently. Ekitike showed the difference having a proper number 9. His running the channels and hold up play was immense. The only sour note was the injury to the similarly excellent Endo. Devoed for that lad with all the constant commitment he gives for little personal reward.
I almost forgot. I’d forgotten, in the time we haven’t been to Sunderland, that’s it’s like watching a game of Subbuteo where they put you now.. Not Newcastle bad. But ****** high up. But even that gets quickly forgotten when the Champions put in a display like that.
Another big 90 Sat’day night now Redmen. We’ve the Cup there to go win. Then you can rest up for a week before Forest.
Up Arne’s Reds!
Todays admin-
Title Defence Countdown:
12 wins down/ 12 to go. (Adjusted from pre-season target of 27 wins.).
42 points down/ 37 to go. (Adjusted from pre-season target of 89 points.).
2 defeats in last 18 matches.
P 18 W 10 D 6 L 2 F 37 A 16 CS: 8
Currently 6th in the PL.
Finished 3rd Europe/ Automatic last 16 with home advantage 2nd.
4th Round FA Cup.
Bar being freezing cold, as it always seems to be at Sunderland (Roker Park used to be the coldest ground the Country bar none when it whipped on off the North Sea that open away terrace), and getting absolutely drenched, that was a belter night out where the Reds finally put in a complete, 90 minute plus performance worthy of Champions. Liverpool wanted it more. Liverpool were first to everything. Liverpool were composed and utterly dominant in possession. Liverpool were rabid out of it. And the last unbeaten home record, in horrid conditions, didn’t stand a chance. With a team that works as hard as anyone, outworked in their own house by the Champion Reds.
Not that it hasn’t been building. There’s been many positive signs, even incrementally, that have been steadily increasing in duration through games for a while now. Which has all noticeably ramped up since Arsenal. They’ve just not been able to consistently put it together for full halves as the co text of this season, emotionally and physically, playing catch-up since the summer, trying to heel, has continued to dog them. But yesterday the Champions FINALLY said ‘F this S!’ And put in a performance worthy of what they are.
And now they should be taking that confidence forward with absolute NOtHING to fear at Forest. And Brighton. And the Ev. And Villa.
But then I was told we were finishing below half-way earlier this week on here so ignore the above and the minimal gap to being back in the top 5.
Two many good individual performances to mention. With the two CH’s especially dominant. Wirtz just continues to show there’s nobody better, playing at a higher level, in the PL currently. Ekitike showed the difference having a proper number 9. His running the channels and hold up play was immense. The only sour note was the injury to the similarly excellent Endo. Devoed for that lad with all the constant commitment he gives for little personal reward.
I almost forgot. I’d forgotten, in the time we haven’t been to Sunderland, that’s it’s like watching a game of Subbuteo where they put you now.
. Not Newcastle bad. But ****** high up. But even that gets quickly forgotten when the Champions put in a display like that.Another big 90 Sat’day night now Redmen. We’ve the Cup there to go win. Then you can rest up for a week before Forest.
Up Arne’s Reds!
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Honestly gutted for Endo. What an absolute unit to even get up from that kind of injury. Let alone get up and try to play on. Thats what we have been missing at times this season, that fight and desire, putting your body on the line to win. Hoping its not the last time we see him in a Liverpool shirt, but I doubt it. Fingers crossed he recovers in time for the WC
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‘Sake!
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Love the FA Cup. No better trophy to win.
One for the kids: Let’s have no Jimmy Case nightmares at Anfield tonight aye Redmen?
Here’s to Arne taking another step toward becoming only the second manager in our storied history, after Rafa, to win a major trophy in each of his first two seasons.
One for the kids: Let’s have no Jimmy Case nightmares at Anfield tonight aye Redmen?
Here’s to Arne taking another step toward becoming only the second manager in our storied history, after Rafa, to win a major trophy in each of his first two seasons.
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Come on Gala. Get a 5th and kill this. And save the threat of us being killed in Turin.
A horrid draw becomes F brilliant if Juve aren’t involved.
A horrid draw becomes F brilliant if Juve aren’t involved.
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YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
We want 6!
We want 6!
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Supeerb! 
That’s the first time I’ve been relaxed about this draw with Juve surely out.
We can’t fail to have a brilliant trip now.
That’s the first time I’ve been relaxed about this draw with Juve surely out.
We can’t fail to have a brilliant trip now.
Scouse, you need to tune into the Dortmund and Leipzig game and watch Yan Diomande, who is apparently our main target after the Semenyo fiasco. Meteoric rise in football after only playing pro level just recently, but you can tell he is special from his first touch, and good decision making for a young player with minimal experience.
That first half was up there with one of the most eye bleeding half's ive ever watched as a fan. Guess what don't care 
disallow that. Performance was horrible all round but get in and get out job was required today. Needed that after Chelsea dropping yesterday.
Edit: Games like this are hilarious when it's a one off but **** how did we look like the unfit ones chasing second balls against a team with worse squad depth than us who played a European game on Thursday.
disallow that. Performance was horrible all round but get in and get out job was required today. Needed that after Chelsea dropping yesterday.Edit: Games like this are hilarious when it's a one off but **** how did we look like the unfit ones chasing second balls against a team with worse squad depth than us who played a European game on Thursday.
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I’ll write on this tomorrow after I’ve slept, but as I lie in bed trying to get there, someone wipe this smile off my grid before my face cracks.
Wins against THEM don’t get ANY better than that!
*Sings ‘In your heeeead, In your heeeead, Arne, Arne, ARNE-EE-EE!’
Wins against THEM don’t get ANY better than that!
*Sings ‘In your heeeead, In your heeeead, Arne, Arne, ARNE-EE-EE!’
They spent the whole game singing about us and poverty chanting. I cant wait for them to get relegated and to never return.
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NO better way to win a game of togger than that. Superb that. Horribly poor game of football from both sides. BEST away this season by a Country mile! As the short history lesson below bares testament to …..
Yesterdays admin-
Title Defence Countdown:
13 wins down/ 11 to go. (Adjusted from pre-season target of 27 wins.).
45 points down/ 33 to go. (Adjusted from pre-season target of 89 points.).
Current PL unbeaten run:
P 2 W 2 F 2 CS: 2
2 Straight Wins/ 2 Straight CS.
2 defeats in last 20 matches since 1-4 loss. H. PSV Eindhoven. 2025. November 26. W.
P 20 W 12 D 6 L 2 F 41 A 16 CS:10
Through which-
Currently 6th in the PL(Joint 4th)
Finished 3rd Europe/ Automatic qualification last 16 with home advantage 2nd.
5th Round FA Cup.
Going back to my first visit, on a miserable NY’s day in 1987, when a late Ian Rush goal saved a point in a 1-1 draw, I have now seen L’pool at the City Ground 16 times. Yesterday was only my THIRD victory there!
And all those have come in the last 4 years! An 18.75 % win rate. To say The City Ground is a bogey ground for us is an understatement! And it’s never, NEVER been a good, enjoyable watch. Going right back to the great ‘80’s sides, it’s always an old school, proper rivalry scrap/ war of attrition. I’ve yet to see one enjoyable, good performance from L’pool there under Kenny, Jurgen or anyone.
For those that don’t know, Forest are traditionally one of our fiercest and most hated rivals. A rivalry born from this little provincial club who not only came from nowhere and challenged our ‘70’s dominance at home and abroad. But who toppled us on both fronts. A rivalry that intensified during the 1985 miners strike. When the Nottinghamshire miners broke the strike and crossed the picket lines. The very antipathy of what fiercely socialist, proud unionist Liverpool is ALL about. Ever since, we’ve sang about them being s cabs. They’ve responded in kind. You then throw in that absolute low life piece of bleep Clough and the scandalous, disgusting slurs he threw at the City and its people in the aftermath of Hillsborough, and the hatred has just intensified. We only rank a smidgeon below Derby (Another East Midlands club we have a similar, long standing, mutual dislike of) in the clubs Forest fans detest. When we played each other in the Cup in 2022, the first meeting in 23 years, the level of outright, venomous hatred towards us hadn’t dissipated over the years. The bile toward us was like going to Goodison. Something you rarely get in the sanitised PL of today. We just don’t like each other. At all. And yesterday was no different.
So to go there and win in THAT manner, the single best way to ever win any game of football when you are in the ground, let alone when it’s against THEM, was spectacular enough. To do it minutes after that moment had been cruelly robbed from us made it extra special. Forgot the absolute dog of a game, from both sides, that had gone before it. When AllyMacs ‘twice’ scored injury time winners went in, our end went OFF!!!!! Arms and limbs everywhere. I was dragged down in one big scrum from some young lads behind who just went wild. With a couple of nice bruises to show for it. And I wouldn’t swap them for the World. You just can’t beat that high of snatching a win at the whistle when it comes in the bear pit of an opponent’s ground who hate you with every fiber in their bodies. The constant abuse toward us and the City was as strong as ever yesterday.
To have that now happen like that, twice in three seasons there with first Darwin, and now Macca’s last kick winners is unparalleled ecstasy. To be able to belt back the garbage they’d been singing all game about being in Arne’s head the end was just gloriously perfect.
No need to talk about the dog of a game. No need to talk about some shocking individual performances. All you need to need to know is L’pool won the game, against THEM, in injury time. Then had that taken from us. Then found the mentality and grit to go win it again! That’s ALL that matters that has you bouncing into work today.
Moments and memory’s are what football support is ALL about. And nobody in that away end yesterday will EVER forget the end to that game and what a brilliant Sunday night it lead to. Not the dire game that lead upto it. But ‘You remember Forest under Slot when AllyMac scored a winner TWICE in injury time and the absolute scenes the let off in r end …… ?’
*Sings
‘In your heeeead, In your heeeead, Arne, Arne, ARNE-EE-EE!’
Someone wipe this big A smile off my face today!
Up the P all over Forests Cup Final Reds!
Yesterdays admin-
Title Defence Countdown:
13 wins down/ 11 to go. (Adjusted from pre-season target of 27 wins.).
45 points down/ 33 to go. (Adjusted from pre-season target of 89 points.).
Current PL unbeaten run:
P 2 W 2 F 2 CS: 2
2 Straight Wins/ 2 Straight CS.
2 defeats in last 20 matches since 1-4 loss. H. PSV Eindhoven. 2025. November 26. W.
P 20 W 12 D 6 L 2 F 41 A 16 CS:10
Through which-
Currently 6th in the PL(Joint 4th)
Finished 3rd Europe/ Automatic qualification last 16 with home advantage 2nd.
5th Round FA Cup.
Going back to my first visit, on a miserable NY’s day in 1987, when a late Ian Rush goal saved a point in a 1-1 draw, I have now seen L’pool at the City Ground 16 times. Yesterday was only my THIRD victory there!
And all those have come in the last 4 years! An 18.75 % win rate. To say The City Ground is a bogey ground for us is an understatement! And it’s never, NEVER been a good, enjoyable watch. Going right back to the great ‘80’s sides, it’s always an old school, proper rivalry scrap/ war of attrition. I’ve yet to see one enjoyable, good performance from L’pool there under Kenny, Jurgen or anyone.For those that don’t know, Forest are traditionally one of our fiercest and most hated rivals. A rivalry born from this little provincial club who not only came from nowhere and challenged our ‘70’s dominance at home and abroad. But who toppled us on both fronts. A rivalry that intensified during the 1985 miners strike. When the Nottinghamshire miners broke the strike and crossed the picket lines. The very antipathy of what fiercely socialist, proud unionist Liverpool is ALL about. Ever since, we’ve sang about them being s cabs. They’ve responded in kind. You then throw in that absolute low life piece of bleep Clough and the scandalous, disgusting slurs he threw at the City and its people in the aftermath of Hillsborough, and the hatred has just intensified. We only rank a smidgeon below Derby (Another East Midlands club we have a similar, long standing, mutual dislike of) in the clubs Forest fans detest. When we played each other in the Cup in 2022, the first meeting in 23 years, the level of outright, venomous hatred towards us hadn’t dissipated over the years. The bile toward us was like going to Goodison. Something you rarely get in the sanitised PL of today. We just don’t like each other. At all. And yesterday was no different.
So to go there and win in THAT manner, the single best way to ever win any game of football when you are in the ground, let alone when it’s against THEM, was spectacular enough. To do it minutes after that moment had been cruelly robbed from us made it extra special. Forgot the absolute dog of a game, from both sides, that had gone before it. When AllyMacs ‘twice’ scored injury time winners went in, our end went OFF!!!!! Arms and limbs everywhere. I was dragged down in one big scrum from some young lads behind who just went wild. With a couple of nice bruises to show for it. And I wouldn’t swap them for the World. You just can’t beat that high of snatching a win at the whistle when it comes in the bear pit of an opponent’s ground who hate you with every fiber in their bodies. The constant abuse toward us and the City was as strong as ever yesterday.
To have that now happen like that, twice in three seasons there with first Darwin, and now Macca’s last kick winners is unparalleled ecstasy. To be able to belt back the garbage they’d been singing all game about being in Arne’s head the end was just gloriously perfect.
No need to talk about the dog of a game. No need to talk about some shocking individual performances. All you need to need to know is L’pool won the game, against THEM, in injury time. Then had that taken from us. Then found the mentality and grit to go win it again! That’s ALL that matters that has you bouncing into work today.
Moments and memory’s are what football support is ALL about. And nobody in that away end yesterday will EVER forget the end to that game and what a brilliant Sunday night it lead to. Not the dire game that lead upto it. But ‘You remember Forest under Slot when AllyMac scored a winner TWICE in injury time and the absolute scenes the let off in r end …… ?’
*Sings
‘In your heeeead, In your heeeead, Arne, Arne, ARNE-EE-EE!’
Someone wipe this big A smile off my face today!
Up the P all over Forests Cup Final Reds!
Scouseinthehouse
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I feel dirty wanting the Ev to win this.