Second straight brilliant weekend at the match. Second straight weekend of shorts and sunnies with the sun cracking the flags. Second straight weekend of a real pride filled, battling L’pool display where they’ve rediscovered the lost backbone and mentality that they’ve naturally struggled with this year.
Yesterdays admin-
Title Defence Countdown Ended Gameweek 34.
17 wins down/ 4 to go. (Adjusted from pre-season target of 27 wins.).
58 points down/ 12 to go. (Adjusted from pre-season target of 89 points.).
Top 5 CL Qualification:
Currently joint 3rd. (4th.).
6 points from 12 needed to officially confirm.
Current PL unbeaten run:
P 3 W 3 F 7 A 2 CS: 1
3 Straight Wins.
Current unbeaten home PL run:
P 4 W 3 D 1 F 11 A 4 CS: 1
2 Straight Wins.
Real day of proper pride and defiance that. Where Anfield, collectively, on and off the pitch, stood up and said a big
‘F YOU! WE’RE NO LONGER HAVING THIS!’ to Boston, a completely inept referee, a Palace team who sportsmanship is not part of their vocabulary. And that massive imposter in sport, adversity itself, that has had them crumble faster than a soggy digestive biscuit on more times than anyone cares to remember this season. Which left Anfield rocking and buzzing again. And everyone bouncing out with smiles on their faces and pride in their team once more.
First off the
REAL important business of protecting affordable football for
ALL future generations to have the chance to follow in our footsteps …..
If I have one disappointment from yesterday, it’s watching MOTD last night and them not deeming the biggest talking point from the game worthy of even a mention.
Let alone highlighting it! Over 50 thousand people, at a conservative guess, 85 % or so of those in attendance, coming together as one to visibly and audibly send a clear message to Boston that couldn’t have been more honest and unified. That far from the past weeks outright lying spin from Hogan that this is a ‘
small minority of some fans’, we are together as one on this against the despicable, fixed multi-year increases with NO review and discussion. Stunningly bad, if unsurprising, from the BBC to leave that off the highlights.
A stunningly brilliant, unified message from the vast majority yesterday that we are all united against this. Which tested the water, and got the perfect response. And layed down the groundwork for this to roll and ramp-up
EVERY game going forward. However long it takes for the tone deaf, arrogant bleeps to come back to the table. As this will roll into next season if need be with no flags on the Kop (The Henry Boston Globe front page one was superb
)/ walkouts/ stay-behinds/ going in late/ staying on the concourse through YNWA et al, all in the offing. For anyone naively thinking Boston wouldn’t have cared, the one thing they hate more than anything is bad PR. And contrary to the BBC swerve, the World wide feeds covered it great. It’s in many highlights packages on-line I looked at last night. Boston market EVERYTHING off the Kop and the magical Anfield experience ….. Hard to do that when we remove the flags and colour, and protest against their exploitation of that as visibly and audibly as yesterday. With far, far worse for them to the watching World to follow.
It was also very noticeable again just how quiet it was under the stand as more and more people join in with not spending anything in the ground. The amount of food, drink and programmes left unsold the past three home games won’t have gone unnoticed in Boston either.
The ball is
FIRMLY back in your court John. You should know this is the completely wrong City and fan base to pick a fight with and try disparage.
And around the brilliant message sent in the 13th minute, was an even louder backing of the team all game in a really good atmosphere to both remind the manager and players this isn’t about them and we are FULLY behind them. And to remind Boston that
WE are what makes Liverpool and Anfield such a draw to millions across the globe. And pricing the core, working class support this football club is built on out, will leave you just A N Other generic club with nothing to market.
Balls in your court John.
As for the actual game, that was a very good Liverpool display in the face of an absolutely abysmal showing from the inept bleep in the middle Madley. The amount of times he blew up for non-existent head injuries with Palace out to disrupt and slow the game right down, on more than one occasion when we were breaking through, was infuriatingly frustrating.
To then look at a goalie down unable to stand, waving for assistance, and decide that was sound to ignore and play on through, to let the equal bleep Munoz score, was jaw dropping ineptitude.
But far from folding at that adversity, as they so often have, L’pool stood firm, defended with their lives, grafted their backside off to keep the points, and gave Wirtz his belter moment in front of the Kop that will have done wonders for him. The same with what Isak will have gotten from his superb, instant control and finish from AllyMacs scruffy shot. Showing exactly why we stuck it out and paid what we did. Ekitike has been brilliant this season with his all around game. But Alex is Haaland-esq when it comes to pure #9’s who’s only bettered across the globe probably by the said Norwegian bagsman. And as if those two goals weren’t perfectly scripted enough, step forward AndyRobbo to give us one more superb memory from the best left full to ever represent this magnificent football club.
I loved that we went bang/ bang too with two quick goals. Something else we haven’t done too many times this season. And some of the lightening, end-to-end breaks were a joy to behold. Baby steps, but some real positives over the past two weekends to take forward into next year as we go again for all the marbles.
Oh yeah, in amongst some superb outfield displays, notably Curtis who was my MOTM. Gakpo, who had another really good outing as he has had of late, battling for, and winning, pretty much everything. Whilst being a constant menace. And Wirtz and Mac Allister who really stepped up. The later benefiting from the rest he and Gravenberch have recently been afforded by interchanging them game-by-game, a new cult hero was born …..
Step forward Freddy Woodman! Who played his own part with some superb saves and assured presence back there. His part in AndyRobbo’s superb breakaway goal alone is deserving of massive props. And he ended up with
THREE different songs through the course of the afternoon haha. The proper P take out of Pickford ‘
….. He CAN reach the crossbar, He’s England’s #1’ was funny as.
The way he came down the Kop end after all the other players had left the pitch to take his own personal applause was brilliant. Lads absolutely buzzing off having his moment for this club.
I’m hoping against hope that this wasn’t Mo’s last Anfield game. As grim as the hammy looks. So let’s leave that until we know for sure.
And at the end of this gameweek, we could well be up to third with Brentford having everything to play for at Utd Monday with Europe in their own hands. Here’s to Quive doing us a massive solid.
Brilliant day on and off the pitch. Unified as one.
Up the
‘F THIS! WE ARE LIVERPOOL!’ healing Reds!
#NOT A POUND IN THE GROUND!
#SHOW FSG THE YELLOW CARD!
#ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
#WE ARE LIVERPOOL. THIS COSTS MORE!
And the oh so hilarious wag the separation to the turnstiles saying ‘Scousers to the right/ Norwegian wools to the left.’ Considering the amount of Irish and Welsh Blues on the walk down from town, that irony was even funnier. Farcical getting your moby to work the NFC the turnstiles too having to hold it in different places the scanner dependent on Android or Apple ‘phones. Massive kudos to the stewards like with some proper gobS above who were lashing ale down on us, and giving it the wall pushing/ faces against fences gestures, when asked what they were going to do about that, informed us ‘We have them on CCTV. Don’t worry, they are getting lifted as soon as they try leave.’ The ‘friendly’ Derby aye?Once it gets developed again down there, it’ll be a lot better. But there’s already more bars popped up than there’s been in decades along the Dock Road. The half-hour walk from town wasn’t as bad as expected. Although the sun was cracking the flags which helped. Play them the winter, with the wind whipping in off the river, it won’t be half as pleasant.
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