Posted by Nick Mason
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve incited a riot in public, more importantly on twitter. I think it’s now time for us Liverpool fans to begin dreaming, maybe this year could actually be our year. Now, I know that City are two games in hand of us, but hey. We’re second and still have a major say in where the title lands. Could it be with us? Chelsea or City? Maybe Arsenal could stage a late fight back, but don’t get too far ahead of yourself. It’s Arsenal, and they don’t do ‘winning’ that well when it comes to securing trophies! How have Liverpool changed their ways, so quickly? I still believe that the key to a good season is to have a brilliant pre-season. That’s what happened with us this season, unlike the last. Brendan Rodgers has also made some very brave managerial decisions with Liverpool, and they have actually paid off. I hold confidence now, that if the game comes down to tactics, Liverpool will win.
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Posted by Nick Mason
I think Liverpool Fans everywhere would agree with me, our January transfer window was woeful. But, looking forward, that won’t really have much of an effect on the team as a unit. Yes, we missed out on somebody with a massive name, Konoplyanka, but summer is our market, and I think Liverpool management understood that. Player’s prices are always inflated during January, due to the limited amount of time to find replacements, and I’m glad that Ian Ayre and Brendan Rodgers stuck to their valuations on rumoured players such as Mohamed Salah. Ok, I understand that the Konoplyanka deal wasn’t our fault, it was the fault of Dnipro’s rogue president. Oh yeah, Liverpool will be back for him in the summer! Liverpool have got the perfect bunch of players right now, who are playing well as a unit, and will continue to learn as part of the team. They are also playing with a broken defence right now, but they’ve managed to find a way to deal with what’s on the horizon. Talk of the town A few players have been all the talk of the town recently, but for the wrong reasons. Some boneheaded fans have suggested that neither of the three should be playing in a Liverpool shirt. I kid you not, you can’t make this up; all you have to do is read twitter during a match. We’re talking about Simon Mignolet and Aly Cissokho, with a hint of Iago Aspas thrown in the mix as well. Posted by Nick Mason Good day to all fellow Liverpool fans who may be reading this entry, from wherever you may be in the world! After a few weeks of sitting back, and watching my twitter feed, I feel now is the right time to contribute again, with a few pressing subjects, in which I would like to iron out.
Player Criticism Many wouldn’t know, that I’m exceptionally controversial with my views on football, my most recent outburst, involved myself defending Iago Aspas, and why fans should get behind him; I’m not going to tell you how much hate I got for expressing an opinion! If you guessed a lot, you probably guessed right. Possibly my most active tweet ever, received almost 30 retweets and 10 favourites, the hate to follow it from the minutest of fans made me question if I should really post such opinions again. I have now referred to the congregation of supporters who hate on Aspas for no reason, “The Aspas hate train!” Give Aspas some time, he’s came to us from the Spanish league, which is a much different league to the Premier League, in terms of physicality. In time, he could be an amazing player. Posted by Nick Mason Christmas 2013, the greatest present was given to the millions of Liverpool fans, around the world. A place for our Liver bird to sit, on the perch of the premier league table. Who would’ve thought it?
If you would have said to me, about a year ago, that Liverpool would have been leading the premier league going into Christmas, I would have laughed at you, and also asked what you were drinking. Liverpool have in fact proven that we aren’t overly reliant on one player, we’ve been without Suarez for the first 6 games of the Premier League. This is ultimately where Daniel Sturridge was born as one of our ‘go to’ strikers. Furthermore, we have proven that we don’t need hundreds of millions to build a quality team. LFC have built the squad for purpose, which is now coming to hit many football fans flush in the face. As our team has more depth than last season, the recent injury to Steven Gerrard hasn’t harboured us, in fact, it saw the team take a positive step forward. Joe Allen and Jordan Henderson came of age, and displayed to the fans all around the world that the money LFC paid for them was worth it. These guys have been at the heart of some of our greatest performances, Steven Gerrard will finally have to compete for his spot, he is no longer a direct name on the team sheet. This will be good for us. A little competition is healthy. Posted by Walk On Film A Liverpool film company, Tabacula, have turned to the fans of LFC to help release their latest film.
Walk On is a documentary that chronicles the story of how the crowd at Anfield took the song to its heart and in doing so transformed the sound of football, signaling the start of a new terrace culture. Fifty years later and in the same year that Bill Shankly would have marked his 100th birthday, Tabacula Films have produced a documentary charting the history of why Liverpool fans picked this song as their anthem and how the song has now spread the world over, sung in both defeat and victory. Director Ian Lysaght, an Evertonian, says: “Whichever team you support, you know the song – it’s now a worldwide phenomenon.” The documentary is presented by Kelly Cates and the film features Liverpool legends Steven Gerrard, Kenny Dalglish and Jamie Carragher plus Liverpool Legends from the 60s, fans, musicians and many others. Posted by malteserinhk Transfer windows. They divide the football community. Some love them, with the drama they bring; others loathe that they carry on until the season has started. I do prefer them to when transfers could happen all season long, but in recent years Liverpool have done so badly in them that it’s almost like it would be better if we did away with transfers altogether. This time around we did a fair bit of business early in the window and I’ve talked about most of those. Mignolet has been an instant success, as has Toure. Aspas looks like he might have the skills to do ok, but needs working on his strength. Cissohko has had a torrid start with that early injury, and Alberto hasn’t really had much of a competitive run, although he’s probably one for the future. So would we be getting any more players in?
Posted by malteserinhk Last two games saw us win one nil. Up next was United. Would I be happy with another one nil…. you betcha. Did I expect it? No… not in the slightest. Now that’s not to say I didn’t think we could win, on the contrary. The thing is Toure was out injured, and van Persie has been known to be a bit of a nuisance. However, we also had a man on fire at the other end. The one thing I never thought would happen was for one of the teams to come away with a clean sheet. How happy am I that I was wrong there…..
Posted by malteserinhk One game, one win, one clean sheet. A great start to the season. Now don’t get me wrong, I was as ecstatic as any Liverpool fan last week when Mignolet made the dream debut with a last minute penalty save, honestly I was. However, for this week I would have been happy for fans to be asking if Mignolet was even in goal. A nice easy week, where our front men clicked perfectly and our keeper got to sleep throughout the game.
Of course, the chances of that happening were unlikely given Aston Villa’s start to the season. Sure they lost to Chelsea and were given some very dubious decisions against Arsenal, but they had played well in both games, and, in Agbonlahor and Benteke, they have two strikers that are capable of causing trouble for any defense. Agbonlahor has the height and strength that is always a threat at set pieces and Benteke is on an astonishing period of goal scoring form. They’re also a fairly pacy side, and our ability to counter attack and break away would always have less chance of successful given that pace. So, would this be another nail biter, or would our attack start to click together? Would Coutinho’s quality finally be rewarded with a deluge of goals? Well, let’s see….. Posted by malteserinhkSummer. That long period of time that football fans hate. When the league finishes and it is weeks before another ball is kicked competitively. Every two years it’s made worse due to there being no World Cup or European Championships to fill that gap. Well, as of yesterday, it’s finally over and the Barclays Premier League kicked off once again.
The setting for the curtain raiser just so happened to be Anfield this season. Liverpool would get the chance to kick of the season at home, and their opposition was Stoke. The glorious green carpet on the field, the red netting in the goals, the Kop End were all ready to start us off again. Liverpool had spent the summer bringing in a number of new purchases, and the question for most fans would be how those new purchases would fit into the squad, if at all. Stoke, however, had been ringing the changes from their end too. Gone was rugby aficionado Tony Pulis, and in his place came Mark Hughes. Would we see the same bullying Stoke from the last few seasons, or would we see a sudden change towards attacking football that Mark Hughes seems to favour? It promised to be an interesting curtain raiser, would it be exciting though? |
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