Liverpool fanatics apprehend nice settle satisfaction in outmatching Luton – whose safest XI is valued at much less than the price of Virgil van Dijk – while Thomas Frank is pinned as the Reds’ next Roy Hodgson…
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On a wing and a petition
I wear’t recognize definitively that our equipments and contraptions track us (they numerous certainly do), yet after boosting Masters of the Troposphere on Apple+ last month I’ve watched my YouTube feed progressively fill with archival clips of B-17 bombing jets, Spitfires and polymorphous other RAF aircraft of WWII. I gave up one evening and clicked on a video clip of one such; proper here was grainy video of a B-17 flying with utterly spooky defects throughout the Schweinfurt–Regensburg quest, a series of “shuttling” bomb burdens of paramount commercial targets over war time Germany. Numerous of the engines were aflame, black liquid spurted from the body and the tail fin was missing out on, some form of AI storyteller oriented me the goal contrivance was filmed and none of the ailerons were in kneading commandment. This phenomenal instrument of war possessed primarily ended upward being a record glider, at the whim of a enacting breeze nevermind the canopies of flak suffuse in the skies. My reckoned was, merely how worthy the junior aboard, zero ?
Brendan Rodgers as speedily as said that stewardship of Liverpool throughout his period was prefer constructing an aircraft while it was in flight, or something wizard prefer that. What to render of our 2023-24 period then… How exactly performs one retain the numerous terribly-tuned and completely-created of aircraft up and ticking over when its wings, instrumentation, rudders and engines are with one voice yet flawlessly shorn ? The Luton Area pre-match visuals of an wounded Liverpool XI was instead something to behold, yet we lug on taking into contemplation that that’s the single flight path there is and the next one points to Wembley.
Civilization avail irked taking into contemplation that we reckon it ideologies auxiliary. As we spit fumes to appraisal out Luton mid-week (while lining upward names prefer McConnell, Clark, Danns, Quansah, Bradley– with a earlier-up goalkeeper to boot), Chelsea are rested in their glossy, glossy hanger with their billion dollar teamsheet, over a week to pore and design for us, commercializing and advertising a brand name-newfangled coat of paint on their glossy, glossy wings. My reckoned is, how worthy are we zero matter Sunday’s output ?
Eric, Los Angeles CA
Sustain Liverpool
Can we please placed Liverpool’s win last evening proper into viewpoint. Dave Tickner is proper in his xerox when he said that run out results median auxiliary than productivity. But let’s do the math. Last evening Liverpool started with THREE players that would be in the first 11. THREE, that amounts to 27.3%. That ideologies that 72.7% of the crew were earlier-up.
Of training course, they could train together, and Of training course, they are with one voice pros yet when almost ¾ of the crew have not tinkered together it could apprehend a while to avail going. So, to dashed out 4-1 victors versus a crew that is FIGHTING for its exuberance, I reckon was a nice run out result AND productivity
Kindest pertains to
Ian Hewison
…What a win that was last evening, what a crew, what’s squad, what a company, what fanatics, what ambiance what polymorphous other club in planet football really feels prefer that on nights prefer these?
But I digress. Football and opinions eh? Every individual ‘as em, and as the Buddha never said – invests their totality lives excruciating everyone with them.
But last evening my eyes oriented me, we’re lugging out this with a crew of planet beauty talent accessible to us, “so performs everyone!” They bleat, Arsenal, Newcastle, Sheffield Joined, “you’re zero worse off” etc etc
But to sort at it objectively and fiascoes around a gallery that was missing out on and is it the super same as everyone else?
Utilising transfermarket advantages we were missing out on
Allisson – 32m
Matip – 8m
Trent – 70m
Bacjetic – 11m
Thiago – 10m
Szoboszlai- 70m
Curtis – 30m
Jota – 50m
Salah – 65m
Nunez – 65m
Doak – 10m
That’s a uncut amount crew of 420m approximate well worth of industry merit not accessible tonite and we did that.
Can anyone bested that this year for a gallery (aim for Metropolitan void of training course that operate by polymorphous mantras to everyone else,) yet you recognize, real bars and that?
Go on, have a go and if you do them mart fiascoes around you deserve your opinion, if not then, go boil your heads.
Dave LFC
Alonso’s fallbacks
The telltale replacement for Xabi is to glean involved in Bayern. That’s the objectively rectify adjusting if the uncolored is to win as numerous points as conceivable.
The 2nd numerous telltale replacement is to stay a year in Leverkusen. This one is greater risk, greater incentive. Invest a year with the crew you possessed, minus a item or three, confrontation and probably lose the title to whoever render gains service of here at Bayern, yet numerous notably, have a nice illustrating in the Champions League, and Xabi is place to apprehend treatment of Madrid or Spain.
I assume Liverpool is a daring 3rd. It’s a wizard job, yet owns with one voice kinds of ability poison pills bridged. That’s fact.
This, of training course, with one voice readjusts if Bayern do their usual point and risen means earlier to win the league regardless of appearing to be an utter mix-upward for numerous of the period. As they’ve implemented about fifty percent of the last ten years.
After that Xabi would be a clean match at Liverpool.
F*ck.
Andrew M, let Klopp win, Streatham
The next Roy, to be Frank
To Steve H – I also prefer Thomas Frank, yet his underdog football would be totally unacceptable at Anfield.
He would be another Hodgson *shudder*!
His success with Brentford are admirable yet the messing around pizzazz gains a detrimental audition for the Liverpool job.
Vinny, LFC
Stewie bingo card
Here we go, avail your bingo cards at the prepared taking into contemplation that Arsenal have thrown away and it can single median one point…..Stewie Lion Bingo.
If you have any of these on your card be sure to let us recognize if you avail a pitch upward or a complete abode.
“I said as speedily as Arsenal ultimata a striker”
“I said numerous times Jesus is a liability”
“I constantly case Jesus wasn’t relied on by Pep”
“I can’t case sufficient Havertz is a wastefulness of coinage money”
“Invested how much?!”
“I can’t guard versus cliche Arteta is out of his depth”
“The Arsenal fanatics I envision are deluded”
“These ripping off Arsenal fanatics pompousness attacks them on the arse again”
“One nice dashed versus detrimental teams gains Arsenal fanatics reckon they are the safest to ever before fiascoes around the gallery”
“These superordinary Arsenal fanatics possessed already with one voice got Champions League victors tattoos on their faces”
“Did I case Zinchenko is waste?”
“Psychologically disparaging”
“Arsene Wenger lol”
“4th void prize”
“Open peak bus”
“Something something flavour of the week company (Xabi Alonso presently)”
How did you do? If you’ve won be lessened in the knowledge you’ve been estimate this mail box for far also long.
Oh and it’s not a nice run out result, reckoned it was a odd to fiascoes around that boosting XI yet with the handbrake on, dual pivot with Jorginho in there would have administered auxiliary sensation if you pine to manipulate and defensive soundness. Porto were nice purposefully and really thumbed prefer we missed a focal time for our burdens. Lessons ultimata to be learned yet I’ve got the faith the abode kind will distinctly hopefully bail us out. As constantly though it’s the hope that kill you….
Lee AFC Bristol
Eyes down, proper here’s Stewie
A chit of suggest to Arsenal fanatics: it’s with one voice nicely and nice outmatching straw prefer West Ham 6-0, and the 5-0 walkover of a having a challenging time Palace.
It’s constantly enjoyable to appraisal Arsenal fanatics consistently talk upward their crew in such OTT fashion after mini-runs of kind. Singularly, much prefer you merely recognize the slapstick steward is attending picnic over his super own shoe braids and diminish that Michelin-starred hefty, Arsenal never dissatisfy!
For relevant context, Porto are presently the weakest they’ve been for periods. They particularized 3 aspirations and were imparted a chasing by Arouca merely last week (incentive to anyone proper here that can tag a single outfield Arouca player?) Believed not. Porto’s centre fifty percent is Pepe – I possessed to appraise and render sure it isn’t the super same Pepe that supplied to be a hike red card at Real Madrid 15 years ago yet…yup, that’s him. Pepe is FORTY years antiquated and owns distinctly zero pace. Subconscious you…Pepe can have carried upward a chair, as he will distinctly not have an simpler evening. Distinctly nothing, zero crisis. Martinelli owns pace yet traditionally, the company’s university little woman contraptions nullified that probability.
Just last week we possessed the usual collection of deluded Arsenal jesters making earn service of of portable sample sizes to come out with clean bollocks such as “appearances prefer we wear’t ultimata a striker eh” etc 🙄. It was constantly attending be a short concern of time for this braggadocio to sort facetious. Oh dear, wasting to Porto – not even presently in the two two of the Portuguese league? Wow. More traumatic for Arsenal fanatics was that this loss was reminiscent of the away collapses at St James, at Suite Park and at Fulham. Basically, Arsenal can have tinkered for 500 minutes and there’s zero probability they would have scored a uncolored. Pondering how much Arteta owns spent on attackers, that’s a bloody shame.
Arsenal fanatics never, ever before locate out. To be legible, they’ve spent twenty periods telling the planet that they are “the real provision this time”, yet those of us with operating minds can simply appraisal that Arsenal can not perhaps win the PL, or CL.
I can go proper into Arteta’s tragic, shambolic contraptions. You have a “Young crew” (as Gooners remind us constantly) yet the company wasn’t smart sufficient to devise a scheme to isolate Porto’s senior citizen centre fifty percent, or sluggish-gliding defence. Arsenal fanatics spent weeks having dumb arguments over “Saka planet beauty” 🥱. Saka is a beautiful footballer, zero inquiry. But Foden owns with one voice the medals, and for Saka to render that elite jump, he needs to win the bulky trophies aka PL and/or CL. That won’t ever before ensue at Arsenal, and Saka probably realises this already. I remember Robin Van Persie and Fabregas cliche something parallel?
Arsenal can avail away with messing around a £65m statuary at Burnley (zero disrespect intended), yet Arteta display display screens the optimal of pompousness in his super own capacities by presuming he can avail away with messing around an stable dummy with with one voice the pace of a shellfish masturbating undersea, in a CL last 16 knockout – away from abode. You’re not that nice a company, Mikel. That was facetious.
Twenty periods (and counting) of absence of ability yet the pompousness and puffed-out chests never stop. I can in addition time out how conveniently Porto bet out a blueprint to blow out Arsenal from wide places, wherein totally totally nothing showed up with the complete endorses or the striking wide players. And also the company possessed zero answers to this humble conondrum. Most likely he reckoned it was Roy Hodgson in the Porto dugout?!
It is legible that Arteta f***d upward the summer season season abode window with that £65m Havertz vanity purchase. Was telltale then and even auxiliary stark presently that Arsenal are simply short on attribute fallbacks in assail. Trossard confidential.
At the super same time, Klopp owns the mama of with one voice injury meltdowns yet he’s racked upward earlier to earlier wins in the PL and long term his lead at the peak. Yet Arsenal fanatics are still telling us with one voice that it was “one Saliba injury” that led to them choking prefer a nonchalant restaurant at a Mexican buffet with a pinto bean stuck down his throat, last period. 😂🙄
Klopp didn’t have £200m to spend over summer season season yet in some means, he’s vying.
So as usual, agricultural balance reclaimed. Of training course, Arsenal ought to scrape past senior citizen Pepe at abode in the adjust leg (not a imparted) yet there’s auxiliary than sufficient indicias to argue Arsenal are out of their depth when it comes to the organization run out of not single the PL, yet in addition the CL. You totally do Not pine to appraisal Arsenal face a Madrid, Inter or even this regrettable version of Bayern, over two legs. It would be Obscene.
Stewie Lion (Twenty year sample size > Twenty days)
The top priority with Dan Ashworth
I’d prefer to recognize wherein Coal is recovering the hunch that Dan Ashworth is a long term appointment or what their definition of long term is?
Nowhere in his occupation owns he remained for what I would call long term.
What he performs is he render gains service of in, sets a traditional/frame and fallen abandons for greener fields. He’s lugging out the super same to Newcastle as what he’s implemented to the FA And also Brighton.
He’ll do the super same to Joined when a individual else comes contacting.
Culk The Younger
Who needs Mourinho? We’ve got Mousinho?
In a Will distinctly Smith manner: “Keep my supervisors tag out of your mouth”!!
Please, please god at the terribly least let us avail out of League 1 in the past touting Super John as the next Luton company. I’m sure every Pompey fan is already frightened we are attending mix-upward upward the next 12 galleries or avail a random points deduction and we wear’t ultimata numerous speculation about John Mousinho distracting the players!!
Pompey Stew
Fragile vanities
I wear’t short article much to the mail box so apologies if something parallel owns been commercialized newly, yet performs anyone have any qualified insights as to why dressing enclosures are so brittle these days?
I ponder this on the earlier of Tuchel and Bayern Munich, with him barely rendering it past fifty percent a period without the crew imploding. Now it’s been a while offered that I tinkered football so I’m not much of an authority on dressing void dynamics, yet doesn’t it with one voice seem a particle fifty percent-cracked? I median, I wear’t pine to solid with one voice archaic by rendering a shebang of obsoleted ‘earlier in the day’ references, yet what else is there to pin on this hilariously record-thin pitch upward that exists in football between unconfined consonance and settle failing?
Has football presently reached a time wherein triumphes can single be attained if everyone in a particular club, crew or organisation 100% concurs with each polymorphous other and 100% sift everyone else? Is it gallery over if (God disallow) two players in the crew wear’t especially prefer one another? Or a player theorizes the gaffer is a particle of a n*b sometimes? It’s boosting to really feel that means.
Marc, MCFC, Bolton.
Excess weight shaming
I’d merely prefer to top priority a reaction to your “enthused movie critic” Yopauli Swinetown.
To conserve you from agonising over hypotheticals, I can placement you with a pretty hefty spanning research from the real planet. 2 South African national cricketers, one guy and one female were both slumped from their measuring up to national squads about the super same time due to being overweight and failing to fulfill pre-seated fitness needs in commandment to be picked.
Since the nature of the sporting job is seemingly terribly polymorphous to football, the public conversation neighboring this top priority was whether or not this was a mart standards if the players can substantiate themselves capable of meeting a role and contributing meaningfully to the crew, even if they can not dashed 2 kilometers in under 8 minutes. The the terribly least hefty rudiment of the debate was the gender of either player.
Unless you have been residing under a rock, it would be unobtainable to have missed that girls’s football owns come on in leaps and bounds in stipulation of being recognized and reinforced in recent years (and owns been an real specialist sporting job sans prayer for much much longer) and long could that perpetuate! Of training course they have fitness standards and of training course it would be hefty for a company to remark on this ought to they fail to fulfill them.
I hope this help.
Lawrence (by with one voice ideologies perpetuate to impart the bald Rodri-reliant bamboozle a kicking) SA
…Don’t even recognize wherein to overture with that Yopaulie Swinetown email so I’ll merely case Yopaulie sift your head out and stay off the Andrew Tate video clips
Seamus
…Yopaulie, Swinetown asks whether Pep ‘..got away with this taking into contemplation that Kalvin is guy?’, probably after estimate the story in any of the numerous outlets which sheathed it.
These are your words: “..furor from the purple haired, penetrated void of society.”
(Hysteria – the antiquated hunch that emotional defects are wreaked by a ‘straying uterus’. Nice one.)
Shows up exclusive and particular yet I hunch you median individuals with a social conscience? Although it melees a building prefer my grandmother, have you met her? She’s not prefer that at with one voice.
You recognize, there’s a word for revisiting individuals’s inner idiosyncrasies by the means they sort?
Anyhow it’s challenging to tell exactly that you’re intending your self-loathing at yet based on the uncut amount Richard Secrets after a couple of drinks tone of your missive, I’ll assume you reckon that sporting activities media is discriminatory versus males and that were the case retracted it would be sheathed rapidly, entailing by those pinkoes over at the Mail and the S*n. Which is obscure taking into contemplation that Phillips’ case got plenty of contemporaneous coverage from those terribly number organs.
Fran Kirby newly went viral claiming that number shaming was ‘rife’ in girls’s sporting activities yet you wear’t encompass any instances of female specialist athlete number shaming being labelled out. I’ve implemented a comb for particular instances of it being labelled out as they showed up and can locate none. Singularly, numerous blog posts about how number shaming’s a spooky unrecognised top priority for female specialist athletes. Olympic swimmer Maddie Groves labelled it as a “disgusting responsive fulcra”.
Ladies are judged also commonly on the means they sort and a bulky component of the media feed proper into this imo.
So, the guy got numerous media attention, the girls didn’t, yet you case the polymorphous. After that go after a snow society war agenda to undermine and belittle individual emphasizing something which causes real traumatize to real individuals. Still, you wouldn’t pine to be accused of being one of those purple haired social conscience individuals would you?
But wear’t concern misogyny is alive and nicely in specialist sporting activities. The substantial antagonism in salaries, objectification and emphasis on what they’re donning, rape menaces and sexualised abuse digital, terribly couple of female sporting activities journalists, institutional misogyny, antiquated males attempting to kiss them and so on.
Beyond this sporting activities were designed by males for males and from kit and boot architecture through mentoring ideologies and knowledge of physiology (and yes number mass targets designed for males) there’s a ultimata for a polymorphous philosophy. One in which mentoring, nutrition etc is designed for female specialist athletes. This is an pertinent top priority – Fran Kirby lugged it upward late last year to widespread praise. Most likely this is the coverage about female number shaming that’s vexing you?
Make it viable for’s layer with Lauren Fleshman, the runner, laying out how sporting activities girls are ‘at war’ with their figures.
“A society of leanness and expectations of linear emergence could render sensation for figures that are reacting to an influx of testosterone and androgens. Interpretation the super same of the female number…is not single unknowledgeable, it is in addition deeply poisonous.”
Hartley MCFC Somerset (that joke [3 kids] about Kyle Walker though, astonishing. You truly are a beaming wit.)
