Guten abend meine Steffens.
To paraphrase the softly spoken words of Jimmy Greaves, we haven’t spoken recently but I hope we shall be incommunicado soon. Tech issues abound and even a blogger as righteous as me is on all sides is beset by dipsticks.
Bindippers indoors is it then.
Arry spoke of the Suarez interest. We could dwell on the feckwittery of failing to sign the buck toothed boy wonder, but where would that get us, eh? Arguably fourth mutter the cynics in the expensive seats but what the heck-a-doodle dandy would they know?
Due to circumstances within my control I took up an opportunity to watch King Kenny’s boys go through their paces at Melwood on Thursday and all I can tell you is that Andy Carroll is the real deal. And that Dirk Kuyt bloke certainly ain’t too far behind him. Henderson’s close control is tip top. Downing far more interesting than he looks on the telly.
Is Carroll worth £35mill? Well the person best placed person to answer that question is also the owner of the fully functioning time machine. But I’d be reluctant to draw a line through his name rather than under it quite yet.
Our lot? Well guessy who and guessy what? They need to lose the whole, ‘It’s Liverpool’ mindset and concentrate on driving the game and winning the game.
With the wind behind us (I’m not talking rib night) we should be looking to nick a win. So that’s me saying I’d also be happy with a credible draw.
If we lose then quite simply there a few good folk in Tottinghamshire that need to readjust their night vision goggles and stop shouting, ‘It rubs the lotion on its skin’ at fellow fans and start thinking about the future.
We can win. We bally well ought to.
BIOYC!
Hard to find any negatives and one might enquire as to why anyone would be looking for any. A superb result; but one swallow and all that?
I must say Parker was immense, but what about Walker? For me he was the stand-out, we can’t play Lennon ahead of him….he’d be too slow! We have Bale, Lennon and now Walker and have the left flank shored up by the player who in my opinion is fast becoming the classiest left back in the country BAE.
I was concerned however that despite dominating an 11 man Liverpool, we didn’t really make the breakthrough until they were down to 9 (or as close to dammit’ I can’t remember). With such dominance we could still not top up out poor goal difference till they run out of steam and with the cheating Suarez flopping around box like a boated mackerel, 1-0 was uncomfortable.
Once it was 2-0 it really should have been 6 or 7. We played keep-ball and controlled the game but hey, we could have really tanked ‘em. I was getting frustrated watching and kept thinking of the secretary playing solitaire on the computer because it was only 4.30pm and the firm doesn’t shut till 5.00pm.
Given our dominance we should have gone in 3-0 up at half time and had they not lost 2 men we may have struggled later on to finish 1-0 ahead.
Again don’t want to take anything away from a great result on the day, but I still have reservations about our sharpness and our ruthlessness.
Oh, and that was clearly down to Harry Redknapp, so clearly he’s got to go!
Can we possibly re-invent the ‘Steffen Freund is a model professional’ song for Scott Parker… Only change it to ‘Scotty Parker is a top, top professional?’
Put your hands up if any (or all) of these apply to you:
1. Sack Harry
2. Sell Modders
3. Don’t buy Parker
4. Don’t buy big Addy
How do you feel today? Are you prepared to admit that your knowledge of football is so bad you wouldn’t even be allowed to clean the mess off the wall at Leyton Orient?
Why do you bother saying anything?
2 out of the 4 for me. :daumen:
To answer your questions:
1. I feel very happy today, thank you, greavsie. A mild hangover, but happy.
2. No.
3. This is a blog. Blogs are created to share opinions, or at least that’s what I thought they were for.
Here are some questions for you:
1. Does being smug make you a better person?
2. What are the winning lottery numbers for next week (hindsight’s a wonderful thing)?
3. Are you a fascist?
:-D
1. Better? Perhaps. Vindicated? certainly
2. Too late – already won it once
3. No – an Anarchist
your serve