big club would prob need to win something of significance and have some fans
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Thursday, 14 April 2016 23:00 (eight years ago) link
Lol. Enjoy the night in Istanbul
― never had it so ogod (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 April 2016 23:14 (eight years ago) link
a rung above Dublin
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Thursday, 14 April 2016 23:49 (eight years ago) link
just watched --- glad to live in the country and without immediate neighbors
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Friday, 15 April 2016 01:15 (eight years ago) link
Amazing game and even more ridiculous that it was Sakho and Lovren that won it, but The Real Respect That These Two Sets Of Fans Have For One Another is some sickening bullshit.
― Matt DC, Friday, 15 April 2016 07:38 (eight years ago) link
how is it? i suppose it'd be better if they both just stood their roaring yid army for 90 minutes
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Friday, 15 April 2016 07:40 (eight years ago) link
I'm sure it's fantastic when you're at the game but at the same time it's just this kind of... chummy narrative commentary bullshit. No one would have mentioned it if it wasn't for Klopp.
― Matt DC, Friday, 15 April 2016 08:05 (eight years ago) link
or the fact that it's the anniversary of 96 fans dying, and the dortmund fans organised a mosaic in tribute.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Friday, 15 April 2016 08:11 (eight years ago) link
I missed that it was the Hillsborough anniversary, only turned on halfway through so got the love-in without the context.
― Matt DC, Friday, 15 April 2016 08:33 (eight years ago) link
I know when to climb down off a dumb hobbyhorse. Sorry!
― Matt DC, Friday, 15 April 2016 08:34 (eight years ago) link
nah i wasn't shaming you, i just honestly think that occasion, the klopp thing, and the fact that both fans sing "you'll never walk alone" was enough to create unity.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Friday, 15 April 2016 08:36 (eight years ago) link
xpost TBF there was similar talk in the first leg, at least from Lawro on the radio - he was on about the joint singing of You'll Never Walk Alone. It's not something I mind, though, I think you do get that feeling very occasionally and it seems fair to comment on it when you do, even if it only exists in your imagination.
― Tim, Friday, 15 April 2016 08:38 (eight years ago) link
I suppose Klopp's avuncular daddishness is a factor as well - regardless of how friendly the fans are with each other, you don't get commentators saying that with, say, Mourinho on the bench.
― Matt DC, Friday, 15 April 2016 08:40 (eight years ago) link
Even allowing for the famously warmhearted Chelsea fans.
― Matt DC, Friday, 15 April 2016 08:42 (eight years ago) link
there's been a big love-in brewing between the clubs for a while. it's like the start of a romance. a dortmund fan died a few weeks ago and there was a tribute with the fans singing ynwa which went viral among liverpool fans. i guess the presence of death in this is a topic for another day.
i'm sure there'll be friendlies in future. hopefully more european encounters.
xpost
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Friday, 15 April 2016 08:44 (eight years ago) link
Reading the coverage from last night and the interviews etc, the way Klopp has managed the club itself, and the fans and their relationship to it, is absolute genius. Like he's built a narrative that depends on unity and belief and the performances have followed.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Friday, 15 April 2016 08:50 (eight years ago) link
Also creating a situation where fans are going to be a lot more forgiving of early inconsistent performances, especially after years of Rodgers management speak.
― Matt DC, Friday, 15 April 2016 09:10 (eight years ago) link
managed to avoid the result and watched this morning after work, would have turned off after 10 mins if i didn't find dortmund so lovely to watch even though it was lfc on the receiving end and then OMG!!!!!
so stupid how happy that made me
emre can was immense i thought, and origi looks 3x the player he was at the start of the season.
hummells pass for reus goal was a bit whoa.
― pandemic, Friday, 15 April 2016 09:15 (eight years ago) link
xpyeah it helps that when we've been shit klopp has said so ( i realise that's probably not sustainable for season upon season) but has made a welcome change from rodgers bullshit(see roberto martinez)
― pandemic, Friday, 15 April 2016 09:17 (eight years ago) link
Yeah you guys really loved it when Hodgson showed that kind of honesty.
― Matt DC, Friday, 15 April 2016 09:25 (eight years ago) link
he didn't though? claimed a performance vs everton was great when we were shite.
― pandemic, Friday, 15 April 2016 09:30 (eight years ago) link
so don't know what you're on about
yeah exactly - hodgson is the EXACT case in point for moronic post-match interviews. he famously said it was the best performance of his tenure, after we had one of the worst defeats to everton i can remember.
he had a litany of other foot in mouth moments, and has done since leaving liverpool as well. space monkey gate etc. the man is a total windbag.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Friday, 15 April 2016 09:38 (eight years ago) link
He'd veer back and forward between that and bitter-disappointment and formidable-challenge-ahead and It'll-be-an-uphill-struggle, it was really weird.
― Matt DC, Friday, 15 April 2016 09:41 (eight years ago) link
I mean obviously the difference is that there have been several good performances under Klopp while virtually all of Hodgson's were shit.
― Matt DC, Friday, 15 April 2016 09:42 (eight years ago) link
fourth place goes if Liverpool win Europa, I think.
No country can have more than 5 teams though so in the unlikely event that Liverpool & City both win the Cups AND City finish outside Top 4, then it's going to be a bummer for whoever finished 4th.
― groovypanda, Friday, 15 April 2016 09:42 (eight years ago) link
In Liverpool and City between them contrive to take a CL place away from a 4th-placed United then they'll probably string LVG up from the roof of Old Trafford.
― Matt DC, Friday, 15 April 2016 09:46 (eight years ago) link
There's a Dortmund/Celtic thing that goes on too - or used to, I don't know anymore now that we're shite and irrelevant.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Friday, 15 April 2016 09:53 (eight years ago) link
shakhtar vs sevillavillareal vs liverpool
― pandemic, Friday, 15 April 2016 10:44 (eight years ago) link
sevilla are gonna win this 3 times in a row aren't they? considering their ropey away form this season that would be quite something.
― pandemic, Friday, 15 April 2016 10:45 (eight years ago) link
am i right in thinking there isn't a huge amount of difference between the shakhtar, sevilla and villareal? like i mean as far as quality goes...
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Friday, 15 April 2016 10:46 (eight years ago) link
the shakhtar
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Friday, 15 April 2016 10:47 (eight years ago) link
Yes, i think that's probably fair. Anyone could win it.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, 15 April 2016 10:50 (eight years ago) link
bearing in mind no sakho, can, henderson or origi i'd take a one goal defeat with lfc scoring tonight gladly.
― pandemic, Thursday, 28 April 2016 13:21 (eight years ago) link
yeah, team looking a bit spineless minus those few. i've been p impressed by leiva's responsibility over the years though, hopefully he can step up. and allen has been great of late too.
still think it's damage limitation this evening, anything can happen at anfield. pity it's not anfield first. with the week that's in it the atmosphere would have been beyond the usual even.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Thursday, 28 April 2016 13:44 (eight years ago) link
your shakhtars, your sevillas. the villareals of this world.
― Is Jack Nicholson really qualify as "Partyman"? (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 28 April 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
http://tvnewsroom.site/images/news-staff/andy-townsend/andy-townsend-Image-003.jpg
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Thursday, 28 April 2016 16:23 (eight years ago) link
no studge. klopp sure does like players who run around a lot.
michael owen "liverpool are the best team left in the competition" he seems awfully confident about that.
― pandemic, Thursday, 28 April 2016 18:53 (eight years ago) link
also a lil strange that skrtel is now 4th choice CB, maybe even 5th choice behind lucas!!
― pandemic, Thursday, 28 April 2016 18:55 (eight years ago) link
villareal just encouraging us to cross, to no effect.
― pandemic, Thursday, 28 April 2016 19:25 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ChJ3b_uWwAE9mxB.jpg
great work there bbc
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Thursday, 28 April 2016 19:49 (eight years ago) link
bollocks
― pandemic, Thursday, 28 April 2016 20:55 (eight years ago) link
oh well
thought milner was good tonight
think lfc will win at anfield but not sure if we'll do it by enough with no away goal
― pandemic, Thursday, 28 April 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
It had been coming in the last five minutes. Suarez was excellent all match. 2-0 at Anfield doesn't look impossible though.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Thursday, 28 April 2016 21:00 (eight years ago) link
Why didnt Sturridge get a run?
― i;m thinking about thos Beans (Michael B), Thursday, 28 April 2016 21:12 (eight years ago) link
Mignolet, Clyne, Toure, Lovren, Moreno, Can, Milner, Lallana, Firmino, Coutinho, Sturridge. Subs: Ward, Benteke, Lucas, Allen, Skrtel, Ibe, Smith.
this may be the only game all season where i'd have liked benteke to start at CF. Villareal don't allow much up the middle and instead allow teams a lot of freedom to go wide and cross.
glad emre can is back but with firmino in as well that's the same CM that got exploited vs dortmund, would have liked to see allen or lucas in there. oh well.
― pandemic, Thursday, 5 May 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
mcmanaman "liverpool will win comfortably"
owen "villareal conceded 3 at madrid, 3 at barcelona, yeah those are top teams but so are liverpool"
― pandemic, Thursday, 5 May 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
otm
― Camberwicker Man (onimo), Thursday, 5 May 2016 19:13 (seven years ago) link
listening to this on the radio. it is p amazing that both hosts, lawro and green, are massive liverpool fans. does this happen for any other club? i am quite enjoying it, not so much those two, just normally when i can't see it on tv i use minute-by-minute, i suppose it shouldn't be a surprise that radio is far better.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:11 (seven years ago) link
Radio is far better, except when Alan Green is on it.
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:13 (seven years ago) link