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Peep Peep Peep get a fork out and stick it in the season cos this one is fucking over.

 

I didn't blame Klopp, I did the opposite. I said you either luck out by having Messi or you have billions to throw at the thing.

Liverpool will never win anything in my lifetime.

 

Sort of having those LaMotta moments, where you wonder if bad things happening is down to some misdeed on your own behalf.

Haven't felt this shit since May 2014.

 

They won the EC in 2005, you big tart

LFC will win at Anfield. Barca are fucking flakey away from home. It's bad, but not over yet.

MTF

 

I think they still can but like anybody who opposes the giants they will get their key pieces pried away regardless.

We've been talking about this for years now. "Second tier" clubs like Liverpool, Ajax, Dortmund, Spurs, Atletico have a slim chance of winning something. Maintaining it? Zero.

 

I blame your support for Brexit, and occasional racism and misogyny. If you manage to address these flaws, LFC will win the league and EC.

 

Probably, and make it heartbreakingly close.

If they miraculously overturn it some of the players will "seek new challenges" in the transfer market.

 

Not the World Cup?

"the glass if half empty"

- salaco

 

Yeah, again I alluded to that. Lucked out in 2005. Been paying interest on it ever since.

What I meant was "Again"................

Won't win anything again in my lifetime.

 

4-0?

Really?

 

Liverpool are a bigger club than all those. Only Ajax come close. LFC have been a feeder club of late but they more than almost any other have the chance to hold their own and regain their rightful place at the top table. If they keep reaching EC semis and finals and challenging for money league titles, they'll rejoin the elite group.

MTF

 

Highly unlikely to say the least. Just agreed with feebs that Liverpool can win at Anfield.

Also we've seen some huge comebacks in the CL the last few years.

 

PSG, who are not as good as LFC, beat Barca by four not long back. If LFC score early, at Anfield, in Europe, mad things will happen.

They'll likely go out, but they will likely win and they are capable of pulling this off.

MTF

 

Catalonia being that bastion of good behaviour ::

 

Admirable sentiments gentlemen.

I of course am a cynic, but we knew that.

That said, in the cold light of day, LFC probably got what they deserved tonight, maybe not 3-0 but if you don't take your chances.....

 

I don't believe so unfortunately. They've done pretty much everything right. Played great football, transfers have exceeded expectations but I don't think they can continue it.

Irish is great on his day but I can out-cynic him on my best.

 

My problem is that I have belatedly realized that it's nigh on impossible to do the right thing and still get anything out of life.

And it happens that I have made this realization right at the apogee of this unfair situation.

Work won't get you ahead and your team being good won't win them anything.

Game is rigged, on and off the field, in sport and at work.

 

Irish's cynicism is stereotypically IRISH (as in the ethnicity)... every single one of us have that doomed outlook when the moment strikes... I can absolutely, vividly relate

There's never ever been a truer statement than Yeats' "(an Irishman) has an abiding sense of tragedy that sustains him through temporary periods of joy"

I hate that about us and I love that about us

 

Have you tried working harder?

 

There's no point!

That's the Calvinist solution... oh just do the same pointless thing except do it harder and you'll reap some magical fucking dividend

 

The reason I know that my "I've done a lot of bad things Joey, maybe it's coming back to me" routine is bullshit is because I know Catalonia is full of complete wankers and that Barcelona, "More than a Club, more of a PLC" are serial rule breakers.

The thing is that I also, despite being a man of letters, cling to an arch-Catholic tenet that from crippling defeat will come some stunning turnaround in fortunes.

Liverpool remembers Hillsborough 30 years, this year. It was 25 when we blew it in 2014.

There has to be something, just something. I am not expecting Jesus to come off the cross.......but something has to give. The stone has to be rolled back, somewhere, somehow, sometime.

 

People think it's about football. It's not........when Benitez turned Chelsea in 2005 the roar at the end of the final whistle was beyond some basic sporting euphoria or some footballing bragging right.

It was guttural and cathartic and it was like the entire city itself was burying past disappointments.

I don't want Liverpool to win the European Cup.

I want them to bury some fucking demon or ogre that is beyond mere literal description.

That sounds funny to people who don't follow those things, but it's very real.

 

"Please God........"

How often do you hear somebody say "Please God" today, especially on the radio before a game of football.

It's beyond football when a guy whose playing days are finished playing says "Please God"......

 

Yup:

 

Lol. Good one.

 

Was a weird game. But Messi is just such a difference maker when he’s on form. He can literally make something out of nothing.

Liverpool likely win at Anfield in a close one but Barca will probably score and that will be that.

 

"99% of time I am nice faggot but theese 1%..."

 

Totally missed it, mobdro stream was like reading a comic book and had people round so couldn't even jump down to pub. Sounds like Liverpool were unlucky.

 

Messi was a little bitch that night but still can't take away the fact that he's a quality little player. Such a shame that Liverpool didn't take their chances.

 

I'm calling it now...Newcastle will either beat or draw with Liverpool tomorrow.