He's losing it. At least Fergie would have the balls to come out and just slag the referee off directly!
OMG.. Has anyone seen Rafa's Friday press conference?
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
He's losing it. At least Fergie would have the balls to come out and just slag the referee off directly!
That's because SAF isnt a waiter
They love quoting how Aquilani is a key player. How much has he played so far? Is that enough to be considered a key player?
He is a key player in their excuses if he was fit they'd be in the CL stilll and top of the league
How could I miss that? Scousers and excuses go together like Yorke and Cole.
"But what are the real reasons behind Liverpool’s decline?"
Decline? They've lucked out on a few occasions, and had an above par season in 08-09. I fecking hate journos.
Decline? They've lucked out on a few occasions, and had an above par season in 08-09. I fecking hate journos.
Less penalties, less red cards for opponents. Some of us predicted this some months ago.
Amazing innit? They went through the whole of last season without one red card. The law of averages catches up.
(I hope we are exempt or else our period without winning anything will be really long) lol£30m man, innit?
Liverpool had their best season in a long time while we were awful last season - our worst was still better than their best. They were never going to perform as well as they did last season after losing Alonso, and we're seeing that now.
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Heard he had another bit of a crazy moment at the post-match interview. Anybody know what was said ?
Something about his "guarantee" or something.
Something about his "guarantee" or something.
Guarentee a top 4 spot maybe?
It's possible but not guarenteed though, he is such an idiota
It's possible but not guarenteed though, he is such an idiota
He guarantees a guarantee or some weird shit like it, it confused me tbh
This is what he said:
That's well and good and quite obvious, the problem is that by this he's telling his players not to believe him when he talks them up.
sorry mate your talking rubbish, not about liverpool having there best season for a long time because that is clearly true but just because he lost the European Cup final to Barcelona and had a couple of of poor games against Liverpool people dismiss what we actually achieved last season, we finished up with 90 points that certainly wasn't our worst.
You had your best season in 8 years didn't you?
Did we?
Maybe in terms of points but in terms of performances 06/07 and 07/08 were much better.
Our league form was dire, Ronaldo aside.
Was it?
I was under the impression you hadn't reached 90 points since 2001/2 or so.
Funny sort of dire, that.
In terms of league points you did.
Unless there is some sort of artistic impression league table I am unaware of.
What would you consider a successful season?
Pretty triangles or 90 points in the league?
We were never consistently convincing in the league; in patches perhaps, but more often than not those 1-0 wins and 0-0 draws with van der Sar keeping all those clean sheets were the only things we had going for us. Our goal difference was the worst since 2005-2006 and goals scored 2004-2005. We were rather average away from home, scoring only 25, comfortably worse than everyone in the top 6 besides Everton (24).
When I mentioned "worst", I was obviously not talking about point tallies anyway.
Fair enough. But points on the board is all that matters come May regardless of your for and against.
I do agree you scraped some results last season that you are not doing so this one. It's down to Ronaldo to me. And your defensive injury crisis of course.
Our attacking football wasn't too exciting, so I suppose that's where the feeling of underachievement comes from. We had Ronaldo, Rooney, Giggs, Berbatov and Tevez, yet scored 68 goals whereas we had scored 80 or more the two previous seasons. (We've only scored less than that three seasons after the league became "the premier league". Twice finishing third, in the early 90s we won it with 67 goals scored - and that in 42 games.)
The defenders deserve as much, if not even more, credit than VDS. He produced a bewilderingly miniscule amount of saves during that clean sheet run.
Yep, I can understand that for sure.
Our points tally this time last season compared to now is very similar, we may have lost a few, but we have turned draws into wins...
Righto.
I am not sure you will get 50 points in the second half of this season though. From memory you had played all your tough away games at this point last season. Not the case this one.
Well it's not righto really, its fact, have a look?
Be interested to see the difference in your points total to be honest...
Well, out of the top 4 (if you include Liverpool) we only have to travel to the Emirates, the rest are at home.
Spurs at home, Villa and City away
I think you may have misinterpreted my 'righto'; it was not denouncing what you said. It was more of an 'I see'.
I will take your word on the similar points tallies.
But as I say, judging on what I have seen of Utd, I will be very surprised if they get to anything like 90 points at the end of this season. Just my opinion of course.
He's making some decent points though. You're right that the points totals after 19 games were similar, 41 then and 40 now. However we collected 49 points in the second half of the previous season. This season we've yet to play at Villa, Everton, Arsenal and City. Last season we'd played at the top three, and Everton, Villa, Spurs and City when we were halfways through. Incredible that.
However we've good reasons to be optimistic; I doubt the champions will need 90 pts this season, and a major reason for our loss of points thus far has been the makeshift defense. We'll probably be luckier in that regard during the last half.
I'm going to assume you're talking about League matches only because otherwise 07/08 was almost indisputably much more successful.
Nice football + winning the League with 89 points + no humiliating defeats is much more successful for me than winning the League scoring less goals than we have for years, grinding teams down, suffering the most humiliating defeat in years, and getting 90 points.
If you look at football as a maths equation we had more success in the League in 08/09, if you look at it as a United fan, 06/07 and 07/08 were more successful.
Winning it really.
Really does show how spoilt we've become though doesn't it? 90 points in winning the league, Carling Cup winners (this is almost treated as a Community Shield these days, which we also won, incidentally), World Club Cup winners (am I being cynical in thinking more would have been made of that if one of our rivals had won it), FA Cup semi-finalists, robbed by a blatant penalty turned down, and Champions League finalists. I'm going to stick my neck out and say that was a pretty successful season!
For me 2006-07 was special because we hadn't won the league in the previous three years, which under Fergie was a veritable drought, but United were still pretty awesome for most of last season, albeit with a different style of play.
I think the thing people are getting at here Sam is that we were absolutely dire, in the first half of the season at least (and towards the end, though by then it didn't matter so much). We should have been dead and buried in the league by Christmas, and any decent side would have done so, but we were lucky because our two main rivals were managed by a fat Spanish joke and a clueless Brazilian. Then of course there was the rant which seemed to inspire us onto our best winning run in years, whilst also heaping unneccessary pressure on your own side.
Regardless, we were shit for half the season and the end of the season too. I always said a Mourinho Chelsea would have killed us off by Christmas, and we'd never have had the hope or confidence to go on a winning run after Christmas. Instead, everything Liverpool did, whether it was dropping silly points at home, ranting in the press, or just being Liverpool, seemed to stir us up and inspire us. So we've got you guys to thank for number 18 really. It couldn't have happened without you.
Btw, nice to see you back after the victory last night. Haven't seen you around for weeks.
Agreed.We were far from dire.