January 2009 Archives

Dear Mr Benitez, some questions if you please.

AND so to Goodison as for the second time in a week we couldn't find a way to beat a much-depleted but battling Everton side.
No two games could have more perfectly summed up Liverpool's currentl failings in a season that still promises to deliver so much.

IT WAS all looking so rosy with four minutes to go.
Two points clear at the top of the table and Everton put to the sword.
But the negativity that runs through our play once again cost us. Massively.
There are only so many draws you can record, particularly at home, before a genuine title bid is seriously undermined.

It's been a colourful old week in the life of Liverpool FC.
If we haven't been talking about dodgy chants on the terraces, it's been the Benitez new deal wrangle or the race at the top of the Premiership.
Crickey. That last one was actually about football.

I should have put this story of mine up a couple of days ago, but here we go anyway.
Police have nailed their colours to the mast to try and get a handle on some of the below the belt chanting at derbies in recent years.
The sentiment is spot on, even if the execution might be tricky to say the least.
If anything deserved your comments, this is it.

IT was a bad weekend all round for Liverpool.
Two points dropped against up and under Stoke, largely through a lack of ambition to win a game that should have been perfectly within our grasp.
And Man United swatting aside a limp Chelsea to make it game on for the Premiership league title.

A TRICKY hurdle away at high-flying Preston in the FA Cup was never going to be an easy game.
And so it proved as Liverpool eventually dispatched a resilient Preston with a professionalism that was not in their locker a couple of years ago.