Results tagged “anfield” from Liverpool Echo - Another Red Letter Day
ANOTHER game, another absence of a win....it seems that we're in for a long hard season boys.
The young Frenchman has been taking a lot of stick recently about that dive against Birmingham last Monday.
YOU don't win anything with poor players.
It's as simple as that.
PHRASES like 'a bad day at the office' were meant for games like this.
In truth, Liverpool never looked like having a real prayer in any stage of this match.
Right from the start we weren't at the same tempo as the Italians and they thoroughly deserved their 2-0 win.
BECOMING easy this playing at home lark isn't it?
Aston Villa aside, our three Premiership games at Anfield have so far finished 4-0, 4-0 and 6-1.
It's widely acknowledged that drawing games at home to mediocre mid-table sides cost us the title last year.
Now, on current evidence, that troublesome Achilles Heel seems to have been well and truly addressed.
SOMETIMES you feel a blog posted after one Liverpool match, could easily be copied and pasted for an entirely different Reds game and it would still be applicable.
Sloppy defenders being saved their blushes by Liverpool's two talismanic frontmen.
Question is, when are we going to learn from all of this?
SO, Xabi has asked for a transfer request. Let's be honest, we knew the lad was going a long time ago, didn't we?
IN A BIZARRE kind of way, Liverpool losing their player of the year might easily end up benefiting the Reds in the long run.
All kinds of flaky rumours sprouting up today about Frenchman Frank Ribery possibly moving to Anfield.
Does, an article posted by www.goal.com add weight to a speculative story? It seems to have been generated by a welter of people lumping a tenner on the winger joining Liverpool, prompting Skybet to slash the odds on Frank playing in front of the Kop.
Sorry for the lateness of this, but I've been off for two weeks.
Still, it needs addressing. Should Liverpool fans lambast Mr Owen for his shock move to Old Trafford?
There's plenty of different takes on the subject.
SO, £17m for a full back?
And one from Portsmouth who is hardly a regular full international with 30+ international caps under his belt?
It seems a hell of a lot of money to pay.
ALL IN ALL, it was a hugely productive season for Liverpool, but one which ultimately ended in frustration.
So near yet so far to that first title in 19 years.
Still, there are many reasons for optimism that will mean we march into the next campaign with hope in our hearts.
Here, Another Red Letter Day presents its End of Season awards.
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.
DROPPING two points at home to Stoke could be considered unfortunate.
Repeating the feat at home to Fulham would be viewed as worrying. Doing the same against West Ham, and failing to score again into the bargain, is tantamount to a criminal offence.
If we fail to notch up number 19 this season, it's these matches that'll show us where we let it wastefully slip away.
WITHIN seconds of the final whistle last night, my mobile phone was bleeping incessantly with text messages form irate football fans.
"You jammy gets!", screamed one. "That's just sick!"
Another message that was fired through bodly declared: "That penalty was a joke. Lucky, lucky, lucky, Liverpool!"
The first missive was from a Blue, the second a Red, I can inform you.
Maybe it was natural of me to go onto the defensive, but my instant reaction was to rebuff both statements as being wide of the mark.
I still stand by that view in the cold light of day this morning.
IT'S always an entertaining madcap ride counting down the last few hours to transfer deadline.
Tracking the live text on the BBC website from 9pm to midnight has become a 'must-do' activity as the rumours get sillier and the cash gets brasher.
For our part, there was some frenzied activity at Anfield even if it wasn't quite on the Robinho/Berbatov £30m scale.
And it signalled the end of an Anfield career for one of the most genuine, hard-working and honest Reds players over the last five years.
THREE wins, one draw since the season started. Only one goal conceded.
Joint top of the league and in the Champions League proper.
Yet it all feels so very depressing.
More talk about potential Reds flankers today
The name of Riera has once again been thrown back into the pot, along with Stuart Downing from Middlesborough.
For many though, it's not exactly setting the pulses racing.
