Results tagged “keane” from Liverpool Echo - Another Red Letter Day
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 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.
Newcastle must be sick of the sight of us.
Come rain or shine, good or indifferent form, Anfield or St James Park, we always give the Toon boys a good whipping.
And with Chelsea being pegged back by Fulham, it's fantastic going into the New Year with a three point lead at the top of the Premiership.
ON ANY other day, securing a point at the Emirates against an Arsenal side who have already disposed of Man Utd and Chelsea would have been considered a good result.
Except this time, the 1-1 draw felt us wanting a whole lot more.
It was hard not to think that Sunday's point apiece was a chance lost to make a huge statement of intent on the Premiership race.
WELL, if we don't win our first title for 19 years when May comes upon us, we can point to where we let it all slip away.
Drawing at home to Stoke is an irritant, doing the same against Fulham and then West Ham is bordering on the criminal.
To then go and fail to beat Hull at Anfield, as good as the Tigers are, is nigh on suicide.
Saturday was different to the two previous stalemate displays at Anfield as Liverpool played pretty well on this occasion and we had the pressure and chances to put Hull away three times over.
Still, the other big three are doing their best to do us huge favours every time we slip up at home.
Who would have thought that none of the top four, Villa excluded, would have won over the weekend?
I'm going to say it, yes I really am.
Lucas Leiva was excellent last night. Man of the match.
I'll go further. Ryan Babel was very promising too.
Jeez. I've done it. I need to go and lie down now.
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.
