Double Hijacked! Twelve Hours of Drama Around the Moisés Caicedo Transfer At around 2 p.m. central time here in the U.S. on Thursday, Aug. 10, I finished a 4,100-word blog post – the first post I have written in seven months. This post, which you will find pasted below this introduction in its entirety, was/is a season preview, focusing on …
This is the Golden Era. And we are in the middle of it, not at its end. More miraculous moments await us. Our job is to savor them. Treasure them. Plant them in our memory garden, where we can harvest, enjoy, and replant them over the coming years. This is the Golden Era. The time is still now, and we have the privilege of experiencing it.
I wanted to spend a bit of time talking about football tactics, including formations, positional roles, and styles of play. Hopefully this Part will give you newbies some new vocabulary and – to some extent – a new mindset that may make watching the game more interesting. Finally, because I often refer in my football writing to a few advanced statistics – most notably expected goals (xG) – here in Part III I will give you a brief overview of what those stats mean.
Fair warning: I’m an unabashed Jürgen Klopp fanboy. But there are still enough facts woven into the gushing below to permit you to make your own judgments. All of us celebrated the day that Liverpool announced the signing of German Jürgen Klopp as the new manager. We were very, very excited. One of the top managers in all of world …
LFC Season Preview – 2021-22This is a Golden Era in Liverpool FC’s glittering history. This spring, on a bitter fan forum populated by Evertonian Bitters, came a bitter but apt expression of our sweet golden experience as LFC fans: “They can have more enjoyable moments in a week of football than we’ve had in 30 years. Everton are the most …
We’re just a scant few weeks from having watched LFC lift its first Premier League trophy in 30 years. Ordinarily, the players would either be Instagramming their naked, muscled torsos from vacations from various points across the globe, or would be proudly representing their mother countries in various international competitions. This time, instead, another Premier League season begins. …
And here … we … go. The off-season was mercifully short, and we’re about to get our Reds back. If only we could cancel the international breaks. Alas. As I mentioned, many on LFC-related Twitter accounts have spent the entire preseason moaning about our failure to sign anyone this summer. To them I say, “Shut the fuck up.” Sure, I …