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 …
It seems like only a few days ago that thousands of Liverpool fans suffered through the debacle outside the Champions League Final. But tomorrow Liverpool and Manchester City will square off in Leicester for the Community Shield. The Community Shield is a glorified exhibition match that annually pits the league champion (Manchester City) against the winner of the FA Cup …
After Hillsborough, Authorities Blamed the Victims. Now It’s Happening Again. Shame, Shame, Shame.
We have finally (almost) reached the Champions League Final — which also happens to be the final most important match of the season. The mostest of the most. The biggest game in club football. It’s the game that crowns the best club football team in Europe. Since most of the world’s best footballers play in Europe, this cup serves as …
To put it mildly, the result was disappointing. It hurt. But at the same time, the ride to get there was fantastic and glorious. For two hours I was THIS CLOSE to experiencing one of the most joyful moments of my life. We Liverpool fans were really, really alive.
Where Will You Be? What Will You Do? Where will you be if it happens? Yes, I know it probably won’t happen. But it MIGHT. If it does, where will you be? What will you do? Will some of you reading this actually be at Anfield tomorrow? Will you be in a pub? Will you spill your drink? Will you …
Many in the LFC Twitterverse were dismayed that Klopp heavily rotated the lineup for Southampton. I was delighted, but not at all surprised. After most of the preferred starters played close to 120 minutes in a physically and emotionally draining FA Cup Final on Saturday, the Southampton came too quickly for those players to recover sufficiently. Sports science dictated that Klopp needed to change the lineup. A lot.
This season we are watching genius at work, and some key elements of that genius have been hidden from our view. As Reds, one of the many joys we regularly experience while watching this fantastic squad is that we have a slew of players who are among the best of the best at their positions. Mo Salah. Virgil Van Dijk. …