Tomorrow’s match is the most important match of the season. Villarreal. Be careful what you ask for. Both the quarterfinals draw and the actual quarterfinals turned out exactly as LFC supporters would have hoped. First, we drew Benfica, the weakest team remaining. Then, shockingly, the next-weakest team (on paper), Villarreal, somehow scraped an upset over the mighty Bayern Munich. Bayern, …
The Blues/Toffees/Bitters are struggling. They still sit on the edge of potential relegation, in 17th place, and just one point above Burnley. They have 29 points from 31 games. Worse yet is their record away from home, where they have won 1, drawn 3, and lost 11 (6 points from 15 matches). The clichė tells us the form book is …
Thanks so much to Mari Lewis of The Liverpool Offside for penning these fantastic words about the amazing experience of following Liverpool Football Club during this era.
Fuck the fucking fuckers. For the more than two decades, Liverpool fans tried to comfort themselves with fading memories of past glory, while United fans cavorted in the sun. During most of those two decades, when this fixture approached, LFC supporters could only hang onto the schadenfreudic hope that our club could spoil United’s current run toward another title. And, …
“What do we say to the God of Death? … Not today.” Last week, Manchester City pushed Liverpool to the brink of [highly-probable] elimination in the Premier League. The Reds pushed back. They then followed that up with a highly-imperfect, yet highly-entertaining cavort at Anfield in a true elimination bout — a second-leg Champions League quarterfinal. Our Reds are still …
Biggest Match of the Year We’ve been in “every game is a cup final” mode for quite some time now. But this cup final is bigger than the others. I’m guessing there are few LFC fans who would be unwilling to trade this year’s League Cup win over Chelsea for a victory tomorrow. Some would probably also give up LFC’s …
This is the first half of an actual elimination scenario. Yet it feels to me, as a fan, as one of the LEAST intense matchups that we will see for the rest of this season. Benfica have made their way to the last eight of the Champions League, so they’re obviously good. Indeed, they were in the same group as …
And now comes the season-ending “run-in.” This one is special. This one is why we watch sports. We hope that some day, somehow, our team will have the opportunity to achieve greatness. Compete for the Big One. But, LFC’s current quest goes well beyond the “regular” dream of having your sports team win a title. This season, the Reds seek …
Here is a terrific article on medium.com that explores the fascinating question of whether Liverpool’s defenders are intentionally avoiding blocks of long shots. The writer (and I) are making inferences here — no one at LFC is coming out and telling anyone what they’re doing. But, if you’d asked me even before I read this whether LFC are doing this, …
History. The last time these two clubs met in the FA Cup, the game was a semi-final, scheduled for April 15, 1989, at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield. The most infamous date in English football history. Ninety-seven LFC fans lost their lives as a result of disastrously poor planning by police and stadium officials (94 that day, plus another three who …