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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Manchester teams are celebrating, Londoners not so much


Another curious week in EPL. I can of course speak for a long time about Liverpool vs Bolton game, but than again- there is not so much to say. We did not do it. And most importantly it only looked for 10 minutes as if we could. Kenny was disappointed with his player, I guess the Kop was disappointed with Kenny? I don't know but I still think that a lot depends on the coach. At the end it is his game plan and he is the one calling the starting line up. People criticized a lot Carroll being in the starting line up, but he actually did not do bad, he did well. He did not score but who but Bellamy even got close? We had no midfield- and it has nothing to do with clumsy Andy. Our only hope is Chelsea and Arsenal continuing their mistakes but how many one team can hope for? Because every time London sides show weakness, we drop or draw and can't pick up points to make it into top four. Too much pressure on the club and the manager. But then again, someone has to be the 7th? Don't think that I am giving up on my team, or think that we cannot make it - but I think that something is psychology of the club must change. Something which will bring the glory. But for now, like my Tango teacher often says, "more of the same".

Manchester City looked vulnerable against the Spurs and I think if the referee was not so obviously helping blues out, we might have seen a bog surprise. The penalty was a penalty, but the person who caused it should have been sent off long ago. They got away with two challenges and then the dices fell their way.

Manchester City vs Arsenal- hold off well, did not fell low and hard as at the start of the season but Arsen will get a lot of heat for the calls he made and needless to say that manager so blind to his weak defense, will have a lot to answer for.

Here are my predictions for line up of top 4: Manchester City; Manchester United; Tottenham and Newcastle.

End of story for now

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

No blogging period

Just noticed that I have not been writing much in this blog recently. No excuses, there was a lot going on- I will add some of my thoughts on December- January at the end of the week- that's a promise. There is a lot to say, but I guess us dropping to the seventh spot is a little demotivating- when it comes to writing about it. If I have to bet on title winners- I go for Tottenham. And have to agree with my friend Ian that chances of us reds making to top 4 are very weak. I just don't see Chelsea, Arsenal and even Newcastle dropping enough points for us to go to the 4th place. And we need all three of them do really worse. Tough path for LFC- again!

Friday, January 6, 2012

Curling Cup Semi-Finals

As Manchester City beats Liverpool 3:0, lots of thoughts cross my mind. There are two games left against City in Curling Cup Semi-Finals and more than ever we want to finish on top. We played strong against city- but can we put them behind? Question lots of fans might be asking in January. And here what I think, we need to give it a good go- when we played against them this week- we looked like a strong team- the game ended against us and I am not looking for excuses but we did not deserve to loose to to loose with that score. I hope out players don't suffer from City Hype like many seem to do this season. This is when good strong players just start loosing when faced with city- because media already gave them victory and sadly some fans already think it's a done deal.

Liverpool can and will beat them next game. Let's seat back and enjoy the game. I realize that after loud statements, it will be hard if the team does not deliver but I believe in our lads and the Kop to make it happen. All we need is 1:0. So here we go, that's my prediction.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Pounded


So I wanted to find couple minutes the other day to blog about our beautiful win at Anfield and breaking the curse but I did not find time and today I got to writing except the today there are two other important events I just can't ignore. One of them is game again Man City away which we somehow lost 3:0. Somehow, because when you look at replay we did not do that bad, however we didn't do great either- City has Hart and we've gotta go around him somehow. Also, the choice of players. Kenny is playing Carroll- Carroll is not delivering and this is hurting us. I think Maxi has proven himself, Kuyt did well and I think those lads should get opportunity to play. Also, if he is looking for a couple to hook up in front then Kuyt- Bellamy is so much more impressive then any combination which includes Carroll. We have two more games left against city- we've gotta do better then this.

Second news is that Luis and Liverpool have decided not to appeal decision of FA regarding 8 game ban. This incident is becoming ridiculous. I am not going to bring any more arguments but say what I commented on LFC NY page: "Some of my friends who are LFC supporters also thought Suarez should have not said that. I have to agree with Nigel that the argument was not whether or not Suarez was a racist but that he said racially abusive word. Suarez agreed he said that. I don't think though his intend was to "abuse Evra", Suarez used the word because between Hispanics it's a common word to use- and it is NOT offensive. Even though I think Suarez should have known better, the FA punishment is very harsh and unfair- because it is ridiculous to make a showcase of Suarez when no one learns anything from this except that FA continue being bunch of douchebags. With Blatter clearly being a racist and saying many inappropriate things about racism, women in soccer and homosexuals- this attack UNFAIR on Suarez just makes FIFA, FA and the likes look really bad. Iniesta - who abused Marcello on camera- get's away with slap on the wrist, when someone who clearly is not a racist or did not mean to say anything racist is being harshly punished. Evra was really under-performing at that game and because he could not do anything and felt frustrated he just took it out on Luis. Evra though did racially ABUSE Suarez and admitted this on the record. Even if Luis did not hear it, it's on the record- Evra should get the ban for 8 games and pay a fine. We do want to be fair right? FA is such a fucking joke". Football justice-end of story. Until we get dictators out of FIFA and UEFA and FA- not much will change here.

So overall, a great win followed by a lousy day......