Starring Huge Grant
Mugged him. Mugged him right off
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Look we were down to the bare bones, load of kids out there and every Spurs fan knew we were going out. Having said all that, the performance was an utter shambles and in keeping with this horror show of a season. The good ship Big Ange plods on.
He canāt have much road left.
I canāt think of many times Spurs have troubled Liverpool at Anfield over the years.
There was the 0-1 in my first season 1986/87 but that was before I got interested starting with the FA Cup Third Round clash at Luton.
The one that most sticks out is the FA Cup Sixth Round tie live on RTE in 1995 when Rob Jones and Neil Ruddock made a hames of a clearance off a throw in and Jurgen Klinsmann slotted a late winner coming in at an angle after Sheringham had released him. That was a bitter pill.
There was Erik Edman game, live on RTE also in 2005, a 2-2 draw where Steven Gerrard blazed a penalty high and wide at the Kop.
Then there was the 1-1 draw which did for our chances of winning the league in 2022.
Thatās about it.
They beat us 2-0 at Anfield on the penultimate weekend in 2011 to snatch 5th spot from us after a resurgence under King Kenny. 6th wasnāt enough for Europe because of Birmingham winning the league cup.
The 1-1 draw in April/May 2022 probably cost us the domestic treble. Although City wouldāve beaten West Ham (A) if theyād really needed to.
Now that I think of it there was a 2-2 game around maybe 2017/18 where it looked like Liverpool had snatched the win late and Harry Kane equalised even later.
The 4-0 on March 30th, 2014 was the definitive Tottenham performance at Anfield in my mind.
We were unstoppable that day, it was the day we knew we were going to win the league and a searing happiness surged through me of the sort Iām not sure Iāve ever felt to quite the same extent as a Liverpool supporter.
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Iāve vague memories of possibly Berbatov & Keane combining to fire Spurs to a win at Anfield. Is my recollection wrong? Or was that the 2011 game you mention?
I think thatās a 2-2 draw in the autumn of 2007 that felt like a defeat for Liverpool. The title was already fading off into the distance.
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Yeah I was thinking one or both of them had probably left Spurs by 2011.
Yeah Berbatov left Spurs in 2008. Keane was probably on loan at West Ham in 2011.
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you love to see it
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Im watching more soccer than in years lately as the young lad has turned into a junior footix all of a sudden. (I thought heād never be into sport at all but thatās a different story)
I watched Chelsea arsenal and Liverpool matches already this week. Looking at the Liverpool match last night and there is something brilliant about the way they play at their best BUT is the overall standard of the top top teams much lower than it was? Arsenal and Chelsea are absolute dung and full of non descript identikit players bar the odd couple.
The smaller teams in the PL are obviously way better tactically set up, more athletic and better on the ball than the likes of a Swindon from the 90s but the top teams and players in England and all around Europe seem so much weaker than they were.
The England and arsenal teams are good examples I would say close to zero of their current teams would make the England team of 06 or the arsenal team of the early 00s.
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Any individual flair has been coached out of them
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He didnāt say which yanited game in fairness.
I watch hardly any of it, but I suspect with every team being pretty well resourced, and professional, along with a regular stream of players coached all the way through, itās harder to stand out. Less time on the ball, less space, less room for mavericks. It actually makes Liverpool look all the better really. Any team can hurt any other on a day. The title will be well earned by whoever wins it.
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Iād say the top teams are a level below the crack City/Liverpool teams from 2017-20. Teams 5-12 are the strongest they have ever been. Teams 13-17 are weak and teams 18-20 are absolute dung.
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I was listening to a podcast the other day, cant remember which one and they were discussing coaching and one of the guests on it pointed out that it seems coaches are constantly on the touchline coaching the teams through the 90 minutes that it seemed the players couldnāt make decisions from themselves, and they were asking is this not something that should be done during the week. They used Arteta and Pep as prime examples of this, Slot does it as well but not as much.