Mark Albrighton Posted May 7, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted May 7, 2019 16 minutes ago, Troglodyte said: Despite being a huge fan of Klopp and admiring several of their players, I share most football fans' disdain of Liverpool. However, you can't really be surprised at the media response to such an incredible result and performance. This is football, and it's brilliant - even if it's not the team you were supporting. Barcelona were absolutely insipid, but Liverpool deserve huge praise. The sad thing is that it's so difficult to realistically imagine Villa in such a scenario, but there's no way we'd be questioning the media if we were. In fact, I think the term 'media wankfest' is universally used in a fit of jealousy as other teams/players get deserved praise for praiseworthy performances. Do we really expect "Oh yeah, Liverpool just turned around a 3-0 deficit against a strong Barcelona side, without two of their vaunted front three, by winning 4-0 to create another classic European night in front of their fans who created an incredible atmosphere... meh. Next game please." Anyway, I hope Ajax smash them in Madrid! I doubt anyone is really surprised. Some, like myself, often complain about how much attention/favourable coverage they receive. Why would I expect any different tonight? No, I don’t like it. But I’m not evenly remotely surprised to hear it’s the leading story on the news. It’s not actually annoying me in fairness, I can avoid most of it. It would have been great to see what would have happened had Harry & Meghan announced their kid today instead. I reckon the news production teams would have had to literally fight it out to decide the running order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciggiesnbeer Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 Not a Liverpool fan but bloody hell, that was some performance, happy for them today. Hope they enjoy that for years to come. I bloody well would. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentVillan Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 55 minutes ago, hippo said: Mate if it was villa - it wouldnt be national news headlines ... Overdramtic ? ...I was on the coach home from highbury in 1981 ...we had just won our first league title in 71 years....headline worthy ???? Nah the sports coverage was of how liverpool had qualified for europe for a 7th consecutive year I got home and even my mom said what a pathetic bit of of coverage it got on TV... Tonight reminds me of lance armstrongs 7 tour de france wins....if something seems to incredible to be real......it probably isnt.... Like I say ....brown envelopes... Yeah and Dean Smith shot Steve Bruce from the grassy knoll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentVillan Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 Fair play to Liverpool, to be honest. Whatever you think of the fans, they have a class manager, and some really top drawer players, and they play brave, exciting football. They also just knocked out one of the most arrogant smarmy teams in world football. Some of the key groundwork for Liverpool's current success was done by Christian Purslow - so bodes well for our future as a club. UTV 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hornso Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 That's an incredible turnaround. Liverpool and Man City just have this aura or feeling around them at the moment that you can never write them off and when they need a goal they'll find one. It doesn't always happen but more often than not it does. I guess it's similar to United in the 90s. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDuck Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 On 02/05/2019 at 07:38, Zatman said: Tonight again just shows how good the Premier League really is. Throw all the money in the world like City and Liverpool did but no real quality 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 Incredible turnaround. They have a special player in Alex-Arnold. Should be England right-back for years to come. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 Their CB's are really good. They fully deserved that result, that was extremely impressive without Firminho and Salah as well. The barca manager will prolly get the axe for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 1 hour ago, PaulC said: Incredible turnaround. They have a special player in Alex-Arnold. Should be England right-back for years to come. Very poised young player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderPower_14 Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 FFS Barcelona. You can't even be the most boring club in the world correctly. Well played to Liverpool, you can't deny that sort of performance. Fingers crossed City and Ajax can get the job done though 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 (edited) How the **** have Barcelona bottled a 3 goal lead twice in two years in the CL. Absolutely pathetic. Fair pay to Liverpool, plenty of people have been happy to take the piss for years when they fall short, but imagine seeing that kind of thing at VP. That'd be the happiest night of my life. Well done to them. Edited May 8, 2019 by Davkaus 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mic09 Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 7 hours ago, KentVillan said: Fair play to Liverpool, to be honest. Whatever you think of the fans, they have a class manager, and some really top drawer players, and they play brave, exciting football. They also just knocked out one of the most arrogant smarmy teams in world football. Some of the key groundwork for Liverpool's current success was done by Christian Purslow - so bodes well for our future as a club. UTV The manager might be class. But he definitely isn't classy. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 Incredible turnaround - well worth remembering that, although the result was a one-off, they played incredibly well in the first leg too. I can’t remember seeing a side play such good attacking football against Barcelona for a long time. It will rightfully get media praise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 Yeah they deserve the praise today, its the other times they dont. Have seen them win champions league so not bothered if they win it, its league they want. Tinpot trophy anyway unless they change the name. No team left are league champions from last season 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Zatman Posted May 8, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted May 8, 2019 I do enjoy the hypocrisy towards Suarez. Racism and biting was tolerated when at the club but lose the shit over bit of diving and gamesmanship 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mic09 Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 Liverpool were very good. BUT. I think that if this was Man City, Juve or any other top team, they wouldn't have bottled it the way that Barca did. The terrible, arrogant and mindless Barca performance was a catalyst for the great Liverpool win. But then again, you can only play who is in front of you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 Don’t like them, but fair bloody play. What a night that would have been at Anfield. I hope they win it for Klopp . The last two years they have been brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robtaylor200 Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 lets all Calm down, calm down. I know it was amaaaaaaazin , But I dont like them and dont want them to win anything Sour grapes ? Oh yes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 15 hours ago, Xela said: No 'neutral' fan I know wants Liverpool to win the league. Any 'neutral' fan I know want Liverpool to win f*** all. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted May 8, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted May 8, 2019 Twice on the way to work I was subjected to You'll Never Walk Alone. And endless eulogising about how special Anfield is. And so on and so on. What was I listening to? No, not a sports station but Radio 4! For only twenty minutes! Aaarrrggghhhhhh.... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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