newcastle united 3 - 1 liverpool
I'm not really someone for match reports and whatnot, but I felt like I had Things to say about this one and wanted to store it somewhere.
To be honest, I'm miserable.
I don't know if I'm naive or what but every time we win, I get so excited, so happy and I fall in love all over again. I keep thinking we're on our way up, we're making so much progress, before we know it we'll be in the top 4 again, we are capable of this.
But then we play an away game and we're back to lifeless shitty Liverpool who can't take advantage of chances at best and completely look like they don't want to play for Liverpool anymore at worst. I don't know what to think, it's breaking my heart - really it is :(
I don't what it is about away games - why can't we play as well as we're entirely capable of?
John Henry said that he didn't want to buy players in January and I kind of agree with him - we can't keep blaming Roy or blaming owners or whatever, sometimes it's the players who need to look inside and wonder what they're fighting for. We clearly have good enough players, we have a good enough squad (look at the 2-0 Chelsea game where we wow-ed), there's just something wrong with the spirit sometimes.
I know it's wrong to play the blame game, but I want to. I want to blame everyone.
Players, what is going on? Do you want to play for Liverpool? Feel the spirit, the pressure, the insistence. All it takes is some confidence, some belief again and you're off at it, doing amazing, playing beautifully. I know you can and I want you to do it all the time and I don't know what to do. You're playing with a Liverpool crest on your chest, always play with pride and with passion whether you're up 3-0 or down 0-3.
Manager, there's some things you can do when we're down and need a change. There are words you can say at half-time to remind the players why they're here and what Liverpool means to people. There are things you can do at training to build their confidence and belief again.
Fans, when we're down, when we're not playing well, you can also cheer the players up and make them believe again. Those songs, those songs mean so much to everyone - YNWA, Fields of Anfield Road, the individual player songs - the feeling of someone believing in you always makes you want to perform better and work harder. We know this, let's do it.
I'm in love with Liverpool, I think I realized that today. I cried after the game, tears of frustration, tears of sadness, I don't know. And every time someone got close to our goal, I was screaming STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT and I just, I didn't want to see it but I couldn't look away. I kept pleading and begging and hoping and I think this is just something Liverpool brings out in me.
And Dirk's goal, oh Dirk's goal.
I'm really happy for Dirk and really happy we got an equalizer so it wasn't as completely depressing a scoreline as say the Man City game, but mostly I'm happy for what occurred after the goal. Or rather, I'm happy in a completely heart-broken way because we couldn't keep it up and lost confidence again.
But in that period of time, wow were we dominating. Nando came close twice and they sang the Torres bounce in between numerous renditions of Fields of Anfield Road. I sang along because I was so proud that I was a fan of a club that could produce this much spirit and the fans really boosted the players.
I kept thinking about Luis Garcia's quote on Istanbul:
“We were sitting in the dressing room and we could clearly hear thousands of fans singing You’ll Never Walk Alone. Can you imagine how that felt? We were 3-0 down in the Champions League final and all we could hear were 45,000 people letting us know they still believed in us. We knew they had endured a long journey and made so many sacrifices to be there. It was at that point we started to believe too.”
- Luis Garcia
It was just a Premier League game, certainly nothing like a CL final and I can't even imagine how those fans must have felt at half time, but I kept thinking about this quote and I felt like gold being able to somewhat witness this same thing happening. The Kop is amazing, the spirit of Liverpool is amazing, god all of it is amazing.
And then after that, I kept thinking about how much I want a win, how much I want a spirited Liverpool who is grossly and drunkenly beyond in love with the club and the fans and the game.
This is the spirit I want to watch ninety minutes upon ninety minutes upon ninety minutes of. I know we're capable of it and I want it so much, how can it not be happening?
It's not that I've stopped believing, I don't think I will for a long time to come if not ever, but I need you to believe too. I need all of us to believe again, as one.
You'll never walk alone, don't ever doubt it.
To be honest, I'm miserable.
I don't know if I'm naive or what but every time we win, I get so excited, so happy and I fall in love all over again. I keep thinking we're on our way up, we're making so much progress, before we know it we'll be in the top 4 again, we are capable of this.
But then we play an away game and we're back to lifeless shitty Liverpool who can't take advantage of chances at best and completely look like they don't want to play for Liverpool anymore at worst. I don't know what to think, it's breaking my heart - really it is :(
I don't what it is about away games - why can't we play as well as we're entirely capable of?
John Henry said that he didn't want to buy players in January and I kind of agree with him - we can't keep blaming Roy or blaming owners or whatever, sometimes it's the players who need to look inside and wonder what they're fighting for. We clearly have good enough players, we have a good enough squad (look at the 2-0 Chelsea game where we wow-ed), there's just something wrong with the spirit sometimes.
I know it's wrong to play the blame game, but I want to. I want to blame everyone.
Players, what is going on? Do you want to play for Liverpool? Feel the spirit, the pressure, the insistence. All it takes is some confidence, some belief again and you're off at it, doing amazing, playing beautifully. I know you can and I want you to do it all the time and I don't know what to do. You're playing with a Liverpool crest on your chest, always play with pride and with passion whether you're up 3-0 or down 0-3.
Manager, there's some things you can do when we're down and need a change. There are words you can say at half-time to remind the players why they're here and what Liverpool means to people. There are things you can do at training to build their confidence and belief again.
Fans, when we're down, when we're not playing well, you can also cheer the players up and make them believe again. Those songs, those songs mean so much to everyone - YNWA, Fields of Anfield Road, the individual player songs - the feeling of someone believing in you always makes you want to perform better and work harder. We know this, let's do it.
I'm in love with Liverpool, I think I realized that today. I cried after the game, tears of frustration, tears of sadness, I don't know. And every time someone got close to our goal, I was screaming STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT and I just, I didn't want to see it but I couldn't look away. I kept pleading and begging and hoping and I think this is just something Liverpool brings out in me.
And Dirk's goal, oh Dirk's goal.
I'm really happy for Dirk and really happy we got an equalizer so it wasn't as completely depressing a scoreline as say the Man City game, but mostly I'm happy for what occurred after the goal. Or rather, I'm happy in a completely heart-broken way because we couldn't keep it up and lost confidence again.
But in that period of time, wow were we dominating. Nando came close twice and they sang the Torres bounce in between numerous renditions of Fields of Anfield Road. I sang along because I was so proud that I was a fan of a club that could produce this much spirit and the fans really boosted the players.
I kept thinking about Luis Garcia's quote on Istanbul:
“We were sitting in the dressing room and we could clearly hear thousands of fans singing You’ll Never Walk Alone. Can you imagine how that felt? We were 3-0 down in the Champions League final and all we could hear were 45,000 people letting us know they still believed in us. We knew they had endured a long journey and made so many sacrifices to be there. It was at that point we started to believe too.”
- Luis Garcia
It was just a Premier League game, certainly nothing like a CL final and I can't even imagine how those fans must have felt at half time, but I kept thinking about this quote and I felt like gold being able to somewhat witness this same thing happening. The Kop is amazing, the spirit of Liverpool is amazing, god all of it is amazing.
And then after that, I kept thinking about how much I want a win, how much I want a spirited Liverpool who is grossly and drunkenly beyond in love with the club and the fans and the game.
This is the spirit I want to watch ninety minutes upon ninety minutes upon ninety minutes of. I know we're capable of it and I want it so much, how can it not be happening?
It's not that I've stopped believing, I don't think I will for a long time to come if not ever, but I need you to believe too. I need all of us to believe again, as one.
You'll never walk alone, don't ever doubt it.