ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"
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Lifelong-Toffee
Player Valuation: £500k
True for Everton, true for my life
As a 5 yr old, born miles from the city of Liverpool, it must have been fate that I began supporting Everton. The 80s and mid 90s were great for me too!
I feel like the walking personification of Everton..
witchdoc187
Player Valuation: £60m
everytime I turn on the telly they score. I am basically their top scorer its sickening. There is a guy in my office who I've never seen who's surname is coutinho. He has a coutinho 10 sticker on his locker. I am undecided as to how to deface/destroy it.
bluebrotha77
Player Valuation: £20m
Pull down your zip,take out your snake and piss all over it would be a good start
witchdoc187
Player Valuation: £60m
Pull down your zip,take out your snake and piss all over it would be a good start
I would have to be standing to full attention as its on the top row of lockers. Don't think I could arouse myself in front of that sticker to be fair
bluebrotha77
Player Valuation: £20m
Step aside lad.ive a python in my pants.i got this.you keep look out for your boss
witchdoc187
Player Valuation: £60m
Times like this I'm happy to be in London
Bet you said the same about the league cup this year, the league two years ago, the fa cup after they beat us and all the other trophies they've blown in the last decade.
Hibbertinho
Player Valuation: £8m
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spor...s/talking-point-liverpool-won-europa-11291758
"Liverpool won their latest European semi-final before a ball had even been kicked.
If Waterloo was won the on the playing fields of Eton, the Reds' latest campaign victory was won on the streets of Anfield.
The team coach welcome has become as much a part of the European matchday atmosphere as Ring of Fire is now, or the Joey Ate The Frogs Legs banner used to be.
Anfield outsiders sneered after the delirium which greeted the coach for the Borussia Dortmund match - BEFORE the game.
“It's only a quarter-final,” they smirked. “What's that all about?”
Liverpool team coach arrives before the UEFA Europa League Semi Final: Second Leg match between Liverpool and Villarreal CF at Anfield on May 05, 2016 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)
The answer that night came in the dramatic denouement as Liverpool were inspired to complete the most unlikely of comebacks.
Those sparkling street scenes are all about creating a sense of occasion, of instilling trepidation in the visitors and a sense that anything is impossible in their own players.
For years Reds fans have done it inside the stadium. Now they're doing it outside too.
The scenes along Anfield Road before Villarreal and Liverpool even arrived at the stadium were inspiring – with the corner outside the King Harry pub a kaleidoscopic pulse.
Thousands of fans thronged the streets and the pavement.
Fireworks, flares and red smoke billowed as Reds fans gave it the full Dante's Inferno treatment.
Fronted by a posh people's carrier escort, the coach crawled through the hordes.
“At 6.45 when we drove through the streets it was nice. But not so many flares next time. We couldn't see too much,” laughed Jurgen Klopp later.
The social media accounts of the players involved shows how much the occasion impacted on their consciousness, how much it affected their pre-match psychology.
And it does.
The sense of occasion a welcome like that creates means that when you go 2-0 down, or 3-1 down, there's a sense that the game isn't lost.
And the more “famous fightbacks” Liverpool achieve, the more it becomes a self perpetuating theory.
Last night it was 'only' a one-nil first leg lead Liverpool had to overcome.
But the intensity of the atmosphere which continued inside the stadium before and after kick-off ensured it was wiped out inside six minutes.
But even one-nil leads in Europe can be precarious. Just one slip can prove fatal.
While Liverpool's fans maintained their intensity, so did their players.
It's a symbiotic relationship – and it's fanned by a manager whose enthusiasm and antics on the touchline are only marginally less manic than the fans who sit on the Kop.
It's why Jurgen Klopp marches his players down to the Kop End after a home draw with West Brom, or speaks of being “alone” when fans left early against Crystal Palace.
He was at it again last night.
Liverpool FC v Villarreal in Europa League Semi Final Second Leg at Anfield. Jurgen Klopp gees up the crowd
“Anfield is special when we make it special – and that means all of us,” he declared in his programme notes.
“The players know great moments and nights don't happen here just because you step off a bus and touch the sign on the way to the pitch. Great things happen here when players and supporters make it happen.”
They made it happen last night – and Klopp's celebrations at the final whistle were memorable.
He strode purposefully towards each section of the stadium, reacting to the roars like a delighted cheerleader.
“Don't make it about me,” he said afterwards. “I'm part of a team.”
He is. One big, colourful, hugely effective team.
And it operates on and off the pitch."
I'm sure that there's some lesson for us to take away from that... but I'm too overwhelmed with the cringey, typically arrogant title of the article.
"Liverpool won their latest European semi-final before a ball had even been kicked.
If Waterloo was won the on the playing fields of Eton, the Reds' latest campaign victory was won on the streets of Anfield.
The team coach welcome has become as much a part of the European matchday atmosphere as Ring of Fire is now, or the Joey Ate The Frogs Legs banner used to be.
Anfield outsiders sneered after the delirium which greeted the coach for the Borussia Dortmund match - BEFORE the game.
“It's only a quarter-final,” they smirked. “What's that all about?”
Liverpool team coach arrives before the UEFA Europa League Semi Final: Second Leg match between Liverpool and Villarreal CF at Anfield on May 05, 2016 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)
The answer that night came in the dramatic denouement as Liverpool were inspired to complete the most unlikely of comebacks.
Those sparkling street scenes are all about creating a sense of occasion, of instilling trepidation in the visitors and a sense that anything is impossible in their own players.
For years Reds fans have done it inside the stadium. Now they're doing it outside too.
The scenes along Anfield Road before Villarreal and Liverpool even arrived at the stadium were inspiring – with the corner outside the King Harry pub a kaleidoscopic pulse.
Thousands of fans thronged the streets and the pavement.
Fireworks, flares and red smoke billowed as Reds fans gave it the full Dante's Inferno treatment.
Fronted by a posh people's carrier escort, the coach crawled through the hordes.
“At 6.45 when we drove through the streets it was nice. But not so many flares next time. We couldn't see too much,” laughed Jurgen Klopp later.
The social media accounts of the players involved shows how much the occasion impacted on their consciousness, how much it affected their pre-match psychology.
And it does.
The sense of occasion a welcome like that creates means that when you go 2-0 down, or 3-1 down, there's a sense that the game isn't lost.
And the more “famous fightbacks” Liverpool achieve, the more it becomes a self perpetuating theory.
Last night it was 'only' a one-nil first leg lead Liverpool had to overcome.
But the intensity of the atmosphere which continued inside the stadium before and after kick-off ensured it was wiped out inside six minutes.
But even one-nil leads in Europe can be precarious. Just one slip can prove fatal.
While Liverpool's fans maintained their intensity, so did their players.
It's a symbiotic relationship – and it's fanned by a manager whose enthusiasm and antics on the touchline are only marginally less manic than the fans who sit on the Kop.
It's why Jurgen Klopp marches his players down to the Kop End after a home draw with West Brom, or speaks of being “alone” when fans left early against Crystal Palace.
He was at it again last night.
Liverpool FC v Villarreal in Europa League Semi Final Second Leg at Anfield. Jurgen Klopp gees up the crowd
“Anfield is special when we make it special – and that means all of us,” he declared in his programme notes.
“The players know great moments and nights don't happen here just because you step off a bus and touch the sign on the way to the pitch. Great things happen here when players and supporters make it happen.”
They made it happen last night – and Klopp's celebrations at the final whistle were memorable.
He strode purposefully towards each section of the stadium, reacting to the roars like a delighted cheerleader.
“Don't make it about me,” he said afterwards. “I'm part of a team.”
He is. One big, colourful, hugely effective team.
And it operates on and off the pitch."
I'm sure that there's some lesson for us to take away from that... but I'm too overwhelmed with the cringey, typically arrogant title of the article.
Ashtonian
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Perhaps they are doing so well because they have a good manager finally? The benefits of replacing a crap manager with a good one whilst you have time to do it?
not comparing that to any other potential cup game for any other team where a crap manager was in charge...........
not comparing that to any other potential cup game for any other team where a crap manager was in charge...........
Ashtonian
Banned on request
Alsohttp://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spor...s/talking-point-liverpool-won-europa-11291758
"Liverpool won their latest European semi-final before a ball had even been kicked.
If Waterloo was won the on the playing fields of Eton, the Reds' latest campaign victory was won on the streets of Anfield.
The team coach welcome has become as much a part of the European matchday atmosphere as Ring of Fire is now, or the Joey Ate The Frogs Legs banner used to be.
Anfield outsiders sneered after the delirium which greeted the coach for the Borussia Dortmund match - BEFORE the game.
“It's only a quarter-final,” they smirked. “What's that all about?”
Liverpool team coach arrives before the UEFA Europa League Semi Final: Second Leg match between Liverpool and Villarreal CF at Anfield on May 05, 2016 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)
The answer that night came in the dramatic denouement as Liverpool were inspired to complete the most unlikely of comebacks.
Those sparkling street scenes are all about creating a sense of occasion, of instilling trepidation in the visitors and a sense that anything is impossible in their own players.
For years Reds fans have done it inside the stadium. Now they're doing it outside too.
The scenes along Anfield Road before Villarreal and Liverpool even arrived at the stadium were inspiring – with the corner outside the King Harry pub a kaleidoscopic pulse.
Thousands of fans thronged the streets and the pavement.
Fireworks, flares and red smoke billowed as Reds fans gave it the full Dante's Inferno treatment.
Fronted by a posh people's carrier escort, the coach crawled through the hordes.
“At 6.45 when we drove through the streets it was nice. But not so many flares next time. We couldn't see too much,” laughed Jurgen Klopp later.
The social media accounts of the players involved shows how much the occasion impacted on their consciousness, how much it affected their pre-match psychology.
And it does.
The sense of occasion a welcome like that creates means that when you go 2-0 down, or 3-1 down, there's a sense that the game isn't lost.
And the more “famous fightbacks” Liverpool achieve, the more it becomes a self perpetuating theory.
Last night it was 'only' a one-nil first leg lead Liverpool had to overcome.
But the intensity of the atmosphere which continued inside the stadium before and after kick-off ensured it was wiped out inside six minutes.
But even one-nil leads in Europe can be precarious. Just one slip can prove fatal.
While Liverpool's fans maintained their intensity, so did their players.
It's a symbiotic relationship – and it's fanned by a manager whose enthusiasm and antics on the touchline are only marginally less manic than the fans who sit on the Kop.
It's why Jurgen Klopp marches his players down to the Kop End after a home draw with West Brom, or speaks of being “alone” when fans left early against Crystal Palace.
He was at it again last night.
Liverpool FC v Villarreal in Europa League Semi Final Second Leg at Anfield. Jurgen Klopp gees up the crowd
“Anfield is special when we make it special – and that means all of us,” he declared in his programme notes.
“The players know great moments and nights don't happen here just because you step off a bus and touch the sign on the way to the pitch. Great things happen here when players and supporters make it happen.”
They made it happen last night – and Klopp's celebrations at the final whistle were memorable.
He strode purposefully towards each section of the stadium, reacting to the roars like a delighted cheerleader.
“Don't make it about me,” he said afterwards. “I'm part of a team.”
He is. One big, colourful, hugely effective team.
And it operates on and off the pitch."
I'm sure that there's some lesson for us to take away from that... but I'm too overwhelmed with the cringey, typically arrogant title of the article.
Cringy or not.
they get to finals and win them, we don't.
bit funny we take the p out of them for all of what they do like this and stuff yet they are massively more succesful in the cups then we are?
And we are the club who literally waited for these lot to beat us in the semi back in 2011, yet wonder why we haven't won a trophy in so long.
Won nothing in the last decade the horrible cringy melts and no matter how many crappy articles the echo writes sucking them off it doesn't change that they've been less succesful than portsmouth, leicester or wigan during that time period despite spending more money on their team than 90% of teams in europe put togetherl.
weaf
Player Valuation: £750k
How do you know what I said?
Are you the nonce who hangs around by my bushes at night.
I've told you once already, [Poor language removed].
Ashtonian
Banned on request
are you mad? they won the league cup 4 years ago?
plus they actually got to the league cup final, they have got to europa leage final, and here is us moaning about the ball crossing the line when technically we were still through at that point.
I'm sorry but although it is fashionable to slag them off over everything, we are nowhere near even getting close to their sorts of records in the last 20 years
hell we were 45 minute away from the final twice this year, got battered last year when we just needed to not concede goals, sat off in 2011, outplayed in 2009, didn't even try 2006/7 (league cup semi).
If passion from the fans makes a difference like that then there you go.
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