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anfieldcentral · 8 years ago

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Talking Points | Leicester City 3 - 1 Liverpool FC

‘Human’ Jurgen Klopp Makes Multiple Errors |

Jurgen Klopp is not the messiah and as shown by this fixture he is most certainly not immune from making errors. With Jordan Henderson injured and out Emre Can was really the only choice to slot in at defensive midfield but leaving Lucas Leiva at centre back against one of the fastest strikers in the league was a disastrous error of judgement.

The Brazilian was skinned by Vardy on multiple occasions and with the Reds persisting in utilising a high line it was all too easy for Leicester’s main goal scorer. While left exposed by a lack of cover from both Can and Milner, Lucas positionally woeful for much of the game and seemed completely unaware of Vardy’s presence far too often.

Reds Becoming Too Predictable |

For me, this is simply down to another error of judgement from Klopp. Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville hit the nail on the head on Monday Night Football when they stressed that Liverpool have to learn to win dirty. I’ve personally been screaming about it for weeks and this was just another example of a game that the Reds should’ve just shown up to, looked to sit in, counter attacked with the pace and skill of the front three and hit Leicester on the break. Instead, they went for the usual all-guns-blazing style that has failed them in recent weeks and played right into the reigning champions hands. Klopp doesn’t often get his tactics entirely wrong but he was dreadfully misinformed if he thought this was the best way to get at Leicester.

Jordan Henderson a Huge Miss |

While Lucas will be the stand-in that gets much of the criticism, it’s hard to ignore just how much of a miss Jordan Henderson is when he doesn’t play. The Englishman’s passing range, pendulum like ability to keep possession ticking over and intelligence off the ball were all entirely absent as Emre Can continued to charge around like a bull in a China shop for much of the 90 minutes. The German’s lack of athleticism is becoming a huge issue for the Reds in the centre of the park while his inability to set the tempo of games in the same way Henderson does is a massive hinderance to the Reds. Improved in the second period as he shifted to centre back but one feels there may truly end up being no contract extension for him this Summer.

Coutinho Gets a Goal but Attack Ultimately Falters |

Roberto Firmino once again proved why the Reds need a true number 9, Coutinho showed glimpses of his usual self without being able to find his top gear and Mane faded in and out of the game every 5 minutes or so. Add to this how bewildered and lost Wijnaldum and Lallana looked in midfield and you probably get one of our most disjointed attacking displays I’ve ever seen. In fact, you know it’s bad when your number 9 doesn’t even register a single effort on goal. At least Coutinho got a consolation to hopefully boost his personal confidence levels.

Europa League Next Season? |

With the Reds dropping more points to relegation candidates, they look destined to finish outside the top four this season. Of course, certain rivals still have other competitions to play in but with the form of Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City, Spurs and to a lesser extent Arsenal of late, it’s going to be a very uphill struggle to finish in the Champions League places for the Reds now. Will be a huge shame if we do end up 5th, 6th or even 7th as I don’t really like the Europa League.

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ultrasfcb-blog · 7 years ago

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Liverpool v Actual Madrid: Alan Kennedy on 1981 European Cup

Kennedy’s injured wrist made him a doubt for the ultimate in Paris

This piece was initially printed in October 2014, earlier than a Liverpool v Real Madrid Champions League group game

Two hours earlier than taking over Actual Madrid within the 1981 European Cup last in Paris, Alan Kennedy and his Liverpool team-mates weren’t precisely ‘within the zone’.

Heat-up routines, pre-match rituals and Bob Paisley’s crew discuss have been all placed on maintain due to a row with TV broadcasters over promoting.

At their insistence, Liverpool have been obliged to cowl up the Umbro brand on their shirts, prompting scenes extra akin to an episode of Blue Peter than the build-up to the continent’s largest membership contest.

“It was completely diabolical,” remembers Kennedy. “A few hours earlier than the sport we have been placing sticky tape on one another’s shirts. I used to be doing Alan Hansen’s, he was doing mine and Phil Thompson was doing Phil Neal’s.

“It was completely ridiculous and would by no means occur now, however Bob reacted in a great way. He stated we ought to be much more decided to win the sport. His perspective was all the time that if somebody places issues in our manner, we’ll recover from them, and that is precisely what we did.”

Bob Paisley’s Liverpool line-up within the 1981 European Cup last

At a heaving Parc des Princes, Liverpool carried out Paisley’s directions to the letter as Kennedy lower in from the left to resolve a tense encounter with an 82nd-minute winner. His strike sealed Liverpool’s third European Cup success in 5 years throughout an period in when English golf equipment dominated Europe.

Nevertheless it was a sport he almost needed to miss.

“I broke my wrist within the semi-final first leg towards Bayern Munich and the membership physician stated it was a 10-week job,” says Kennedy, who joined Liverpool from Newcastle for £300,000 in 1978 and endured such a traumatic debut that Paisley joked at half-time that “they shot the improper Kennedy”.

“I needed to play however we could not discover out what we should always do – strap it up or plaster it or no matter. In the long run I had a steel forged strapped to my wrist. It was a bit cumbersome and heavy and would undoubtedly be classed as harmful in right now’s soccer world.”

With Kennedy listening on the radio again residence on Merseyside – European matches have been hardly ever televised on the time – Liverpool overcame the early loss to damage of Kenny Dalglish to attract the second leg 1-1 in Munich and undergo to the ultimate on away objectives.

Bob Paisley turned the primary supervisor to win the European Cup thrice

One month later, Kennedy boarded the flight to Paris nonetheless not sure over whether or not he could be enjoying however decided to take in the environment on his first journey to the French capital.

“We flew over from Liverpool on the Monday on Aer Lingus,” says Kennedy. “We all the time flew with them as a result of it was a fortunate omen. There have been a number of followers ready for us within the airport. I feel they’d gone out on the Monday morning and have been staying for the week.

“We stayed in Versailles for one night time after which moved to a lodge within the city centre. There have been lots of followers who have been staying in the identical lodge so you probably did get interrupted however there have been household and associates round too.

“Among the different lads had performed in two different European Cup finals [in 1977 and 1978, when Liverpool beat Borussia Monchengladbach and Club Bruges respectively], but it surely was my first. I did not get a lot sleep the night time earlier than. I used to be always excited about the sport and was nonetheless feeling some ache in my wrist.”

On the day of the match, the gamers ate steak collectively at 12.30pm after which headed again to their rooms for a day nap.

They have been woken at 4pm by assistant coach Ronnie Moran and gathered within the lodge restaurant as soon as extra for his or her conventional pre-match snack of tea and toast. When their bus set off for the stadium, they have been nonetheless unaware of the beginning XI.

“Bob informed us the crew once we obtained to the bottom,” says Kennedy. “It was a shock to be included and I in all probability wasn’t totally ready mentally. However as soon as the supervisor offers you the go-ahead, you tune your self in and prepare to go.”

Liverpool v Actual Madrid previous conferences Date Competitors End result Scorers 27 Could 1981, Paris European Cup last Liverpool 1-Zero Actual Madrid A Kennedy 25 February 2009, Madrid Champs League, Final 16, 1st leg Actual Madrid 0-1 Liverpool Benayoun 10 March 2009, Anfield Champs League, Final 16, 2nd leg Liverpool 4-Zero Actual Madrid Torres, Gerrard 2, Dossena

Actual Madrid’s line-up featured one or two acquainted faces – German midfielder Uli Stielike, who had performed for Borussia Monchengladbach towards the Reds within the 1977 last, and former West Brom and England winger Laurie Cunningham. Past that, the six-time European Cup winners have been one thing of an unknown amount.

“We would had them watched and [coach Tom Saunders] had picked out sure gamers, but it surely was nothing like right now, when gamers have dossiers about all their opposition,” provides Kennedy. “We would not even have recognised a few of their gamers.”

The match itself was a scrappy, tactical battle on an uneven pitch. Jose Antonio Camacho, who later turned Actual Madrid and Spain supervisor, wasted the Spanish facet’s finest opening, whereas Graeme Souness didn’t beat keeper Agustin Rodriguez after being performed by way of by Dalglish.

Captain Phil Thompson performed 340 matches for Liverpool and received 42 England caps

Because the match wore on, Liverpool grew in power as Souness overpowered Stielike in midfield. With Cunningham largely occupying Phil Neal down Liverpool’s proper flank, Kennedy had the liberty to get ahead down the left.

Eight minutes from time, one of many then 26-year-old’s forays introduced the final word reward.

“I wasn’t excited about scoring a aim, I used to be considering that if I may make a run right here it would create a little bit of house for Souness, McDermott or Dalglish,” says Kennedy. “However Dalglish had come to the byline so I bumped into the house that had been left open for me.

“After taking the ball on my chest I keep in mind the centre-half tried to kick me however his swing of the left boot missed me and I used to be by way of.

“If the goalkeeper had stayed the place he was he would have saved the shot, however he made slightly motion to his left-hand facet so he was masking the far submit in addition to the close to. That signalled to me that I may drive the ball into an space the place there may be a aim.”

When his shot hit the web, Kennedy sprinted to have fun in entrance of the delirious Liverpool followers behind the aim earlier than being mobbed by his team-mates.

The celebrations would proceed lengthy into the Paris night time.

Liverpool have received 5 European Cups, greater than every other English membership

“I went again to one among our lodge rooms with a number of beers and had a little bit of a sing-a-long with Alan Hansen and his household,” says Kennedy.

“Among the different gamers went to the Lido membership on the town, a disgraceful place with six-foot dancing ladies. They even took the Cup with them. Thank goodness they introduced it again.”

With the trophy safely of their baggage, Liverpool’s victorious gamers flew again to their residence metropolis for an open-top bus parade. On the highest deck, gamers held up an enormous banner stating “Thanks Barney” – a reference to Kennedy’s likeness to Flintstones character Barney Rubble.

“The homecoming was unbelievable,” says Kennedy, who went on to attain the profitable penalty in Liverpool’s 1984 European Cup shootout overcome AS Roma in Rome. “There was pink and blue all over the place as a result of the Everton followers got here out to assist us too.

“We have been hanging off the bus and we had a little bit of drink however we did not thoughts as a result of we might completed the season. It was time to take pleasure in ourselves.”

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walkonwalkonwithhopeinyourheart · 8 years ago

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With Emil Forsberg being linked with LFC, I'd like to remind us of the last Swede that played for us, Glenn Hysén! via /r/LiverpoolFC

With Emil Forsberg being linked with LFC, I'd like to remind us of the last Swede that played for us, Glenn Hysén!

As a Swede, I am very excited that Emil Forsberg is being linked with us and I do believe it could really work out. Also yes, my feelings have been torn since Zlatan, our real King, went to the Scums.

But that's a different story, today I want to write about the only Swedish player to play for Liverpool FC - Glenn Hysén. But not so much about his time at Merseyside, more about him as a person and a true profile here in the North.

Here's some background for those who are unaware: Glenn was contacted personally by Alex Ferguson, twice. In 1987 and 1989. Everything was looking to go according to Whiskey Nose's plans but he missed a signature from Glenn. Glenn says that someone at United fucked up the negotiations with Fiorentina (where he was playing at the time) so it never happened. Instead, King Kenny came in and swooped Glenn right under their noses.

Glenn came to Liverpool in 1989, Hysén was "Man of the Match" on his Liverpool debut in the 1989 Charity Shield against Arsenal at Wembley, he won the League in his first season. Sadly there was not more for good ol' Glenn as Graeme Souness replaced Kenny Dalglish in the spring of 1991, and Glenn went back home to Sweden.

Glenn was a part of the incredible IFK Gothenburg team that in an unbelievable way won the UEFA Cup in the 80's, not once.. but twice! Other clubs that Glenn has played for are PSV Eindhoven, Fiorentina and IFK Gothenburg local rivals GAIS Gothenburg.

Glenn is best known in Europe (I think) for his amazing game against England at Wembley in the 1988 WC qualifiers. Sweden were not great offensively against a MUCH better England squad, but we had Glenn!. He got a 6/5 rating (yes you read that right) by the press in Sweden for that game. The match ended 0-0 and yes probably only thanks to Hysén.

But enough of his playing career, now I want to highlight what really makes Glenn the profile he still is today.

He often, and gladly, speaks about Liverpool as a club and a city. Only after three years with the Reds he loves the club more than anything else, he always tweets during match day and not with boring typical "Come on Liverpool, #YNWA" but more like "YABADABADOOO LIVERPOOOOOOOL, WHAT A DAMN GOAL, LIFE IS GREAT! #YNWA"

In 2007, Glenn spoke at the Stockholm Gay Pride Parade which seemed to many strange and angered some, why?

In 2000, Glenn was at a public bathroom at Frankfurt Airport when a man touched his Golden Balls and responded with beating the living shit out of the offender, he states himself that the offender flew backwards into a wall, breaking it. When a reporter asked if he regretted his actions he said, and I quote

Fuck no, well maybe if he died

This angered some and some people said the offender was a homosexual man who was coming onto Glenn, making the gay community triggered in Sweden.

Back to Stockholm Gay Pride Parade 2007 where Glenn spoke, he had a speech about how hard it is for homosexuals to 'come out' in the world of football. Not known to the public then, but a few years later his son Anton came out as maybe the first openly homosexual footballer in Europe

Nowadays though Glenn is most known for his Twitter account and a seriously dank column at Gothenburg's biggest newspaper every week.

Apart from the usual Liverpool tweets he always ends every tweet with the same sentence: Ha d gott. Glenn. Which translates to something like: Have it nice. Glenn.. He is the father of dad jokes and often tweets out random, bad jokes (which Gothenburg is kinda known for). And then we have his best tweet which reads:

Tittar på ett program på NATIONAL GEO[G]RAFIC, om konsentrationsläger. Hitler. Fy fan va fittigt, d e röva. Ha d gott. Glenn.

Which in English is something like:

Watching a show on NATIONAL GEO[G]RAFIC, about concentration camps. Hitler. Damn that's cuntish, that's ass. Have it nice. Glenn.

His column is where you really find the gold, with classics like

Christmas songs makes me vomit, but I like some of them.

My Top 10 favorite beers.

Ten tips to live a good life. (One tip is to lay in the couch with a bucket of milk with ice in it, no I'm not joking)

Glenn also enjoys watching and writing about movies. His favorite movie of all time is Silence of the Lambs and he wrote in his column that

1 "Silence of the Lambs". You have to see it. In this movie they chop of each others arms and legs are the blood is squirting, that's not so much fun.

In late 2016 it came out that someone else was writing his columns for him and it became national news (because Sweden is a fucking obnoxious PC country). Glenn confirmed this on live television the same day and stated

I decide what I want to talk about. I have a guy writing it for me after I speak with him because if I would write it, it would take over 3 weeks. I'm so fucking bad with technology. Then they call me and read out the column for me and I say YES or NO!

These are things that make Glenn Hysén a fucking boss. He will always be the reason I chose to support the Reds and I'm forever grateful. I did some research writing this, but mostly it's thing on top of my head. There are hundreds of stories but I think I've gone on long enough for one day, maybe I'll write more if it's appreciated.

All in all, Emil Forsberg may be the first Swede to play for Liverpool FC since we won the First Division. Forsberg is certainly not as fun as Glenn was and still is, but maybe, just maybe he will become a player to be remembered.

Thank you.

EDIT: Spelling and formatting is hard.

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