There is nothing funnier in football than being in the stand behind the dugout as a manager loses it.
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… and yet…
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yeah - I think most people realise that there’s difference between e.g spending €100m on Anthony, or losing a million games in a row, vs the constant ostracising and defrauding of fans to the detriment of the game as a whole.
Spurs have thousands of day tourists (I’m occasionally one of them!), loads of them are Korean and spend thousands on a matchday. I don’t really have any problem with that, although i’d obvs prefer if tickets were 25 quid each and on sale to locals before everyone else.
those day-trippers are proper fans though, regardless of whether they’ve watched 2 matches or 2,000. dickheads in barca shirts at anfield seems absurd
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What are daytrippers?
GOT A GOOD REASON!
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Yeah, there’s a proper balance to strike obviously. I’ve been a football tourist abroad plenty of times so it would be massively hypocritical to be massively opposed to it at my club (although the bloke that turned up at HT against Brentford the other week with a Liverpool megastore carrier and Anfield tour wristband was taking the piss)
Away support should be sacrosanct though and even more so when the systems and balances that are ostensibly there to reward loyalty are just being gamed or ignored for $$$
Michael Owen?
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Can’t begrudge Barca fans wanting to make the pilgrimage to the hallowed turf where Origi merked Messi & the boys in the Big Ears semi final 2nd leg
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This is nonsense football journalism
Symphonic? Never. Yacht Rock more like
Slot is the Christopher Cross to Klopp’s David Lee Roth
Put that in yr comic strip Squires
Why does Phil McNulty always write about Liverpool? I don’t think I’ve seen him write about anyone else. Is that just how sports journalism works
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He.
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Probably some confirmation bias to do with reading about Liverpool
He writes a lot
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He is from Liverpool, though. (Though nobody seems to know who he supports and every big club terminally online fan seems to think he hates their club)
Oh, didn’t know that
How Liverpool mixed best of Klopp & Slot to beat Man City
Liverpool head coach Arne Slot is an Anfield hero after a stunning start in succession to Jurgen Klopp
Phil McNulty
Chief football writer at Anfield
Liverpool brought the chaos then the control. The perfect mix and match of Jurgen Klopp’s heavy metal football then the calmer symphonies of his successor Arne Slot.
It was Manchester City, the great domestic power of the modern era, who found themselves trapped in this perfect storm, surely tossed and blown out of contention for a fifth successive Premier League title.
The trademark of Slot’s Liverpool has been a more measured, composed strategy when set against the wilder elements of Klopp’s emotion-charged approach. This was an unstoppable combination of the two that Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City simply could not handle.
Liverpool’s 2-0 victory margin did City a kindness, the result leaving them 11 points adrift of their conquerors, who have a nine-point advantage over Arsenal in second place.
December may have only just been ushered in. The Premier League season may only be 13 games old. Even so, it seems impossible to imagine anyone overhauling Liverpool in this mood.
Guardiola and City have suffered in their run of seven games without a win and four straight league defeats, but they have rarely been as buffeted as they were in an opening salvo from Liverpool that had an almost savage beauty.
Liverpool tore into City, sensing blood in their reduced rivals. Goalkeeper Stefan Ortega, in for the dropped Ederson, had already been in action several times and Virgil van Dijk had headed against the post before Cody Gakpo bundled home Mohamed Salah’s perfect pass at the far post.
This was after only 12 minutes.
It is no slight on Slot to flag up the first 25 minutes as reviving memories of Klopp’s era at its best - in fact it is a compliment – while the next 65 minutes showed how the Dutchman has brought more tactical control and composure to the multi-talented squad inherited from his predecessor.
(stole this joke from @anon26542726 )
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Erm… joke?
I’m not seeing a joke here…?
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He’s definitely a Liverpool supporter, but as Liverpool supporters in the press box go I’d suggest he’s one of the more balanced ones.
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Formatting/presentation gag
Yeah, I mean. Lets call it what it is. We’re copy and pasting BBC match reports from their app alongside the images, captions and layouts.
It adds no value whatsoever but I think we should keep doing it anyway
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It’s the translation of BBC match report into Discourse friendly formatting to mimic the formatting of the original article hahaha laughing now just thinking about it
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It’s a formatting/presentation gag
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