Woke up at 6am to see whether London had won their bid to host the Olymics in 2012 (which they did), and what did I see on the second line? STEVIE G. IN AMAZING U-TURN. WOW!
Just how many people saw that coming?
At least one...me (but I dared not have believed it).
When I heard SG was leaving I was a little upset, but pretty numb to the fact and probably didn't care anymore; LFC would be fine, "no player is bigger than the club", "bigger and better players have left and been replaced before" (not sure that second one's true - for an player at least).
By the end of the night when I'd got back from work and seen Sky Sports on Fox Soccer Channel, I was fully gutted. That was is Chelski were going to win the title - NO QUESTION - for about the next three years, and LFCs season would be another one of mixed fortuntes. Watching all the Chelski fans, barely manage to hide the smiles on their faces and even that one Sky (Chelski) reporter was having a hard time trying to look like he was neutral.
There were two things that happened yesterday, pulled my heart in two different directions then:
Just how many people saw that coming?
At least one...me (but I dared not have believed it).
When I heard SG was leaving I was a little upset, but pretty numb to the fact and probably didn't care anymore; LFC would be fine, "no player is bigger than the club", "bigger and better players have left and been replaced before" (not sure that second one's true - for an player at least).
By the end of the night when I'd got back from work and seen Sky Sports on Fox Soccer Channel, I was fully gutted. That was is Chelski were going to win the title - NO QUESTION - for about the next three years, and LFCs season would be another one of mixed fortuntes. Watching all the Chelski fans, barely manage to hide the smiles on their faces and even that one Sky (Chelski) reporter was having a hard time trying to look like he was neutral.
There were two things that happened yesterday, pulled my heart in two different directions then:
- Would he change his mind, not if he saw what Chelski's Sky Sports were focusing on, all of the fans that were interviewed were bitter and negative towards a player who, played (in truth) the biggest part in winning us Big Ears #5 (with his goals against AC & Olympiacos). The camera zooming in on one muppet burning a Gerrard shirt (there were probably only two or three watching but the camera never zoomed out so they could make it appear like there were many more disgruntled fans).
- And then there was what Parry said, when he was intereviewed by them and asked if that was it, that Stevie was going. It was the way he answered that just seemed to give me the incling that this might turn around and that SG would stay.
But I didn't put any faith in the feeling, didn't want to get disappointed.
The last time I got that feeling was just after Rivaldo's goal at Anfield, when LFC played Olympiacos in the last game of the Champs League group stages. I just felt that not only could we win this game and qualify, but that we'd go on to win the whole thing! Don't get me wrong I was on the seats edge during the game like anyone else, but I just had this feeling you know.
The same thing happened when I walked into the Santa Monica pub 10 mins after the AC Milan game begun thinking that we'll win (say 4-1). I got in to find out that we were already down by one, that Kewell was playing (?) and that the twat was injured again. Still in the back of my mind I thought: "Nevermind, Kewell will be replaced by Didi soon and I guess we'll just have to score 4 goals without reply!" At half time a three goals down (although thoroughly gutted) I still thought we'd win, although in regulation time, and then I knew we'd win the pen shootout, as nervous as I still was.
So in any case now that SG looks like he's staying I'm going to reveal my gut feeling for this year: the newly crowned Euro Champs (and soon-to-be crowned Super Euro Cup and FIFA World Club Champs) will make history again, by winning it again from the very first qulifying round. Don't expect much from our League Cup performance this year, but there will be a better run in the FA Cup at least (quarters, maybe semis), and we'll be no further off the top than 7pts, probably in third (ahead of Man Scum :D)
More later...
The same thing happened when I walked into the Santa Monica pub 10 mins after the AC Milan game begun thinking that we'll win (say 4-1). I got in to find out that we were already down by one, that Kewell was playing (?) and that the twat was injured again. Still in the back of my mind I thought: "Nevermind, Kewell will be replaced by Didi soon and I guess we'll just have to score 4 goals without reply!" At half time a three goals down (although thoroughly gutted) I still thought we'd win, although in regulation time, and then I knew we'd win the pen shootout, as nervous as I still was.
So in any case now that SG looks like he's staying I'm going to reveal my gut feeling for this year: the newly crowned Euro Champs (and soon-to-be crowned Super Euro Cup and FIFA World Club Champs) will make history again, by winning it again from the very first qulifying round. Don't expect much from our League Cup performance this year, but there will be a better run in the FA Cup at least (quarters, maybe semis), and we'll be no further off the top than 7pts, probably in third (ahead of Man Scum :D)
More later...
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