Monday, July 30, 2007

Fresh Faces :: New Scalps

Liverpool FC celebrate winning the 1978 European Cup final at Wembley.


Having followed LFC for 30+ years it's interesting (to me at least) all the stats associated with LFC.

For example LFC holds the record for the most home wins (gives you some indication of the power of Anfield and The Kop) of any English Football Club throughout the history of the Football League/Prem, and tied with the most wins overall with Man Scum (of course we have a vastly superior GD over them 151 extra and a better winning percentage 47.13% compared to the Scum's 46.76% due to playing in 32 less games).


It's not just home, but in Europe over the last 43 years too. With so many successes in Europe (8 titles and 3 Super Euro's) it's not surprising that we've payed against so many teams (99 different ones to be precise in 37 different countries). Well LFC.TV today is theorising that we may face our 100th different opponent in the third round qualifying stages for the Champions League.

Personally I'm a little amazed that we haven't played any from the following group before now, but that highlights their failure to step up in the big time. Toulouse (France), Lazio (Italy), Fenerbache (Turkey), and Werder Bremen (Germany) could become the 100 club scalp for LFC.

If any of those dodge the bullet then there's also Stuttgart and Schalke 04 (Germany), Sporting Lisbon (Portugal) in the group stages and even Man Scum (as I said, it highlights their failure to step up in the big time) in the latter stages - of course LFC won't be competing in the UEFA Cup after Christmas, so that scalp will have to wait for another season!