Title Race

[Vermilion]

Can we auto-correct 'Mourinho's mind-games' to read as 'Mourinho's mouth-farts', please?

[tsb]

Can we auto-correct 'Mourinho's mind-games' to read as 'Mourinho's mouth-farts', please?

Gets my vote.

[Slinky Skills]

Suarez is going to be on flames on Sunday I can just sense it.

He is going to be so fired up for this it's going to be brilliant to watch!

[PTP]

i hope so

i'm hoping he relaxes a bit - he looks like he's tried a bit too hard at times recently and against city he looked too fired up,

we need luis to dig deep and put in three more top performances and he'll win us the league.

[McDermotX]

i hope so

i'm hoping he relaxes a bit - he looks like he's tried a bit too hard at times recently and against city he looked too fired up,

we need luis to dig deep and put in three more top performances and he'll win us the league.

Trying way too hard recently. Picked the wrong option a few times, and his touch has been a bit more erratic overall.

Still a killer.

[Yozza]

Am I being paranoid or is this article trying to make out as though we've been lucky to be where we are????

Liverpool's rivals continue to suffer as everything falls into place for title win... how this week has been perfect for the Reds

It has been another good week for Liverpool Football Club. While Steven Gerrard and Co. keep their heads down and focus on winning the three remaining Premier League games that will bring them a first title since 1990, their rivals continue to suffer.

Jose Mourinho wants to play the kids at Anfield on Sunday after Petr Cech and John Terry suffered serious injuries in Chelsea’s 0-0 Champions League draw at Atletico Madrid on Tuesday night.

Manchester City won on Monday to keep their title hopes alive but the influential David Silva left the field on a stretcher and will miss the next three weeks of action. And as for Manchester United…

While Liverpool have been outstanding this season, and nobody would suggest a Premier League title is won on luck alone, it certainly helps to have a sizeable dollop of good fortune.

Some would call it luck; others argue you make your own luck. Whichever way you look at it, it seems the fates are conspiring for Brendan Rodgers’ side…

• Ahead of Sunday’s crucial match at Anfield, Chelsea have lost two of their most experienced and influential players, John Terry and Petr Cech, to injury, while manager Jose Mourinho has pledged to field a young team to prioritise victory in the second leg of the club’s Champions League semi-final against Atletico Madrid next week.
  This could just be Mourinho bluster, but Liverpool would no doubt rather face a team without Cech and Terry (and a couple of others) in the starting XI.
  
• You can go back as far as May 8 last year to see the first signs of Liverpool’s good fortune. Sir Alex Ferguson announced his retirement as Manchester United manager and Liverpool received a substantial helping hand in getting back on their perch as a dynasty came to an end.
  A Premier League double against the champions in 2013-14 has done Rodgers’ side no harm at all, although they could have done with United taking at least one point off City or Everton.
  Seeing United in such disarray under a former Everton manager, however, has probably made up for that in the red half of Merseyside.
  
• No midweek European matches. Liverpool’s failure to qualify for the Champions League or Europa League last season has been a blessing in disguise, with the club playing substantially fewer games than many of their rivals.
  Wigan’s FA Cup victory and Swansea City’s triumph in the League Cup have paid dividends for Liverpool, who finished seventh in 2013.
  
• When Liverpool players start scoring goals for other teams against the parent club's rivals, you really know your luck’s in.
• Fabio Borini’s penalty for Sunderland consigned Chelsea to a 2-1 defeat last weekend. Naturally, the Italian is on loan from Liverpool.
  
• David Silva's injury marred City’s 3-1 victory over West Bromwich Albion on Monday night, after Yaya Toure limped off the field at Anfield on April 13.
  Vincent Kompany then made an uncharacteristic mistake from which Philippe Coutinho profited quite brilliantly to give Liverpool a 3-2 victory. It could be argued their rivals are literally falling at their feet.
  
• Penalties. Liverpool have had 12 this season in the Premier League – more than any other club this century – and converted 10 of them. It helps when you have also scored more goals than any other club and have Gerrard ready to strike from 12 yards, of course.

[Pablo]

Am I being paranoid or is this article trying to make out as though we've been lucky to be where we are????

Liverpool's rivals continue to suffer as everything falls into place for title win... how this week has been perfect for the Reds

It has been another good week for Liverpool Football Club. While Steven Gerrard and Co. keep their heads down and focus on winning the three remaining Premier League games that will bring them a first title since 1990, their rivals continue to suffer.

Jose Mourinho wants to play the kids at Anfield on Sunday after Petr Cech and John Terry suffered serious injuries in Chelsea’s 0-0 Champions League draw at Atletico Madrid on Tuesday night.

Manchester City won on Monday to keep their title hopes alive but the influential David Silva left the field on a stretcher and will miss the next three weeks of action. And as for Manchester United…

While Liverpool have been outstanding this season, and nobody would suggest a Premier League title is won on luck alone, it certainly helps to have a sizeable dollop of good fortune.

Some would call it luck; others argue you make your own luck. Whichever way you look at it, it seems the fates are conspiring for Brendan Rodgers’ side…

• Ahead of Sunday’s crucial match at Anfield, Chelsea have lost two of their most experienced and influential players, John Terry and Petr Cech, to injury, while manager Jose Mourinho has pledged to field a young team to prioritise victory in the second leg of the club’s Champions League semi-final against Atletico Madrid next week.
  This could just be Mourinho bluster, but Liverpool would no doubt rather face a team without Cech and Terry (and a couple of others) in the starting XI.
  
• You can go back as far as May 8 last year to see the first signs of Liverpool’s good fortune. Sir Alex Ferguson announced his retirement as Manchester United manager and Liverpool received a substantial helping hand in getting back on their perch as a dynasty came to an end.
  A Premier League double against the champions in 2013-14 has done Rodgers’ side no harm at all, although they could have done with United taking at least one point off City or Everton.
  Seeing United in such disarray under a former Everton manager, however, has probably made up for that in the red half of Merseyside.
  
• No midweek European matches. Liverpool’s failure to qualify for the Champions League or Europa League last season has been a blessing in disguise, with the club playing substantially fewer games than many of their rivals.
  Wigan’s FA Cup victory and Swansea City’s triumph in the League Cup have paid dividends for Liverpool, who finished seventh in 2013.
  
• When Liverpool players start scoring goals for other teams against the parent club's rivals, you really know your luck’s in.
• Fabio Borini’s penalty for Sunderland consigned Chelsea to a 2-1 defeat last weekend. Naturally, the Italian is on loan from Liverpool.
  
• David Silva's injury marred City’s 3-1 victory over West Bromwich Albion on Monday night, after Yaya Toure limped off the field at Anfield on April 13.
  Vincent Kompany then made an uncharacteristic mistake from which Philippe Coutinho profited quite brilliantly to give Liverpool a 3-2 victory. It could be argued their rivals are literally falling at their feet.
  
• Penalties. Liverpool have had 12 this season in the Premier League – more than any other club this century – and converted 10 of them. It helps when you have also scored more goals than any other club and have Gerrard ready to strike from 12 yards, of course.

That's cringe-worthy. Definitely trying to make it seem as if it's all down to luck.

[Yozza]

That's cringe-worthy. Definitely trying to make it seem as if it's all down to luck.

****s

[Muddled]

Not paranoid at all, that article boils my piss.

Kompany making a mistake? How about the linesman making at mistake at the Ethiad?
Alex Ferguson retiring is a dollop of fortune? It was inevitable.
Each one of those penalties was a penalty; what about the ones we didn't get?
The tired chat about the loan system. Have loans only come in this year?

Where is the article from?

[Yozza]

Not paranoid at all, that article boils my piss.

Kompany making a mistake? How about the linesman making at mistake at the Ethiad?
Alex Ferguson retiring is a dollop of fortune? It was inevitable.
Each one of those penalties was a penalty; what about the ones we didn't get?
The tired chat about the loan system. Have loans only come in this year?

Where is the article from?

Surprise surprise the other **** rag

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2611054/Liverpool-real-winners-week-Premier-League-title-challenge-falls-place.html

[Muddled]

I thought it might have been some blogger, but that's actually a paid, professional journalist.

[BobTheCharmer]

As long as we win it I don't care what anyone says about us. It doesn't matter. Its completely out of our control and irrelevant.

[ChesterDave]

It's horse**** to suggest its luck. We are where we are because we deserve it from the points we amassed! 3 games left and 3 wins =89 points and same tally as last 2 winners

[PTP]

don't worry about it - it's a **** cliche but it's true - things even themselves out over the season - everyone gets bad luck, everyone gets good luck

the thing with us though - we've just go on with it - we don't hear rodgers moaning about it every week.

we missed suarez for the first 5 games
we have had sturridge in and out.
we've had enrique out all season
at some point we've also had injuries to - johnson, kelly, skrtel, flanagan, cissokho, agger, toure, sakho, gerrard, lucas, allen.
we have had some bad decisions go against
we got 'robbed' of virtually all our transfer targets by clubs with more money or selling clubs being cunts

everyone has **** like this - it's how you cope with it and how you handle yourselves

because we haven't made big issues out of our 'bad luck' it's largely ignored.

[BobTheCharmer]

ALL I care about is us winning it. The end.