Liverpool: Post Season Thread

[meffin]

[McDermotX]

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Should've won that ****ing league, but by God, that goals conceded is muck.

[ChrisDR1968]

What about Arsenal? They're the only team never to have been relegated arnt they as the season they did the league was suspended because of the war and they were put back in the top flight on the resumption of the leagues if my Bitter mates are correct

This is my top 10 list of most seasons in the top flight (in other words I physically counted each season in each tier of football instead of copying a list from somewhere):

Everton.............111 top tier 4 second tier
Aston Villa.........103 top tier 10 second tier 2 third tier
Liverpool.............99 top tier 11 second tier
Arsenal...............97 top tier 13 second tier
Manchester Utd....89 top tier 22 second tier
Manchester City...85 top tier 25 second tier 1 third tier
Newcastle United..84 top tier 26 second tier
Sunderland..........83 top tier 29 second tier 1 third tier
Chelsea..............79 top tier 19 second tier
Tottenham H.......76 top tier 19 second tier

Hope my totting up is accurate

[EwarWoo]

What about Arsenal? They're the only team never to have been relegated arnt they as the season they did the league was suspended because of the war and they were put back in the top flight on the resumption of the leagues if my Bitter mates are correct

They stole a spot from my old local side, Barnsley. So they're to blame for our ****ness. That's my story and I'm sticking with.

Dirty dealings and bribery to get owners to vote for Arsenal were believed to be involved.

[Vermilion]

[Fosterbloke]

101 goals score with a 50% shooting accuracy. Not bad!

[EwarWoo]

So a team could have 9 foreign players and 2 English strikers and look more homegrown than a team with 9 English players and 2 foreign strikers.

I know it's posted light hearted, but you have to wonder what the creator of it was thinking was the point.

[The_weatherman]

So a team could have 9 foreign players and 2 English strikers and look more homegrown than a team with 9 English players and 2 foreign strikers.

I know it's posted light hearted, but you have to wonder what the creator of it was thinking was the point.

City only had two English players playing in 10 or more matches, so only two English players get medals?

This is the article that followed.

The 2013-14 Premier League season has ended, and Manchester City has won its second league title since 1992. Notably, City did it with a global roster: only one of its starting 11 players Sunday was English – Joe Hart, the goalkeeper. (Rounding out the starting lineup were players from Argentina, Spain, Belgium, Serbia, France, Ivory Coast and Bosnia and Herzegovina.)

Having a majority of international stars is not new to the Premier League, long a symbol of the modern globalized game. But Manchester City still stands out. Aside from Hart, only one other English player started more than 10 matches for City this season: James Milner, a midfielder who has scored just once.

The table above is the result of a little thought experiment: What would the standings look like in a hypothetical league in which a goal does not count unless it is scored by an English player? Sunday’s 2-0 win, for example, would have been a 0-0 draw, as City’s goals came from French and Belgian players. (When we say “English”, we mean players born in England or those who have played for England’s national team or its national youth squads.)

No league would ever work this way, of course, but it does show which clubs rely most on outside talent. Instead of holding the trophy, Manchester City would find itself relegated to the second-division League Championship, contemplating next year's matches against teams like Brentford, Watford and Nottingham Forest. Cardiff City, which had more than 70 percent of its goals from English players, would jump 11 slots to 8th place – ahead of clubs like Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham.

And Liverpool, which came tantalizingly close to the title this year with some of England's brightest stars, would get to raise that trophy after all.

[dom9]

What about Arsenal? They're the only team never to have been relegated arnt they as the season they did the league was suspended because of the war and they were put back in the top flight on the resumption of the leagues if my Bitter mates are correct

They are a much younger club.

[PTP]

i like the lfc stats pic meffin posted.

incredibly the last one showing the form/results line graph thingy

last 19 games
15 wins
3 draws
1 loss

48 points out of a possible 57

i would take that second half a season every single time

[EwarWoo]

No league would ever work this way, of course, but it does show which clubs rely most on outside talent.

But that's what I'm saying, it doesn't. It shows which teams rely on outside talent to fill the striker role.

It's too barrow a measure to have meaning.

Not that it really means that much anyways these days.

[meffin]

i like the lfc stats pic meffin posted.

incredibly the last one showing the form/results line graph thingy

last 19 games
15 wins
3 draws
1 loss

48 points out of a possible 57

i would take that second half a season every single time

Was the first half that ****ed us. Losing to Soton, Arsenal, Hull and City and Chelsea over Christmas as well as dropping points against Swansea, Newcastle, Everton and Villa.

Realistically, we could turn every draw into a win- all against lesser teams- and all losses into draws. Obviously that's not going to happen, but there's no reason we cant get more points next season

[Lecter]

I posted this in the Man City thread earlier

This was taken on Sunday night in Liverpool city centre

[ame]https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152411476551675[/ame]

[G]

I see it all as some kind of karma! 2 seasons ago we all laughed hysterically as City pipped them cunts to the league on the final day, 2 seasons on and they are doing the same.

From now on I'm going to try and avoid the Manchester United thread and randomly abusing their fans on twitter with retweets of their disasters etc to focus solely on us

[chadrtc]

I posted this in the Man City thread earlier

This was taken on Sunday night in Liverpool city centre

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152411476551675

That is an accurate representation of the mood on Sunday night around the place. It was party time.