LFC Premier League Champions 2020

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Trent

"We probably thought as a team we would be able to do it ourselves, but we don’t really care how we did it at the end of the day. We are Premier League champions and we are proud of that.

"Obviously things are not as we imagined probably a few months ago or even a year ago how we imagined to win the Premier League, but we are not going to complain and make a fuss of. It’s something we’ve always dreamed of. As fans I think it’s something that will always be remembered."

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Gini

“It’s difficult to describe but I can say that I’m really happy and really pleased that I can be a part of this team, be a part of this club.

“And I’m really happy that this time we can give this title to the supporters because they have waited so long for this title. The supporters were so loyal during the years since I’m here and even before I came here.

“That makes it more beautiful because when you have such loyal supporters and you can give them one of the best gifts, it makes it more beautiful than it is.”

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Hendo

"It is amazing. I didn't want to talk about it until this moment. I'm so happy for all the boys. I'm just a bit overwhelmed and it's an amazing feeling. I'm so proud of what we have achieved.

"There was a lot of emotion and it was a different experience watching the game, and then to be with everyone and all the staff at the final whistle. It was a moment we will never forget.

“I'm just lost for words at the minute. It hasn't really sunk in, you never really think of this end moment, you are just concentrating on each game. When this moment comes, I cannot really describe it.”

[brightred]

That was great...strangest win but probably the best in my memory and I'm old!!

Loved the interviews with the old lads and Klopp. I guess we all cried with him.
Hendo was amazing.

Love you Norbs!!!!!

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Listening again.

WE are the ****ing champions.

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[McDermotX]

I'm staying up for a row about the dishwasher with my Mrs. She wants it, she'll get it

Good man

[ChesterDave]

I’ve lifted the bans on Craig H and Arn

They might go back when I sober up.

Candle for Marky. No longer barred from that place he was desperate to get back in to but can't celebrate with a pint thanks to lockdown

[RedAndWhite]

Listening again.

WE are the ****ing champions.

Queen - We Are The Champions (Official Video) - YouTube

Same. And posting/forwarding it on to a few manc "friends"

[McDermotX]

[Kenneth]

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[dom9]

A lovely interview with Robbo and Millie on BBC here

Liverpool: Jurgen Klopp says Premier League title win 'more than I thought possible' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53187131

[Chazza]

2 seasons ago city finished 25 points ahead of us.

The job that Jürgen and these players have done is incredible.

Just outstanding.

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I'm quite pissed, but the words that DID swirl into my focus in this article were very pleasant.

A machine at the peak of its power – how Liverpool became champions

This was an annihilation. From late summer into spring Klopp’s team seemed to be operating to a different set of physical laws to everyone else

by Barney Ronay

No asterisks. No caveats. And let’s face it, no contest. For the last few months a theory has been doing the rounds that the ersatz nature of the Premier League endgame, five weeks of press-ganged summerghost-ball, would drain the colour from Liverpool’s first league title in 30 years.

Fat chance. Death, plague and economic collapse may have stalked the land, puncturing sport’s ability to pretend the rest of the world is simply a subplot. But sport has many functions beyond simply flag-waving and Liverpool’s success will be deeply felt at a club where, as with every other club, football has always been a bit more than just football.

Not least for the players, a group of athletes who have achieved a kind of personal ultimacy in each other’s company, reaching out into the very limits of their own powers, and playing these last 18 months through a kind of fury.

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Make no mistake, this was an annihilation. Liverpool didn’t just outrun the rest of the field. From late summer into spring they seemed to be operating to a different set of physical laws, marching the Premier League around in a headlock, ruffling its hair, flicking its ears.

The high point remains the 4-0 defeat of Leicester City on Boxing Day, one of those rare performances where each component part of a sporting machine appears to be operating with some intimate, shared knowledge of the other pieces. Either side of this there has at times been an air of double take about Liverpool’s run, of things happening that stretch credibility, that verge on some kind of sporting magic realism.

Here’s a team that won 26 of 27 league games from August to 28 February; that haven’t lost at home in the league in three years; a group of world champions whose best player is an unfussy centre-back, whose centre-forward can’t score at home, whose most creative force is a junior right-back, who have spent £92m net on transfer fees in the last five years.

This is not the standard version of annihilating success. How to explain it? Certainly, there has been a feeling that Liverpool are in some way cheating, floating above the waves, gaming the system.

Which is in fact the case, albeit in plain sight. This is the culmination of a clear and deliberate process, a vision of an industry with its own historic margins of irrationality and incompetence removed.

Let’s face it, at times watching English football has felt like a version of the sequence in Spinal Tap where the band perform on stage in front of an 18-inch model of Stonehenge. Tap’s manager blames this disaster on design instructions from lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel, which fatally confused inches and feet.

At which point lead vocalist David St Hubbins points out, to general agreement: “But, you’re not as confused as Nigel are you? I mean, it’s not your job to be as confused as Nigel.”

The point being in a dopey, daffy, largely irrational world, sometimes high-level competence can be enough. And English football has been run by Nigels, or dragged into a state of confusion by a sub-cast of Nigels for as long as you care to look back.

Imagine a version where the industry norm is cut away, where a football club is run to the same standards as any other high-functioning global business, where no one is as confused as Nigel. This has been the brilliance of this Liverpool regime. Where are their idiots? And is this actually fair?

In October it will be 10 years since Fenway Sports Group bought Liverpool, John Henry announcing: “We’re here to win,” from the steps of the high court as a deal was forced through. Oh yeah? Liverpool were £351m in debt. A team featuring Paul Konchesky, David N’Gog and Christian Poulsen were in the bottom three in the Premier League. Nobody knew what to do about Anfield.

And yet Henry was attracted to Liverpool precisely because they were in this state. Here was a commodity bottoming out, a global brand that was all inefficiencies, all development potential. A club, an industry, a hard-won sporting heritage was ready to be money-balled.

It took a while. There was still time to sign Andy Carroll and Charlie Adam, to churn through a cast of minor players, to fail to micro-manage the disastrous Luis Suárez race affair.

Things have been steadily fixed. Two competent, sensible managers have been employed across eight years. A data-driven, non-emotive recruitment policy has registered more hits than misses. Players have been coached and improved rather than discarded or indulged.

There has even been a disruptive element to Jürgen Klopp’s tactics. In this Liverpool team full-backs are attackers, midfielders are defenders, wingers are goalscorers, centre-forwards chase and counterpress.

Physicality has also been key, another margin to be worked, a team where every player is supremely fit and strong, and where opponents have often simply dropped off, exhausted after 70 minutes.

The final steps came in a rush from this powerful base. Two years ago Klopp’s Liverpool were still 25 points behind Manchester City. The current season, a title won with seven games still to play, is an achievement that will stand with any team raised in the modern era.

But it also feels like a summit, something that, even now, will need regearing to sustain this level. No asterisks. No blind spots. No snags within the machine. And no standing still from here.

[Shaggy]

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A total hero.

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A lovely interview with Robbo and Millie on BBC here

Liverpool: Jurgen Klopp says Premier League title win 'more than I thought possible' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53187131

Thats class. They are a truly lovely bunch of lads.

I'm so happy that they were together for this, I was assuming that they were all at home individually. It means a lot to (to all of us) to see them instantly celebrating.