2024/25 champions!

[Scratch]

Curious...loving the dressing room scenes myself, but was any consideration given to the Muslim lads in the team when spraying what I assume was Champagne around the dressing room in that manner? (for all I know it could have been non-alcoholic, but the group photo with Robbo pouring it over Lucho, with Ibou in close proximity did make me wonder)

[Kenneth]

They're all adults, I'm sure they can work it out between them.

[Sus]

Curious...loving the dressing room scenes myself, but was any consideration given to the Muslim lads in the team when spraying what I assume was Champagne around the dressing room in that manner? (for all I know it could have been non-alcoholic, but the group photo with Robbo pouring it over Lucho, with Ibou in close proximity did make me wonder)

The Australian cricket team often uses non-alcoholic champagne for this reason, and also gives Muslim players the opportunity to get out of a spray before it happens with alcoholic champagne

If the Aussies can make it work, anyone can

[labourRed]

Drinking Champagne to 4am, i'm a shell of myself today. Watching this in the context of yesterday is special.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3GSDlRGODU&t=110s"]"I hope there's a statue in the making" 🥺 | Jurgen Klopp watches emotional Liverpool tributes to him - YouTube[/ame]

[Buzzo]

Curious...loving the dressing room scenes myself, but was any consideration given to the Muslim lads in the team when spraying what I assume was Champagne around the dressing room in that manner? (for all I know it could have been non-alcoholic, but the group photo with Robbo pouring it over Lucho, with Ibou in close proximity did make me wonder)

I believe it is non alcoholic. I remember Hendo talking about this previously that they aim to have an inclusive dressing room.

[Buzzo]

The Australian cricket team often uses non-alcoholic champagne for this reason, and also gives Muslim players the opportunity to get out of a spray before it happens with alcoholic champagne

If the Aussies can make it work, anyone can

[Scratch]

The Australian cricket team often uses non-alcoholic champagne for this reason, and also gives Muslim players the opportunity to get out of a spray before it happens with alcoholic champagne

If the Aussies can make it work, anyone can

I believe it is non alcoholic. I remember Hendo talking about this previously that they aim to have an inclusive dressing room.

Cheers gents, figured that would be the case. Got to keep that dressing room unity going, all the lads seem to have each others backs.

[banditos]

Curious...loving the dressing room scenes myself, but was any consideration given to the Muslim lads in the team when spraying what I assume was Champagne around the dressing room in that manner? (for all I know it could have been non-alcoholic, but the group photo with Robbo pouring it over Lucho, with Ibou in close proximity did make me wonder)

I did note in the postmatch celebrations, Nunez going out of his way to pour some champagne on Mo's head. Mo didn't look too impressed. Seemed like a bit of a dick move.

[Kenneth]

Come on, we're a professional club, not a bunch of amateurs. We used none alcohol champagne last time (as Hendo talked about) and we obviously will have done the same this time. They don't need randos on the outside worrying on their behalf.

[BigChief]

I did note in the postmatch celebrations, Nunez going out of his way to pour some champagne on Mo's head. Mo didn't look too impressed. Seemed like a bit of a dick move.

I think Mo was more worried about the chemical reaction to his Turkey Hair.

[brightred]

Jaysus, we just won no. 20.
Who gives a flying **** about the alcohol content of champagne!!!

Sometimes I despair

[Buzzo]

I think Mo was more worried about the chemical reaction to his Turkey Hair.

[Yozza]

Weak competition? Liverpool are winning Europe’s powerhouse league

English football chews up and spits out plenty of pretenders (just ask United). Arne Slot’s achievement in first season should be commended, not dismissed by jealous rivals

Martin Samuel, Chief Correspondent, The Sunday Times

Iwan Maatsen started his seventh league game for Aston Villa last weekend. Try telling him this is a lousy Premier League.

Wind back a year and Maatsen had just scored to help remove Atletico Madrid from the Champions League. With his Borussia Dortmund team-mates he was preparing for a semi-final against Paris Saint-Germain. He would then play the final against Real Madrid. When the Champions League team of the season was named he was on the left of a back four beside Dani Carvajal, Mats Hummels and Antonio Rüdiger. Phil Foden, Harry Kane and Vinícius Júnior were up front, Jude Bellingham in midfield. Decent company.

“I’ve tried to do my best when I’ve got my chance,” Maatsen said of his underwhelming follow-up season, “but it’s so difficult to get into this team.” And that’s Villa, the seventh-best side in the country as it stands. Yet still it is said that Liverpool are on the brink of winning a poor competition. No wonder the genial Arne Slot tends to lose a little of his good humour when the notion is put to him. Liverpool are not winning an inferior league. Commanding the table since November does not make this a poor year. Plenty of titles have been won by frontrunners. Chelsea under José Mourinho and Antonio Conte, Liverpool under Jürgen Klopp, Manchester City under Pep Guardiola; even Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United went early a few times.

Equally, ask those tasked with reviving United and Tottenham Hotspur how weak this league is. Both clubs, with European Super League pretensions not so long ago, are enduring their poorest campaigns of the Premier League era. Stay 16th and this would be Tottenham’s worst campaign since relegation in 1976-77. They are so sure of an upturn next year they are considering dismissing their head coach, Ange Postecoglou, who stands three games from Champions League qualification through the Europa League. United, 15th at present, also haven’t finished that low since falling out of the top division in 1973-74. Ruben Amorim, the head coach, has already played down their chances of contending short-term, suggesting a league that is still too strong for the biggest club in the country.

Liverpool would surely have been pressed harder had Arsenal not so obviously prioritised the Champions League. The injury to Rodri also threw City off-kilter. Yet the experiences of elite rivals indicate the league’s true strength. Traditional low or middle-ranking clubs on the rise. Players who would walk into some of the strongest club sides in Europe on the fringes here, some leaving mediocre Premier League teams to re-emerge on the Continent as world-beaters.

Raphinha, 17th with Leeds United in 2021-22, is spoken of now as a Ballon d’Or contender, having signed for Barcelona that summer. And next week, when he faces Inter Milan in the Champions League semi-final, the opposition can call on Marko Arnautovic (Stoke City, West Ham United), Henrikh Mkhitaryan, (Manchester United, Arsenal) and Matteo Darmian (Manchester United), players who made no lasting impact in the Premier League.

The collective strength here is such that all three European trophies could be won by English clubs — La Liga is the only domestic competition potentially matching that — and a third of the European semi-finalists are from the Premier League. Incredibly, there could be six Premier League teams in the Champions League next season —seven, were Arsenal to finish outside the top five — and potentially a further three spots in the Europa League, depending on permutations. Weak? Liverpool are winning the powerhouse league in European football.

To decry it devalues Slot’s achievement in collecting the title in his first season in English football. Nobody had Liverpool down for this when the campaign began. Even to contend would have won plaudits. Slot could easily have been the David Moyes or Unai Emery in Liverpool’s narrative, the man who followed The Man and was overwhelmed by the challenge.

So this has been a brilliant campaign, steered by a coach and players who have exceeded all expectations. Anyone who doubts the worth of this triumph should look at those whom English football chews up and spits out: from the humble Maatsen to mighty Manchester United.

[Harv]

Jaysus, we just won no. 20.
Who gives a flying **** about the alcohol content of champagne!!!

Sometimes I despair

think of the children ffs !!

[Sus]

Jaysus, we just won no. 20.
Who gives a flying **** about the alcohol content of champagne!!!

Sometimes I despair

Don't be like that - we're all here for a chat as well, this isn't getting in anyone's way in terms of celebrating