Liverpool Season Review – August & September

As you might have noticed, we at BigFourZa have kind of taken this season review thing more seriously, and at the same time have decided to educate people attending management examinations in its unique inimitable ways. Today we look at the extent to which the following games affected Liverpool’s bleddy season and continued to haunt us till the very end.

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Liverpool Season Review part I

Apologies for staying AWOL for a ridiculous amount of time. Even the most vicious, heinous, scouse-blood sucking vampire of a Manc would have taken note of my situation and cut me some slack. But then again this whole review thing smells like the Manc’s idea. Doing a season review is bad enough, and doing it in a series of posts makes me feel like some Lord Masoch at his fiendish best. Here I start with our pre-season woes.

As you can see, the Y-axis indicates my morality levels which are not going to be very pleasing as time goes by. On the X-axis you shall forgive my Star Trek geekness.

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A Red Season Review: Pre-Season

Keeping in line with the graphical representation that we at BigFourZa have decided to adopt to do our season review to avoid the usual raaaambling that typifies any other season review, here’s United’s pre-season in pictures. It wasn’t much, just a few world-record transfers, trippy free transfers and the usual writing off of us by everyone in the world…

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Manchester United – Hated, Adored but never Ignored

Contrary to conventional wisdom, I did not go into depression over the past week watching Chelshit p(l)ay their way to the fourth league title in their non-existent history. In a season where no team really got any sort of run going, Chelsea was probably the most consistent. Of course, they also didn’t lose 6 of their starting back four to injury over months like us or lose the only player capable of putting a ball into a goal like the poor Scouse. Arsenal are of course bound to lose 6 people to injury every season. But all things said and done, fair play to them. The diginified concession of the title by SAF after their demolition of Wigan is prrof of this general sentiment. What we definitely proved this season though is this:

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When Title rival meets Derby rival.

When Mr. Liverpool played his best pass all season for Drogba to round Liverpool’s best  player all season and put Chelsea 1-0 up at Anfield, our own Kop Writer on this blog said that ‘he had never ROTFLed so hard all season’. It was not that the pathetic back-pass was absurdly comical, it could NOT have been funny at all for a Scouser. Just ask any Gooner about Fabianski’s basketball dunk on Bramble’s head. It was not the bad-movie-villain-type muhahahaha either, at denying the blood rivals from the other town the chance to overtake them as England’s ‘Best Ever’. It was probably close to a laugh of resignation – at the match, at the season, at the manager, and at this moment pictured below. But even so, I’m not sure that was the only cause behind my Scouser friend ROTFLing.

United for the title? No thanks, I'll Pass

The thing is, England’s not the only league where this has happened this season. And that sets up a very interesting pattern of events to unfold across Europe in the coming couple of weeks.

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