2014/15 Premier League

[Haffa]

Shed a tear for poor old Arsenal.

 

[Jack_Napier]

Pfft arsenal ain't got nothing on the self pity city reds. We finished 2nd last year with the 5th biggest budget. Probably should've been awarded the title just because we were awesome 30-40 years ago.

CL definitely gone for us now as well, 14 goal difference to overcome in last 2 games if United lose both. Didn't get to see the match this morning but did we give the guard of honour like we said we would. Read Hendo said it was the right thing to do as CFC deserved that respect.

 

[Haffa]

You did, it was thoroughly enjoyable.

 

[Jack_Napier]

Kinda agree with Hendo really, CFC are the champs now so a GoH was only fitting regardless of who was home team or not.

Lots of goodwill between the clubs leading up to the game, MoU had plenty of nice things to say about Gerrard as well.

 

[Twizzle]

Correct, Spurs are just shit.

this

 

[ggmu]

Fabregas and Luis need to swap spots on the entrance. Dumb cubes can't even count properly.

 

[Jimbo]

Lots of goodwill between the clubs leading up to the game, MoU had plenty of nice things to say about Gerrard as well.

The standing ovation when he was replaced was a nice moment too

It's a shame that he didn't think it was enough

 

[Tigers1986]

Gerrard didn't think it was enough because he's still crying himself to sleep over the slip last year at Anfield that led to the monumental choke job that LFC executed. Pitiful club, living in the past.

 

[saint.nick]

Gerrard didn't think it was enough because he's still crying himself to sleep over the slip last year at Anfield that led to the monumental choke job that LFC executed. Pitiful club, living in the past.

While you guys are living up Gerrard's arse. Laminated caution signs, crikey...

 

[ggmu]

While you guys are living up Gerrard's arse. Laminated caution signs, crikey...

Funny thing about the signs being held up by Chelsea fans is the same thing was doing the rounds on the net when John Terry slipped and cost Chelsea the champions league.

 

[saint.nick]

Yeah...wouldn't have been as viral though. Social media was nowhere near the level it is today. It's not the fact that they have signs that amuses me, it's the fact they had the effort to laminate them :lol:

 

[Jimbo]

Near enough isn't good enough at Chelsea nick

That's why we win things

 

[saint.nick]

That attitude wouldn't even exist without Abramovich's $$$$

And Gerrard's post-match reaction to the ovation wasn't a shame. Most us LFC fans weren't conned by it either. The crowd were happy to jeer him off until they decided to begrudgingly emulate Mourinho's clapping...

 

[Tigers1986]

He will go to the US and watch countless others win championship medals. He did get a CL crown though, which is more than some of the most decorated can say for themselves.

 

[Haffa]

:lol: at the Arsenal. Wenger is pathetic. Always moaning about the opposition's style of play when his team loses the game.

 

[Haffa]

Don't really blame Gerrard for not blowing smoke up our collective arse, but his comments neatly sum up what the flaw in the man and his game has always been; reacting. He demonstrated pretty clearly that we're under his skin, and when it would have been more dignified and perhaps even a cleaner, more painful hit to the Chelsea consciousness to slyly dismiss the ovation, he instead went in like a 13 year old on Twitter. Which is exactly what he's always done for Liverpool and England ... Period of calm needed? You can be sure he'll clatter someone, blaze over wildly from 30 yards or will smash a routine pass into a stadium several cities away. Always reacting.

I felt that it was an acknowledgement of a once great player who will never return as a player. Quick clap/acknowledgment and then get back to the usual rivalry banter. I wouldn't have done it, but it was a nice touch.

 

[Haffa]

When the highest scoring defender (not a pen amongst them) in the history of the PL, former England captain, the finest defender the premier league has seen, 4 time premier league captain retires I look forward to the same reaction from opposition fans.

 

[Jason Maher]

Don't really blame Gerrard for not blowing smoke up our collective arse, but his comments neatly sum up what the flaw in the man and his game has always been; reacting. He demonstrated pretty clearly that we're under his skin, and when it would have been more dignified and perhaps even a cleaner, more painful hit to the Chelsea consciousness to slyly dismiss the ovation, he instead went in like a 13 year old on Twitter. Which is exactly what he's always done for Liverpool and England ... Period of calm needed? You can be sure he'll clatter someone, blaze over wildly from 30 yards or will smash a routine pass into a stadium several cities away. Always reacting.

I felt that it was an acknowledgement of a once great player who will never return as a player. Quick clap/acknowledgment and then get back to the usual rivalry banter. I wouldn't have done it, but it was a nice touch.

Saw it in his 38 seconds against us too. That's why he cops so much shit from opposition fans, he always bites.

By the by, I wonder would Liverpool ever form a guard of honour at Old Trafford?

 

[saint.nick]

Don't really blame Gerrard for not blowing smoke up our collective arse, but his comments neatly sum up what the flaw in the man and his game has always been; reacting. He demonstrated pretty clearly that we're under his skin, and when it would have been more dignified and perhaps even a cleaner, more painful hit to the Chelsea consciousness to slyly dismiss the ovation, he instead went in like a 13 year old on Twitter. Which is exactly what he's always done for Liverpool and England ... Period of calm needed? You can be sure he'll clatter someone, blaze over wildly from 30 yards or will smash a routine pass into a stadium several cities away. Always reacting.

I felt that it was an acknowledgement of a once great player who will never return as a player. Quick clap/acknowledgment and then get back to the usual rivalry banter. I wouldn't have done it, but it was a nice touch.

The fact you wouldn't have done it neatly sums up a flaw in yourself and the standard Chelsea fan. So how can you talk about dignity? Chelsea fans have followed this mob mentality of despising Gerrard nearly his whole career because of...what? Because he didn't sign on the dotted line? It's pathetic. It's also pathetic that their team just won the EPL yet they're far more concerned with taunting Gerrard than celebrating the title. Not even United fans gave Gerrard that much stick when we went to the OT, and that's saying something, especially considering that they didn't even have something else to be preoccupied with, like celebrating a title.

Gerrard doesn't need to make any apologies for his reaction. It was the least genuine standing ovation I've ever seen, and probably from his POV too. His reaction was perfect. He let us know what he thinks about them without calling any names, so the 13yo twitter analogy doesn't fly either.

You may be right about his reactive tendencies on the field, but I don't see how you can transcend that into an unoffensive post match interview.

 

[Haffa]

I disagree with you Nick, I think that 30 seconds represented a compliment to the man. It is not afforded many players by fans of the opponents. That applause was an olive branch, a recognition, a wink to the unreasonably harsh nature of his constant barracking by Chelsea fans, a nod to his achievements and a goodbye to an adversary. It was an attempt to say, " we have bagged you off, but that is the nature of opposition; take our respect with you."

I don't have an issue with those that did give him an applause at the game, if I was there maybe I would have too.

As for the celebrations, there was plenty of that too.