Football Daily | Liverpool back on their perch amid wild scenes and smoke-bomb shenanigans
Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Rodri knacked his knee. Everyone else is rubbish. Arsenal are not a serious football club. Manchester United are hopeless. Chelsea are a shambolic mess. Lads, it’s Tottenham. They got lucky with knack. They had help from the PGMOL. While we’ll leave it up to you to decide which of the above statements are true, most if not all have been mooted as the main reasons Liverpool won the Premier League this season by fans whose almost heroic begrudgery in the face of their own teams’ failure has to be commended. Of course, a more considered view is that Liverpool are the champions again because they are quite obviously the best football team in the country and have only lost two football matches throughout a campaign from which few of their own fans, no TV or radio pundits and only one particularly enlightened, erudite and prescient podcast regular predicted they would prevail before a ball was kicked. And because Arsenal are not a serious football club.Somebody said the Welsh have the ‘heart of a poet and the fist of a fighter.’ That’s what I love about this place. I wish the whole world could visit Wrexham. Diolch” – co-owner Ryan Reynolds reflects on back-to-back-to-back promotions for the Hollywood club. Next stop: the Championship. Eek.Will it be the first season where the PFA player award is going to be decided by a selfie?” – Krishna Moorthy.Before the Copa del Rey final at the weekend, Jonathan Wilson wrote a piece looking back 15 years and said: “Real Madrid, once a club obsessed by señorío, doing things the right way, became seduced by the consolations of imagined persecution, a trait they have still not shaken off”. He certainly wasn’t wrong …” – Noble Francis.I went to see The Flaming Lips last night for a truly joyous live show. There were inflatable killer pink robots, confetti cannons, giant weather balloons (confetti filled of course), dancing space aliens, dancing inflatable eyes, singing in a zorb and inflatable rainbows. And it was still nothing like as crazy as the race to avoid Championship relegation. Barely more than a week ago I was convinced the mighty Hatters were doomed. Now watch us bugger up the last game just as I’ve regained some belief …” – Kevin Goddard. Continue reading...
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Rodri knacked his knee. Everyone else is rubbish. Arsenal are not a serious football club. Manchester United are hopeless. Chelsea are a shambolic mess. Lads, it’s Tottenham. They got lucky with knack. They had help from the PGMOL. While we’ll leave it up to you to decide which of the above statements are true, most if not all have been mooted as the main reasons Liverpool won the Premier League this season by fans whose almost heroic begrudgery in the face of their own teams’ failure has to be commended. Of course, a more considered view is that Liverpool are the champions again because they are quite obviously the best football team in the country and have only lost two football matches throughout a campaign from which few of their own fans, no TV or radio pundits and only one particularly enlightened, erudite and prescient podcast regular predicted they would prevail before a ball was kicked. And because Arsenal are not a serious football club.
Somebody said the Welsh have the ‘heart of a poet and the fist of a fighter.’ That’s what I love about this place. I wish the whole world could visit Wrexham. Diolch” – co-owner Ryan Reynolds reflects on back-to-back-to-back promotions for the Hollywood club. Next stop: the Championship. Eek.
Will it be the first season where the PFA player award is going to be decided by a selfie?” – Krishna Moorthy.
Before the Copa del Rey final at the weekend, Jonathan Wilson wrote a piece looking back 15 years and said: “Real Madrid, once a club obsessed by señorío, doing things the right way, became seduced by the consolations of imagined persecution, a trait they have still not shaken off”. He certainly wasn’t wrong …” – Noble Francis.
I went to see The Flaming Lips last night for a truly joyous live show. There were inflatable killer pink robots, confetti cannons, giant weather balloons (confetti filled of course), dancing space aliens, dancing inflatable eyes, singing in a zorb and inflatable rainbows. And it was still nothing like as crazy as the race to avoid Championship relegation. Barely more than a week ago I was convinced the mighty Hatters were doomed. Now watch us bugger up the last game just as I’ve regained some belief …” – Kevin Goddard. Continue reading...
