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The Bad guys always win
12 Comments: Three humiliating losses this season alone to the Dark Side, and an embarrassing record against them during the past 10 years. Why do the dark sides, the baddies always seem to win? I?m just thinking out loud here, so no scientific basis for my arguments.
Those teams who tend to win things always seem to have a nasty element to them ? they are teams we love to hate. Why is that? What is it that they have and we don?t? ? Apart from money, and maybe more trophies as of late?
To me, it seems to be a constant streak of tension, scandals, nasty players, nasty managers... We seem to want to be the nice team, The People?s Club, the underdogs, the good guys.
I have no problem with that ? but I?m starting to think you need a small bit of arrogance to score goals and win things.
If you are not Barcelona, then you need to be a bit cocky and cheeky and brazen to get that bit between your teeth and shoot and try things which you normally might not do ? take the risk, ask questions of the opposition and go for the win. It?s no good trying to be the nice guys ? that will not win you anything.
And when you get plaudits for your form, for your manager ? does that mean you have to slip back into the role of the underdog and be nice once more? On Saturday we looked like a team who were happy with themselves ? as it is ? 11 good friends, good spirit, lovely lads ? but missing Peter Reid, Tommy Gravesen, Big Dunc, Lee Carsley and a crunching tackle from Phil Neville.
So here?s my question: Are we afraid to win? Are we afraid of the limelight? Are we afraid to be big again, winners, and therefore unpopular?
So those of you who say ? no bad boys on our team please?. Think twice about that. It?s not all about money ? it?s about being brazen, chancing your luck and bloody using the wind (or was it a hurricane after such a good run?) in your back to go into such an important game with your heads up and all guns blazing to for once and for all be counted and show what your made of.
The footballing talent is there ? the badness, bite and crunch and cheek are missing. Get the balance right and you have a good chance of success. And don?t be afraid to win and to elbow your way to the top. You can get back to being nice after the match if you want.
Kevin O'Regan, Posted 17/04/2012 at 08:33:29
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Duncan took it too far sometimes but a raging Duncan scaring the shit out of defenders got the crown going as much as a goal.
Whether it's a hardman I miss or just someone with pride, I don't know.
We are far too nice. It pisses me off when you see the likes of cahill, neville, baines etc being kicked all over the place and then having a little love in with that very same opposing player when they offer to pick them up from the floor to which they just put them.
Roy Keane said in his book that when he sensed the crowd was quiet he would pick out the opposition's best player and snap him! Bloody genius.
Who thinks that when the scum equalised on Saturday and our crowd was understandably quiet and tense that new life would have been injected into us if somebody would have snapped Suarez/Gerrard?
My mate said something quite pertinent which was that he may be a dick but he probably used that side of him to get where he is now. And that's probably true.
But I'll pass if you don't mind, I don't want our players being dicks and chasing the ref, falling over, looking to gain advantage... and Jelavic better buck up his ideas as well, falling all over as if he's just been nutted. Tool.
Maybe I grew up with the image of Terry Butcher, white shirt soaked red. But you just get on with football, once it becomes something other than a sport you may as well jack it in.
At half time, the Kid took a look at this gun thing and put a couple of bullets in it, and said to himself "If I stand with my back to the fence and wave this thing around, maybe Evil Leroy will just lie down and die".
The plan always seemed a bit optimistic as Leroy had been in this position before. It might still have worked, but the Kid decided to look down the barrel and squeeze the trigger, twice, and the tumbleweed blew across the coral.
When they beat us in the '86 final that was the moment I knew there was no God.
They always seem to land on their feet.
They always seem to land on their feet!!!
I am in my mid 40s and ever since I was a young boy following Everton, that one line sums up perfectly what I believe is true about Liverpool.
Well that plus the fact that I totally hate the horrible bastards.
Somehow they always find a way, eg, in penalty shoot-outs you know that Liverpool, Germany and Argentina will win!!!!! The two cup wins they had in 2005 and 2006 was the final proof needed.
The Carling cup this year was exactly the same. Kenny Miller misses a sitter in the final minutes. Cardiff miss penalties. Result: Dalglish wins them a trophy.
I'm not a hateful person but I genuinely hate LFC and all that they stand for.
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787 Posted 17/04/2012 at 14:29:39
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We are too nice all round.