So, a week on from my mission statement and I think I’ve started to settle back into the groove quite nicely. Hopefully, it’ll be a couple of posts a day everyday rather than every other day, and hopefully there’ll be less of this diary stuff and more opinion pieces. Though to be honest, I really am just trying to find an excuse to post this rather excellent youtube video. Yes, yes, another video but this one is a corker.
20 Years ago, the last truly great Liverpool side of the 80s was dominating the league like no-one else, though not Europe for hopefully obvious reasons. In fact, we were so good that the BBC decided to give up it’s entire Goal Of The Season competition in… Well, I’ll let Steve Ryder explain….
The problem with the International break as that the national press here in the UK, perhaps unsurprisingly, focus their attention on the International scene. This is annoying for someone such as myself who couldn’t give a tupenny toss about the International scene. Too many years of underachieving at International level have just left me bored and frustrated with the England team and as such prefer to focus my time and energy on Liverpool.
This international break, in particular, has been especially annoying. With us just finding form, and goals, again and the Manchester team seemingly self-destructing at Craven Cottage, a break in the flow of the season was really the last thing we needed. And for the purposes of me starting to report all the latest Liverpool stories from around the press, then the lack of updates from the Premier League was the last thing I needed.
But with the transfer window less than 8 weeks away from re-opening, there are a few interesting transfer rumours floating around. And perhaps as no surprise at all, alot of it seems to be coming from the beautiful country of Espana. Three certainties in life; Death, Taxes and Transfer rumours involving Liverpool coming from Spain.
Well, when I saw mine, I mean this humble Interblog’s. I’m not sure it’s possible to blog-opomorphise a site but hey, I’m all for firsts. Actually, my real birthday isn’t for a couple of months and I’m hoping for the greatest present of them all, a Premier League title. But for the time being, I’ll be celebrating this humble blogs 3rd Anniversary. And to celebrate I did the most fitting thing possible.
I didn’t post anything.
It seemed the most appropriate gift I could give. Over the course of the past three years, and including the old Blogger posts that I’ve since deleted, I’ve posted about 60 times. Or about once every 6 weeks. To say this is slack would be an understatement but I do like to think that I’m trying though to improve things around here. Starting from Monday, I will be providing daily round-ups of all the Liverpool stories and comments from the national press, or at the very least the ones that actually update their RSS feeds properly (I’m looking at you The Sun and The Express. Though in the case of the latter, it’s just The Daily Mails newsfeed with added Princess Diana.)
I know this is supposed to be a blog about Liverpool Football Club and doing two posts in a row about the Manchester team (think of it as the same way actors describe Macbeth as “the Scottish play” and you’ll get the idea) but I do think this is so worthy of being brought to wider attention mocked mercilessly.
This time of year is usually when football clubs start to announce their new shirt designs; Replica shirt sales are now a huge part of not just a football clubs but also the sports manufacturers annual incomes, something which I’m sure is obvious to even the most casual fan. So getting a shirt design right is important, which is what makes the next part so amusing.
While several papers are reporting this, the Daily Heil Mail were the first to run the pictures, so there the ones that get the link. And mainly cause I took the following pictures from there as well. Who in turn probably took them from someone else, so I guess it all balances itself out eventually. Anyway…
The recent win at Old Trafford was special, for so many reasons, though if there was one thing missing that would have made it truly special it was that it was lacking any involvement from a one Mr G. Neville esq.
I’ve always hated Gary Neville in much the same way he’s always hated people from Liverpool. I’ve never put my finger on why I hate him quite so much as I do but I guess the simplest way of explaining it is that he is the Mancunian equivalent of Pippo Insaghi; the constant whining, the over the top gesticulating, the constant sense of a percieved injustice, the whining, a face you could never tire of punching, the whining; you get the idea.
In recent weeks I have been mulling over exactly why I haven’t been writing as much as I probably should. It’s not exactly as if I have a readership to satisfy but I do enjoying the act of getting thoughts out of my head, clearing them so I can move onto mulling other things. The mind tends to go rather stale when it has the same thoughts going round it all the time. I’m pretty sure Peter Ustinov said something along those lines far better than I did but then as a quick look at the archives reveals I’m no Peter Ustinov.
Slim Pickings
The problem with the International break as that the national press here in the UK, perhaps unsurprisingly, focus their attention on the International scene. This is annoying for someone such as myself who couldn’t give a tupenny toss about the International scene. Too many years of underachieving at International level have just left me bored and frustrated with the England team and as such prefer to focus my time and energy on Liverpool.
This international break, in particular, has been especially annoying. With us just finding form, and goals, again and the Manchester team seemingly self-destructing at Craven Cottage, a break in the flow of the season was really the last thing we needed. And for the purposes of me starting to report all the latest Liverpool stories from around the press, then the lack of updates from the Premier League was the last thing I needed.
But with the transfer window less than 8 weeks away from re-opening, there are a few interesting transfer rumours floating around. And perhaps as no surprise at all, alot of it seems to be coming from the beautiful country of Espana. Three certainties in life; Death, Taxes and Transfer rumours involving Liverpool coming from Spain.