Five years ago, Gerard Houlliers reign at Anfield was slowly falling apart around him. The man simply wasn’t the same after his heart attack; the passion was gone, the squad had started to ignore him and his tactics and we were regularly losing games against teams that we should have been dispatching with relative ease such as Sunderland and Aston Villa.
And perhaps more crucially, Houllier had focused so much of his team around two players that he couldn’t see past them and if they weren’t in the team, then they simply fell apart. Those two players were Michael Owen & Steven Gerrard, our World Class forward and equally World Class midfielder. It’s now five and a half years since Houllier moved onto pastures new and in many ways the club, seemingly, hasn’t gone anywhere fast. Or so it seems.
Bad Karma
I don’t know how many mirrors Rafa has broken in recent weeks, or indeed whether he broke them while walking in front of a group of stray black cats but you get the impression that luck is not something that is in large supply at the moment down on Merseyside.
In recent weeks, it would seem as if the whole world is against Liverpool and Rafa in particular with such managerial geniuses as Ronnie Whelan and Stan Collymore (presumably taking some time off working for National Car Parks, obviously) have been quick to dismiss Rafa and his chances of winning any trophy at all this season. In fact, the hysteria that has been written in some of the national papers in recent weeks has been nothing short of retarted genius. Particularly from Mr. Collymore. I would provide links to his recent comments but that just give The Mirror the idea that any genuinely thinks he has something interesting to say, when we know full well that he hasn’t.
No one can denying he's dogging the issue