26/01/2006, 01:11 AM
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 Au Revoir Cisse by Gerry
Football can be very ironic at times and that was certainly the case on Sunday in our game against Mike Reilly and the mancs. There were times during the Houllier era when it seemed that we were miles behind them and yet we had a good record of victories over them. I would of course celebrate these victories but still knew deep down that they had the better side and we simply didn’t have the quality of personnel or the consistency to compete with them over a season. The ironic thing about our loss on Sunday is that the situation now seems to have totally reversed itself. This time they ended up with the points but we are the better side with the quality personnel and the consistency to out do them over the season.
We lost the game when a non-free kick was delivered into our box in the 90th minute and Rio Cokehead rose highest (and lets face it he’s had plenty of practice at getting high) and headed home. However, what happened in the 90th minute cannot disguise what happened in the previous 89. Despite playing the game at least two gears below our best, we were in total control throughout and won the game in every area except for the score sheet. In fact it almost seemed to be too easy for us and its just a pity that the mancs didn’t get their goal earlier as this would have forced us into top gear and we would surely have torn them apart. Although the result was disappointing, I’m sure Rafa will take plenty of positives from the performance but along with the positives I’m equally sure that he will be aware of one or two negatives.
After careful analysis of the game and using the latest scientific techniques, I’ve come to the considered opinion that Cisse is a useless fucking tosser. I realise my conclusions will not sit well with some people but unlike certain other bollocks talkers and their long-winded articles that you seem to see everywhere on the net, I don’t like to beat around the bush in these matters and try to call things as I see them and you’re free to agree or disagree in the comments section.
I, like many others, have given him the benefit up until now but just when you’re patience was about to run out he’d manage to score a goal and you’d think maybe, just maybe this will be the start of something but it never is. In Sundays game there were a number of examples as to why I think this guy will never make it as a Liverpool player and we should cut our losses and get rid of him at the earliest opportunity.
The obvious one was his unbelievable miss. How a supposed world-class striker can remain sitting on his arse sulking for so long when the ball is still active in the box is incredible. It was only after the Wizard of Oz hit a great strike at the manc goal that he was belatedly getting to his feet and so when the rebound came his way he was unprepared and blasted it over the bar from barely six yards, when he had so much time and space that he could have taken a touch, criminal! The other obvious fuck up was when Gerrard played that wonderful world class pass to him that was just begging to be hit with his left and this idiot tries to control it and bring it on to his right which of course results in him losing possession, what a waste! I have often mentioned that I am a Garcia fan and how he has the ability to do the unorthodox that can often turn such tight games as Sundays. I know Little Luis wasn’t available for this one but can you imagine what he, with his speed of thought and reaction, would have done with both of these chances?
However both of these incidents bad as they were could perhaps be almost forgivable, all forwards occasionally miss simple chances or make occasional stupid decisions and these things can be worked on in training. Perhaps more telling is a couple of smaller incidents that stuck in my mind from the first half. The first was when the Wizard of Oz played a poor pass to him and instead of making an effort to get to the ball he preferred to just stand there giving dagger looks to Harry. The second was when I think it was Ferdinand played a back pass to the keeper and Cisse just stood looking on and it was left to Crouch to make a run from a further position to put pressure on the keeper, which resulted in us winning a throw-in. Both small incidents in themselves but they speak volumes about the players attitude and commitment, and unfortunately these are things that you cannot put right on a training field, a player either has them or he hasn’t and I think its clear Cisse does not.
Cisse will be with us until at least the Summer and I will of course always support him and be willing him to score while he’s wearing the Red shirt but I think its time to move Sinama ahead of him in our order of strikers. Pongo shows great movement when he plays upfront, we know he can finish chances and there’s no questioning the lads commitment. Its time to give him a few chances ahead of Cisse in the second half of the season and let him show us what he can do. I think a Crouch/Pongo partnership upfront would be well worth a try.
I don’t want to say too much about old Mother Reilly as I covered him in the last blog. Suffice to say his appointment to referee the game turned out as I feared and it was yet again one of his stupid decisions that lead to them taking the victory. I’m sure Ferguson amply rewarded him for his man of the match performance for the mancs.
Finally, on to our old friend Mr Neville. I’m not a big fan of a lot of these stupid rules that FIFA/UEFA tend to occasionally introduce to justify their existence. One of these is the one concerning the over-celebration of a goal by a player that may be deemed inciteful to the crowd and the player in question is supposed to be booked. We saw examples of this rule being stupidly applied recently when Robben ended up being sent off for a second bookable offence for celebrating with his own fans! That being the case what are we to make of the 30 yr old manc captain and experienced England international who rather then celebrating a goal with his team mates and supporters, ran the length of the pitch to childishly celebrate the goal in front of the Liverpool fans? If this rule has to exist then surely there can be no finer example of somebody breaking it and they should throw the book at him. Neville calls this a “passionate” response, well personally I think Neville is an ugly sour-faced bastard who deserves a good kick in the nuts. You may think these are harsh words but I’m just being “passionate”.
Have you noticed how muted the manc fans have become since this victory? They just haven’t been their usual arrogant selves, perhaps they’re feeling the cold chill of the wind of change as it blows across the north. A cheap-friendly-referee-assisted victory cannot stop the tide from turning and I think deep down inside they know that their worst fears are about to be realised, the Reds are on the rise again and there’s nothing they or their piece of shit team can do to stop the Rafalution. |
