16/12/2005, 01:24 PM
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Rafa rewrites history and Essien gets away lightly
by Gerry 
Brilliant to see the Reds marching on to the World Club final today with a record-breaking performance. I had no doubts we would win the game but I was a bit worried about our chances of achieving a new club record of eleven clean sheets when I saw that Josemi and Traore were in the side. However, I needn’t have worried, as has become the norm, we put in a thoroughly professional display and swept aside our inferior opponents. Saprissa were a poor side but even against poor sides you’ve still got to do your stuff and we did that to great effect.
It was a good overall display by everyone involved and our attacking was particularly impressive. Yet another all-action display by our captain was capped off by his brilliantly taken goal and you can see Crouch’s confidence growing with every game, he scored two today but probably could have scored six. There was even more good news for Crouch today when the dubious goal committee quite rightly gave him credit for the first of his goals against Wigan. This brings the hard-working Crouchy’s total for the season to four and I suspect we’ll be seeing many more from the big man throughout the rest of the season. At 3-0 up and cruising, it was understandable that the team would take their foot off the pedal but they relaxed a little too much at times and towards the end of the game Saprissa managed to make some half-chances. Thankfully Reina was on hand to help to ensure that we managed to keep our goal in tact for a record-breaking 11th time.
Isn’t Rafa brilliant? For more then 15 years we have heard how Liverpool sides have had to shoulder the burden of living in the shadow of the great sides of the past. Rafa has embraced this history and is working towards building a team then can create a little history of its own. He brilliantly managed to achieve this when we became European Champions for a 5th time last May and now the team has broken the clubs all time clean sheet record. In the final on Sunday they will have the opportunity to write another little piece of history by winning this competition which is something that was never achieved by our great sides of the past. It certainly won’t be easy, Sao Paulo are a very good side and we will need to be at our best but the lads are playing with great confidence at the moment and I fancy us to get a 2-0 win and officially become what we already know them to be, the best club side in the world.
In other matters I see our friends at UEFA HQ have bottled it again by only imposing a two match ban on chelski thug Essien for his horrific assault on Didi Hamann. I suppose we should be grateful they took any action at all. However, as usual they have failed to act decisively and have tried to please everybody by making a half decision which in many ways is almost as bad as taking no decision at all. Just like when they made the right decision by allowing us to defend our Champions League title but they then spoil this by making the wrong decision of making us go through the whole of the qualifying phase. On this occasion they made the right decision of taking action against Essien but then spoil this by letting him away with a light slap on the wrist in giving him a paltry two game ban.
I hear that even Dave Whelan the Wigan Chairman, whose own playing career was ended by a violent tackle, called for Essien to receive a ten match ban but his call and that of many others has fallen on deaf ears. Apparently UEFA is of the view the Essien’s sickening lunge on Didi was dangerous rather then deliberately violent. Which just confirms the fact that these bunch of clowns at UEFA haven’t got a fucking clue about the game. How can anyone but a complete moron can watch a replay of that assault and conclude that it wasn’t deliberately violent? He didn’t even look at the ball much less make an attempt to play it, how could he when the ball wasn’t even fucking there and even if it was, how would he have won it when his foot was so high that it hit Didi just below the knee? Its not as if we’re talking about an innocent young player for whom such a challenge is out of character. Its certainly not out of character for this bastard who last season for Lyon received two reds and 14 bookings. This inept decision by UEFA and the failure of his ego-maniac manager to even acknowledge the incident has practically given him license to do it again and next time he could end somebody’s career.
In other news I see that the constant speculation over which club the treacherous bastard Roy Keane was going to go to has now ended. Many believed Keane would play for at least another 18 month’s at the top level but he has surprised everybody by electing instead to end his career early and going off to play subbetteo in Scotland. This is a clever move by Keane because if he was good enough to play another 18 month’s in the Premiership then he’ll probably be good enough to play another 18 years in Scotland.
By Lunchtime today we’ll know who we will face in the last 16 of the Champions League. Probably the best draw we can get is Rangers and probably the worse would be Bayern Munich. Although it would be great to get a handy draw, to be honest I don’t mind who we get. There’s no-one in the draw that we should fear and all of them will be hoping to avoid us. There are few guarantee’s in football but we can be sure that whoever we get, Rafa will have the team very well prepared and the lads will be well up for it, so it will take a very good team playing at the top of their game to beat us. So bring em on! |
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