Congratulations to Liverpool FC

[Pete Thomas]

Job well done!

 

[trimmy]

Cheers
It’s been a long time coming, a fabulous season spoilt by covid but we’ll take it.

 

[Jeanette]

So pleased for them, Klopp has done well.

Jx

 

[TimboSax]

Next time I'm up we must have a glass or two to celebrate.

What a team, I started with Emlyn, was hooked ever since

 

[Halfers]

Yes, congratulations.

Can we have some sort of Cricket Season now please

 

[Jeanette]

Next time I'm up we must have a glass or two to celebrate.

What a team, I started with Emlyn, was hooked ever since

Kevin Keegan for me

Jx

 

[Tenor Viol]

... and I'm the odd one out... that Scouser that has no interest in football whatsoever.

 

[Pete Thomas]

... and I'm the odd one out... that Scouser that has no interest in football whatsoever.

You mean you support West Ham?

 

[Targa]

The only thing I know about football is that the longest distance a goal was scored at Anfield was by St John from Hunt's cross.
(That is so old I doubt even @trimmy will remember it.)

 

[TimboSax]

Kevin Keegan for me

Jx

Absolutely

My dad was (is) a blue, his dad even helped build Goodison Park, and he could see the matches out of his bathroom window. So my blood was blue until, at about the age of 5, I realised there was red

 

[Tenor Viol]

You mean you support West Ham?

Nope. I grew up in a football mad city and I don't like the game. You can imagine how much fun school was. I was constantly bullied and picked-on all because I wasn't interested in kicking a substitute pig's bladder around a field. I know I'm in a minority but I utterly loathe and detest the game.

I support no football club at all.

In the days before multi-channel TV I regarded the quadrennial World Cup as an utter nightmare as schedules were obliterated for it. For many years cricket was my game and I was a member of Lancashire CCC for nearly 30 years. But around 2000 I got fed-up with the way the game was going in just pursuing money more and more and I've not been to a match now for about 20 years and I don't watch it on TV or listen to TMS any more.

 

[GCinCT]

I got fed-up with the way the game was going in just pursuing money more and more

Same thing here in the States. Sports is a business. Profit is the number one goal.

 

[trimmy]

What a team, I started with Emlyn, was hooked ever since

Kevin Keegan for me

Jx

Same era but Stevie Heighway for me

St John from Hunt's cross.

 

[EdJ]

Better the Klopp without applause than the clap without a plausible explanation.

 

[EdJ]

Well canned applause for the last month or so

 

[Tenor Viol]

Same thing here in the States. Sports is a business. Profit is the number one goal.

Yes, the game suffers, the supporters are neglected and treated as cash cows, and sportsmanship is replaced with gamesmanship

 

[JayeNM]

Same thing here in the States. Sports is a business. Profit is the number one goal.

Yes, the game suffers, the supporters are neglected and treated as cash cows, and sportsmanship is replaced with gamesmanship

Indeed...sadly, nowadays ....being a pro sports fan ....requires a HEFTY dose of "willing suspension of disbelief".

Not to take anything away from Liverpool people....it has been a long time, so congrats. The team (within Premier League, at least) has been impressive.

 

[Halfers]

Yes, the game suffers, the supporters are neglected and treated as cash cows, and sportsmanship is replaced with gamesmanship

Even more good reason to put energy into grass roots sports. I know you're involved with your local Rugby Team. Lots of local Sports Teams aren't going to see the benefit of the top end cash cow, unfortunately.

As a piece of leather, cork and twine has been dubbed a 'natural vector of disease' (by someone who probably spent half their childhood running away from it ) our Summer Sport at grass roots level is taking a pounding. As will other Sports, no doubt

 

[JayeNM]

Even more good reason to put energy into grass roots sports. I know you're involved with your local Rugby Team. Lots of local Sports Teams aren't going to see the benefit of the top end cash cow, unfortunately.

As a piece of leather, cork and twine has been dubbed a 'natural vector of disease' (by someone who probably spent half their childhood running away from it ) our Summer Sport at grass roots level is taking a pounding. As will other Sports, no doubt

100% agree...I was a youth soccer (oops, football) coach for 15 years...perhaps that is why I can see much more clearly how much the game (and all sports, really) has degraded at the pro and college levels....(not 'performance' of the game, necessarily...but the game as a positive, healthy social dynamic)