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Oh boohooo Poor Liverpool

Gurgen

(Steven Gerrard)
Can you imagine the weight on this man's shoulders? The sheer burden on this Atlas, lugging around the hopes and dreams of millions of Liverpool supporters worldwide for all this time? The critical mass of his own dreams and hopes of glory for his own club? It's not measurable. It's not comparable to things you and I have experienced or ever will. His rewards have been great - the luxury and comfort of a great life, the acclaim - but the weight on his shoulders? The screaming catcalls of his inferiors mocking his every mistake at every turn, thousands of horrible cretins giving him two fingers, emptying the reservoirs of their abuse in his face, plastics eponymously laminating signs to commemorate an error that had almost nothing to do with them. He's a human being and all these barbs left their marks, surely.
But he's so much more than a man, isn't he? He is an avatar of our potential greatness manifest. People will argue that he was born great, but this discounts the countless hours he spent breaking himself down and building himself up again, getting himself fit for club and country year after year after year. Never failing to answer the call when it rang out across the commons.
I am a soft c*nt, sitting here with wet eyes trying to find words worthy of a man who has meant so much to me. That goal against West Ham, the violence of that strike, a howitzer like I've never seen before, in a moment when mere mortals would have shit themselves to death. And coming hot on the heels of number 5 a year earlier. It felt like we had turned a corner and would never stop winning things again. It didn't work out that way.
BUT ...
You say the word "Istanbul" in this context enough times, it becomes nearly a cliche. Our enemies and naysayers far and wide remind us that it was 10 years ago and ask what we have done for them lately. We know better, don't we? Miracles never devolve into the mundane - they are, by their nature, eternal, immortal. We had no business winning that title. We could have folded at any point and no one would have blamed us. We were undermanned, overmatched, at just about every stage of that tournament.
But we had Steven Gerrard, and that made all the difference. That always made all the difference. He always made all the difference. His imperfections and mistakes kept him close to us, because he was and is one of us. He's only human.
But he's so much more than that.

Holy fuck 😆

Klaus

"The sheer burden on this Atlas" 😆 Not even two sentences in and I've already laughed wine up my nose. RAWK never disappoints.

Mirth

He's only human.

But he's so much more than that.

😆

y va marquer

😆

@RAWK_Meltdown

YNWA in LA, la

halfvolley

That Stevie G thing. I. don't. even... :gape:

Gurgen

Every single sentence is a gem of its own.

Claudius

"thousands of horrible cretins giving him two fingers, emptying the reservoirs of their abuse in his face...
But he's so much more than a man, isn't he? He is an avatar of our potential greatness manifest."

😆 😆 😆'

Mirth

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11669/9850596/liverpool-boss-brendan-rodgers-i-will-miss-steven-gerrard-as-a-man

[size=medium][font=SkyTextReg, sans-serif]"I asked a lot of my staff to describe Steven in one word and I’d use the word 'Liverpool’.[/font][/size]

[size=small][font=SkyTextReg, sans-serif] What Steven has given to this city, politicians haven’t given. He's a wonderful symbol for the people and he’s very much about looking after his people.[/font][/size]

Jesus wept.

Coombs

😆 I can't even...and this Palace game...😆 😆

Burnwinter

Prediction: Liverpool to get a significant bounce from that massive ego and ball and chain fucking off.

y va marquer

RAWK on Sterling

Christ the lad is messed up...on one hand he appears a level headed socialist, voting labour....yet a greedy twat wanting £180k a week....7 kids by age 15 and now he's looking to mess up nature by extracting fossil fuel in some dodgy government contract.....and he cant finish a tap in!

y va marquer

@ RAWK_Meltdown
(Sterling wants out of LFC) i hope brendan delivered a good old fashioned beat down on him with sakho.

Bryant

sorry if this was posted earlier, but

http://metro.co.uk/2015/05/12/simon-mignolet-wins-liverpool-player-of-the-year-fans-react-with-bemusement-5193705/

😆

Clrnc

Wait till they see Balotelli winning their fans POTY 😆

y va marquer

@Carra23
Steven Gerrard's last game at Stoke for Lfc Sunday, not much been said about it which is a bit disrespectful in my opinion.

@RAWK_Meltdown
(Stoke 5-0 Liverpool HT) Gerrard should slap every Liverpool player and Rodgers and walk out

y va marquer

@RAWK_Meltdown
Can we stop talking about Rodgers personal life please? Maybe talk about his teeth instead?

😆

Mirth

Think Brendan will get the sack this summer? With Klopp, Ancelotti and Rafa all avaialble, the temptation must be overwhelming.

y va marquer

"I've always said that if the owners want me to go, then I go. It's as simple as that.
"But I still feel I've got a lot to offer the club. A lot has happened this year which has made the job difficult but I totally understand that.
"Last season, when things were working well, we had the support of everyone but performances like today do not help that and I fully understand that.
"For everybody connected with Liverpool, we are all embarrassed by that today.
"We have to be much better than that. They [the fans] deserve an apology.
"They were angry at half time - and rightly so - because that was awful, absolutely awful.
"The only way you'll get support from them is by winning games, and we haven't won enough games."They have every right to be angry and frustrated and of course I take full responsibility for that as the manager."

I think the axe awaits.

That was their biggest loss in 52 years apparently.

Biggus

General Mirth wrote:
Think Brendan will get the sack this summer? With Klopp, Ancelotti and Rafa all avaialble, the temptation must be overwhelming.

I know, and we'll be stuck with the old stale turkey.

Laugh it up while we can lads.

Alfonso

I believe Ancelotti is taking a year off and Rafa is off to Madrid.

That leaves Klopp who I believe is the outstanding candidate but the question is would Liverpool be attractive enough for him?

Maybe Klopp will take a short term assignment in Turkey with a view of taking the Bayern job this time next year.

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