Be honest, Liverpool fans. You’re a teensy bit miffed not to get 10 there aren’t you? And what exactly does the goalless Mo Salah make of it all? It’s a very different kind of crisis for the Reds…
Sometimes it’s really easy to pick a game to write about on a Saturday afternoon. Often the 3pm fixtures offer a conspicuous standout that looks absolutely certain to provide all the narrative and excitement you can eat.
On other Saturdays, though, that can be a much harder task. You look down the list and it’s just all narrative out the wazoo. Today, there was a case for literally every game being worth 800 words of half-thought-through nonsense.
Manchester City against an exciting Crystal Palace side with a history of exposing Pep’s baldness? Could definitely write about that. Chelsea and their increasingly unpredictable manager against struggling Leicester? Even without the Fofana subplot, that one had plenty of potential.
Brighton and Leeds playing for the chance to sit top of the table… for two hours. Definitely, as long as you write quickly enough.
Brentford against Everton? Juicy. We all know what happened in Brentford’s last home game and Everton are Everton. Bound to be plenty to go at there.
Could have picked any one of those. All good options. But it had to be Liverpool against Bournemouth, didn’t it? Liverpool without a win in their first three games? If they don’t beat Bournemouth you can absolutely steam into a beard-stroking “Is this the end for Klopp’s great Liverpool side?” thinkpiece. And there’s always more bang for your buck in writing about Liverpool.
Bound to be a good game to write about. See if Liverpool can get back to winning wa… Oh, it’s already 2-0. For fu… Fine, we’re committed to this now. Let’s stick with it.
By half-time when Liverpool lead 5-0 while Manchester City are 2-0 down to Palace and Chelsea are down to 10 men against Leicester you really do start to think you may have made a bit of an error.
“The only way to salvage this now,” you think to yourself, “is if they get 10.”
And they bloody didn’t. Absolute frauds. They could only score four second-half goals – the same, incidentally, as City managed – and end up with only a Premier League record-equalling 9-0 win and the first not against Southampton for over 27 years.
There were two standout things about this. First was that there will be a small but undeniable part of every Liverpool supporter’s brain that…
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