Red Watch: Cure for Anfield ‘whine flu’ is to regain form
Aug 26 2009
By Andy Proudfoot, Liverpool Daily Post
TO paraphrase Oscar Wilde, to lose one game may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.
Such a disappointing and unexpected start to the season has deflated the heady optimism with which we ended last season faster than the ESPN handlers could manage as they struggled gormlessly to collapse their helium advertising balloon before kick-off on Monday night. And where there’s disappointment, of course, there’s criticism.
The post-match phone-in on Radio Merseyside had all the usual suspects: Rafa’s team selection; Rafa’s tactics; the opposition tactics; and of course Gillett and Hicks. You’ll remember of course Old Tom giving away that penalty and Uncle George hitting the post.
In fact the only people getting off lightly seemed to be the ones in my mind most culpable: the players.
