Redwatch: Crisis is right word for Liverpool's predicament
Oct 22 2009
By Andy Proudfoot, Liverpool Daily Post
CRISIS is a word which is a staple in the football writer’s lexicon, and which you often see used to describe events as varied as a minor injury to a key player, or, as legend would have it, a shortage of wine in the Cobbold Brothers’ Ipswich Town boardroom.
Overused as it is, it seems an appropriate epithet to describe what we’re going through at Anfield at present.
After all the optimism generated by last season, here we are at the end of October one defeat away from ending our interest in the Premier League title, and with our Champions League participation hanging by a thread so thin you couldn’t see it in a Thunderbirds episode.
Our worst run of defeats for more than 20 years containing three performances that will linger long in the memory as some of the weakest of recent years.
