Football is an emotional sport. Once you suppress reaction to individual results it becomes an accounting exercise. But if you can't see that Liverpool are maintaining momentum while we fail to confound our critics time and time again, you are fooling yourself.Originally Posted by Master Splinter
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Fonte seemed to be playing for Liverpool. Did he set a record for mistakes today? If Suarez was feeling clinical, it could have been 0-9.
Southampton went to pieces after the second goal. Not helped by Ramirez coming on and having a stinker though.
He didn't say anything about momentum - he specifically mentioned the tendency for people to talk about specific results against specific teams which is pretty much meaningless 99.9% of the time - as was graphically spelled out in his first reply to you.
He didn't, but I did originally. There's a tendency on this forum for posters to try to take an intellectual or moral high-ground over so-called reactionaries. Well being reactive may be stupid when it goes too far, when it is measured it is every bit as valid as the so-called 'calm heads'. Like it or not, football is a game of intuition as much as it is of anything else, and this is why it is completely valid to look at today's results and to use these to support, or deny general thoughts about how a team is performing. Your challenge, frankly, is denying that results like today don't demonstrate the views that most people have had about ourselves and Liverpool and our respective trajectories. If we win our next three on the bounce and they falter then a more optimistic view may be justified. But ATM there is nothing unwarranted about looking at how the team on our shoulder before today got the result away at Southampton that we singularly failed to.
Putting the laughter back into manslaughter
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Subs: Tremmel, Amat, Taylor, Canas, Emnes, Vazquez, Lita.
Crystal Palace: Speroni, Ward, Dann, Delaney, Parr, Dikgacoi, Jedinak, Ledley, Bolasie, Ince, Chamakh.
Subs: Hennessey, Gabbidon, Bannan, Thomas, Gayle, Jerome, Murray.
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Subs: Steer, Sylla, Holt, Clark, Albrighton, Bennett, Robinson.
Norwich: Ruddy; Martin, Yobo, Bassong, Olsson; Tettey, Johnson; Snodgrass, Hoolahan, Redmond; Hooper.
Subs: Bunn, Whittaker, Howson, Pilkington, Elmander, Becchio, R Bennett.
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Tottenham: Lloris; Naughton, Dawson, Vertonghen, Fryers; Lennon, Dembele, Paulinho, Townsend; Adebayor, Soldado.
Subs: Friedel, Veljkovic, Bentaleb, Chadli, Sandro, Sigurdsson, Kane.
Cardiff: Marshall, Caulker, Turner, Medel, Campbell, Kim, Gunnarsson, Cala, Fabio, Bellamy, John.
Subs: Lewis, Jones, Mutch, Cowie, Theophile, Daehli, Zaha.
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