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Football’s ability to destroy the finest spreadsheets

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I watched Liverpool lose their fifth consecutive home game in the EPL last night.  One of the best teams in Europe over the last four years, which famously benefits from fan motivation, sit seventh in the table and out of a European spot for next season.

Even on current form, Liverpool would destroy Celtic, but the parallels in the two clubs decline are clear.  Virgil van Dijk’s injury enforced absence at Anfield had as big an impact on Liverpool as Fraser Forster’s loss to Celtic.  Both sides lost significant numbers through injury and, if anything, Celtic fans have a greater reputation for encouraging their team than Liverpool’s.

Jurgen Klopp, the urbane football intellectual, looks lost.  We see unflattering bouts of temper as he struggles to understand where his Midas Touch went.  Jurgen is among the game’s very best; Neil Lennon should take comfort that what happened to him can happen to anyone.

You and I have often said that a team operating at 90% is unrecognisable from the same players at full tilt.  When one or two things go wrong at the margins, an entire edifice can crumble.  Watching Liverpool also suffer does not sweeten the pill, but it is a lesson that football can destroy even the finest spreadsheets.

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  1. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Annabel Denham of the benign sounding “Institute of Economic Affairs”

     

     

    on BBC News arguing that NHS staff should NOT get a bigger pay rise.

     

     

    She was previously a researcher for Peter Lilley.

     

     

    Those of a certain vintage will remember his “little list”.

     

     

    Leopards, spots.

     

     

    Judged by the company you keep?

  7. Philbhoy on

    MARSPAPA

     

     

    I will play that to her tomorrow, thanks!

     

     

    She’s in bed!

     

     

    Kids eh, nay stamina, cough!

  8. RobertTressell on

    Funny, I haven’t listened to rebel songs for years. Fir some reason they are going down a treat with a Guinness or two tonight!

     

     

    Paul Robeson singing Kevin Barry is the ultimate!

     

     

    A black communist singing an Irish republican ballad. What’s not to like when your moniker is Robert Tressell and you’re a third generation Celtic supporting lefty?

     

     

    Up Celtic. Up the workers.

     

     

    F$%& the sevco

  10. Silver City 1888 on

    I’ve always held that Rangers fans were sore winners. When they lose, they sculk off home. When they win, that’s when you see them at their worst.

  12. fairhill bhoy on

    MARSPAPA-tomorrow you say 🤔

     

    I’m afraid I’m washing my hair buddy 😉

     

    If it was Any other day 🤷🏽‍♂️

  21. RobertTressell on

    PHILBHOY on 6TH MARCH 2021 10:29 PM

     

     

    ROBERTTRESSELL

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    I believe that’s the same song.

     

     

    —————

     

     

    Correct 😁👍

  30. jamesgang on

    Dear Olivia,

     

     

    Yer da’s a zoomer and/but we love him dearly.

     

    He loves you so much, that much is clearly,

     

    Evidenced every time he speaks your name

     

    Happy 21st with your due acclaim

     

     

    HH jg

  32. An Tearmann on

    Philbhoy

     

     

    Olivia is 21.jeez.time goin on.😊 fantastic mate.youz done grand mate.😊…

     

    any excuse for 12 y.o jura.

     

    all the best mate to your lass and your wee family

     

    hh

  33. timhorton on

    PHILBHOY

     

     

    Congrats. to your daughter Olivia on her 21st.”key of the door”

     

     

    Condolences on the loss of your sister.

  35. Saint Stivs on

    sore winners is a truism.

     

     

    they walked the roads, then attacked the poorest (catholic) district

  36. Saint Stivs on

    Gerard

     

     

    went from calling a kid Lourdes,

     

     

    to being a hun Trump.

     

     

    anything, anything to win.

  41. Greenpinata on

    ” Hello, Hello. For the avoidance of doubt. Let me be perfectly unclear. I saw nothing, I remember nothing. I don’t recall anything untoward happing at Ibrox “

  42. David66 on

    Good morning cqn from a sunny, dry and crisp Garngad

     

     

    So a Journo says John Kennedy is in the frame even more so if he has a good run. He says he heard it from a good source.

     

    Could be utter bollox. But this is the fear I have.

     

     

    Our glorious custodians have no plan and are winging it.

     

     

    I have said it before, you or I could do that. Get these people out of their lucrative positions post haste.

     

     

    They are damaging our club big time.

     

     

    I fear if JK is in charge we will have same tactics as before under Neil, utter dreadful. That will be another year wasted with them getting the chance of more european cash.

     

     

    Right now we should have someone who is not in a job in place at Parkhead and planning for next year its utterly disgraceful if our board are even contemplating putting JK in charge.

     

    Again we know now they treated us with contempt back in September, October when we were raising concerns.

     

    They know NOTHING about football.

     

     

    Now onto today’s game.

     

     

    Get the ball forward more quickly/attack faster and 2 centre forwards up front and get a natural winger playing wide and stretch the game.

     

     

    COYBIG

     

     

    D :)

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