The number 19

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By Johann Gerber

I am probably going to get flamed and burnt at the stake for writing this, but I think it is time. Time for what? Time for a team to overtake Liverpool as the most successful English club. We have won 18 League Titles, yet not a single Premier league title.

Manchester United, arch rivals, fierce enemies, and to many the scum of the earth are very much in with a chance to overtake Liverpool this season. Is this a bad thing?

I am writing this piece about 30 minutes before kick off between United and Chelsea. The last couple of days I have been following people the world over and considering their opinion on the upcoming match. The consensus is that no matter what the scum must lose. Or the alternative, a draw.

Okay, great, but what is best for Liverpool Football Club? Our club is in a funny position. We are in 6th place on the log; 6 points behind Chelsea and 8 points behind Spurs. Furthermore, there are two teams only 2 points behind us on the table! This weekend we play United and we could see our team drop from 6th to 8th on the League table…even 9th…so, I ask again, what is best for Liverpool FC?

Records are meant to be broken. It is something for clubs to aspire to. Liverpool FC set the bar – 18 titles. It was an unthinkable achievement. A great achievement. However, the most successful club of the last 20 years has the opportunity to eclipse that. Is that a bad thing? I am glad Man City didn’t achieve it, that would have been fabricated…Arsenal…Arsenal would have been worthy, but so is Man UTD.

All hate aside, they deserve it if they achieve it. What does Liverpool FC deserve? Well certainly better than 6th on the table? We are a Top Four team – end of story. We deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as United, Barcelona, Real Madrid, AC Milan and Bayern, yet we are being omitted at the moment.
This can change. It can change as soon as May – the greatest comeback in modern football history; 18th to 5th, hell even 4th (maybe 6th) in 5 months! How the King returned glory to Merseyside.

So what do I want from tonight’s game? A United win please! It will give us a chance to edge closer to the top of the table. Forget specifics – closer to the top. And the TOP of the table is good for Liverpool FC.

Will it hurt if the record is eclipsed? Yes! But it will feel so good when we move the bar higher when we pass the new record. And start to dominate the football world and strike fear in players and coaches worldwide.

And as we are jubilant in victory I ask you to be humble in defeat and concede that perhaps getting rid of the “We have won 18 league titles”, ‘We are the most successful English club’ tags might be the best thing to happen to Liverpool FC.

Now, let’s go kick the knees off the United team this coming Sunday and start edging to the top of the table! A win for United tonight and a win for us on the weekend will leave us just3 points behind Chelsea and 5th…5 from the TOP. You Will Never Walk Alone

Johann Gerber

18 Comments

  1. I don’t care if they win it this year. As I tell my Man Utd friends, ‘We won it when there were more games to play, more teams capable of winning it and at the same time as being a dominant force in Europe’

  2. I doubt any Liverpool Fan is going to disagree Mate. Maybe a Man Utd hater would.

    We all know what is important. Our name will get us top players, but it would be easier with a UEFA league spot. Top 4 is important. Spurs lost, Chelsea I hope will loose. We lost. So it is still the same.

    Tottenham and Chelsea are mostly away and I hope we keep wining games. Let’s forget the West Ham United Blunder.

  3. Exactly my thoughts, mate. Well said :)

    There are some people who want United to fail more than they want Liverpool to win. This is wrong, folks. We’ll win the League next year. Hell, we’ll do the SEXTUPLE some time. But we have to acknowledge the fact that we will not even come close to winning the League this year. United had an unbeaten streak of 29 games. They may play ugly football, but they play efficiently.

    In five years, who is going to remember this year? The numbers, everything, they’ll ALL be history. By then, United may have 19 titles. We may have 20 or even 21. What will we remember this year as? Certainly, we’ll remember that Kenny Dalglish saved us from relegation. He moved us from 19th to 6th in mere months. And we’re not done yet! I’m insane for saying this, but I’m backing up United today. Chelsea will drop points and we’ll be able to catch up. Impossible is NOTHING.

    Here’s the ultimate question: Do we want United to fail, or do we want Liverpool to succeed? We can only choose one at the moment.

  4. Man Utd are going to win number 19 this season unfortunately. Liverpool can’t keep relying on rubbish like Arsenal,Chelsea and Man City to stop Utd. Instead, Liverpool need a huge clearout in the summer including Gerrard(who is past it),Reina(who doesn’t give a damn despite his 100 grand a week),Kuyt(who is the best player ever to play football sideways) and Skyrtel who can’t head the ball, can’t pass the ball and can’t handle such worldclass players like Carlton Cole.

  5. Sorry as much as there may be some sense and logic in what you say I cannot wish for a Man Utd win. The pain of seeing them get the 19th and all the gloating from their fans would/will be truly unbearable. I can only hope for a draw with both losing 2 points and hope that Arsenal can beat them to the title and we can achieve the most unlikely comeback since Istanbul and claim 4th. Irrespective it is highly likely that they will get No.19 and whether we get 4th,5th,6th or even 7th considering where we were under Hodgson it would be considerable progress and I only hope Kenny and FSG can get us back where we belong sooner rather than later.

  6. Kenny is right a major blood letting is needed in the summer .Its as much about who goes as who comes

  7. as much as i agree with you and this is a well written article i just can’t bring myself to accept united overtaking us, i mean who WOULDN’T want to say we are the best team in the country

  8. guest writer are you from Merseyside ? not one person who supports Liverpool FC from Liverpool or liverpool fans who know what the rivalry is like would ever dream of saying what you have said!! I hope you have been drunk while writing this if not i think your a manc in disguise. dave perry i couldnt agree with you more i dont want the mancs to win the title. arsenal should get it. i want a draw tonight and torres to get his legs broke. we are heading in the right direction under king kenny and we will help arsenal out on sunday. next season we will put up a good challenge this season could still finish on a high winning the europa and finishing as high up in the epl as possible

    ynwa

  9. Well, well, well. So what do you know….Chelsea beat Man Utd soundly and are three point further away from us with a game in hand. That is WHY we cannot afford taken-for-granted games like the one we had with West Ham.
    I now hope the Reds manage to give Man Utd their second consecutive setback to bring our run on track again and make sure we do our best to not have them win the PL.

  10. Regardless of what happens, this is shaping up as one of the tastiest finishes to an EPL season that I’ve seen for a while. You get the sense that just about every team is going to be playing for something come the last day of the season.

  11. Never mind the rest, what will be will be. We need to all pull in the same direction as the king said and worry about LFC. Lets finish as high as possible and win the euro lge. By winning a european trophy again it will show players home and abroad that LFC are back and will help us because those that do come in the summer will be happy to sign for LFC and not just want to play in the champ lge like a certain FT!(4 games no goals…what a waste of money lol!)

  12. In a way it is not important how other teams perform…it only matters how Liverpool play…if Liverpool win all their matches it won’t matter whether Chelsea lose or win against Man Utd

  13. Come on you reds, lets stuff manure on Sunday, any time the scum lose Rudolph the whisky nose cries foul!!!!! Cider calling apple juice dirty. Come on how many refs does he take out to lunch?
    We can take a big step by beating them on Sunday & helping Arsenal win the title.
    The tonic was Vidic being sent off AGAIN, haha.

    REDCANTY, we don’t want that man’s legs broken as some other player will come in and actually play football, score goals & help Chelsea score goals! status quo and drawing blanks is good, fairly soon he will be drawing on blankets, (oh yes plastic ones).

    MARIA XING : WE want Pool to succeed but we also like to see manure fail. I never laughed so much as when they got relegated, it was very very very funny & amusing.

    Rudoph Whisky Nose was King Kenny’s whipping boy both as a player & manager , his NEMESIS is back and he knows only too well even if they get No.19, Kenny will get 19,20,21 and son on for us. They laughed in Manchester & London taking the piss saying the prodigal son is back without a clue, WE WILL SEE WHO WILL HAVE THE LAST LAUGH, this is not just a game of football.
    You all just watch the look on RWN face as he shakes KK’s hand on Sunday.
    Come on you Reds give it your ALL on Sunday.

    YNWA

  14. the words man utd to win the league should NEVER come out of a Liverpool fc supporters’ mouth!

    Glad the scum lost against Chealsea, the lads will smash them on Sunday and they will go on to loose the league this year.

    Where we finish is irrelevant. The summer clearout will occur, the right players will be brought in, the Liverpool way will be restored and glory will be ours once more. YNWA

  15. Well Guys, Man United will come to Anfield without Ferdinand and Vidic, it’s now how will we take advantage of it… hope we can break their defense easier…

    YNWA

  16. I DISAGREE completely. Chelsea won last night. That puts them out of our reach with a game in hand. Spurs are 8 pts ahead of us with a game in hand. We are not that good to win every game remaining; so I must accept that we will most probably finish 6th. Having said that why wouldn’t I want or accept UTD winning no.19? Arsenal are definitely going to push them all the way. If we beat UTD on Sun, then Arsenal have the upper hand. Now, if we were playing UTD. last game of the season, that with the same otion of us climbing into 4th vs. UTD winning no. 19 – that is completely different. I will never accept us losing to accomodate some ulterior motive. Agreed?

  17. Arsenal aren’t worthy & Utd aren’t worthy , its our record & just like your neighbor isn’t entitled to the keys to your house they aren’t fit to clean our shoes .

    That is a spirit of competition & the Premier League is sopposed to be a competition not a bloody opinion pool or popularity contest governed by the damn tabloid media .

    This mutual admiration bullshit has to go from the fans thinking if we ever want to win another league .

    I ask you if you are a Liverpool supporter then how the hell can you call us a top 4 side ?

    We havent & wont finish in the top 4 because we have a losers attitude , if Liverpool aren’t top two fighting for the League in the last week of the season then its a disaster & we should behave accordingly .

    Top 4 is a consolation prize , winning a Champions league is a close second & winning a cup is a consolation prize it isnt success .

    Success is a League title & nothing less , that is our bread and butter , we are nothing without it .

    Our supposes rivalry with Utd is non existent , we have never challenged them so we must cut our cloth accordingly .

    Sunderland & Bolton are our rivals now thanks to the wishy washy fans we have who claim to be supporters but love Arsenal , Chelsea & everyone above us instead of wanting to challenge them !

    Liverpool fans on the whole are a disgrace to their legacy , not so much the home grown fans but the foreign fans who have no passion & don’t support us loyally & faithfully as they must do if we are to ever be successful again .

    True Liverpool supporters want us to win every game & win every competition because we believe we have a great club with great staff & we are great fans & we deserve to win a competition as much if not more than any other club because of all the things we do well .
    We do more things right than anyone else & nobody deserves it more than us . NOBODY !!!!!

    We are the best club on the planet & we need our so called fans from abroad to become supporters otherwise our pathetic slide towards mid table obscurity will continue .

    Thanks for making us into Loserpool , thanks for nothing .

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