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Slaughtered like the lambs they are
Came home a bit late yesterday and when i flicked on my trusty Astro, and lo and behold, we were leading 2-1 against the Arse. I never expected us to be actually leading in the game, and was actually fearing the worse before i turned on the telly. During the half time break, it got even more and more surreal. According to the pundits (dont remember their name, since the only one that i do remember, Shebby Spurs Singh, wasnt on last night) , Liverpool were the team with the more chances in the half. And i was in total utter disbelief. A superb diving header goal by Hyppia and an exquisite through ball from el Kapitan for Owen to finish with such cool and calm confidence that we have not been seeing from him lately.

Come the second half, and reality starts to creep in. The Gunners just sliced open our defense and showed us just how fragile, inept and sloppy our defense is. Probably the main reason why Carragher (supposedly our best defender) was stuck onto the right hand side of the defense was probably to neutralize the attacking threat posed by Pires and Henry whom usually can be seen raiding down that left hand flank. However, although Carragher had a bad game, Biscan had an absolute shocker (or what we can call, another day's work, which is what we expect from him :P) and all of the goals were started from the left hand side of arsenal's midfield. It also didnt help that houllier chose to stick with Diouf on the right hand side of midfield, so you would be able to gauge how much protection the defense got from right midfield then, which is didly squat.

All in all, the game just showed us up for what we have become, a team full of mediocre players that depend on two or three star players to pull them through. A team without any bottle to grab the game "by the scruff of the next" and with out enough determination, will and most of them just don't really care that we are currently languishing in fourth place and desperately needing Champion's League football, and the only way we are getting into the tournament next year would be by going through what i would call the "back door". As some of us would say.. "Kasi chance lah kat diorang". I seriously think the team needs to be re-structured in the summer.

Oh well, back to playing with my Championship Manager then. I have just been appointed Liverpool manager after saving Leeds from relegation and keeping the administrators away, AND getting them into Europe in my second season. Now, its time for me to rebuild my Liverpool team the way that i would like it to be. Some people say that Championship Manager is like the closest thing that you can have to the real thing, but i beg to differ. Imagine, the supporters went out prostesting against me the moment i sold off Doouf, Biscan and Traore, stating that they were "Upset by the sale of influential team players". Influential team players? What on earth?!!!

Later.