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Season Review

The following posts on Poor Scouser Tommy were published in the Season Review category.

I don’t want to be smug about it………

but I was right. And it is the most gut-wrenching, heart-aching, and soul destroying feeling in the world. I take absolutely no-pride in being right about our current situation. Yes those few short months ago, when I had fellow Liverpool fans lining up round the corner to tell me “Roy is the man to steady [...]

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Cause for optimism for Liverpool fans?

What a difference a few weeks make  - at the end of the World Cup we were managerless, facing the prospect of losing three of our ‘world-class’ players, no-one wanted to join us, the Yanks still hadn’t fucked off….and so on. Skip to the start of August – we’ve gained a sensible manager coming off [...]

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Quick Update…

Apologies for the lack of any posts recently – a combination of a lack of time and a lack of transfer activity (the Johnson signing aside – I’ve already made my feelings clear on that, good signing if a tad steep on the financial side of things). The Spanish lads have all gotten through the [...]

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Season Review 2008/2009 – Strikers (Part 2)

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Season Review 2008/2009 – Strikers (Part 1)

And so to the the last part of the season review – the strikers.  Next week I’ll review the team as a whole and also start looking at the players we’ve been linked with over the summer… I’ll start this review by looking at two strikers that started the season with us but ended it [...]

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Season Review 2008/2009 – Midfield (Part 2)

So to part two of the end of season review for the midfield… Xabi Alonso spent most of last summer being linked with a move away from Anfield with Juventus and Arsenal the apparent suitors, following a season that was mediocre by his standards, not helped by the curse of the modern footballer – a [...]

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Season Review 2008/2009 – Midfield (Part 1)

After my review of the defence, next up is the midfield.  Rafa moved to address a key problem in the summer with the signing of Albert Riera from Espanyol.  Riera is a big, physical player rather than a nippy light winger who has a great ability to pick out the right type of cross and [...]

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Season Review 2008/2009 – Defence

So another season is at an end for the Redmen – no silverware in the cabinet again but 2nd in the league for the first time since 1992 (which will be the subject of another post) and to the quarters in the Champions League – great progress in the league and only one step back [...]

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