Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! What a week! Now this is not exactly SMW or cricket related but there's a reason to rejoice - at least for now. This article makes it to this blog simply because I am and always will be a Liverpool fan. Though I'm also an anti Utd fan :)
It's not everyday we get to celebrate. It all started during the weekend. Usually, matches between Liverpool and Utd have been preceded with the ever so irritating banter from the red half of Manchester. Recent history and track record favors them especially with Liverpool having only collected 1 measly point from the past 4 league matches played at Anfield. Well, I'm far away from home now so while i miss home, one thing i truly appreciated was the "silence" before the match. I wasn't lucky enough to be able to watch it ( i had just arrived in California and my cable TV was not setup yet. Mind you if it was, i would have paid a good sum of money as it is on pay-per-view only) but luckily i had internet connectivity and I followed every single minute online.
My heart sank when the ever pesky Tevez slotted the ball home as early as in the third minute and the online updates revealed that Utd was taking it to Liverpool. I feared the worst but hoped that we could settle down and start dictating the pace. Slowly Liverpool came to life and then we levelled the score through a Wes Brown own goal. Now how many times have you seen such a stroke of fortune favor Liverpool. Too many times have we been on the receiving end instead and the Utd fans claiming that luck favored the brave! What say you now! What's more is that we were getting it done without our two best players - Gerrard and Torres.
In the second half, there was no stopping Liverpool. We were dominating and when Babel scored, Utd were deflated. That sweet sweet long overdue taste of victory over Utd was at last imminent. When the final whistle blew, so did Fergie's head as well - i've never seen a head so red. While "you'll never walk alone" rang through Anfield, I bet the Utd players never felt so lonely and isolated as they did when they walked off the pitch, heads down. They probably wished that the ground would open up and swallow them whole! Where were the red devil fans and their annoying phonecalls. Never came!
Captain Fantastic!
The icing one the cake came later this week. Liverpool winning away at a very tough Marseille team with captain fantastic showing Ronaldo how one should perform when one comes back after a long layoff due to injury. Utd though stuttered and stumbled at home to a draw against a Villareal team that are just two games into the Spanish league. Not surprisingly, one faithful red devil fan remarked - oh the ref did us in - there were two obvious penalty claims! Well, my oblivious friend, didn't you see Villareal going closest and striking the inside post and the ball finding the grateful arms of Van Der Sar? Which team was the lucky one to come away with a point?
You'd think Fergie would rant and rage at his team for 2 poor performances but instead he's busy grilling the PFA for overturning Terry's red card. Come on Fergie, worry about your own team. The way they are playing, Chelsea could parade a defense taken from the Malaysian soccer team and still not concede. The red devils are running scared, their tails between their legs as they whine, whine, whine!
Now we all know the season is still young and there will be lots of twists and turns but this week belongs to Liverpool and I hope come May next year, Utd will remember this week as the week that led to their downfall!
To me, this move to the US has been overwhelming - drowned in work, family still unsettled, new place, new environment but today i will take that shot of single malt, sit down, lie back, rest my legs on the table and sing!
When you walk through a storm,
Hold your head up high,
And don't be afraid of the dark.
At the end of a storm,
There's a golden sky,
And the sweet silver song of a lark.
Walk on through the wind,
Walk on through the rain,
Though your dreams be tossed and blown..
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart,
And you'll never walk alone.......You'll never walk alone.
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart,
And you'll never walk alone.......You'll never walk alone
- Liverpudlians rejoice!
Slainte!
