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Gary25

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Does it still eat away at you? Because it does me, I know the new season is soon upon us and i really should have gotten over it now, but I can't shake it.

We should have won the fucking thing...I'm not a believer in destiny but I genuinely thought it was our time.

To lose it the way we did was just gutting.
 
I try not to think about it. And I'm trying to distance myself from this season - don't want to let football mean that much to me - and punch me in the stomach like that - again.
 
i've sort of forgotten about it but i fear it will really hit home in a season or two if we're back struggling to even get top 4 .
 
I don't think we will struggle next season, I think we will compete as well as we did last season. But we were so so close.
 
James said:
Yeah, it does still hurt. Also, not sure if I'm in the minority here or not but Gerrard's 'We go again' just makes me utterly cringe now.
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It was the right thing to say at the time. Unfortunately it didn't work
 
I think what has compounded it for most of us is the Suarez exit and the time away from the season. Last season we were all gutted at the end of it, but most were still very much in rallying cry mode. A world cup and pre-season later, everyone has kind of forgotten how great our manager is, the other players that we fielded apart from Suarez not being too bad as a team, and personally if they can get over missing out on the title because it's still on their mind.

A good start to next season, and maybe 1/2 more signings will lift everyone again - in addition to being back in the CL.

It'll all be ok xxxxxxxx
 
We didn't and we move on. Whether we can come close again this season is another question.
 
Yep, absolutely. That Sterling offside call will haunt me forever. Thats the one where I was so mad at the time because I was hoping we would make it epically important. And it gets no play for how defining it truly was.
 
Gary25 said:
Does it still eat away at you? Because it does me, I know the new season is soon upon us and i really should have gotten over it now, but I can't shake it.

We should have won the fucking thing...I'm not a believer in destiny but I genuinely thought it was our time.

To lose it the way we did was just gutting.
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No, it doesn't eat at me because we were in pole for about one week and at that time we still had to play Chelsea.

Let's get real, we overachieved given our relative resources. We had an outstanding season, especially as our star player missed a chunk of the season.

The manager, staff and players deserve great credit and encouragement for the future, not this constant 'woe is me' soundtrack.

We should have won it = wishful thinking. We had a fleeting chance at best. We'll be better prepared this time with a stronger squad. Progress has been made.
 
Ah sure it was a great season. You can point to the sterling offside, but we got some lucky calls too.

Rear view mirrors are for the weak kneed, the future is ours.
 
obviously it was a disappointment at the end, but i thoroughly enjoyed the way we were playing thru the season
 
I do agree, it seemed to be written in the stars, everything was falling into place and people actually wanted us to win it. So it was all the more painful to lose it the way we did, to have Mancs, Blueshite and everyone else laughing at us. It pissed me off more though hearing people lay into Gerrard, after the guy has single-handedly carried us through other seasons.

Shit happens, the best way to respond is to learn from the experience and to not go belly up like we did in previous years. To do that though, Rodgers needs to learn to adapt his thinking, because people exploited our style towards the end of the season and teams will look to learn from that when playing against us.
 
It was only after the City game that I really thought it was possible. Sitting alone in my living room in half-tears as Gerrard did his thing, first with the team and then with Shreeves in the interview. Man, I've never been more proud of him.

Then Joburg international departure lounge watching Twitter explode as Borini won it for Sunderland at Chelsea.

Then off on a Greek holiday with my wife. Went over from South Africa. Will never forget landing in Athens from a stop over in Cairo while we played away at Norwich. First thing I did was get onto the airport wifi to check Livescore.com. We were already 1-0 up when I checked. Then 2-0 up. We'd done it. One step closer. Then log on in the athens hotel after a 30 minute drive and watch twitter in agony as Norwich just won't die. But we survive. At this point I genuinely believe our name's on that fuckin trophy. Remember reading a Gary Neville tweet that he needed to go into hibernation for a few months. It all started to seem real.

That Chelsea game was the worst of my life. We were in Santorini, and watched with my brother in law in an Irish pub in the middle of the tourist area. An utterly weakened Chelsea team, there for the taking. At half time I remember thinking THIS NEXT 45 MINUTES HERE - OUR TITLE OR NOT. THIS DETERMINES IT. What I would have given for a Gerrard 30 yearder to fly in like the old days, and then hammer them down for the winner. When Aspas fluffed his corner I had to apologise to the people around me. After the game we sat and watched the most amazing sunset in one of the most amazing places in the world, and all I kept thinking was we've pissed it up the fuckin wall. Genuinely heart broken.
 
Yep - still plays on my mind. For my generation it is the closest we have been to seeing Liverpool FC stamp its mark as the greatest in the country. Our performances were outstanding, and as I have said before, last season got me absolutely LOVING footy again. Long may it continue!
 
And for those few final weeks in the thick of it I remember talking about it to friends and and family when I saw them (I'm from South Africa), and I remember thinking, they genuinely don't have a clue what it means to me. Not even close. Only my father knew, because we'd been watching football together for 20 years. What it would have meant for us.

It really ruled my life for a couple of months. And then ruined it for a couple of weeks.
 
I think the perception is we blew it because Citeh had games in hand all the time. so every time we won we stayed top, but we all knew that if Citeh won their games we would be second. So it appears we blew it when actually our points haul over last two games was remarkable. hopefully we'll have learned from it as a whole. BR really needs to prove his new signings are good business and keep us up there.
 
Silver Sean said:
I think the perception is we blew it because Citeh had games in hand all the time. so every time we won we stayed top, but we all knew that if Citeh won their games we would be second. So it appears we blew it when actually our points haul over last two games was remarkable. hopefully we'll have learned from it as a whole. BR really needs to prove his new signings are good business and keep us up there.
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True. But at the start of the Chelsea game, we had 3 games left, and needed 7 points. At that point it was firmly in our hands. I know you can look back at lost points earlier in the season, and rightly so, but taking those 3 games in isolation - if we'd beat Chelsea the title would be ours.
 
If we'd beaten Arsenal in '89. If we'd beaten Wimbledon. If we'd beat Milan. I get your point, but just having it in our hands at that point this time last summer would have seemed mental. Gutted we didn't do it, but we didn't. We have to try again. I do believe it was out best chance for another few years though.
 
Surprisingly, I'm not that bothered by it all, I'm more fond looking back and remember just how good we were last season, naivety ultimately lost us the title, but we were the best team in the league last season.
 
I'm not thinking about it as much as I was. I'm more worried that we don't have a replacement for Suarez yet. Without that, we won't be challenging this season.
 
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