One Year On

[Gary25]

I know much worse things happen in life, but purely as a Liverpool fan the pain and despair of that moment and that match will live with me for years. We'd been on that great winning run but it was only after we'd beaten Norwich away the previous Sunday that I thought the 24 year wait was over, that we'd finally ended the hoodoo and that Stevie G would get his hands on that Premier League Title. The most pessimistic of fans must have thought it was going to happen as well.

It really was just too good to be true. I know we have to let it go and move on but it's much easier said than done especially with the mess that's been this season. Football is in our blood but sometimes it's just too cruel.

 

[HC]

Firstly, yes, the chelsea and palace matches killed me a little bit. Secondly, All this season has done has reaffirmed just how frickin' awesome suarez is both by his absence in liverpool and performances for barcelona.

I think we're just about at the bottom of the curve, so the only way is once again up!

 

[Dreambeliever]

Certainly another what if moment to add to our long list over the last 20 odd years.

Hopefully we can bounce back with the same manager as the only thing worse than getting that close and failing is to go through another manager.

Evans, Ged, Rafa and Rodgers have all gotten us believing at one stage in the tenure that we might win the league only to fail and never get close again before finally leaving.

We need to stop the rot and have a manager who can go close, fail, rebuild and learn and challenge again. All the best managers have done it and its about time we do it.

 

[mark1975]

It was a strange feeling last year, I was devastated that we had it in our grasp and let it go, but it was eased slightly by the significant progress we had made, we never expected to be there so soon.

I don't think we're at the bottom of the curve as such, I think we've got the basis of a great young squad, but we now need to add some out and out technical quality and a backbone. This season was always going to be the difficult one after last year and losing Suarez.

 

[eecheerow]

I couldn't allow myself to really believe until after the Chelsea match, so I guess it wasn't as bad as if I had totally bought in prior. Had we beaten them we would have done it.

Still shake my head in disbelief when I think about Gerrard's slip... that's about as harsh a way as I can think of for him in particular to lose the title.

 

[Halmeister]

I am one of the most pessimistic fans ever and I didn't let myself believe until after the Norwich match. The first game I was optimistic and hopeful THAT slip happened and crushed my dreams. No wonder then why I'm so negative. Though I prefer the term "realistic". I'm usually right.

 

[gkmacca]

The Palace match was THE nightmare. I knew any team in that situation would be nervous, but I'd never for a moment expected to see real naked fear run through most of those players. I'd never seen a Liverpool team fall apart like that. It was horrible because it didn't just feel to me that the title was well and truly gone; it also felt as though this bunch of players were never going to be strong enough mentally to win anything. And sadly this season, for me, has confirmed those fears. Can has come in, and he looks like he'll become a proper fighter as well as a top player, but we need a couple more who'll really relish the pressure of competing for things rather than buckle under it.

 

[keniget]

Well, this is a fun trip down memory lane.

Thanks chaps.

 

[Farkmaster]

I'm still a little numb from the end of last season. It's helped immensely this season.

 

[beejay]

I'm still a little numb from the end of last season. It's helped immensely this season.

That's true but it's got to me in a different way this year. I expect the worst now and I'm down on the club like it hurt and it's their fault. Childish and dumb but I can't help it.

It's not just disappointment at how last season ended in the way that it did, it's also how we have failed to turn this into a positive and to kick on. In fact that's the bit that really, really fucks me off.

 

[Mersey86]

I mentally withdrew after last season. Never again will football dominate my life like it did for those few weeks. One thing I hate is all those people talking about how the Palace game cost us. The league was already gone, lost that Sunday afternoon. I was convinced that if we had beaten Chelsea, we might have been champions by the time we played Palace, but that loss coupled with the City win at Palace gave them all the impetus.