Lol Sabes - yes, I'm sure the '90's were a period that we'd all like to remember for more success. Unfortunately (or furtunately depending on how you look at it), my earliest memories as a fan stem from the 76/77 season and for the immediate 10 years following that we were "THE" team, winning 8 league titles virtually on the trot. Hence, the whole time I was playing junior/youth football from U8's to U17's it was us that did the laughing at the other team's supporter's plight and not the other way around.
And so, my belief system was built around LFC success and Liverpool as undeniable champions and the best team in Europe was/is not just an expectation, it is the way things are meant to be!
My first LFC memory is a joke.
Literally.
It was an old bantering joke that RS fans made to Bilbao fans and Viceversa, concerning that Bilbao players put the men in the barrier looking towards their own goalie. And then asked by the journalist why they did that they answered that "just for once Liverpool comes, I don't want to miss it". Stupid joke, but might give you an idea of what Liverpool was in 1981. I was 6.
And the thing we disagree is that "that's what is meant to be". No, LFC was great, in times that being great was a matter of being a great football club. And since LFC was a great football club, LFC was great. But we're in times now, that started in the mid eighties in which loads of money of different sources (legal, and illegal) are in football, and you can put with money a team with no past like Villareal or Chelsea, in the place that was occupying Nottingham Forest in the past: Europe appearances.
And those are not easy times for classic football teams like Liverpool, if we think that we win because we're reds, then we're going to have lots of dissapointments in the future.
We have won the fifth one, because we have done things extremely well. For me, reaching the semifinal was good enough already to put Liverpool's name where it should be. And because we're doing a good work, we're in a decent EPL position. Rafa even has learnt that in England the CUp is a more serious thing than in Spain, and has taken it seriously with his line ups this year.
My point is that we're making a big mistake if we think success is coming because it's meant to come. No, success comes when things are well done.
