redshade » Sun Dec 27, 2020 8:40 pm wrote:Now it piles some pressure to get a result against Newcastle. All it will take is a couple of losses for others to capitalise. If they do and we climb down the ladder, I wonder if we will have a swagger to climb back up.
We really needed a win today to drift slightly away from the lot. Hope is dangerous and giving the other that makes life difficult for us.
Anyhow like I said I think it will be a tight race this season amongst us and few others.
Funny enough I don't think games Vs Mancs, Spurs, Everton will be factor I think it will be Vs the lower sides.
What an odd season though ,
7 points seperate 1st and 9th.
Reminds me of that golden age in English football between 1960 and 1973 when the likes of Liverpool, Everton, Manchester United, Manchester City, Leeds, Arsenal, Spurs, Derby, Burnley and Ipswich all won the title. One season you could finish top the next you could quite easily finish 5th or 6th without doing much wrong.
You had managerial greats like Shanks, Busby, Clough, Revie, World Cup winner Alf Ramsay (who won the title with Ipswich), Bill Nicholson, Joe Mercer, Harry Catterick etc all going at it and players like Kevin Keegan, George Best, Bobby Charlton, Jimmy Greaves, Billy Bremner etc etc etc running around on the pitch.
Those 20 years we dominated English football gave me some of the best days of my life but after living through a similar period of dominance from United It’s not good for the game as a whole. Crowds plummeted during our heyday, okay things like hooliganism and the state of grounds etc didn’t help but in the 80’s you’d regularly see crowds of 38,000 at Anfield and we were up there with United as the best supported team!
As someone said earlier it’s not much good for our heart rates but as a spectacle football is far better when it’s close and competitive. Nothing worse than league’s where the same 2 teams have largely dominated for 100 years.