Seeing the way we played the other night, I was so dejected. After having all the stress relieved from the background, the team just seemed to not care.
Today I was looking over some stuff on the LFC Official site, and saw the Shankly book "It's not your leg son" and just reminded me of what it is that we've lost.
It's like Dunk said last night about people ragging on Hodgson - It's not just him, it's a mix of antipathy though which must be fought by the manager - It's his job to prepare the team mentally and physically as well as tatically.
We might have players who are physically fit, but they all seem to lack the rest, but for our youngsters like NGog who always put in 100%
We need more of the old thinking like this from the great man himself:
"Sickness would not have kept me away from this one. If I'd been dead I'd have had them bring my coffin to the ground, prop it up in he stand and cut a hole in th lid"
"Correction, it's not your leg son. It's Liverpool's leg"
He said This to Tommy Smith who was complaining about a leg injury.
"An athlete should look like an athlete. His eyes should sparkle so much you could light your cigarette from them"
"Football's not a matter of life and death. It's much more important than that."
And probably most importantly -
“A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.”
Let's hope we can remember this, not just tonight, but as we look to the problems inherent in our situation and the possibilities of the future.
YNWA
To be honest I feel we should do well tonight, with all the new blood in the team, but if we are to pull something out of the Prem we need to do some major work in re-vitalizing the team. Sadly I think we have to get a new manager, not only for tactics but to get the team to think right...
