I get concerned about this team because l used to like them.Also, because my little boy of eleven years of age has been a fan since the age of nine when they did the unbelievable to A.C. Milan.
Don't you remember their come back?
Actually, that was what attracted my son to the Reds.
And he has never ceased from supporting them till date.
But l am beginning to feel concerned for my dear little boy because of the latest misfortune of the club but at home in the domestic league as well as in Europe.
A good follower of this club would be concerned too.Here is a club with the highest number of titles won at the football league in England as well as in the continent of Europe.
This same club,under the leadership of Manager Rafeal Benitez, had done wonders at the continental level to the detriment of their local league.And everybody is now beginning to wonder about when they would be able to win the local league again after so many years.
For sure, nobody prays that Liverpool should stay as long as Chelsea FC(50 years, if you must be reminded and only through the "Special One")before lifting the league shield again.
The talents are there.The boys, from all indications, looked determined to win the shield for their large followers at Anfield , yet it seems something is truly wrong somewhere.
My little boy actually cried yesterday,Sunday 16th December,2007, when his dearest team was beaten at their backyard-Anfield.The boy felt something was wrong somewhere,but he could not say just what.
While commenting on my observation,l told my son that it seems Benitez has lost his magic this time around because he now plays Nepotism above the game of soccer.
Don't take my words for it.I may be wrong, for all you care.
But everything points to that direction.
Check it out.
How many of Liverpool's team are from Spain?
How many are from other parts of Europe?
How many African, or those with African blood are in that team?
Something is wrong with Liverpool under Benitez this time around.
It is natural that you would like your blood brother much more than you would like an outsider. That exactly is what Benitez is doing to favour the Spanish players more than others in his team.
Evidence:
When last did Sissoko play as regularly as his Spanish counterpart?
Is he not in form?
For what he played on Sunday, the Malian was very much in the game.
Then why hasn't Benitez been using him regularly before the arrival of his brother from Spain?
What happened to Dudeck after the EUFA Champions League extra-ordinary performance?
He got duped and the Spaniard,Reina, took over as the first-choice goalkeeper
What was about to happen to Steven Gerrard when Benitez choose to play him at the right side of the mid-field to give room for Alonso in the middle of the field?
Gerrard cried out and everybody,including the Merseyside newspapers, screamed at he atrocity being committed by the Big man from Spain because they knew that sooner than later (as at that time) their dearest son would be pushed over and this may affect his place in the England team as they were preparing for the world cup then.
Crouch...Oh, Crouch...!
What has become of this gangling star in the hands of Benitez?
Beni kept bringing in strikers most of who are not as dedicated to the game as this English boy who spells doom for any defence that toys with him and his size.
Crouch's position in the pegging order of strikers in Liverpool is nothing to be proud of..Yet the manger would not loan him out to other team so that he could face the challenges of a first team play week-in,week-out and mature with time to a deadly striker everybody knows he could be.
Body should do something now before it is too late.
Benitez seems to have lost his magic wand this time around.
Sikirulai Olukayode Kazeem
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