Wassup people, I'm new to English soccer. I'm about to get Fox Soccer Channel, so I will be able to watch Premiership. I was wondering if Liverpool is a good team to watch. Do they bring excitment, and if so, which players should I look out for?
Well, if our players weren't getting injured en masse... But, Steven Gerrard is the obvious choice (you might have heard of him). Jamie Carragher is a great center-back, if that's what your into. John Arne Riise is having a monster season, and has a wicked left foot. Players like Luis Garcia and Milan Baros, when they're on, are pretty fun to watch. It's just extremely painful to watch them when they're not playing well. In my biased opinion, I think they're fun to watch. Or you could check out the other Liverpool side...
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From an unbiased opinion, Liverpool are a lot of fun to watch at home and pretty boring on the road. Not that unusual. The recent derby against Everton was hugely entertaining, since I think the first 55 minutes of the game were played at warp speed. Ludicrous, even. (Or even at plaid. ) Their "fun factor" has improved since Benitez took over from Houllier and they no longer do as much hoofing the ball up to Heskey while bunkering the other 85 minutes of the game. You could certainly do a lot worse. Just don't start watching Blackburn for entertainment value in the EPL, and you'll be OK. Unless you particularly enjoy mugging disguised as a football match.
Too many to count...all 4 of us... Notice the perpetrator of this thread has buggered off. Probably forgotten where he posted, or found the Manure board....
Actually, it was five not four but who's counting? And the glory hunters are all sudden Chelski fans.
How true...Look at Nicky... I closed my computer and went to bed at 4am, you posted that last one just after, must have been 7ish on the right coast. But I got 3 more hours of sleep.
Re: A question about Liverpool...KOP definition While we're on the subject of informing new ones about Liverpool...could someone tell me about the Kop? I've gathered that it's the section at Anfield right behind one of the goals, correct? Why are they named that? Where did the term come from? Any info would be appreciated. Cheers.
Re: A question about Liverpool...KOP definition I think we had a thread talking about this. All I know (and I'm even fuzzy on this) is that it's named after the Spion Kop, from the Boer War.
Re: A question about Liverpool...KOP definition True. Spion Kop means "lookout" in Afrikaans. It was a hill the British army completely failed to take in that war. The original spion kop, in the football ground sense, was at Arsenal's old ground in woolwich, which was build up and called the spion kop a few years before the much larger one was built at Anfield.
Re: A question about Liverpool...KOP definition not true I'm afraid, The terrace was nicknamed "Spion" by a local liverpool journalist who likened the banking to a hill in South Africa where many local soldiers had lost their lives during the Boer War at the start of the 20th Century. Originally built in 1906, the first Spion Kop's terraces held 30,000 rabid Kopites
Re: A question about Liverpool...KOP definition I think that's what he said. I've been on the Kop with 29,999 'rabid' others!!! Actually the official count was 28,000...but you couldn't tell from where I was.. I've been on the Spion Kop as well, when I was in South Africa I went to a lot of the Battlefields of the Boer and Zulu wars, actually had my book "The Washing of the Spears" Date stamped in Rorkes Drift Post Office. One hundred years to the day of the action there, when the 24th Regiment picked up 11 Victoria Crosses. I knew you all needed to know that...!!!!
You know it! Once Liverpool start being good again, I'll be here talking about how cool this Cop thing totally is.
Re: A question about Liverpool...KOP definition Arsenal's Spion Kop was built and named in 1904. There were many other terraces with the same name. Liverpool's just became the most famous.
Ah! The plastic fantastic. The 'C'op and Liverpool have always been good. They just haven't always won. Whereas Chelsea on the other hand..........! Well there was one time, with a fella called Jimmy Greaves.
I think 'always' is showing a very selective memory. I'm sure there are some who'd make a case for the biggest turning point in Liverpool's history being their second division team being knocked out of the cup by Worcester City. Out goes one manager. In comes Shankly to rescue them from a decade of football outside the top division. Of course it didn't quite happen like that, but it's a good story. Greaves wasn't at Chelsea when they won the league BTW. He was only 15 - yes it was that long ago.
I was there when Liverpool went, as Billy Liddell put it: "Down among the dead men". To the second division. But we always played good football!!!! like I mentioned we didn't always win. Plus by following them then I got to see great teams, like Stoke on Trent. Don't knock it, it was worth it to see Stanley Mathews and Billy on the same pitch.