The players respond to the press in the best possible way
Anfield on Saturday was home to a performance to put a smile back on the face of every Red. Against the background of muckraking by the press, beautiful, fast inventive football blew the previously unbeaten Villa away. The first half was best described by the ever brilliant Stuart Hall, who was reporting on the game for BBC Radio 5live:
“Sibelius, ex-Grimsby, once said they don’t erect statues to critics. Benitez whistling Fidelia has swamped his demons. A first half of pure Sibelius: sounding brass, tinkling cymbal, soaring fortissimo. Liverpool magnificent. Gerrard on a loose reign orchestrating. Alonso El Imperious. Garcia a sparkling jewel. Fluid, electric football that mesmerised Villa.
Kuyt the flying Dutchman lashed the first goal on the half hour. Flamingo Crouch defying gravity tickled the second. The third on 43 minutes a gem. An epic. Gerrard on the rampage, a flick to Kuyt, a one-touch to Crouch, intuitive ball to Garcia stealing in on the left, clinical finish, 3-0. The Colosseum erupted”.
With a cowardly anonymous board member blabbing to the Mirror that Rafa wasn’t quite his cup of tea, and invented nonsense designed to unsettle Gerrard once more being written by tabloid guttersnipes, the lads stuck the proverbial two fingers up to those determined to undermine the club.
And the final word on those “Gerrard’s unsettled, doesn’t get on with Rafa and wants to go to Real” stories? We’ll leave that to the man himself who has provided today’s Echo with an eloquent quote:
“I’ve never read so much bollocks”.
October 30th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
I remember listening to Hall’s report as we left from the game, made me smile and remember all that’s good about the game and Saturday tea time footy reports.