The Season Is Not Over
If you follow our online fanbase, comments on social media have been full of doom and gloom. The online sentiment has ranged from ‘Slot out’ to ‘the season is basically down the drain’. As an American Scouser, I do not have first-hand access to the match-going fan base. If you watch some of the vlogs from these groups, it is equally pessimistic. There is nearly a segment per show calling for the immediate sacking of the manager. However, the season is not over.
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Too Good Of A Start
When Slot won the league in his first year with one month of the season left to spare, the expectations were set. Yet we seem to forget that we have won two league titles in the last thirty years. Even in the final years of the Klopp era, the squad was getting close to its last legs. A rebuild would eventually need to take place. That process started in earnest over the summer and will likely take two to three more windows to finalize. In the meantime, the season is not over.
Liverpool FC is alive in the chase for Champions League positions. They are also fighting for spoils in the FA Cup and this year’s Champions League. Given this, in combination with our last two results, it should give any true fan a reason to be excited. To the fans, who have supported LFC since the seventies and eighties, the FA Cup still means a great deal. It is a magical competition whose reward is a semifinal and final at Wembley in the sun in May, a tantalizing way to end a season that is far from over.
Not A Lost Season
The Champions League, or European Cup as it is still referred to by fans from the same era that felt the importance of the FA Cup, is the pinnacle of world football competitions. In fact, the club’s play in Europe this season has at times felt effortless and sublime. Conversely, the grind of the Premier League has felt brutal. Impressive wins on the road in cauldron-like atmospheres in Milan and Marseille, followed by a thrashing of a Qarabag side that drew with Chelsea, should leave fans cautiously optimistic that something could be made of our European campaign.
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The season is far from over. The league is out of reach, but there is so much left to play for. Although the side may be depleted due to injury, and we have had a season of ups and downs, it is time to get behind the lads as they keep pushing for the prizes that still remain in this ‘lost’ season. We may fall short of a trophy this year, but our fan base needs to come together now in support of the manager and the players.