What To Expect From Liverpool In The Premier League This Season
With about only a couple of weeks left until the Barclays Premier League Season kicks off on the 15th, the Bleacher Report takes a humorous look as we speculate what may become of Liverpool this season. Enjoy.
The Reds begin their upcoming Premier League season with renewed hope, a fresh spirit and an insatiable appetite for victory. Fernando Torres only recently confirms his loyalty to the Club and it’s wonderful supporters, soon followed by Steven Gerrard negating the possibility of a transfer to any other club- especially Real Madrid. The squad is all prepped up and ready to give it their all, the fans are behind them a 110 percent, the owner’s are happy too- every one is convinced that this is their season!, the season that Liverpool Football Club will conquer all opposition and rightfully claim the one title which has eluded them all too long- The Barclays Premier League!...
Only, it isn’t.
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All the hype that is built up leading to the start of the season soon meets a very anti-climatic end on the 15th Of August. Liverpool suffer their first loss in the very first game of the new season, a whopping 5-1 loss to Arsenal that leaves both Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard injured for the remainder of the season (37 games, to be exact). Pepe Reina scores the single Reds’ goal through a penalty after Torres was severely tackled and left injured in the box- by what seemed to be a very powerful gust of wind. No other Liverpool player was man enough to take the spot-kick.
It happened something like this:
What? He was clearly tripped!
Needless to say, the Kop prove to be nothing without their *STAR* players and an epic collapse ensues which sees Liverpool crash out, not only from title contention (they’ve gotten pretty used to that now) and European Football as a whole, but from the Premier League altogether! Going into the final game of the season, Liverpool need just a draw against Newcastle to secure their presence in the Premier League. Things with Liverpool though, don’t go to plan more often than not and the Reds soon find themselves a goal down as Newcastle take the lead early on from a Shola Ameobi strike. Liverpool are shell-shocked.
They immediately begin the counter attack, trying ever so hard to get that one goal back that could see them remain in the first division. But with the clock winding down, the players and manager start to lose belief, seats begin to empty as fans leave the stadium- all hope seems lost. Just then, on 91′ minutes, Liverpool’s player of the season-Pepe Reina- goes on an epic run from his box, breaking through the entire Magpies’ squad before leaving a trail of defenders in his wake. The Newcastle keeper rushes out to meet the berserk Reina who mercilessly charges forward on goal, Reina though shows supreme ball control as he majestically Rainbows the ‘keeper, leaving the open goal at his mercy.
As he shoots, the whole of Anfield rises from its seat in unison, fans jump into the air in anticipation, up in the stands the announcer takes off his headset as he watches the ball coolly slide towards goal, the entire stadium is caught in spectacular slow motion. Mouths gape open in ecstasy. But just then, something seems to be falling out of the sky. Something big, round and…Red!.
‘Oh no, the Beach-ball!, It’s back!’
The cries spread around the stadium and the crowd watches in dumbfounded horror as the cheap piece of inflated made-in-china club merchandise drops onto the pitch…right in front of goal!
“Plonk!”, the two balls collide and the beach-ball pushes the football just around the near post, in a manner somewhat resembling a heroic last-ditch save. Liverpool are relegated and Pepe Reina is admitted to a mental asylum the next day. He is diagnosed with a chronic case of Beach-Ball induced trauma, never to play football again. The Beach-Ball has struck (again).
The End.
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