I'm becoming increasingly confused by this. It's been going on all season and bares no relation at all to results, performances, achievements, or any other thing you would care to measure it by. It has reached a point where it just seems like some kind of weird propaganda campaign, where certain members of the press and media think that if they repeat it enough times, it'll trick people into thinking it is true...except that doesn't really work as it wont magically make the results of games change.
It's gone from being baffling gibberish to just sounding plain desperate, yet it will no doubt continue into and well beyond this weekend.
Here are some fun (boring) facts:
Liverpool's form over the last 10 games in all competitions is actually worse than Man Utd's:
Liverpool: W4 L3 D3
United: W4 L2 D4
United are apparently currently in crisis and a "laughing stock"....you have to go back to the first three games of the season for Liverpool's results to compare in any way favourably to United's at all, and their performances have done nothing to suggest it should be any different.
Meanwhile, City's form over the same period:
City: W9 L0 D1
...The draw was away at Liverpool where City were the better team and missed a last minute penalty. Then you have this:
City vs Liverpool this season in all competitions:
City: W14 L1 D2 +40 goal difference
Liverpool: W10 L3 D3 +17 goal difference
You can argue it's difficult to say one team is better than another based on them doing better over only a period of a season, but what's happened here is the media are claiming one team is as good as another, having previously not been, based on them doing WORSE over only a period of a season. Kind of like saying you are now as fast as Usain Bolt, based on the fact he used to be faster than you, but that has changed because you are now currently losing a race against him.
If you go back to the previous season, Liverpool finished 25 points behind City, and won the sum total of feck all, so there is no argument to even bother with there. In fact, using results over this period, the only differing conclusion you can reach is that it's not yet actually fair to say Liverpool are as good as or better than United or Spurs. Where as based on only this season, it is not yet fair to say they are as good as or better than Chelsea, who's results have been marginally better and who have beaten Liverpool.
Is it just me being a United fan or do our media need to massively wind their neck in when it comes to Liverpool? This seems to be a recurring theme. All last season the mantra was about how Liverpool would finish second, yet the more likely scenario was constantly the threat of them struggling to finish 4th. There were documentaries about Salah, as if he was the second coming of Jesus. A few years ago when they did well, we were all constantly told about how they were "everyone's second team" despite not a single person I knew actively routing for them.
We used to have this with Arsenal back in the Wenger vs Ferguson days, but it kind of made sense then since everyone was sick of United. Now it just seems to be based on bugger all other than out of hand bias.
It's gone from being baffling gibberish to just sounding plain desperate, yet it will no doubt continue into and well beyond this weekend.
Here are some fun (boring) facts:
Liverpool's form over the last 10 games in all competitions is actually worse than Man Utd's:
Liverpool: W4 L3 D3
United: W4 L2 D4
United are apparently currently in crisis and a "laughing stock"....you have to go back to the first three games of the season for Liverpool's results to compare in any way favourably to United's at all, and their performances have done nothing to suggest it should be any different.
Meanwhile, City's form over the same period:
City: W9 L0 D1
...The draw was away at Liverpool where City were the better team and missed a last minute penalty. Then you have this:
City vs Liverpool this season in all competitions:
City: W14 L1 D2 +40 goal difference
Liverpool: W10 L3 D3 +17 goal difference
You can argue it's difficult to say one team is better than another based on them doing better over only a period of a season, but what's happened here is the media are claiming one team is as good as another, having previously not been, based on them doing WORSE over only a period of a season. Kind of like saying you are now as fast as Usain Bolt, based on the fact he used to be faster than you, but that has changed because you are now currently losing a race against him.
If you go back to the previous season, Liverpool finished 25 points behind City, and won the sum total of feck all, so there is no argument to even bother with there. In fact, using results over this period, the only differing conclusion you can reach is that it's not yet actually fair to say Liverpool are as good as or better than United or Spurs. Where as based on only this season, it is not yet fair to say they are as good as or better than Chelsea, who's results have been marginally better and who have beaten Liverpool.
Is it just me being a United fan or do our media need to massively wind their neck in when it comes to Liverpool? This seems to be a recurring theme. All last season the mantra was about how Liverpool would finish second, yet the more likely scenario was constantly the threat of them struggling to finish 4th. There were documentaries about Salah, as if he was the second coming of Jesus. A few years ago when they did well, we were all constantly told about how they were "everyone's second team" despite not a single person I knew actively routing for them.
We used to have this with Arsenal back in the Wenger vs Ferguson days, but it kind of made sense then since everyone was sick of United. Now it just seems to be based on bugger all other than out of hand bias.