Watch it. It’s very funny.
It’s like most places in London where poverty rubs shoulders with the rich. Also it’s not far from Surrey.
After what happened to Jota perhaps he just wanted to be back in the UK.
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He could live in Richmond.
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The first 6 seconds, that music is like a movie finally revealing the real serial killer…
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sounds very similar to a lenny henry one from about 30 years ago… forget what it was called…
They are building dazzling new expensive properties with a sop to a few affordable properties in Kingston at the moment, maybe he can move in one of them.
At this stage the decision is not just his. Although he is from Sunderland, his wife and kids are unlikely to be as attached to the place as he may be.
It isn’t.
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Plenty of people never want to go back to where they grew up.
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Hendo isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer, is he? What did he expect?
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Smashing player for us. Underrated for so long, then captained us to the title. Seemed a good fella.
Then in his later playing years it looked like he wanted more prominence than the club was going to give him (I suspect Salah isn’t too far away with that sort of thing coming for him).
As a proud fella, rather than be a bit part player, helping to maintain the right culture, but not necessarily being a main man on the pitch, he decided to leave. Fair enough.
But to the Saudis? Ugh. Especially after being so prominent in the campaign to include and support the LGBT community.
At that point he made an unfortunate mistake. I appreciate that some reds will have been cut deep by the hypocrisy.
Then Hendo made his way back, via Ajax, and now back to the Prem. I have seen a couple of Brentford games and he still looks a decent player. Not good enough for us at this point, but that pass he did was sublime. He has vision and tenacity, along with lots of experience.
If he had it all to do again I’d like to think that Henderson would have stayed at Liverpool and accepted a bit part role. He would have been loved, unequivocally.
As it stands, I hope we can find forgiveness and move on, though I very much accept that it’s a much bigger ask for the LGBT community, because they bear the brunt of some horrible attitudes and prejudice, still, which is appalling in this day and age.
Hendo was a very good player for us - not a great like Stevie, but nevertheless, very good. I hope he finds peace.
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I think his suspension in 2013 missing the Chelsea and Crystal Palace games cost us the title.
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Agreed, for me Gerrard infamous slip is irrelevant in that context.
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The type of player Hendo was (and yes, important) and the type of game it was, I’m not sure the outcome would’ve been different. Closer to no than yes.
Gerrard’s slip is was a blow, no hiding from that, but also for example Suarez’s performance (nowhere to be seen) that day. For such a creative side (though a very wild one andnot on solid foundations, conceding 50 league goals that season), it was like we abandoned everything that was good about us in possession. Our best chance was some sort of a half-volley by Allen outside the box. We kept sending early crosses against a solid deep block (I also thought it was a disgrace from Mourinho to count them out of the title race before the game).
We became too desperate too early, being a highly emotional side (and club, which is sometimes good and can work against us). Second half most of the players went completely into their shells. Passing it back to Gerrard, who went for those desperate long range attempts. It was the angriest I was watching a Liverpool game. Felt like we wouldn’t score if the game lasted 2 days.
Chelsea had Atletico away a few days before, they could train basically one game plan for successive games. We didn’t perform on the day and couldn’t overturn the biggest moment which went against us. There were also other games where it went against us.
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The team was setup completely wrong. Mourinho came with a game plan to frustrate and waste time from the first minute. We should have let them and done the same thing and shut up shop for a point, leaving us just needing to beat Palace not rack up a cricket score. However I think he realised that Brendan didn’t know how to do that.
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Just want to add my opinion about the Stevie slip. It was a miscontrol, first and foremost. The sort of thing he would usually control in his sleep, and as he was looking what to do next, the ball rolled under his foot. Ugh. When he tried to recover he lost his footing and Demba Ba was away.
I also tend to think that had Hendo not been suspended we would have won the league, but obviously we will never know.
Slot has brought a measure of calm to the side. At our best under Brendan, and even more Jurgen, we went at teams and dominated them, but the downside was that we didn’t excel in calming the game down and controlling it enough when it was needed.
Under Slot last season we could do that, and even though our play has lost its way a bit so far this season, I’m confident we will get it back.
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Another specific ex player thread.
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I am not far from Brentford. I shop in Lidl and Morrisons there. 
Maybe I might bump into him when I do the grocery shop. 
Brentford is a nice club with nice fans. There is a nice park called Syon park which is lovely. I have video sent to me when LFC came to play at Brentford and a friend was cycling with some other ladies and she saw the team and coaching staff strolling through Syon park for the usual pre-match morning walk.
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Have to say that Henderson was one of the luckiest midfielders out there.
I mean, dude was supposed to be displaced from the main team by Ox and Keita on the right side of the midfield and Fabinho at the No.6 position. However, Ox and Keita ended up struggling with injuries and thus Hendo retained his position in our starting 11.
I mean, with the way Ox played in the latter half of 2017/2018 season until his injury against Roma, he would have pushed Hendo to the bench permanently had he been healthy.
About the left side of the midfield, Klopp would have always picked Gini and later Thiago as his first choice there.
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