The fat Greek fella at the helm of Forest is detestable, but far short of a nation state ordering executions and the like, as others have pointed out.
It is nice to see them up there and it is a good story. I agree - preferable to either Manchester club, Newcastle or Chelsea.
I do just about remember the European Cups and the time when they were giving us a good run for our money. And Clough, despite his flaws, was a great football man.
I can’t be doing with the animosity of their fans though. It seems small time. They are getting a bit ahead of themselves to be shouting the odds, but it’s probably more a symptom of society than anything else, as vitriol and meanness is on the rise.
I don’t mind football banter, but it’s always better with a bit of humour, or great timing. The Forest fans - not all - just seem mean and small time, which undermines the desire to be magnanimous about their current run.
It’s a narrative that I’ve seen from Arsenal fans recently is that Liverpool have played all the good sides at home and all the bad ones away - with the implication that when we play the good sides away we will lose.
It may be fair to say we’ve had an easier away schedule in the first half of the season but it also fails to mention that we will have an easier home schedule in the second half of the season…
Looking at the table, I can see the second half of this season being absolute carnage. 0% chance anyone does a Cheaty and just steamrolls it. Teams will be taking points off one another all over the shop.
Taking a point away to league’s in-form side, occupying the third place because of weaker goal difference, shouldn’t be anything to scoff at but I’m a bit worried that team’s form in January has been average at best and it concerns me, mainly because of our experiences with Klopp.
I mean, some of Januaries under Klopp were iffy, the one when we last played Plymouth in FA Cup was a disaster, we practically lost the title in January 2019, and stuff like that tends to linger in my mind. Obviously, Man City skewing the perception of what is needed to win PL… Hopefully that won’t be the case this season.
Still, it would be nice to see Arsenal and other rivals dropping points. I was disappointed to see that Tottenham were the side Arsenal were facing after their FA Cup elimination - I swear, if it was a stronger side, a defeat there would have probably sent their season in a tailspin because I don’t expect that they will turn around their cup tie against Newcastle.
