Black January

Bila nak menang ni?

Not a single win in January and from top spot to third in a matter of weeks. Stoke, the friendly neighbour and now Wigan. All teams that cannot be mentioned in a same breath as Liverpool yet the players failed miserably to register a single win. What went wrong?

Players? Not much of tinkering.
Gaffer? Still the same Spaniard who berated some grumpy old man who's now laughing wholeheartedly.
Tactics? LFC thumped Newcastle 5-1 playing 4-5-1 and Bolton playing 4-4-2.

Truth hurts but the reality is some players suck. Loss of form, injuries and over dependence on some players do play a factor too but let's start on the bad and ugly.

No one is greater than the club. Players come and go and admittedly it wont break my heart if we see the back of Babel, Lucas and Kuyt.

Babel was his usual self whenever fielded. Lost and confused. When was the last time his cross was turned into goal since Kuyt's against Liege? He was brought from Ajax, the football mill as a winger but amazingly his crosses were so poor. His awkward runs too. Looks tough courtesy of his built but he's so 'lembik'.

Lucas apart from his pass to Gerrard in that Newcastle game, blew hot and cold. He's neither here nor there in some games apart from consistently fouling opponents and receiving yellows. He cannot score goals too even from 3 feet away from goal and to see that coming from a Brazilian youth captain is unbelievable.

And Kuyt...what else you expect from a headless chicken? A sure first touch? A goal machine? A great crosser? Answer... none of the above but Rafa likes him a lot. We certainly cannot change his opinion about Kuyt but hey....I'm entitled to my opinion too. He sucks though he is a hard worker who chases lost causes all day long.
At the end of the day, the statistic of how many kms he runs in a game count for nothing when he steadily scuffs the chances that came his way.

Of course, we are disappointed to see this happening to our LFC. Not too long ago we were gloating about the superiority of LFC, now it's the turn of Manure to hog the limelight.

Unless the players pull up their socks, it will a case of 'so near yet so far' again for us this season.

Certainly not the January that Glenn, the Indonesian singer sung flawlessly.