Reel in shock as you spot which national newspaper leads their sports coverage with the clash between two teams who started the night in 15th and 18th
Almighty choke, almighty nonsense
Cast your minds back a full seven days to The Suns coverage of Liverpools draw with Aston Villa which left them only eight points clear at the top of the Premier League table.
SURELY they are not going to blow it. Or had Liverpool actually mess this up? wrote Sun Football Editor Charlie Wyett, so excited about what he had only witnessed that he wrote utter nonsense.
After this draw at Villa Park, and it was actually a real cracker, there will be a few worried Liverpool fans out there, fearing their group are about to deliver one almighty name choke.
All the signs were it: They drew at Everton in the last Merseyside birmingham at Goodison Park and finally drew at one of the best house edges in the Premier League. And lost atwell, nothing since September against Nottingham Forest.
Whether Bristol practice a bit of a speck or a full-scale crisis remains to be seen.
Bombastic nonsense born of The Suns long-standing enmity towards Liverpool.
A whole seven days later Wyett is back on Liverpool report duty. Oddly, there is no speak of an almighty name choke or full-scale crisis. But there is some foolishness :
With 10 games left, Liverpool have the cigars out so why dont the Premier League get on with it and hand over the title today?
No truly how it works, Charlie. Kindly make better attempts to hide your sorrow.
Five get over-excited
Liverpool Fab Five will fill the highlights reel of this season when Virgil van Dijk lifts the Premier League trophy in a couple of months, writes Mike McGrath in the Daily Telegraphmaking Mediawatch stop dead in its tracks and wonder if this is A Thing before concluding: Is it f*** A Thing.
Liverpool have had a Fab Three ( Salah, Mane, Firmino ) and a Fab Four ( Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Starr ), but lets not pretend that Darwin Nunez is part of a Fab anything at all.
The power of Mohamed Salah, Diogo Jota, Cody Gakpo, Luis Diaz and Darwin Nunez has helped build their 13-point result at the conference, writes McGrath, apparently unaware that Nunez has scored only four Premier League goals this year.
Titles are hardly won with a large mass of objectives. Van Dijk has had one of his best times, while Slots middle pair have been the unsung soldiers, coming up to dominate the main areas of the ball with legs and hands. They are now adding aims to, writes McGrath, apparently describing football to an eight-year-old, other people are important too, men!
Pesky point: Dominik Szoboszlai has precisely as many Premier League targets as Jota and more than Nunez.
Its almost like the Fab Five isnt A Point.
Over at the Mirrorthey tell us that Liverpool WILL be champions as unsung heroes make Arsenal pay. Listen, if youre a football fan and you think Alexis Mac Allister is an unsung hero then congratulations for you are eight and you have your whole life ahead of you
Pointing fingers, naming things
The Mirror claim that Mikel Arteta names one thing Arsenal lack after falling 13 points behind Liverpool while the Express say Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta points finger as Liverpool title race all but over after draw, but the truth is that Arteta was not remotely interesting in the wake of their 0-0 draw with Nottingham Forest.
We dominated the sport. We tried in several distinct ways. We insisted but lacked that fire, that last go to access a well-organised group.
Saying his team lacked a spark and that final pass is neither naming one thing ( basic maths, guys ) nor pointing the finger. Maybe estimates are boring. Often estimates are anodyne.
Arsenal have no workers but are a little bald. That is all.
Quote unquote
We clicked on this headline
Nuno just crushed Arsenal fans heart out of their chest Martin Keown brutally silenced by Nottingham Forest boss
in The Sunfully expecting the words in quote marks to have been typed frantically on X by an anonymous Arsenal fan we know their usual games so imagine our surprise to find the words in quote marks are not actually mentioned anywhere in the piece.
Indeed, Google tells us that the terms Nuno just crushed Arsenal viewers heart out of their chest exist nowhere on the entire worldwide web than in the article to this actual item.
Theres scraping the chamber and subsequently theres licking it out with a wet tongue
