It’s the season of love & understanding, so Merry Christmas, Everton 😘

On the one hand, I think Arteta is a tit and I don’t even want him to win a raffle. On the other, anything that makes Guehí sad is ok by me.

This is what I was saying on Saturday. Micky Long Legs has basically ended Isak’s season, but there was zero mention of it because we scored. Zero difference between that & if he’d completed a pass & then been clattered in an uncontrolled manner. It’s a red all day.

There were plenty of things to complain about on Saturday if you're that way inclined, not least of which was the fact that the ref was lenient on Spurs & still sent two of theirs off. For me, though, the win was a step in the right direction. Read more: www.andcouldheplay.com/baby-steps-t...

Yes, the goal from Richarlison made it seem closer than it actually was on Saturday, with the nerves setting in, but after the season we've had so far that neither surprises me nor bothers me. What mattered was that we emerged with the points. Read more: www.andcouldheplay.com/baby-steps-t...

Hugo Ekitike's second was the least #LFC deserved on Saturday, even if the end of the match made it seem hairier than it actually was. Given how the season has gone for the Reds, the nerves were understandable but all that matters is that we won. More: www.andcouldheplay.com/baby-steps-t...

Criticism of the ref on Saturday is valid, but not in the way some seem to think. He lost control of the match, which is why Isak will likely miss the rest of the season. It wasn't a vintage performance from #LFC, but it doesn't matter. Read more here: www.andcouldheplay.com/baby-steps-t...

No one thinks that #LFC's win over Spurs on Saturday was anything other than shaky towards the end, but the criticisms of the performance have been exaggerated. It was a baby step in the right direction so we take the 3 points & run. Read more here: www.andcouldheplay.com/baby-steps-t...

Why isn’t more being done about teams who take long throws taking a bloody age to do it? So much time in matches going down the drain because of it.

Mad that Spurs got two men sent off yesterday and neither of them were the fella who jumped uncontrolled into a scissor kick tackle & probably ended Isak’s season, nor the one who put one of our players into a chokehold on the floor.

Big three points that. Lots will buy into the Neville narrative that we were hanging on, but after the season we’ve had I’m not surprised that we looked nervy at the end. Held on, which will do them a world of good.

Glad I’m not on Twitter for when we draw this. Will be toxic af.

Gary Neville doing his best to cry this in.

Soon as he came on I wanted to place a bet on that Bluenose prick to score. Paddy Power too slow updating the player you can bet on.

Thomas Frank quite lucky that the Spurs supporters have decided that the referee is the reason they’re losing.

Surprised they’ve not disallowed that tbh. Probably would’ve if it was at Anfield.

Not entirely sure how that’s not a red card, by the way. Zero control, doesn’t get the ball & causes an injury. The fact we scored is irrelevant.

Isak scoring and looking decent but then getting a nasty injury is a good summary of things, really.

Not moving it anywhere near quickly enough.

van Dijk being jeered for still having his Achilles.

The good news for Spurs is that we’re shite against ten men.

In the battle between the murderous regime using the club to sportswash its reputation and the club owned by a hedge fund to try to make its shareholders richer, nobody won. A parable for our times.

Who’d throw away a 2-0 lead? Honestly.

Never nice to see 130 Charges FC win, but always funny to see Franco’s boys lose, so one of them really.

I saw the penalty we conceded in Istanbul, so you’re not going to hear me moan about the one we were given.

Lovely stuff. Well taken penalty, that.

That is a penalty for how Wirtz is held, but it’s never one for how he’s gone down. Who takes it though?!

Pretty much the consummate European away performance in that half. Incredibly unlucky not to go in 1-0 up. Much better than we’ve seen of late.

If memory serves, Ekitike will now score the winner & take his shirt off for no reason.

Slot has made some poor decisions at times this season, but FML every single thing that could’ve gone against us has. The old adage about rather having a lucky general than a good one applies I think.

Mad to disallow that. I’ve seen the replay several times & can’t even see the hand. Don’t think UEFA do clear & obvious with handballs, though?

Isak already looking much more involved than in previous games. Putting a shift in.

I’m generally in the camp of giving Slot more time, but his sheer refusal to drop Ibrahima Konaté is pushing me. Bradley can’t play at the weekend, so playing Gomez at right-back makes no sense to me. If the Frenchman fucks up again tonight, the manager only has himself to blame.

What Sachin said. It’s 2025 FFS. I will never, for the life of me, understand why people give a shit how someone wants to identify or cares who consenting adults want to have sex with it. Stop being so utterly pathetic.

For Mo Salah, the end of his career at the top level is approaching & I think he's scared. That's why he decided to drop a bomb on an #LFC season that is already looking pretty terrible. He's raging against the dying of the light. Read my latest piece here: www.andcouldheplay.com/they-came-in...

Mo Salah hasn't been very good this season. It's hard to say that about one of #LFC's greatest ever players & there is a clear reason why that might be the case, but it's still true. His persecution complex isn't a good look. Read my latest piece here: www.andcouldheplay.com/they-came-in...

Mo Salah will be remembered as one of #LFC's greatest ever players, but right now he is facing a future for the Reds that doesn't have him in it & isn't pleased. That's a big part of the reason why he decided to drop a bomb on Saturday. Read more here: www.andcouldheplay.com/they-came-in...

Is Mo Salah waving goodbye to his #LFC career? The forward has thrown a grenade in a battle that he's unlikely to win, given his age & the need for the Reds to plan for life without him. He is a man facing his footballing mortality & lashing out. Read more: www.andcouldheplay.com/they-came-in...

I thought Ibrahima Konaté's idiotic defending for the penalty would be the only wrecking ball #LFC would have to cope with on Saturday. Then Mo Salah entered the fray. He's a man facing his footballing mortality & lashing out. Read my latest piece here: www.andcouldheplay.com/they-came-in...

Every time I think of the Salah situation, I keep having that line from the Dylan Thomas poem running through my mind: Rage, rage against the dying of the light. That’s what this feels like. Someone seeing their end, in a footballing sense, and doing whatever they can to fight against it.

Yep. This. Salah is a club legend. Will rightly be considered one of the best ever. This is spoilt brat behaviour from him, taking advantage of the fact that many in the fanbase already want to Slot sacked.

I posted this at end of October: Salah has been a replacement level PL wide player since ramadan. 25 90s 2.4 shots 5 NPG + 4A Goal involvement 246 mins 0.32 npxg90 0.26 xa90 0.58 npxg90 31% shot accuracy I will update tomorrow but it will have got worse #lfc

Salah’s got a cheek, IMHO. He’s been shite all season & is lucky Slot didn’t drop him before he did. It’s been for ENTIRELY understandable reasons that he’s not been at it, but to do this now is out of order.

For a team that is trying desperately to build up some mental strength, that penalty was a sword to the stomach. In a season of big problems, he’s been our most consistent fuck up. I‘m honestly proud as fuck of them for having the guts to go back in front. The corner was a whole other nonsense.

Fair play to any of our players who can look Konaté in the eye after that. I’d want to throttle the prick.

2-0 up and cruising, then Konaté decided to enter the fray.

The manager hasn’t had a great season, make no mistake. But the glee from some #LFC supporters at that result because it means he might lose his job is depressing af.

We’d be in a significantly better position than we are if we hadn’t spent all summer trying to sign a homophobe & had just spent money on a centre-back. Konaté able to be dogshit all season because there’s no one the manager trusts to replace him.

The manager might well lose his job & it’s an indictment of modern football that there’ll be some #LFC fans pleased if that happens. But tonight’s result lies squarely on the shoulders of Konaté, who was thick as fuck to give that penalty away when we had the game won.

I can’t believe we had a corner with six minutes still to play and tried to waste time. The manager might well lose his job, but our players have been thick as fuck.