I think it highlights the level of consistency we are getting now. The more forgetful, or those who demand instant gratification, occasionally need reminding that for large swathes of the past decade we have been a top 8 club.
Let us never forget before last year that we had finished 8th twice, 7th twice, and 6th three times in the previous eight seasons. We've spent most of the recent pre-Klopp years, like it or not, effectively being the Burnley's or Everton's of the Premier League.
Of course, that's why I think Klopp has done well. One of those 8th placed finishes were with Klopp though. The other, under Dalglish, came the season after we went on a brilliant second half season run which was - I remember well at the time - "top 4 form", if you arbitrarily ignored the rest of the season to focus on when we started playing well with the addition of Suarez, those Maxi Rodriguez hat-tricks and so on. Sadly, again, in the following 38 matches season we came up short by some distance.
Don't get me wrong, it's great to have found more consistency, and the numbers are an indication of that, I am just tired of those "title winning" extrapolations. Especially when the league has almost been decided by now, and City can afford the odd bad game until May and still walk it pretty easily.
Arsenal are arguably the most consistent club in the country, as the 97 matches stats I mentioned show. And they haven't won the league in over a decade.
It was just a general point against those tweets that pop up here and again all the time, not just about LFC, which are most of the time pointless. At the start of the season, even when underperforming, I remember reading this:
https://twitter.com/redmysterio96/status/909407163340161024Again another arbitrary period of time that meant nothing. In this very same period, one could have said, instead, that Liverpool had failed to win 5 of our previous 10 league matches.
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